This is, in my opinion, the book to use to learn JavaScript at more than a surface level. The only other materials I recommend as much (but for a different level of learner) are the “You don’t know JavaScript” in-depth book series.
In 2015, I was consulting for a distance learning program, administered by a major California University, that wanted to replace their current textbook (one of those “Head First” O’Reilly books) with something that had a bit more meat but was very approachable. I immediately recommended this and it was fawned over by both the advisors and instructors. It was also the cheapest option they had in the running (even excluding the fact it can be read for free) as it was competing against traditional text books. One year later, students were polled on it and it was met with a lot of positivity as well.
Chain of thought is underutilized. It almost never makes sense to show the user the "bare" response of the LLM. It's so easy to have LLMs self-critique, think through user intent, etc. to drastically improve the final output
A friend recently mentioned to me that there are pawpaws in a park near our house in DC. According to him, someone may have planted them and now they are growing wild. It seems odd that this fruit would grow in the woods since there isn't much sunlight there. I will have to go check it out (when they are in season I guess?).
Founding engineer for pre-seed startup focused on hiring in the service industry. This is an opportunity to make a difference by helping people from all walks of life find meaningful work in an industry that is all about taking care of others. Work closely with the CEO and a small team to iterate quickly after our initial launch. Lead technical work and participate in rapid growth.
About Jobreel
A soon to be unicorn startup (yes, we are manifesting).
Pre-product launch. Launching Beta in December with a list of stellar Beta testers.
Former Netflix, Airbnb, Meta team. We have the credentials and experience to make this business successful.
Flexible with work location. The CEO works at an office in SF; others are remote.
Funded with a friends & family round.
We value impact and know the difference from the appearance of impact.
We value equality and increasing access to good jobs.
About you
You find technical challenges fun and are down to learn what you need - from optimizing video streaming performance, to making animations.
You move fast and make smart calibrations between done/perfect.
You enjoy working independently and taking initiative, while also being collaborative.
You love coding and have knowledge in:
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- AVFoundation w/HLS Streaming
- Node.js (Next/Nest)
- Postgres
You have deep empathy for folks in the service industry. Maybe you’ve worked in the service industry or have family in the service industry.
You’re a positive, nice, upbeat person.
Interested?
Reach out to careers@jobreel.io, with your resume or linkedin and a 30 second video about why we should hire you. Subject line: Jobreel Application - [YOUR NAME]
Mistral is genuinely groundbreaking, for a fast, locally-hosted model without content filtering at the base layer. You can try it online here: https://labs.perplexity.ai/ (switch to Mistral)
> “I respect your call on this and I’ll support it,” Stewart wrote, according to a message cited in the complaint, “but want to just say for the record that I don’t think it’s the right call given the risks…. I just hope that years from now we will look back and feel good about the decision we made here.”
Were they saying "for the record" just as an idiom, or did they have a particular paper trail purpose in mind when putting something in writing to the CEO?
I highly recommend the podcast Sleep With Me. It’s extremely weird and the guy’s voice isn’t exactly “comforting” the way most sleep-inducing things try to be, but give it a few tries.
It’s basically bedtime “stories” that are more like improvised narrative mazes that are just interesting enough to keep your interest (and exhaust your brain) but not interesting or meaningful enough to keep you awake.
I went from laying awake for hours and hours as a general nightly routine to falling asleep reliably in 10-20 minutes. I didn’t even know it was possible to fall asleep that fast.
As a tip: There’s nothing to “get” about the podcast. It’s just a treadmill for the overactive parts of your brain.
Fern (YC W23) | Founding Engineer | New York City | $125k-$175k + equity | Full Time | Open Source | https://buildwithfern.com
REST APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth. With Fern, we aim to bring great developer experiences to REST APIs.
Our stack is Next.js + Vercel, Express (Node.js) + FastAPI (Python), Postgres DB + Prisma ORM, and AWS CDK.
We closed a Seed this year from top-tier US investors, including Y Combinator, Abhinav Asthana (Postman CEO), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder), and Ian McCrystal (Stripe's Head of Docs).
PostHog | Full-Time | Distributed systems engineer lead, full stack and ex technical founder engineers | Remote (all remote) | Hiring GMT-8 to GMT+1
PostHog helps engineers build better products. we launched on HN during a YC batch in 2020 and have been growing very fast ever since.
* open source, building a dev tool. We have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail.
* we are a real business... nearly at $10M ARR / profitability in sight / lots of capital
* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process.
* we are under a ton of pipeline pressure due to how much we've grown usage (~5x per year at the moment) - we need help rewriting our ingestion for the next 2 years of scale whilst dealing with 1 million events/minute being ingested. this will be very hard, but it is the _biggest_ challenge our company faces. revenue and growth are coming easily.
* goal is to build a company worth $10s of billions, by building wide first (we are the all in one platform with lots of tools) then going upmarket way later (similar product and go to market to Atlassian). we grow entirely through word of mouth and content marketing, not from outbound sales.
* we need: a distributed systems engineer to lead our pipeline team. you'll be working alongside experienced people who've worked at places like datadog/meta/twitter in this small team (currently 4 people).
* we are also hiring: ex technical founders and front-end oriented full stack engineers!
In 2015, I was consulting for a distance learning program, administered by a major California University, that wanted to replace their current textbook (one of those “Head First” O’Reilly books) with something that had a bit more meat but was very approachable. I immediately recommended this and it was fawned over by both the advisors and instructors. It was also the cheapest option they had in the running (even excluding the fact it can be read for free) as it was competing against traditional text books. One year later, students were polled on it and it was met with a lot of positivity as well.