Yes, yes! I got really into the Voyager-inspiration vibes for a while and wrote this little short story about a secret "Voyager 3" mission - thought you might enjoy it: https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/
Hotel procurement's a $400B industry still running on spreadsheets and phone calls (and faxes!). We're bringing world-class AI search, web automations, and payment infra to this massive space. Folio is a first-of-its-kind marketplace connecting hotels + restaurants with their hundreds of suppliers using our AI-driven concierge-buying, invoice processing, and agentic payments.
Open Roles:
Our 16-person team hails from Plaid, Square, Persona, Slack, and Cruise. We're fully-remote with a hub in San Francisco, NYC, and Durham, and we meet up quarterly at one of our 300+ hotel partners.
Hotel procurement is a $400B industry still running on spreadsheets and phone calls. We're bringing world-class search, web automations, and payment infra to this massive but under-technologized space. Folio is a first-of-its-kind managed marketplace connecting hotels with their hundreds of suppliers using our AI-driven concierge buying, invoice processing, and payments.
Open Roles:
Our 10-person team hails from Plaid, Square, Persona, and Cruise. We're fully-remote with a hub in San Francisco, and we meet up quarterly at one of our 300+ hotel partners.
- Software Engineer, Product (Full Stack) • Build the marketplace and payments experience that hotel buyers and suppliers love
- Software Engineer, Backend • Scale our marketplace
infrastructure, search, and payment systems
- Client Success Specialist • Help hotels optimize their procurement and maximize savings
Love this book. I did a short interview with the author Brian Dear about his writing tools + process a while back. Perhaps my favorite anecdote is that he started working on this book in 1985, using MSDOS and later a NeXT cube for his notes. The authorial process truly experienced the full gamut of personal storage mediums over the years.
The memories! I once wrote a short story once about the “other” last Blockbuster - a place where your VHS videos might just let you truly relive your past, at some great cost, of course. Anyway, I love when weird stuff like this comes to dwell on GitHub.
It’s more CS education and learning focused, but my friend Oz and I have been doing the CS Primer Show for the last year. Had a brief hiatus for more family time, but we’ll be back in August with more chats and whatnot about Bell Labs and other computer science fun.
Sucker for any news about the voyage of the Golden Record (almost but not quite a CS Lewis title)! For fun, I wrote a short story two years ago about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/
Interview with Jon Gertner (author of THE IDEA FACTORY: BELL LABS AND THE GREAT AGE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION) and Jimmy Soni (author of A MIND AT PLAY: HOW CLAUDE SHANNON INVENTED THE INFORMATION AGE)
Nope, definitely not. Seems like a side-effect of that Github Action. Haven't seen it before. I manually re-rotated and then purged the cloudflare cache. So I think they should be normal again. Thank you for the ping!
Author here. I'll take this comment charitably, because it did lead me to discover that I merged the PR well before my Github action to compress images completed. Just re-ran it, and the images are all ~50% reduced in size now: https://github.com/whatrocks/blag/pull/22
Thank you for this nudge. I'm sure there's more I could do here, but hopefully this helps.
The JS bloat is likely the interactive stuff in my "/library" and it's been on my to-do list to fix this. Thanks for this nudge, too.