ChemCloud is a digital procurement marketplace that makes it easy to discover, buy, and sell chemicals. Our mission; to accelerate the positive impact of the chemical industry by digitising its ways of working.
We're in our third year of operation and we're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to increase our tech bandwidth - we have so many impactful projects genuinely delighting users and we want to deliver more. We're a team of two people in engineering currently (including me as CTO) and we want a senior team member who'll work closely with everyone in the business to help shape the platform going forward.
We're part of Paloma Group's venture studio (https://www.palomagroup.com/paloma-ventures) with our HQ in Melbourne, Australia. And workspaces in Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch as part of Paloma's studio.
Tech: Rails 7, Turbo, Stimulus, TailwindCSS, ViewComponent, Railway. With thousands of tests @ > 98% coverage.
I agree. And the longevity of them specifically for me. My M1 (MBP and MBA) keyboards shine after a few weeks' of activity whereas no shining on older MBPs with a decade of use – it reeks of a quality degradation.
I believe multiple screens are possible, even on the M1 MBA, you just need a docking station. Officially some don't support multiple screens, but there are mainstream solutions to this in the form of docking stations, just not sure why Apple doesn't even so much as hint that it's possible. It's a really unclear process!
It's possible only if you use a DisplayLink dock which requires using very specific dongles and installing specific third-party drivers. Our company already has 10-ish Dell Monitors with USB-C docks integrated, also Thunderbolt Dell docks, and neither of these work. There is no workaround.
This is why I use dark mode too – and it's made a huge difference for me. My floaters are particularly noticeable on white-backgrounded screens/webpages on my 43" external monitor where because, I assume, my eyes have to dart across greater distances than when I'm using my MBP 14".
I definitely felt the same with the battery life, until I switched on "Low power mode" while on battery (System Preferences > Battery > Battery > Low Power Mode). I don't notice the drop in performance (even whilst intensively using it, such as compiling code) but what I experience is practically the doubling of its battery life. Enjoy!
Hmm I have been using low power mode since day 1 and it still isn't doing as well as the Air. I guess fewer efficiency cores will do that. I've removed all the x86 apps to maximize efficiency, but I'm still just under 14 hours. Have to say that the screen is lovely, though.
It is great news and I am surprised to be honest. From New Zealand, our closest AWS region is Sydney with a ping (over Wifi, as I write this from Auckland) of 44ms. Our population is ~5M.
This only spells great things for the tech prospects in NZ which are already very bright. I, for one, am excited to continue to base tech businesses in this country.
I was driving down my street and I saw the world in front of me light up from a fireball in the sky accompanied by a loud roar. I had no reference as to what this was – a missile? A plane going down? Surely it was travelling too fast for those though.
As it passed over to the East I waited with tensed shoulders for what was to come next, I assumed a large impact or explosion, but thankfully exhaled after a few seconds and simply silence was what came next.
I'm not a church-goer and now in my late thirties have seen many, including myself, have significant crises ending up therapy of some kind. Thankfully, these crises have all had successful and revelationary outcomes. Crises such as financial, relationship, burn-out, questioning purpose, depression. In all cases it's been a revelation for the people involved because they were simply unequipped to deal with the situation; didn't have the tools in their toolkit.
It dawned on me that as a kid I did go to church as part of school, and there I would receive almost daily "counselling", or at least broaching life issues, challenges and philosophical concepts regularly.
When not a church-goer, where does one get this same level of regular counselling, self-improvement or self-analysis? I'm not advocating religion though I feel like the concept of meeting regularly and talking about big issues is very positive, and I feel overlooked.
FYI your website's certificate at firststep.co has expired (back in April 2020) so most website visitors will get warnings before they can proceed to your website
https://www.chemcloud.com.au
ChemCloud is a digital procurement marketplace that makes it easy to discover, buy, and sell chemicals. Our mission; to accelerate the positive impact of the chemical industry by digitising its ways of working.
We're in our third year of operation and we're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to increase our tech bandwidth - we have so many impactful projects genuinely delighting users and we want to deliver more. We're a team of two people in engineering currently (including me as CTO) and we want a senior team member who'll work closely with everyone in the business to help shape the platform going forward.
We're part of Paloma Group's venture studio (https://www.palomagroup.com/paloma-ventures) with our HQ in Melbourne, Australia. And workspaces in Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch as part of Paloma's studio.
Tech: Rails 7, Turbo, Stimulus, TailwindCSS, ViewComponent, Railway. With thousands of tests @ > 98% coverage.
Read more and apply at: https://careers-at-chemcloud.super.site/