Hey HN!
We've noticed lots of teams try to implement a Pull Request Environment solution from scratch which is why we started building Uffizzi.
Uffizzi is an automation tool that lets you preview pull requests before merging. You integrate it as a step in your CI to create, update, and delete on-demand Preview Environments for APIs, frontends, backends, databases, and microservices. We based our solution around a docker-compose application definition.
Uffizzi is an open-source, off-the-shelf, cross-platform solution that works with any version control system, container registry, or CI platform.
Uffizzi | Lead Developer | Remote, Hybrid, or Onsite | Full-time
COMPANY
Hi I’m Josh, Co-founder of Uffizzi. We’re a seed-stage company ($2.8m raised) building an open-source full-stack previews engine. We empower Dev teams with a Continuous Previews capability aka on-demand or ephemeral test environments for frontends, backends, APIs, and microservices. Our application serves as a middleware between your application as defined by docker compose and your infrastructure (Kubernetes) to facilitate manual and automated preview environments (Open / Close PR). These pre-merge test environments enable teams to avoid the bottlenecks of having limited Dev environments, to iterate quickly, and to evaluate risks before merging.
OPPORTUNITY
We’re looking for an experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer to take over the Lead engineering role and build a team around you. Must be a strong IC and have the ability to Lead a major development effort. Must be able to recruit and onboard additional developers. Must be well versed in cloud-native development, Kubernetes, and DevOps best practices.
-Build in the Open
-Build something that helps other Developers
-Influence Core Product decisions
-Help Build and Lead a team
Other Roles available - Sr. Front End Engineer (React.js), Full-Stack Engineer (RoR), SRE, or tell us why you’d be a valued asset.
TECH STACK
Ruby on Rails, Go, React.js, Kubernetes
Send your LinkedIn, CV, and/or questions to josh@uffizzi.cloud
It’s good to see someone filling this void. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea when I was leaving the military and have struggled to get it addressed in the transition to civilian life, changing insurance, doctors etc and have basically given up. Having a resource to be able to coordinate the process to finding a solution is really important. The CPAP never worked for me but I know there are other configurations that I never got to.
We've heard great things from patients about the VA program for sleep apnea, and we're looking to incorporate best practices from their published studies into our care protocols.
We love the foundations and philosophy. My wife set up our house according to the Montessori approach of making everything accessible for the kids.
Our oldest-
She did fine at Montessori but we noticed that she would never push herself or be pushed - per the method. For example she would only go to the shelf with puzzles that she could easily master. It wasn’t a competitive environment and she thrives on that. She moved on to regular Kindergarten and is doing well.
Our second-
Same problem as the first - but this was a bigger issue because he was far behind his developmental milestones and needed speech and occupational therapy just to get to Kindergarten.
Our third-
She was born for Montessori. She loves independence and is the most capable two year old I’ve come across. She’s the only one who uses the Montessori set-up(s) at home that my wife made happen.
This is a good analysis. I’m often looking for something like this to help back my own intuition. Everyone sees the problem of media bias but it’s hard to define in more tangible terms. I appreciate the side by side of WSJ and NYT articles on the Canadian Truck Drivers - shows how subtle differences in reporting the same event skew left or right.
One way I’ve seen it couched is that the liberals have always owned the cultural high ground by having a preponderance of left-leaning, highly educated individuals in the ranks of the news media and in Hollywood - and that Fox News, Limbaugh, Bongino are an aggressive response to that.
When I talk to my own family members who skew right they talk pretty negatively about the media in general and particularly the NYT or WaPo - but they know and trust me. So I try to explain that many of the folks who work at these places are very similar to me (education, background, thinking) - and that they shouldn’t wholesale discount whatever they publish.
I consider myself well-educated and have no respect for either the Washington Post or the New York Times. I don't ever wholesale discount what they publish, but I also don't trust anything they put out, especially if it shows a left-leaning bias in any way. I also do not rely on them for news; I get my news from other sources I trust more.
"What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity. If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.
Op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an editor or a writer in serious trouble, if not fired. If a piece is perceived as likely to inspire backlash internally or on social media, the editor or writer avoids pitching it."
I should note that I probably disagree with Bari on most political issues, but she seems to have the intellectual honesty to notice corruption and also the courage to refuse to give into it.
You don't trust the NYT or Washington Post, but link to literal tabloids interviewing outrage grifters and right wing blogs? Surely cognitive dissonance only goes so far.
> and that they shouldn’t wholesale discount whatever they publish.
This was my previous position, but in recent years, I wouldn't recommend this anymore. I believe that in the past at some point, there was a time when these mainstream media were more right than wrong, and more useful than useless if not harmful.
If you are an academic or someone who has time or interest to discern what mainstream media says is right or wrong, by all means, use them. But for average people, these mainstream media being sources of information doesn't pass usefulness or correctness than any other sources of information.
In the SOF / military community “prioritize and execute” is a way of life. This works really well on short timelines with clearly scoped tasks. But when timelines become fuzzy and scopes less determinate it becomes an unwieldy mantra. The most important things I have to do require the most consideration - so I find that I work on them in my head - in the margins of time I have between the grind of the day - and then when the timeline becomes critical I have the brainstorming I needed already complete - then it’s time to execute. In the mean time I got a lot of important things done - as the author suggests.
I tend to be quite skeptical of opinion pieces in our age of polarization but on this one I happen to know and trust the author. She's been a physician for our family and if we still lived in the same location we would still go to her.
Some good points:
>Many parts of the U.S. issued mask mandates in 2020 when COVID-19 was new and poorly understood. It was sensible to take maximum precautions in a chaotic and frightening situation; many thought it a small sacrifice to make while scientists toiled to gain a greater understanding of the virus and to develop vaccines. But two years later we know much more about the virus and how to stop it, including abundant evidence showing the lack of efficacy of some of these measures (cleaning surfaces, masking in schools).
>Lifesaving vaccines are now also widely available. As a physician, I’m well aware that medical knowledge is constantly changing. As our understanding grows, our practice changes. This should be a time to peel back layers of mitigation that we now know to be ineffective, yet many school districts are doubling down.
>U.S. policy is an outlier: the World Health Organization advises against masks for kids under 5 and only selectively for kids under 11, and many European nations have kept schools open without requiring masks.
This isn't clear to me - are your buyer's institutional investors? Are they buying your technology to create trade options for their end users i.e. an individual investor? I don't know what an ATS is so I gather that I'm not a direct user of your technology - perhaps I would be an indirect user? Would E-Trade, for example, leverage your technology to provide me with a combinatorial buying option?
An ATS is like an exchange, so we match buyers and sellers. And you guessed correctly that the initial users are institutional investors - or more directly their brokers. So initially we'll have institutions creating and sending in "Expressive Bids" to improve their execution performance, and to express trades they currently can't via plain limit orders.
That said, we'd love to get to the point where E-Trade etc. are offering combinatorial bidding to retail traders, with us on the back end.
Thanks. Obviously I'm not a direct user of your technology and so maybe this is not intended for me but if you could translate your "A" and "B" into a hard, real-life example that I could understand I would be empowered to be an advocate for you. Best of luck to you.
No worries, happy to concretize this: the really easy example would be shoes. How much would you pay for just a right shoe or just a left shoe? A lot less than the pair, since you might not be able to find the other shoe in the right size, condition, etc. Same with the seller - they don't want to be stuck trying offload a single left shoe.
In stocks, A might be a company you invested in and B some ETF that you bought as a hedge for A. What if you sell out of A, and then the price of the ETF drops? There's value in being able to liquidate the full position - the single stock plus the hedge - at once.
