valtism

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Comment · 4 months ago

Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React Server Components, Vite, Astro, React Native, TanStack Start, Storybook, Zod, Figma, VisX / D3, AWS, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, GraphQL, REST, Ruby, Rails, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf

Github: https://github.com/valtism

Email: [email protected]

Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualisation, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.

I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.

I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.

Comment · 4 months ago

Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: https://www.valtism.com/cv.pdf

Github: https://github.com/valtism

Email: [email protected]

Remote-first Staff/Principal Front-End Engineer in Sydney, Australia. I’m strongest in Front-End, complex UI, performance, data visualization, with full-stack experience across GraphQL, Rails, Redis, AWS, serverless, and React Native.

I helped take Pry (YC W23) from pre-launch to ~30% MoM growth and a $90M Brex acquisition.

I’m looking for a high-trust IC role where I can stay hands-on, own hard product surfaces, raise codebase quality, mentor engineers, and write quality, maintainable software.

Comment · 10 months ago

Wow, I didn't think this was badly written at all! I certainly don't think it smells like AI. Are you conflating lists with AI written prose?

Comment · 11 months ago

Parakeet TDT v3 would be really good at that

Comment · 11 months ago

VSCode has good performance, especially for how feature complete it is, but it really has nothing on the boot speed of Zed

Comment · 1 year ago

I had no idea Lydia was working for Bun now. Her technical writing is absolutely top notch

Comment · 1 year ago

Same age:

commit b400449a58507cca1fa007197929c2cfd6beabbe

Author: Nathan Sobo <[email protected]>

Date: Sat Feb 20 10:02:34 2021 -0700

    Start rebuilding with a cleanly-separated UI framework

Comment · 1 year ago

Was that true for GPT-5? They claim it is much better at not hallucinating

Comment · 1 year ago

As someone who has lived in Brisbane, I can attest that it does a really good job of capturing the colour of the city. There is a unique golden hour shade there like no other city I have lived in.

Comment · 1 year ago

Would something like that hold up in court?

Comment · 1 year ago

I'd assume that it's because they devolve into politics and Elon-bashing, rather than constructive discussion

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm just about to leave for a long international flight, so this is absolutely perfect for me!

Glad I saw the comment about it being paid so I could get to the purchase screen before I lost internet. (As a side note, it says "Buy now for $3.99" but it's really $5.99 in my currency. Not sure if you can make the button match to the price in the locale)

Comment · 1 year ago

I don't believe it's just that. I'm pretty sure he's taking testosterone as well

Comment · 1 year ago

It was originally written in flash, then ported to C++ which would explain some (not all) of the badness.

Comment · 1 year ago

Really appreciate the quality you put into expressing these things. It was nice just to see a well laid-out justification of how trying to tie a frontend to a backend can get messy quickly. I'm definitely going to remember the "ungrounded abstraction" as a useful concept here.