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One of my favorite writers, Maciej Ceglowski, is looking for work.

I’m a Perl and JavaScript developer looking for contract work in the San Francisco area. I can design Web applications, help with scaling and integration, build search and recommendations engines, and deliver working code on deadline without a lot of supervision.

Some of my favorite writings of his:

The Unbearable Thinness of Crust — ruminations and an epic journey regarding the worst and best pizza in the world

Dabblers and Blowhards It’s surprisingly hard to pin Paul Graham down on the nature of the special bond he thinks hobbyist programmers and painters share. In his essays he tends to flit from metaphor to metaphor like a butterfly, never pausing long enough to for a suspicious reader to catch up with his chloroform jar.

Attacked By Thugs! — If you are ever, ever in Warsaw, I highly recommend you flag down a passing cop car and tell them you’ve been assaulted. You will meet with a kind of unconditional acceptance and emotional support that I didn’t know could be found outside one’s immediate family.

A Rocket To Nowhere — the first of Maciej’s writings that I came accross — a hilarious and fascinating tirade on why the US space program is pointless and pathetic

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