SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (Part Time/Contract)
FULL STACK DEVELOPER
Time Zone: US time zones
Technologies: React, Next, Vue,Typescript, Express/Node, Mongo, Mysql, AWS(Serverless), Laravel/PHP, Jest, Cypress, shopify, python
Email: me+hn @ segoviacristian dot com
Based in: Latam
Have 5+ years of experience working at US based startups and small companies. Looking for full stack roles, though open to frontend or backend roles as well. Grew up in the states, so native level English.
It's easier for people on HN to give meaningful feedback if you remove this restriction.
On the other hand, charging money is a sound way to validate a business idea...with the caveat that HN is not a particularly rich target demographic for your product.
FULL STACK DEVELOPER Time Zone: US time zones Technologies: React, Next, Vue,Typescript, Express/Node, Mongo, Mysql, AWS(Serverless), Laravel/PHP, Jest, Cypress
Email: me+hn @ segoviacristian dot com
Based in: Latam
Have 5+ years of experience working at US based startups and small companies. Looking for full stack roles, though open to frontend or backend roles as well. Grew up in the states, so native level English.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (Part Time/Contract)
FULL STACK DEVELOPER Time Zone: US time zones Technologies: React, Next, Vue,Typescript, Express/Node, Mongo, Mysql, AWS(Serverless), Laravel/PHP, Jest, Cypress Email: me+hn @ segoviacristian dot com
Based in: Latam
Have 5+ years of experience working at US based startups and small companies. Looking for full stack roles, though open to frontend or backend roles as well. Grew up in the states, so native level English.
I've always been interested in rails, even though my career has gone the JS/TS route. Think i might finally take the plunge and try to build some random stuff with it. See how far i can get by looking at code examples and asking gpt "how do you do x in rails" etc.
Really love that it seems to just be a complete toolbox, especially for a solo project.
Also seeing more and more rails roles out there, but obviously don't have 5+ years with the framework
There was a period of time around the height of Rails original heyday where the idea of a very opinionated, complete framework such as Rails got a lot of blowback, which gave rise to the Javascript ecosystem and its myriad front-end frameworks.
I think the pendulum is kind of swinging back the other way now. While there are certainly advantages with the Node ecosystem, it always felt very messy to me. Rails language extensions, ORM, testing, and migrations frameworks have never been matched by any javascript libraries. Ruby and Rails have always prioritized quality of life features, which made it a very enjoyable and productive framework.
I think the reason rails has stuck around is because of it being a very opinionated framework and it dictates a method to do almost anything. This allows the docs to be very straightforward, almost as if they were written for the Rails application itself.
I also think the language itself is a big plus. I don't like the reflection system or hot patching being a feature in a language, but rails makes extensive use of it to create it's own domain specific language.
The reflection and hot patching features are often called out as negatives, and in general I agree, but for the most part, they're non-factors. All of the "find_x_by_id_and_status()" methods that rely heavily on reflection are all available with a more general, maintainable "find_by()" method which just takes a hash of parameters. And in practice, I'm not sure how much custom hot patching is actually used in production codebases. Overall it's mostly a red herring which detractors have vastly overstated.
Yeah, i mainly deal with react/next + supabase on a daily basis at work.
And do sometimes think of small apps i could build for fun, but the thought of doing react, again, is tiring in and of itself lol plus the whole setup around getting express running and picking packages.
Rails is ready out of the box, for me to not have to screw around with.
Just love the ruby syntax(along with python, which i am actively learning now with datacamp). Its cleaner, and i can probably do 90% of what i do in react there. Then for the rest throw solid js or svelte, or even just react for specific components.
Can only encourage you, I'm mostly working with Go but all my side projects are with Rails which I've only started a few years ago. It's a lot of fun.
I'm not a big fan of watching tutorials, but more of learning by doing but I signed up for https://gorails.com when I started out and it was very helpful to get an overview.
Does anyone here have any recommendations for free or at least very cheap Rails hosting for a toy app just for learning purposes? I’m looking for a PaaS offering since I don’t have the time to secure and manage a VPS.
You might also want to try Kamal, which Rails is already configured for out of the box.
You'll still be spinning up a VPS, but at least set up and management is done via a very heroku-like interface from your local machine. Just get any VPS that will be accessible via SSH, and `kamal setup` can handle the rest. [1]
The one annoying part right now, is it relies on a docker registry you have to provide. I think they're working on removing that requirement, but you can use the free github container registry until then. It's just for rollbacks AFAIK.
Does it really take any more time to secure a VPS than a docker container on a custom runtime for a hobby project? Either way you still have to run software and OS updates.
Happy render customer right here.
We’ve got multiple rails apps running on render.
Renders tech support team have been very helpful wherever needed also.
Should also point out the recently released Rails 8, has as key features focussed on making rails much easier to deploy to anywhere that supports Docker.
I joked to a friend from California once that when the Terminator Rise of the Machines happens, they're going to kill us all by giving us bad directions in our GPS.
"Proceed to the route. Go forward and proceed to the bottom of the cliff."
With robotaxis they can cut steps out of the process.
I would recommend the Assimil language courses, very good if you consistently do it every day, they're also not too expensive. Like 75 bucks last i checked, and that'll keep you busy for 90+ days.
Assimil says it can get you to a b1/b2-ish level, which i think is about where it takes you. I did their German course a long time ago, and was able to read paragraphs and understand them just fine by the end of it(didn't keep up with German, so that skill has atrophied.
After finishing Assimil, i would watch a tv show you've already watched but now in french. Ie: go to Netflix or Prime(which in my experience have the most language options) and watch Friends, 24, The Blacklist, Seinfeld etc etc whatever you can think of, in French, it'll help a lot, and make acquiring vocab easier. Native language content can sometimes be a bit harder to grasp because of cultural events/history you may not be familiar with yet.
But French language content I have enjoyed in the past are the podcasts "Podcast Marketing Digital"(also a youtube channel), deux mille ans d'histoire(history podcast)
If you are extremely disciplined when it comes to your custom css, sure its better.
But like any framework or library, tailwind lets other people jump in quickly and be productive because its a standard.
Though i may be biased because i love using tailwind
I understand that you can start creating faster using their utilities, but as a UI library creator, I have to write more complex styles and can't do this with Tailwind.
Email: me+hn @ segoviacristian dot com Based in: Latam Have 5+ years of experience working at US based startups and small companies. Looking for full stack roles, though open to frontend or backend roles as well. Grew up in the states, so native level English.