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jgaa commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jgaa · 4 months ago

  Location: EU / Bulgaria
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C++ and other programming languages, Qt, Docker, Kubernetes, CI pipelines, automation, core Internet protocols, distributed systems, databases, cloud.
  Résumé/CV: http://lastviking.eu/cv/jarle
  Email: contact@lastviking.eu

I am an experienced freelancer with 38 years in IT. Hands-on experience has gifted me a deep understanding of business processes, IT security, software design and development, and DevOps. I literally wrote the textbook on hardware https://lastviking.eu/maskinvare_og_operativsystemer.html used in Norway to educate IT technicians and other IT professionals.

I work full-time at my own company in the EU. This makes it straightforward to invoice your company, anywhere in the world, for services I provide.

I have state-of-the-art hardware to take on any work with Linux, Android, Windows 11, macOS and iOS and local LLM agents - and experience with all of it - including cross-platform projects. In addition, I have a flexible lab that can simulate cloud workloads.

My primary programming language is C++20. I also use other languages frequently.

Links:

- Freelance website: https://cpp-freelancer.com/

- Professional website and blog: https://lastviking.eu/

- GitHub: https://github.com/jgaa

jgaa commented on Australians to face age checks from search engines ia.acs.org.au/article/202... · Posted by u/stubish

southernplaces7 · 8 months ago

What is it with some of the anglo countries and these ridiculous slides into nannying, vaguely repressive surveillance. It's not even much useful for real crime fighting, as the case of the UK amply and frequently demonstrates.

jgaa · 8 months ago

It's what happens when the people governing is terrified about the people they govern.

jgaa commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jgaa · 8 months ago

SEEKING WORK | Remote / Worldwide | Experienced C++ Freelancer Available

Location: EU

Looking for a principal-level C++ developer?

  - Library Design – Design and implement modern C++ libraries and tools
  - Architecture Review – Conduct architecture and design reviews
  - Security Audit – Perform security and vulnerability assessments
  - Performance Optimization – Tune performance and optimize hotspots
  - CI/CD Engineering – Build CI/CD pipelines and cross-platform workflows
  - Team Augmentation – Seamlessly integrate with your existing development team

More info: https://cpp-freelancer.com/

jgaa commented on LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended letsencrypt.org/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/zdw

jgaa · 9 months ago

When I received the first warning email about this, I wrote a simple library and cli to validate all my certs for me.

https://github.com/jgaa/openvalify

jgaa commented on Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya... · Posted by u/shinryudbz

jgaa · a year ago

That explains a lot.

jgaa commented on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/1659447091

jgaa · a year ago

This is never about protecting the children.

This is always about government overreach.

People are less likely to criticize the government, or even participate in political debate, if their online identities are know by the government. Governments like obedient, scared citizens.

The only ethical response to laws like this, is for websites and apps to terminate operations completely in countries that create them. Citizens who elect politicians without respect for human rights and privacy don't really deserve anything nice anyway.

jgaa commented on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links disruptionist.com/p/elon-... · Posted by u/confusing3478

jgaa · a year ago

So much for Elons "Free Speech"!

This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.

jgaa commented on All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/ralphsebastian

jgaa · a year ago

With all the BS the new administration is coming up with, I guess the federal government lose anyone competent that is not a very loyal Trump supporter.

jgaa commented on Trae: AI Code Editor from ByteDance trae.ai... · Posted by u/gniting

lifestyleguru · a year ago

I became unemployable sometime five years ago, throwing my CV into the abyss since then. This video alone almost gives me epilepsy with music and flickering. Is this how software development looks right now? Every code snipped including secrets goes to some remote server?

jgaa · a year ago

I use a dedicated PC with Ubuntu for the kind of AI assisted development where the AI's has access to the disk.

The only secrets it has are the API key to the AI, a temporary ssh key that can be used with git to access the github repository, and whatever the Brave browser stores for ChatGPT's website. Nothing else. No production keys, no CI keys no code signing keys.

Kind of the same restrictions I use on anything running Microsoft Windows.

jgaa commented on State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant blog.jeujeus.de/blog/hard... · Posted by u/tosh

hakanderyal · 2 years ago

One of the top reasons I'm staying with MacBooks. It's not unusual for my laptop to have hundreds of days of uptime. Going back to shutting down everything every time I close the lid is unusable for me at this point.

Whoever fixes this first will make a lot of money.

Edit: SteamDeck is also very good at this and that's why I'm sticking to it for handheld gaming.

jgaa · 2 years ago

I only use mine occasionally, so I turn it off an put in a drawer. When I power it on a few months later the battery is flat, and the machines date in far in the past.

This have never happened with any other laptop I've had.