Welcome ekzyis to the SN team! \ stacker news ~meta

8834 sats \ 43 comments \ @k00b 16 May 2023 meta

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@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!

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562 sats \ 3 replies \ @kevkevin 16 May 2023

Dang also a contributor to Bitcoin core in addition to being a satlantian

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27232

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

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!

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @kevkevin 16 May 2023

ya lol I remember trading you once on satlantis so I remember your name and recognized you when you posted!

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

Damn, nice, I hope I didn't rip you off haha

But a deal is a deal!

3347 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

his contributions suggested something more important and rare: taste.

👀

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

123 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 16 May 2023

Let's see how long this stays the case haha

👀

lol

404 sats \ 1 reply \ @ThrillerX_ 17 May 2023

Congrats @ekzyis ⚡️⚡️⚡️

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 17 May 2023

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

304 sats \ 2 replies \ @jgbtc 17 May 2023

Congrats, well deserved!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek fwd 18 May 2023

Thanks! I still didn't implement multi-session support for minesats.gg btw, haha

96 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 19 May 2023

👀

345 sats \ 1 reply \ @TonyGiorgio 16 May 2023

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.

526 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

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 :)

217 sats \ 0 replies \ @ncryppt 18 May 2023

welcome @ekzyis !

238 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsCats 17 May 2023

and the BTC army continues to march on, congrats @ekzyis

227 sats \ 0 replies \ @phaedrus 17 May 2023

Awesome!

227 sats \ 0 replies \ @cowmaster 16 May 2023

Congrats!!! 🐄⚡️🐄⚡️🐄

215 sats \ 0 replies \ @SovranSystems 16 May 2023

Congrats!!!

209 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 16 May 2023

Congratulations

209 sats \ 0 replies \ @MaxAWebster 16 May 2023

Congrats @ekzyis!⚡️🚀

209 sats \ 0 replies \ @MerryOscar 16 May 2023

Congrats @ekzyis!

209 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satlantis 16 May 2023

Congrats @ekzyis!

Great addition to the team :)

60 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 16 May 2023

Thank you great nation of Satlantis

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

I definitely did not send him the link to this post, haha

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satlantis 16 May 2023

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

Congrats @ekysis!

I appreciate the attempt at spelling my name haha

Thanks!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 16 May 2023

What does it mean btw?

330 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

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

209 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 May 2023

Great hire!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

Thanks! And oh, I forgot to reply to your question regarding my node hardware earlier haha.

Will do now!

101 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 16 May 2023

Happy to see a smart brain join the ship. Congrats SN and congrats @ekzyis

122 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 18 May 2023

Welcome to the team, it's good you already have a track record of work done on SN

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @Chep 17 May 2023

Congrats @ekzyis excited to see what you will build!

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 18 May 2023

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

121 sats \ 0 replies \ @Monotone 17 May 2023

Congrats! Cool

121 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 17 May 2023

Congrats!

121 sats \ 0 replies \ @joyepzion 17 May 2023

Congrats @ekzyis Your input to SN will usher in more stackers

321 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek fwd 16 May 2023

Cheers!

10k sats to the person who identifies which PII is exposed in this image (on purpose)

10.4k sats \ 1 reply \ @aftermath 17 May 2023

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

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek fwd 17 May 2023

Haha, didn't think about the reflection. Nice catch!

10k sats well deserved :)

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @LDDV88 17 May 2023

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 23 May 2023

Boom congrats! Looking forward to it!

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