@ekzyis has joined SN officially as of yesterday.
While @kr joined almost a year ago, @ekzyis is our first engineering hire.
I'm very excited to have @ekzyis join. @ekzyis has been contributing to SN here and there in his spare time for 6 months or so now. While he's a junior dev on paper, his contributions suggested something more important and rare: taste. His contributions had a balance of pragmatism and sophistication that are only really present when someone cares deeply about programming and intends to become a master.
He's also one of our more active stackers, the creator of the @hn bot, and is generally a nice person (even in disagreements ... which is key for high vibes).
I'm really grateful to have someone like @ekzyis join and doubly grateful that he made it so easy for me to find him lol.
Welcome @ekzyis!
Dang also a contributor to Bitcoin core in addition to being a satlantian
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lol, did you search for me in the repository? or did you remember my post on here?
my only contribution as a PR so far though, haha
yeah, satlantis is cool, exciting to see more and more players joining!
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ya lol I remember trading you once on satlantis so I remember your name and recognized you when you posted!
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Damn, nice, I hope I didn't rip you off haha
But a deal is a deal!
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his contributions suggested something more important and rare: taste.
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Thanks for the welcome! Still excited to become an official part of this. Let's see how long this stays the case haha
Btw, I also run t.me/stackernewsrss so if anyone wants a (now official) RSS feed on TG, join that channel! Only 9 subscribers so far
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Let's see how long this stays the case haha
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lol
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Congrats @ekzyis āš”ļøāš”ļøāš”ļø
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Thanks, you played a role in me joining SN earlier :)
I listened to the episode where you mentioned that @k00b is a nice guy. I wasn't sure before you said that lol
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Congrats, well deserved!
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Thanks! I still didn't implement multi-session support for minesats.gg btw, haha
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This is great, congrats @ekzyis! Dialog has always been great so I agree, key to being a valuable contributor to this kind of website. Didn't know about him being behind the hn bot too, really like that.
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Thanks for the kind words!
Even though I know we shouldn't care too much about the person behind words, I do know that bitcoin development is a meritocracy and thus you saying this about me does indeed mean a lot to me, haha
I've been looking for my spot in the bitcoin space where I can contribute the most according to my skills ever since I fell down the rabbit hole early 2021. What's funny is that yet; I initially turned down the offer from @k00b to join SN in March.
I didn't want to leave my current position so soon since there were some important changes happening regarding the stuff I was working on. I said I would take a break from studying during the upcoming winter term and then join SN for 6 months in October as an intern. It sounded too risky to me to join immediately, leave my old position and not look back.
But then I realized the chance I am passing up on and that this was what I was waiting for the whole time and fortunately, @k00b didn't find someone else already when I approached him a week after our first call. I wanted to work on open source, bitcoin and disruption of social media for a long time and SN sounds like the perfect fit :)
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welcome @ekzyis !
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and the BTC army continues to march on, congrats @ekzyis
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Awesome!
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Congrats!!! šŸ„āš”ļøšŸ„āš”ļøšŸ„
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Congrats!!!
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Congratulations
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Congrats @ekzyis!āš”ļøšŸš€
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Congrats @ekzyis!
Great addition to the team :)
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Thank you great nation of Satlantis
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I definitely did not send him the link to this post, haha
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Congrats @ekysis!
I appreciate the attempt at spelling my name haha
Thanks!
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What does it mean btw?
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My name? It's just the name of another friend spelled backwards because we used to play StarCraft 2 together
And we thought it would be really funny to tell the opponents that our names are the same expect backwards after winning. Like blowing their minds
We didn't win often though, lol
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Great hire!
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Thanks! And oh, I forgot to reply to your question regarding my node hardware earlier haha.
Will do now!
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Happy to see a smart brain join the ship. Congrats SN and congrats @ekzyis
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Welcome to the team, it's good you already have a track record of work done on SN
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Congrats @ekzyis excited to see what you will build!
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Thanks!
Currently, I am working on websockets and seeing if it makes sense to use them (sparingly at least) in SN: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/pull/284
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Congrats! Cool
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Congrats!
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Congrats @ekzyis Your input to SN will usher in more stackers
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Cheers!
10k sats to the person who identifies which PII is exposed in this image (on purpose)
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Congrats @ekzyis!!
Judging by your fingers, you are a young man. Judging by the soda, you live near Munich, Germany. Judging by the soda's reflection, you have a nice room :). Haha I probably went too far
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Haha, didn't think about the reflection. Nice catch!
10k sats well deserved :)
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Looking forward on learning a thing or two about bitcoin, its impact and importance. @ekzyis welcom to SN, and me as a newbie in bitcoin is waiting to be enligthened.
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Boom congrats! Looking forward to it!
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.