Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed)
We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include:
- Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis
- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms
- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems
- Architecture design for real estate search engines
- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products
We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.
Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability
I donate to the Ionide project which is a suite of dev tools for F#. Been using them consistently for years. They've only continued to improve over the years!
Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed)
We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include:
- Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis
- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms
- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems
- Architecture design for real estate search engines
- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products
We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.
Requirements:
- Strong English communication skills
- Senior-level development expertise
- Experience with modern tech stacks
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively
- Some level of US business hours availability
While we're talking about Firefox, does anybody feel like it's gotten dog-slow recently compared to Chrome? Testing with the following gist it takes FF 2.7 seconds on my machine for the page to fully load, and only ~400 ms in Chrome.
I wouldn't say dog slow. Because it implies some kind of comparison to a breathing entity.
I would say, it kills my iOS, my MacBook and my Linux. It's shit.
I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.
A couple of years ago I think they had some performance problems with a lot of tabs. Seems like they're back to having the same problems they used to have. I've worked at places that kept re-introducing the same software bugs month after month. Certain way to lose your customers.
> I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.
See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.
Yep, both major non-Safari Mobile browser are still using WebKit, which means, it's probably better to use Safari unless there are compelling features that break out of the walled garden.
Apple rescinded the "WebKit for every browser" requirement, but Chrome iOS with the Blink rendering engine will supposedly arrive this year (2025) and yet I don't think a similar FF Quantum for iOS will happen anytime soon.
I happened to have FF installed on an iPhone 13 Pro because it synced over from an iCloud backup but I never bothered to run it since I tried running on an iPhone 6S once-upon-a-time.
> See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.
I agree that the browser engine is the interesting bit.
But nonetheless, Firefox is completely useless on iOS.
I've had to change not because I wanted to.
I still keep it around as a password manager because of Firefox Sync, because I don't need to open it.
But I really need to start investing in another password manager.
With regards to your example, the print/printfn (equivalent of Write/WriteLine) functions are a bit funny in F#. They don't actually take bound string values directly. You need to specify the type (which could be a string, a number, obj, etc)
Would you ever consider making a product that emits some level of IR? Or even a very small amount of UV? Would be amazing for the winter months, even if it was just a very small amount.
UL safety cortication and energy regulations make it difficult to add UV and IR, UV because it can easily damage people's eyes and IR because it introduces too much heat which can be a fire or touch/burn risk. Energy regulations also limit how much wattage you can put into lighting, if most of that energy goes into creating IR (like real sunlight) then you won't comply with those regulations. For now it's better to buy a separate space heater to create IR, then you could also use a cheaper energy source like gas.
Discussion of sync engines typically goes hand in hand with local-first software. But it seems to be limited to use cases when the amount of data is on the smaller side. For example, can anyone imagine how there might be a local-first version of a recommendation algorithm (I'm thinking something TikTok-esque)? This would be a case where the determination of the recommendation relies on a large amount of data.
Or think about any kind of large-ish scale enterprise SaaS. One of the clients I'm working with currently sells a Transportation Management Software system (think logistics, truck loads, etc). There are very small portions of the app that I can imagine relying on a sync engine, but being able to search over hundreds of thousands of truck loads, their contents, drivers, etc seems like it would be infeasible to do via a sync engine.
I mention this because it seems that sync engines get a lot of hype and interest these days, but they apply to a relatively small subset of applications. Which may still be a lot, but it's a bit much to say they're the future (I'm inferring "of application development"--which is what I'm getting from this article).
I think that is where sync engines come in that allow doing arbitrary hybrid queries (across local and remote data) and then keeping the results of those hybrid queries in sync on the client.
This is one of the ideas that appears to be central to the genesis of Zero [1]
ElectricSQL allows for a similar pattern and PowerSync is also working on this [2]
Edit: I watched the presentation (which I really enjoyed) and also read the blog post. For anyone with less time, the answer is essentially: don't sync everything, treat the local data like a cache. Sync as much as you can into that cache, and then reach out to the server for other things.
- Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis
- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms
- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems
- Architecture design for real estate search engines
- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products
We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.
Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability
If you're interested, please fill out our intake form: https://baserow.io/form/mXa6NqUOKw9CcDPAU37oPh1uOPFHHESph6k0...
If we have a project that is well-suited to your skillset, I will definitely be reaching out!
Looking forward to connecting!