Location: I'm generally based in Austin but I'm currently living abroad (US citizen)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, though remote work opportunities are my top priority at the moment.
Technologies: The past 5 years, I've mostly been working on server applications with Node + Postgres and web client applications with React or Elm. I've been the first hire of the largest bitcoin casino. I've built a popular forum from scratch. https://github.com/danneu
Location: I'm generally based in Austin but I'm currently living abroad (US citizen)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, though remote work opportunities are my top priority at the moment.
Technologies: The past 5 years, I've mostly been working on server applications with Node + Postgres and web client applications with React or Elm. I've been the first hire of the largest bitcoin casino. I've built a popular forum from scratch. https://github.com/danneu
Technologies: The past 5 years, I've mostly been working on server applications with Node + Postgres and web client applications with React or Elm. I've been the first hire of the largest bitcoin casino. I've built a popular forum from scratch. https://github.com/danneu
I've been the first hire of the largest bitcoin casino. I've built a popular forum from scratch with Node. I'm open to short-term work and longer term work, part-time work and full-time work.
Two of the most interesting projects I've worked on over the last few years were a large open-source forum I built from scratch with 1000s of logins per day and the work I've done for some of the largest projects in bitcoin gambling. Feel free to ask.
Technologies: The main day-to-day production user-facing systems I've worked on in the last few years involve Javascript, Node.js, Express/Koa, Postgres, React, AWS, Websockets, Elm. My Github profile showcases a productive grasp of a lot more technologies.
If there's one thing that best demonstrates my breadth of ability, it's that I built an open-source message board from scratch, myself, for an active community with Node + Postgres in my free-time over the years that gets thousands of registered logins per day.
While my resume will reveal my experience doing this repeatedly on team/co-founded projects, my solo forum project best shows all of the hats I can wear (from technical skills to soft skills) and my ability to execute in such an open-ended environment to ensure that I'm not just shipping code, but shipping a product that users like.
It was fun but hard to really make a convincing upgrade to Koa once you consider the rest of the ecosystem. For example, since Koa exposes Node's req/res, then you can still use existing Node/Express middleware.
Here's my attempt at building something for language learning since my listening skills trail so far behind my reading skills: https://www.danneu.com/slow-spanish/
Unfortunately it's really hard to generate the source material (timestamping a transcript).
So my idea was to upload some slow-speaking audio to Youtube and let it autogen its .srt subtitle files. The subtitles don't come out perfectly, but it's the timestamp data I'm after since the goal is a UI that makes it easy to replay and scrub around spoken audio.
Using YouTube to generate the timestamps is a really good idea!
I'm manually recording timestamps while I read/listen to the Bible, verse by verse. Every time I click pause in Pingtype's Media Viewer, it logs the time. It's painstaking, but I'm trying to study each verse while I read anyway, so it's good to let me pause regularly.
There's a lot of LRC data for songs that are used in KTV/Karaoke. You just need to find a good data source for Spanish. In my opinion, listening to music and singing along in church helped my Chinese much more than textbooks. I still lack confidence speaking, but my listening improved a lot when my regular playlist became majority-Chinese (I listen to iTunes all day).
Exactly. I thought it was a great speed, and there really aren't many slow-spanish resources online which makes it hard to transcend intermediate hell.
The English sections work well to give you context for the Spanish sections. Losing track of context is definitely one of the hardest parts of listening to a different language. "Wait, I thought we were still talking about his aunt." The English also makes it more of a leisurely exposure.
Another issue I have with most resources is that there's no way to easily replay chunks of audio. I'd prefer to be able to listen to bite-sized chunks until I understand them. I built https://www.danneu.com/slow-spanish/ (the three lil pigs) to prototype an idea where you listen to a story and can prev/next/replay any sentence.
Some more details about the software toolchain for preparing files here, the idea is to turn any native audio/video into bilingual, sentence-based materials for studying.
Never did much game dev before but it gave me a lot of respect for people who can build one. It would probably take me a year just to figure out lag compensation.
Location: I'm generally based in Austin but I'm currently living abroad (US citizen)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, though remote work opportunities are my top priority at the moment.
Technologies: The past 5 years, I've mostly been working on server applications with Node + Postgres and web client applications with React or Elm. I've been the first hire of the largest bitcoin casino. I've built a popular forum from scratch. https://github.com/danneu
Email: danrodneu@gmail.com