Ask HN: Does anyone want to pair program with me?

I’m happy to work on whatever you want. I'm most comfortable with Scala/Postgres/AWS and have some vague muscle memory for Ruby and Rails from a past time.

Some examples of things to work on:

* Need help building your first api client for something using akka-http? * You want to get started using scalacheck? * You want to start automating things with ansible and can't figure out where to start

Who am I?

I’m Earl St Sauver, I’m the CTO of a startup that’s using Scala + ML and satellite imagery to deliver seed and fertilizer to rural Subsaharan african farmers on credit. I was a YC Fellow in 2015 and made the Forbes 30 under 30 last year. I’m definitely not the best programmer lurking these woods, but I don’t think I’ll waste your time.

Rules:

* Please let it be something you’re comfortable working on in public. I won’t sign an NDA and I want to be able to write about the problem we solve. * Don’t be an asshole.

How to sign up:

Send me an email at earl at apolloagriculture dot com with the subject line starting with “PAIR PROGRAMMING”. I’m in Amsterdam time so please propose a time that’s plausible for both of us and add a sentence or two about what you want to work on.

Why:

It's an experiment, I want to see who shows up and brings interesting problems forward. I have a suspicion that it'll both be an interesting way to track the problems people have, a good way to build community, and maybe eventually a good way to recruit people.

I first made the offer in the scala community and I've had a few really great successful pair programming sessions with people, and so I thought I would make the offer generally.