marshallford

Hello HN,

I am two years into a typical Computer Science program and I am looking for a mentor during the school year. I am looking forward to having free time during the school year to learning while working on projects and such. I am working full time during the summer and I am realizing how little time I will have to expand my knowledge once I graduate.

Basically I am interested in a ton of CS technologies but not very familiar with any of them. I have quite a few project ideas that I am working on to practice with these technologies but I always hit a bump where just can't quite find what I am looking for or can't quite wrap my head around something. Below is list of everything I am interested in. As for compensation, I am working this summer so I hope something can be arranged, although if you're in this field you probably not mentoring for the money.

Again I want to emphasize I am very excited about just "doing" most anything CS related and would love to have someone to talk to while working during the school year to improve my knowledge. If I had the focus and expertise I would probably spend all my free time building something or learning.

Please contact me at inbox@marshallford.me and even if you aren't interested, share this with someone who might be. Remote is completely fine!

DevOps - Docker, Ansible, Nginx, server monitoring, server deployments, continuous integration

Web Dev - Ruby on rails, APIs, databases and APIs, Ruby gems, JS frameworks

Web Design - local build process (grunt, gulp), eye for design

General Programming - fun command line tools

Networking/other - backup solutions, zfs

Thanks,

Marshall

Hello HN! I am looking for a API/service similar to PushBullet that I can use to send plain old text to devices that have subscribed/installed an app. The reason I ask is that I am working on a ruby script that checks an API and lets users know when it has been updated. see https://www.pushbullet.com/channel?tag=metacritic-new-albums.

Thanks!

I have been working solo on a fairly niche open source project. I would love to get some sort of community started around the project, or at least a couple of people complaining via GitHub issues. Any ideas on getting at least a little interest? I would love a second set of eyes.

Thanks.

EDIT: As requested, the link.

https://github.com/marshallford/www-start

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Hello HN,

I am looking for a tool I saw on HN about a or two month ago. I believe it was a Ruby app that you installed on a server. Then you were supposed to tunnel via ssh and visit a localhost website. From there you could look at the server's performance including CPU and RAM. It was kinda like New Relic, but self hosted.

If this is the wrong place to post this, let me know. Sorry in advance for disrupting your Monday.

Marshall