rograndom (u/rograndom)

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

rograndom · 4 months ago

Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, React, VueJS, Laravel, WordPress, Linux (LAMP/Nginx)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-jones-6505766/

WordPress core contributor with 25+ years of enterprise PHP/MySQL development experience. Most recently at A2 Hosting/WHG, where I architected A2 Optimized (cross-platform performance optimization for WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and other CMS platforms) and TurboHub (Laravel-based management dashboard serving 1.5M+ WordPress sites across 4 continents).

Also founded Soju Web Development, building custom WordPress/WooCommerce solutions and SaaS products including centralized WordPress management tools. Strong background in full-stack development, system architecture, and performance optimization at scale.

Open to engineering roles or interesting challenges in WordPress/PHP ecosystems.

rograndom commented on Trying to find meaning in owning an old Mac blog.decryption.net.au/po... · Posted by u/decryption

PaulHoule · 8 months ago

Old cars are even like that in performance. My son and I just bought a 1979 Ford Thunderbird which has a 5ℓ V8 engine but doesn't accelerate as well as a modern compact with a 1.5ℓ Inline 4.

It is simple though, it doesn't have a lot of complex parts to repair.

rograndom · 8 months ago

Ha! I had one of those in the late 90's. My father had it first and I inherited it when he passed. A couple of months after he bought it, I bought a 1985 LTD, which was basically a 4 door Mustang GT. He asked me if I wanted to race, I said it wouldn't be close. He said "Both cars have the same engine." Yeah, not quite. The Thunderbird had like 120hp, no fuel injection and bogged down to meet emissions, while the LTD had close to 200hp and was several hundred pounds lighter. Another person up the street had the same vintage Thunderbird with the 350ci and had done some work to it. That one went pretty good.

rograndom commented on KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer kde.org/for/w10-exiles/... · Posted by u/jlpcsl

RedShift1 · 9 months ago

Nah it was the same when Windows XP went EoL, people were also up in arms having to replace computers that worked perfectly fine for them.

rograndom · 9 months ago

I was working at a web design company a little after windows XP went EoL. One site had a member on thier board who kept raising a stink because the redesigned site didn't work right on their computer. Found out that they were using IE6 or whatever on XP. Our estimate for the fix was $600, which was like an additional 2-3% on top of the original estimate so it was approved. The $600 was used to buy a new laptop for that board member with Windows7 and whatever the latest IE was installed.

rograndom commented on Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker github.com/will-moss/isai... · Posted by u/willmoss

raesene9 · 2 years ago

For managing Docker installs another option could be portainer. Their community edition is open source https://docs.portainer.io/v/2.20/start/install-ce/server/doc...

rograndom · 2 years ago

Yacht (https://yacht.sh/) is good too if anything about Portainer upsets you.

rograndom commented on A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS theregister.com/2024/04/0... · Posted by u/Bender

donatj · 2 years ago

Near fifteen years ago I worked for a web agency with basically no code review and very limited QA. Fast and cheap. Insanely fast paced looking back.

I had a habit of hiding my face in little hard to spot places of sites I worked on in very low contrast. Over my five years there I worked on probably hundreds of sites.

A couple weeks after I'd left for my new gig, I get a message from a coworker that a different coworker had pushed up an untested change that broke the navigation on one of their biggest clients. The HTML had become malformed in such a way as to make the entire page a repeating pattern of my very low contrast face, which had been hiding under the navigation.

The client thought it was some sort of hack. My friend and coworker knew what I'd been up to and explained to the team. I have no idea what was said to the client.

A couple weeks later it happened again with a different site. Same developer pushed bad code and my face hidden under the contents of the page were revealed.

They ended up going on an Easter Egg hunt and removed most of my hidden faces.

It's not something I would do these days as it's very unprofessional but I still get a little smile thinking about it.

rograndom · 2 years ago

Back before flexible web layouts or modals were a thing, we went through a phase of opening a new browser window for some content, and locking the size. Sometimes we'd want to open multiple windows and reference them later on, so we had a naming convention like "_popup_a" and "_popup_b". We had an intern one summer who coded all of his new window calls as "_poopup_X". I have no idea how the client actually found it, but boy did we hear about it.

rograndom commented on I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol' Nginx arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/mikece

rmccue · 2 years ago

> I didn’t know too much about OpenLiteSpeed (“OLS” to its friends) other than that it's mentioned a bunch in discussions about WordPress hosting—and since SCW runs WordPress, I started to get interested

This was a trend for a bit but I don’t know of any serious hosts off the top of my head who run LiteSpeed these days. Most are running either nginx or good ol Apache (sometimes both!).

(We run enterprise scale WP on nginx, and our competitors at this scale basically all do too.)

rograndom · 2 years ago

Most every cPanel based hosting company, including the large ones, will offer a product with LiteSpeed. It's sometimes re-branded, but it's there. The main benefit is that it's a dropin replacement for Apache on cPanel servers and performs much better when it's tuned for that purpose than Apache.

rograndom commented on Crusty, the Indestructible Mac geocities.ws/rehasoft/cru... · Posted by u/reaperducer

rograndom · 2 years ago

I worked at a place in the late 90s that had a mix of older actual Apple Macs and newer Power Computing towers. One night some water line in the ceiling went and almost all of the machines got showers. Most of the wet Power Computing died but none of the Apple machines did. There was even one that retained probably a quart of water that was dumped out through the disk drive holes the next morning.

rograndom commented on Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working' · Posted by u/slowwriter

rograndom · 2 years ago

My wife has a similar problem with the iMac supplied wireless mouse. She'll go to click-drag something and catch the power switch, which is on the underside of the mouse, on the mousepad turning off the mouse. This has happened maybe four times in the two years we've had it, but everytime it's been "The computer crashed!" and gets power-cycled, losing work. Of course it's still "crashed" when it comes back up because the mouse is turned off. This post makes me feel like I should put a sticky note on there to check the mouse next time.

rograndom commented on Where Johnny Cash came from neh.gov/article/where-joh... · Posted by u/tintinnabula

User23 · 2 years ago

I highly recommend his autobiography. It gives some detail on his time growing up picking cotton, among many other interesting anecdotes.

rograndom · 2 years ago

“I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

rograndom commented on "Smartifying" my hi-fi system blog.rgsilva.com/smartify... · Posted by u/goodburb

cyclotron3k · 2 years ago

This is like a 21st century version of those cassette tapes with 3.5mm jacks; the ones you could use to play CDs from your Sony discman through your car's stereo.

Great work OP!

rograndom · 2 years ago

I grew up in the strange time where the cars we got as "hand me downs" had 8-track players. At a yard sale we found an 8-track to cassette adapter, and then put one of those cassette to line input adapters to have a discman playing in these 1970s era cars.