I currently prefer GitHub Copilot Pro to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode for my current role and codebase. Staff Engineer in a midsized professional engineering organization. Using Agent mode with latest OpenAI and Anthropic models. Backend TypeScript maintaining established codebases. Not being constrained by management. It’s not a perfect tool but it has advanced significantly since early releases.
[03:59 PM PDT] We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for Kinesis APIs within the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified the root cause and are actively working to resolve the issue. As a result of this issue, other services, such as CloudWatch, are also experiencing increase error rates and delayed Cloudwatch log delivery. We will continue to keep you updated as we make progress in resolving the issue.
TargetSmart is a leading provider of political data and technology that enables campaigns and organizations to successfully communicate with large audiences, personalize outreach, and create lasting relationships. Our superior politically-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. TargetSmart leverages over 25 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, reliable data products and solutions.
Current openings:
- Senior Data Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Project Coordinator
TargetSmart | Washington, D.C. | Full Time | REMOTE CONSIDERED (US ONLY)
Senior Product Manager
TargetSmart’s expert team of data, political, and direct marketing professionals wakes up every day with one objective: to help our clients win with data.
Responsible for the vision of customer-facing software products developed by TargetSmart Software Engineering, the Product Manager must work closely with TargetSmart’s CTO, Chief Innovation Officer, and other internal and customer stakeholders to define, communicate, and execute TargetSmart’s software vision. We’re looking for individuals with relevant experience and strategic product vision, but also capable of building stakeholder consensus and providing clarity for engineers.
TargetSmart | Washington, D.C. | Full Time | Remote (US ONLY)
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
TargetSmart’s expert team of data, political, and direct marketing professionals wakes up every day with one objective: to help our clients win with data.
REMOTE (United States ONLY)
Responsible for overall administration of production and R&D environments, including databases, web services and security on remote and cloud based servers.
Software Engineer | Fully REMOTE U.S. Permanent Resident | Full time
TargetSmart Communications (http://targetsmartcommunications.com), a leading Democratic political data firm,
seeks full time software engineer with Python and database expertise. This is a full
time salaried with benefits position. Telecommute is required.
A TargetSmart software engineer works on a variety of software
development projects. These individuals should be versatile and eager
to tackle new problems with an innovative and practical
mindset. TargetSmart Software Engineers work as "full stack
engineers", i.e., backend, frontend, and everything in between.
Join us in building service platforms for large scale data access,
data processing, and data science. These software solutions are powered
by TargetSmart's industry leading political and consumer data products.
Every day, political organizations and businesses use TargetSmart’s highly targeted data products and services to analyze, understand, and communicate directly, effectively, and accurately with customers and voters.
TargetSmart seeks an experienced software engineer to join us in building service platforms for large scale data access, data processing, and data science. These software solutions are powered by TargetSmart’s industry leading political and consumer data products.
I'm in a similar situation. I've found myself with a job I love, working remotely, which has afforded me the opportunity to move back to the small rural (unfortunately very much bible-belt) town where I was born and have roots. I enjoy most aspects of small town living, being with family and old friends, low cost of living, etc.
However there is near zero startup/tech culture to be found (duh). My idealistic streak would like to change that somehow ("forty acres and a emacs MULE"), but that's unlikely.
Anyone in AR, feel free to message me to geek out.
I get this error when trying to create a meeting (Chrome/Ubuntu). I was never prompted with a Accept/Deny dialog, so I'm guessing the meeting features just don't work on Linux?:
Oops, looks like you clicked Deny.
You need to enable peer assist and your webcam to
participate in the meeting.
Wouldn't it be great if I could just click on a file system object (like a drive in the file browser) and view a diagram of concentric circles for registers, cache, ram, io layer (disk buffers/caches), and finally the actual physical device.
The size of each circle would be relative to the avg. amount of time needed to move data to the CPU. To me this would be more intuitive than charting system data.
I like the idea, but what version of Python is supported? It seems that some operations are not supported. On the first challenge it didn't like the `sorted` built-in or allow iteration over a str object. I ended up solving the challenge, but in a way that I would never use in real application, i.e., not idiomatic Python. It should be clearer what language features are allowed.