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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
I really don't see the issue with OpenAI becoming for-profit. They started as a research group with no intention of creating a marketable product, and stumbled onto one. I think it would make sense for them to become for-profit.
Funnily enough, PCP is a drug that is very similar to Ketamine, but has a very different reputation.
Whenever someone sees someone in full-blown psychosis walking stark naked on the side of the road, PCP immediately gets the blame. In reality, both drugs have the same psychosis potential.
It's not an immediate thing. Heavy users will just start feeling confident and motivated. Little need for sleep and a spring in their step like they are light as a feather. As the heavy use continues, this can spiral into mania, delusions of grandeur, detachment from reality and paranoia.
I have no way of knowing how much Elon uses, but it would not surprise me if he is treating himself with consistent low doses of ketamine. I wonder how his memory is, that would be a pretty good tell.
Even "simple" interfaces–popovers, date pickers–inevitably become spiralling fractals of complexity, each layer folding into another the longer you look at them. Text editing would be crazier, even more so than what is described here.
Remote: Yes
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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.