frankus
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Comment · 15 days ago
I thought the benchmark for pricey induction cooktops was Impulse (I love mine but even at the preorder + tax credit price it was a splurge).
But then I realized there’s probably a kitchen equivalent of audiophile gear, where you pay through the nose for something lesser nerds wouldn’t even notice (maybe every nerdy niche has an equivalent of audiophile gear?).
Comment · 29 days ago
Location: Bellingham, WA, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but try me
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, iOS SDK development.
Résumé/CV: https://frankschmitt.org/resume/
Email: [email protected]
I've spent the last eleven years building ApptentiveKit, an iOS SDK for in-app customer feedback (surveys, message center, prompts) that ships inside other companies' apps. SDK work means caring about things app developers often get to skip: a small binary footprint, long deployment-target support, a public API you can't easily change, and bugs that only appear in someone else's app. I also maintained our React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, and Cordova plugins, so I'm comfortable on either side of a bridge.
The piece I'm proudest of is the on-device targeting engine, which decides which customers see which interactions based on server-defined criteria. I've implemented it four times: NSPredicate, then raw Objective-C for observability, then JavaScript (which became the core of our Web SDK), and finally Swift. I've also worked closely with product and design on ground-up redesigns of major features.
Before iOS I did web backends for about a decade, and before that embedded software for EV battery management and fast charging at AeroVironment. I still tinker with hardware: motor controllers, VESC/LispBM, and a power-assist wheelbarrow prototype. I'd especially enjoy a role where an app talks to a physical device.
I'm looking for a full-time senior iOS role, remote (Pacific time), or hybrid in Seattle or Vancouver, BC. I'm also happy to talk about SDK, developer-tools, or mobile platform/infrastructure work.
Comment · 1 month ago
PV also (usually) lets you export generation in excess of what you're using, is ~immune to freezing, and can be pretty darned efficient if the PV is driving a heat pump.
Comment · 2 months ago
Location: Bellingham, WA, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: maybe for an exceptional opportunity
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, limited Kotlin, backend, and embedded experience
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fschmi/
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 3 months ago
Honestly this seems like a super long-shot but at least semi-plausible avenue for putting DAC on the sort of learning curve that took lithium batteries from "high-end camcorder" to utility-scale storage.
Comment · 3 months ago
Another way of looking at this is that--while it doesn't have to be edible--you have to grow plant matter inside your house at a rate equivalent to what everyone in there consumes as food.
Even if you found like an algae or something that converted CO2, light, and water into fat, 2400 kCal would be ~300g per person, per day, or not too short of a normal package of butter.
Comment · 3 months ago
"Residential CO2 scrubber" seems like the sort of gadget eccentric rich people would buy, sort of a distributed DAC system.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
The list of things that require an app rather than a web page was pretty long circa 2010, but it's quite a bit shorter now: it's mostly hardware access (Bluetooth/NFC), background activities (like background app refresh), persisting location permission, reliable offline storage, and system/OS integration (widgets/live activities, Siri shortcuts).
If done for the right reasons, a native app could theoretically be a bit more power- and bandwidth-efficient for a given level of polish.
But usually what you're getting is some cross-platform mystery meat UI, a boatload of tracking, and no real system/OS integration (because it isn't trivial to do from whatever cross-platform environment they chose).
Comment · 4 months ago
If you're in the US, Costco has certain models at the old price through Saturday (or while supplies last). Just pulled the trigger on a 24GB/1TB 13" MbA for $250 off the new price.
Comment · 4 months ago
The most popular proposal (from Henry George) is to maintain individual land ownership, but impose a land-value tax that approaches 100% of the land rent.
The result is that real estate basically sells for roughly what it would cost to rebuild whatever is built on the land.
There is still a premium charged (in the form of LVT) to allocate access to desirable locations, but the revenue goes to the government/community instead of the previous owner. And the eliminating the incentive for land speculation should actually reduce overall costs.
Comment · 4 months ago
The difference is that investment in a company can create “more company”, whereas investment in land can’t create more land.
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