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Replenysh | Design Engineer | Remote (OC/LA/SEA preferred) | https://replenysh.com | $120-200K

Building infrastructure to recover $1T worth of materials landfilled globally. Platform enables brands to recover materials directly from customers. Backed by Kindred Ventures (Coinbase, Perplexity) and Floodgate.

We're looking for:

• Solid programmer (React, React Native)

• Product/graphic design skills (Figma)

• Focus on accessibility and UX

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https://replenysh.homerun.co/design-engineer

taylor@replenysh.com


Yep, 100% agreed. Last month I scheduled phone calls with close friends/family to ask questions like this:

• What can I be doing differently?

• What's holding me back?

• What should I spend less time on?

• If you were me, what would you change?

• Where should I focus next?

• What can everybody see that I can't? What's taped to my back?

What an amazing experience! It's so hard to listen to criticism without defense. It's even harder to find actionable next steps once problems have been identified! I think I've been more interested in actionable feedback lately, but I guess not all good feedback is necessarily actionable

[1] https://taylor.town/year-day


I have a step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.



"discipline" seems to be a key word here.

I've been feeling similarly haunted by projects, which I now call a "one man war of attrition":

[1] https://taylor.town/attrition

It's a weird spot, because you need enough discipline to convince yourself to expend more effort than watching Netflix, but also not stress yourself out.

As a concept, "building in public" has been not great for convincing myself to do more.

I think TodePond's "slippy mindset" might be more useful for these situations:

[2] https://www.todepond.com/explore/tadi-web


Thanks -- great clarifying point!

Private buildings are typically beholden to fire codes, because fire spreads and inflicts nonlinear damage.

Fire departments respond to fire emergencies. They use incident stats to prevent future fires.

Likewise, bad drivers/infrastructure wreak nonlinear harm.

But traffic departments are disconnected from the feedback loop. Police departments carry entirely different goals/incentives that don't seem to align with traffic safety.


The original intro video can be found here. Personally, I find it much better with the music:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-q1MZW6Ds


Totally fair point. Although FQL is specifically designed for FoundationDB, I'm personally excited about using it as a generic syntax for querying other KV stores.


Marek gave some helpful background for this project during a recent Future of Coding meetup (first demo in the stream).

[0] https://mrogalski.eu

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7z77QGARLE

[2] https://futureofcoding.org


Urbit is an underrated project! It was definitely an inspiration for the language I’m working on:

[0] https://scrapscript.org


I probably want to talk to you about programming language ideas.

What are your thoughts on Unison[0], which also uses hash-addressed code and managed effects?

[0] https://www.unison-lang.org/


Sure, feel free to email me anytime :)

[1] hello@taylor.town

Unison seems cool! I met some Unison folks a few years back and our visions didn't have much overlap. Nice people, but their fundamental design decisions with hashes/effects/etc are incompatible with the web I'm trying to build.


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