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42 points by joergrech 5y ago

leetrout 5y ago
This needs work. Type in "go" in the tech search. Comes back with all kinds of silly suggestions like "hbo go". "Golang" didnt come up either.
- vharuck 5y ago
  Same with R
  - aydnina 5y ago
    I tried R too. It seems to be searching for R in company names - R Systems, R/GA, H & R Block come up as examples.
- memen 5y ago
  Same for C++, I find the C&A (clothing retailer in the Netherlands) recommended
- rjgonza 5y ago
  Yup, just tried for rust -- got lots of industrial companies
franze 5y ago
in austria we have https://devjobs.at/ https://devjobs.at/ the job postings are augmented with the dev-stacks (from servers, databases, languages, infra, thirdparties), the job headlines de-b#ll-ified using ML, and the users can apply fast via github / linked or direct via the jobposting on the companies website, every job posting has some salery range. it carved out it's niche in the austrian dev community.
anothernewdude 5y ago
Remote isn't just a town in Oregon.
lnxg33k1 5y ago
I feel like lately something weird is happening to the industry. I interviewed some people lately during the past few months to fill a couple of react jobs, and it looks like people is really giving a lot of fucks to the tech stack and technology they use, like I feel like there are now a lot of people who are knowledgeable of everything but master of nothing and also they keep learning framework and library without caring about software principle, architectural or design patterns or security best practice, We interviewed a tech lead that we hired for react lead and she didn’t know even what owasp 10 are, and my coworkers said yeah that is not something they’re supposed to know which chills by skin , so maybe this post is not fully related to the thing, but maybe is it not cool anymore to work solving challenging and meaningful problems or as long as you work on the last framework you’re good? Is it a developer issue or the industry is being fucked up by hiring managers or recruiters ignoring portable developers Knowledge and just caring for how many years you’ve used $nextCoolFramework?
- awestroke 5y ago
  I know a lot about security, but I did not know about owasp10 before today. I knew about all the listed security issues in owasp 10 and how to mitigate them, but not about the list itself. Perhaps look at what candidates actually know instead of $nextCoolList?
  - lnxg33k1 5y ago
    Well, personally when I ask about something with an acronym is just for shortness, but of course if you see the candidate a bit worried unable to give an answer for that specifically then I usually try to help saying something on the lines of (in this specific case), "So if I say XSS or session hijacking does anything comes to mind?" So like I don't just ask about OWASP and then move on, try to help, so I am pretty sure that it was not just the list, but yeah also I made an example of the one we hired, but I've had candidates knowing a lot of stuff but not knowing what a decorator was, so I was making a point more specifically about concrete frameworks versus principles
  - Existenceblinks 5y ago
    Yep, most of those items baked into framework already, plus practices we've heard about in the list, but not need to know the name "owasp".
candiddevmike 5y ago
Just because a company is using technologies you love doesn't mean you'll be using technologies you love if you work there. We use Go! (On one service (that's really a proof of concept (our main stack is ASP.NET)))
- epolanski 5y ago
  This. My younger and naive self used to over value the tech stack of a company, nowadays I don't care, there's way more important issues than the specific tech stack chosen like people, organization and processes. A strong engineering team pushes for meaningful and well organized requirements collection and encoding, documentation of the business domain, values (meaningful) testing and is strongly oriented towards providing the best developer experience possible. Languages and libraries do play a part in developer experience and satisfaction, but they are generally way less important.
  - Existenceblinks 5y ago
    But often times they use inappropriate tools for solving problems.
- milansm 5y ago
  If I'm a Go developer, or changing jobs because I want to use Go, of course that it is in both mine and my future employer's best interest to set expectations if I'm gonna work on Go or on ASP.NET.
  - candiddevmike 5y ago
    "sure milansm, you'll work on Go code. we just need to support this ASP.NET codebase for a little bit and then you can lead our migration to Go. I promise.". In this market, employers are saying anything to get folks in the door. They're scrambling for workers, and a lot of times it's because their codebase is shit and folks are leaving in droves, so they dangle carrots to get folks to support their decaying crap.
eatonphil 5y ago
I run a Discord community [0] around software internals for folks interested in hacking on databases, compilers, browsers, emulators, etc. There's a jobs channel there where folks post jobs on these topics there. If you've got these kinds of software internals jobs you're welcome to join and share. If you're looking for these kinds of jobs you're welcome to join and browse. Unlike OP's site this isn't tied to particular technology/languages/frameworms but tied to particular interesting topics. [0] discord.multiprocess.io
jack335 5y ago
Cool! Would be nice if you could support Remote jobs as location as well :)
flynniec6 5y ago
Spain, Munster, Ireland This seems a little wrong as a region.
jasfi 5y ago
I work a lot with Nim, for my own projects. There aren't many jobs out there for Nim just yet. I'm going to release some of tech I've built as Open Source (https://nexusdev.tools/ https://nexusdev.tools/). With any luck that will help to build up the Nim community, which in turn could help jump-start the Nim job market. DocUI, the back-end SDK that uses Flutter for the front-end, is actually multi-language on the back-end. But I also have a back-end web-framework built on top of Jester that handles user management. Another example is an ORM that generates Nim data access files (which is Postgres only at the moment, but other DBs could be added).
kvgr 5y ago
Nice tool, the search could some tuning. When i Type Android -> pure android is on the bottom. When i Type London, London England is at the bottom.
dwighttk 5y ago
Type Raleigh or Durham or North Carolina into the region selector and it gives bad or no results, but navigate over NC on the map and there are jobs listed
- rjmill 5y ago
  Yeah, I'm not going to assume Raleigh, NC is more important than all the other Raleighs in the world. But it is bizarre that I can get Fort Raleigh City, NC and not the actual capital of the state. Pretty neat tool, but the region search needs work.
  - dwighttk 5y ago
    Not necessarily that it is more important, but it isn’t there at all.
Existenceblinks 5y ago
That's little solution introduced to real problem .. looking at job description these days makes me shifting to a product guy using tech I think is appropriated, not just based on "large pool of developers", and fall into inferior and inappropriate tech for solving problems.
dorianmariefr 5y ago
I searched Ruby on Rails in San Francisco and got lots of irrelevant results
bitwize 5y ago
So I searched for Lisp jobs near Boston. Nothing. I changed the search to "Common Lisp" and got a few hits. But they were all just places with "Common" in the name, like Revere Hotel Boston Common. I know there are companies in the area that use Common Lisp, Google/ITA being the primary but not only one. Lisp jobs are rare, but not that rare. Sorry, but this looks like it's a "maybe someday, but not today" project.
taylodl 5y ago
I feel like this is completely backwards. To me this feels like 'I love using this kind of hammer so let me find all the jobs where I can use this hammer I love to use.' I'm actually not interested (at least not primarily interested) in that. I'm more interested in what are you building? What problems are you solving? I'd rather search by that and then see what their tech stack looks like and filter down to the ones matching my interests and the tools I like using. Heck, there may be a company that I'm really interested in what they're doing but I may not have a lot of experience with their particular technology set. I could reach out to them and express my interest in what they're doing and see if it might make sense for me to join them. Focusing on technology feels like putting the cart before the horse.
- lkxijlewlf 5y ago
  > I feel like this is completely backwards. To me this feels like 'I love using this kind of hammer so let me find all the jobs where I can use this hammer I love to use.' I'm actually not interested (at least not primarily interested) in that. I'm more interested in what are you building? What problems are you solving? Same for me. I can learn whatever tech stack you're using (if need be). I want to know about your business, your product, your future.
  - Existenceblinks 5y ago
    But tech stack requirements sit right there in job descriptions. It's about matching.
    - taylodl 5y ago
      Yes they do, but the question is should they? What role should they be playing?
      - Existenceblinks 5y ago
        They shouldn't, though they have few choices. They don't want to admit they chose the wrong tools for the problems, and can we disagree with them .. generally.
codingdave 5y ago
I am not sure where this data is coming from. I live out in the country, 15 minutes from a town of 2000 people, an hour from any real tech jobs. And there are results near me. From places like CyberCoders - almost as if other remote software folks just had a job through them once so their home address shows in the database. I suspect there is some serious validation needed of this data set before it will be useful.
chris_overseas 5y ago
I like the idea but it seems rather US-centric currently. I'm finding it almost impossible to filter by London, UK - a whole load of other locations containing 'London' across the US show up instead. Similarly, trying to reposition the map to London requires a lot of scrolling of the map, because I can't zoom out far enough to see enough of the globe. As it stands it's very difficult for me to use unfortunately, but hopefully it won't be too hard to improve the UX for an international audience.
- TheMerovingian 5y ago
  Likewise, looking for C jobs in Waterloo, Canada shunts me over to Austin, TX for some reason.
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sebastianconcpt 5y ago
In one hand, in a globalized market this is backwards. In the other hand, for less popular technologies this could be very interesting.
sbmthakur 5y ago
Not sure how but I managed to land on a URL with an 'undefined' param. https://techmap.io/*/undefined https://techmap.io/*/undefined
dang 5y ago
Related Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28897492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28897492 - Oct 2021 (47 comments)

42 points by joergrech 5y ago

This needs work. Type in "go" in the tech search. Comes back with all kinds of silly suggestions like "hbo go". "Golang" didnt come up either.

vharuck 5y ago
Same with R
- aydnina 5y ago
  I tried R too. It seems to be searching for R in company names - R Systems, R/GA, H & R Block come up as examples.
memen 5y ago
Same for C++, I find the C&A (clothing retailer in the Netherlands) recommended
rjgonza 5y ago
Yup, just tried for rust -- got lots of industrial companies

franze 5y ago

in austria we have https://devjobs.at/ https://devjobs.at/ the job postings are augmented with the dev-stacks (from servers, databases, languages, infra, thirdparties), the job headlines de-b#ll-ified using ML, and the users can apply fast via github / linked or direct via the jobposting on the companies website, every job posting has some salery range. it carved out it's niche in the austrian dev community.

anothernewdude 5y ago

Remote isn't just a town in Oregon.

lnxg33k1 5y ago

I feel like lately something weird is happening to the industry. I interviewed some people lately during the past few months to fill a couple of react jobs, and it looks like people is really giving a lot of fucks to the tech stack and technology they use, like I feel like there are now a lot of people who are knowledgeable of everything but master of nothing and also they keep learning framework and library without caring about software principle, architectural or design patterns or security best practice, We interviewed a tech lead that we hired for react lead and she didn’t know even what owasp 10 are, and my coworkers said yeah that is not something they’re supposed to know which chills by skin , so maybe this post is not fully related to the thing, but maybe is it not cool anymore to work solving challenging and meaningful problems or as long as you work on the last framework you’re good? Is it a developer issue or the industry is being fucked up by hiring managers or recruiters ignoring portable developers Knowledge and just caring for how many years you’ve used $nextCoolFramework?

awestroke 5y ago
I know a lot about security, but I did not know about owasp10 before today. I knew about all the listed security issues in owasp 10 and how to mitigate them, but not about the list itself. Perhaps look at what candidates actually know instead of $nextCoolList?
- lnxg33k1 5y ago
  Well, personally when I ask about something with an acronym is just for shortness, but of course if you see the candidate a bit worried unable to give an answer for that specifically then I usually try to help saying something on the lines of (in this specific case), "So if I say XSS or session hijacking does anything comes to mind?" So like I don't just ask about OWASP and then move on, try to help, so I am pretty sure that it was not just the list, but yeah also I made an example of the one we hired, but I've had candidates knowing a lot of stuff but not knowing what a decorator was, so I was making a point more specifically about concrete frameworks versus principles
- Existenceblinks 5y ago
  Yep, most of those items baked into framework already, plus practices we've heard about in the list, but not need to know the name "owasp".

candiddevmike 5y ago

Just because a company is using technologies you love doesn't mean you'll be using technologies you love if you work there. We use Go! (On one service (that's really a proof of concept (our main stack is ASP.NET)))

epolanski 5y ago
This. My younger and naive self used to over value the tech stack of a company, nowadays I don't care, there's way more important issues than the specific tech stack chosen like people, organization and processes. A strong engineering team pushes for meaningful and well organized requirements collection and encoding, documentation of the business domain, values (meaningful) testing and is strongly oriented towards providing the best developer experience possible. Languages and libraries do play a part in developer experience and satisfaction, but they are generally way less important.
- Existenceblinks 5y ago
  But often times they use inappropriate tools for solving problems.
milansm 5y ago
If I'm a Go developer, or changing jobs because I want to use Go, of course that it is in both mine and my future employer's best interest to set expectations if I'm gonna work on Go or on ASP.NET.
- candiddevmike 5y ago
  "sure milansm, you'll work on Go code. we just need to support this ASP.NET codebase for a little bit and then you can lead our migration to Go. I promise.". In this market, employers are saying anything to get folks in the door. They're scrambling for workers, and a lot of times it's because their codebase is shit and folks are leaving in droves, so they dangle carrots to get folks to support their decaying crap.

eatonphil 5y ago

I run a Discord community [0] around software internals for folks interested in hacking on databases, compilers, browsers, emulators, etc. There's a jobs channel there where folks post jobs on these topics there. If you've got these kinds of software internals jobs you're welcome to join and share. If you're looking for these kinds of jobs you're welcome to join and browse. Unlike OP's site this isn't tied to particular technology/languages/frameworms but tied to particular interesting topics. [0] discord.multiprocess.io

jack335 5y ago

Cool! Would be nice if you could support Remote jobs as location as well :)

flynniec6 5y ago

Spain, Munster, Ireland This seems a little wrong as a region.

jasfi 5y ago

I work a lot with Nim, for my own projects. There aren't many jobs out there for Nim just yet. I'm going to release some of tech I've built as Open Source (https://nexusdev.tools/ https://nexusdev.tools/). With any luck that will help to build up the Nim community, which in turn could help jump-start the Nim job market. DocUI, the back-end SDK that uses Flutter for the front-end, is actually multi-language on the back-end. But I also have a back-end web-framework built on top of Jester that handles user management. Another example is an ORM that generates Nim data access files (which is Postgres only at the moment, but other DBs could be added).

kvgr 5y ago

Nice tool, the search could some tuning. When i Type Android -> pure android is on the bottom. When i Type London, London England is at the bottom.

dwighttk 5y ago

Type Raleigh or Durham or North Carolina into the region selector and it gives bad or no results, but navigate over NC on the map and there are jobs listed

rjmill 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not going to assume Raleigh, NC is more important than all the other Raleighs in the world. But it is bizarre that I can get Fort Raleigh City, NC and not the actual capital of the state. Pretty neat tool, but the region search needs work.
- dwighttk 5y ago
  Not necessarily that it is more important, but it isn’t there at all.

Existenceblinks 5y ago

That's little solution introduced to real problem .. looking at job description these days makes me shifting to a product guy using tech I think is appropriated, not just based on "large pool of developers", and fall into inferior and inappropriate tech for solving problems.

dorianmariefr 5y ago

I searched Ruby on Rails in San Francisco and got lots of irrelevant results

bitwize 5y ago

So I searched for Lisp jobs near Boston. Nothing. I changed the search to "Common Lisp" and got a few hits. But they were all just places with "Common" in the name, like Revere Hotel Boston Common. I know there are companies in the area that use Common Lisp, Google/ITA being the primary but not only one. Lisp jobs are rare, but not that rare. Sorry, but this looks like it's a "maybe someday, but not today" project.

taylodl 5y ago

I feel like this is completely backwards. To me this feels like 'I love using this kind of hammer so let me find all the jobs where I can use this hammer I love to use.' I'm actually not interested (at least not primarily interested) in that. I'm more interested in what are you building? What problems are you solving? I'd rather search by that and then see what their tech stack looks like and filter down to the ones matching my interests and the tools I like using. Heck, there may be a company that I'm really interested in what they're doing but I may not have a lot of experience with their particular technology set. I could reach out to them and express my interest in what they're doing and see if it might make sense for me to join them. Focusing on technology feels like putting the cart before the horse.

lkxijlewlf 5y ago
> I feel like this is completely backwards. To me this feels like 'I love using this kind of hammer so let me find all the jobs where I can use this hammer I love to use.' I'm actually not interested (at least not primarily interested) in that. I'm more interested in what are you building? What problems are you solving? Same for me. I can learn whatever tech stack you're using (if need be). I want to know about your business, your product, your future.
- Existenceblinks 5y ago
  But tech stack requirements sit right there in job descriptions. It's about matching.
  - taylodl 5y ago
    Yes they do, but the question is should they? What role should they be playing?
    - Existenceblinks 5y ago
      They shouldn't, though they have few choices. They don't want to admit they chose the wrong tools for the problems, and can we disagree with them .. generally.

codingdave 5y ago

I am not sure where this data is coming from. I live out in the country, 15 minutes from a town of 2000 people, an hour from any real tech jobs. And there are results near me. From places like CyberCoders - almost as if other remote software folks just had a job through them once so their home address shows in the database. I suspect there is some serious validation needed of this data set before it will be useful.

chris_overseas 5y ago

I like the idea but it seems rather US-centric currently. I'm finding it almost impossible to filter by London, UK - a whole load of other locations containing 'London' across the US show up instead. Similarly, trying to reposition the map to London requires a lot of scrolling of the map, because I can't zoom out far enough to see enough of the globe. As it stands it's very difficult for me to use unfortunately, but hopefully it won't be too hard to improve the UX for an international audience.

TheMerovingian 5y ago
Likewise, looking for C jobs in Waterloo, Canada shunts me over to Austin, TX for some reason.

deleted 5y ago

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sebastianconcpt 5y ago

In one hand, in a globalized market this is backwards. In the other hand, for less popular technologies this could be very interesting.

sbmthakur 5y ago

Not sure how but I managed to land on a URL with an 'undefined' param. https://techmap.io/*/undefined https://techmap.io/*/undefined

dang 5y ago

Related Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28897492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28897492 - Oct 2021 (47 comments)