Fabrik | Full-stack | Full-time | Remote | $100-150k

Fabrik is a publishing platform that leverages our proprietary CMS and Ad Ops expertise to manage publishers' engineering and revenue operations. Full Stack Engineers at Fabrik are responsible for the core product platform: from front-end UI and testing, to APIs and database operations. Full Stack Engineers work in close partnership with designers, product managers, and customers to build out new product offerings and tooling across the platform.

Responsibilities

Develop the core Fabrik CMS for writers, and sites for publishers. Be willing to jump into any part of the stack: API, Front end CMS, Sites templates, CDN, etc. Scale the platform by tuning Postgres queries, developing caching solutions, and building tooling for monitoring. We work with JavaScript (Node, Express, React) and Postgres. It is not necessary to know Node and React already, but expertise in web architecture is necessary.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software engineering experience. Can contribute across the full stack. Independent and autonomous. We are a small team split across several timezones. We don’t micromanage and expect that everybody holds their own. Clear and consistent communication. The team needs to understand where you are with your work and be informed on how to carry on from where you’ve left off.

Apply: Reach out directly to me: mparker at kargopublishing dot com

If you read through some of Alan Kay's other Quora posts there is some more context behind this. It goes a bit deeper than just the tools we build. We don't think like programmers about the act of programming.

Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullet" has a list of past breakthroughs. These are examples of applying programming to programming to ease cognitive load 10x. The essay predicts that we won't see any more of those types of improvements. But we haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to the CAD and SIM tooling for programming. There are many silver bullets left to build.

The best thing in the last year was that I made a mode for my job. All of my work repos are under the same folder so the mode gets activated for any file under that folder.

It's small right now but has functionality like creating a new migration and switching to the new file. I also have yas-snippets for SQL tied to the mode. Using which-key helps me not have to remember all of the commands.

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>Using which-key helps me not have to remember all of the commands.

I think the command's name is where-is, not which-key.

I think they meant this package: https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key

One benefit of the ethereal nature of digital is that editing is really easy which is part of what makes digital so appealing. The downside is that it makes it hard to silence your inner editor. Often the editor takes over before you even get to create.

Well said!

Assuming that the probability of being hit by lightning is higher than the probability of dying from COVID under 30, it does not follow that one should take the similar levels of precaution for both. Lightning does not present systemic risk. Me getting struck by lightning doesn't change your odds of being struck.

A relevant factor for countries that have largely controlled covid, or back in March when it was uncertain what direction which countries were going in. For ones that have just let it rip though, the people who were going to get it from you are just going to get it from someone else if you isolate.

If I as an Australian have covid and go to a gym and infect a bunch of people, I've given covid to people who otherwise wouldn't have caught it. If an American does the same, they've given covid to people who would have just caught it next week or next month. They've also given it to less people because a lot more people in that gym have already had it than in my Australian one.

There are some books out there that cover the very little that we do know (I've read a bunch of them) but the big takeaway is that we don't know a lot. The reason is that you can't create great studies with babies.

The good news is that you don't need to "fix" or "maintain" a baby. They need their basic needs met, they need to feel safe and they need love. Do that for a year and then you get a toddler.

The specialty actually provides context for the other subjects. You don't learn to write for the sake of writing, you write about chess. You get to practice the foreign language at tournaments with people from other countries, etc.

I highly recommend reading the book. It's probably not what you expect. He makes a compelling case that we should consider the opposite of your question: does letting kids wander aimlessly stifle them?

He also advocates for educational pluralism. You should be free to explore your question with your children.

Code is data. `(f foo bar)` is both a list of symbols and a function call.

You might be interested in reading Maria Montessori (of Montessori school fame). Her stance is very much towards molding the environment rather than the child. She basically says that you can't mold the child, but you can become an obstacle to their development.