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fredwu commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
fredwu · a month ago
SEEKING WORK | Melbourne, Australia | Remote Preferred

- Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, LLMs

- CV: https://persumi.com/u/fredwu/cv

- Email: ifredwu at gmail dot com

My name’s Fred Wu, I’m an experienced Elixir and Ruby developer who has worked on multiple commercial projects as well as having contributed to many dozens of open source projects including Rails.

I’ve been using Elixir for ~10 years, ruby for ~15 years, lead and built multiple commercial B2B & B2C SaaS projects. I’ve always been very hands on, and have worked with multiple tech stacks in the past, including JS/React, PHP, Golang and Clojure.

- My blog and talks: https://fredwu.me/

- My Github profile: https://github.com/fredwu

- My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/

As you probably noticed I have quite a few projects on Github. Some of the more interesting ones are:

- Crawler, a high performance web crawler built in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/crawler

- Simple Bayes, a naive bayes machine learning implementation in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/simple_bayes

- OPQ, a simple in-memory queue with worker pooling and rate limiting in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/opq

- And a few years ago when I was heavily involved in the ruby/rails community, I had done an experimental project building a "layer 0" ORM on top of ActiveRecord and Sequel: https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify

More info about hiring me: https://persumi.com/u/fredwu/hire-fred

If you think my skills and experience could add value to the project I’d love to chat more. You could reach me at ifredwu at gmail dot com. Thanks!

fredwu commented on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions   prismharmony.com/chat... · Posted by u/maniknt28
fredwu · 2 months ago
> Couldn't find one, so I built one.

> What do you think?

You were lost between all the AI stuff... but have you not tried to simply use Google to find a bunch of similar services?

fredwu commented on Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model   github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiM... · Posted by u/thm
fredwu · 4 months ago
Not sure why it would be "funny" as this is literally why they named the company Xiaomi.

Source (Chinese): https://finance.sina.cn/tech/2020-11-26/detail-iiznctke33979...

fredwu commented on Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously   digitalcameraworld.com/ca... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Anotheroneagain · 8 months ago
This has no future with 200mpx sensors becoming common.
fredwu · 8 months ago
Cropping isn't the same as capturing at a different focal length.
fredwu commented on Elixir Gotchas   pragtob.wordpress.com/202... · Posted by u/lobo_tuerto
fredwu · a year ago
Are these even gotchas if they are all very well documented in the official documentation already? I was expecting to see some unusual or undocumented behaviours...
fredwu commented on Study Finds 268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects   tech.slashdot.org/story/2... · Posted by u/JSDevOps
fredwu · a year ago
So Slashdot quotes The Register https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/ which in turn quotes Engprax https://www.engprax.com/post/268-higher-failure-rates-for-ag... which in turn is promoting its book "Impact Engineering" which the "study" is conducted for.

Take it with a huge grain of salt.

fredwu commented on Ask HN: How are you using GenAI/LLMs?    · Posted by u/HNUser01100011
fredwu · a year ago
I've been an early user of Github Copilot - I'm so used to it by now that if I didn't have it I'd feel the productivity drop for sure.

Otherwise I've been doing lots of experiments on using LLMs for my SaaS products (a blog platform, and a Reddit lead gen platform), my client projects and my day job (health care related products).

I've tried all the leading LLMs, so far my personal favourite is Claude Haiku due to its low latency and low cost. Using the reflection pattern, you can push the LLM pretty far. I've also just started looking into the multi-agent agentic workflow now... Paired with Elixir and OTP, it can get quite powerful. :)

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About
http://fredwu.me/

Have built the first website back in 1997, and started working in the IT industry since in high school.

Worked in online publishing, marketing as well as web hosting before becoming a professional web developer and designer.

Have been an active member of the open source community since then. Contributed to many projects including Ruby on Rails and Slim. For a full list of my contribution, please head over to http://fredwu.me/ and scroll to the bottom of the page.

A developer who has strong focus on code craftsmanship, business values, UI, UX and most importantly, the user.

Web development is not only my job, my career, but is also the cornerstone that defines who I am. Passionate is my keyword!

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