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║ Hi, I’m Aru. I’ve architected ║
║ production systems from ground-up ║
║ and led diverse, distributed teams ║
║ in past start-ups and I’m looking to ║
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║ world-changing problems. I can build ║
║ anything under the sun, and I thrive ║
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║ where I have room to think outside the box.
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║ Django, Docker, iOS ║
║ Résumé/CV: aru.ai/.resume ║
║ Email: See resume ║
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║ I’m looking for a culture that ║
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║ conscientiousness. I’m open to all ║
║ companies – big or small, so please ║
║ reach out if you find that I am a ║
║ good fit. ║
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║ P.S. there’s an unsolved puzzle at ║
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If your site has less < 5,000 users a month, I can't imagine exceeding Lambda's free tier limit. You definitely want to go serverless if budget's a constraint.
the next question is whether I should have just one lambda call that gets my external data and serves it to the clientside requester
or if I should have one lambda that does gets my external data on a timed job, caches the response in a database, and a separate lambda that reads the response
on AWS it seems the databases are the most expensive thing
guess I could also just cross that bridge when I get there, just feel like I could get spammed to a big bill even if I put in some session variables client side
this is just a static website trying to power a data visualization on semi-live data
I use this in combination with fish shell and it's been working really well. I can just switch over to `nu` when the task merits; no need to replace my current shell. I can also just run a one-off line like this.
I see the value proposition of nushell. I'm wondering if I should also try fish.
May I ask if you switched to fish from zsh? What motivated your change?
Background: I invested some time not too long ago to read zsh docs in detail and customize my own configuration (e.g. instead of using oh-my-zsh). Since then, I've been quite happy with zsh. That said, I'm also open to switching to fish and/or nushell based on recommendations.
I didn’t switch from zsh, but from bash, to fish, primarily because bash was occasionally a bit clunky to use, and there were a lot of things that could be optimized in a modern environment. I settled on fish because it suited what I was looking for: an ergonomic shell that worked well out-of-the-box. Paired with strong community support, clean scripting syntax, and a wide ecosystem, it makes for a really enjoyable shell experience. I haven’t tried zsh, so I can’t compare the two.
I’m happy with fish, and I don’t see much benefit to switching to nu. nu is exceptionally good at one thing: working with data, but lacks features in other areas (auto-completion, scripting, etc.). With time, I can see these features being implemented, but I think they’ll be re-inventing the wheel in a lot of areas that other shells are already good at.
nu is still in its infancy, and currently lacks critical features of other shells, which is why I haven’t switched completely.
As for the future, perhaps a bit brazen, but I’m confident that other shells will introduce the core feature of nu in the near future to stay competitive. I can see fish having a “||” operator and rewrites of a few gnu functions to achieve what nu does natively.
I think this is strongly associated with effective altruism; It would be helpful to start with the very basic things you could do to improve the lives of others: volunteering at local food banks, teaching in places without suboptimal education, donating to reliable organizations, e.g., but since you have a highly valuable skill (you presumably have a high paying job), comparative advantage would suggest to apply your technical skills towards social good.
It would be a good idea to start by identifying problems in the world, at a macroscopic scale. The UN Sustainable Development goals would be a strong place to start. Dive into a problem, learn it’s intricacies, and figure why it cannot be resolved. We’re usually not limited by resources, but rather our allocation of these (I read somewhere that 30% of food grown is not eaten). If the limitation is something that can be lessened with technology (e.g not politics, insufficient resources, or other non-intervenable factors), then it simply comes down to creating a solution or to join an organization with an idea, but needs help.
If you find something, please do reach out. This is also something I’m searching for.
