Looking for a front end Rails developer for limited consulting engagement
Published on October 8, 2024 by Benjamin Nickolls
TLDR: Octobox.io is looking for a front end developer to update our UI to use GitHub's Primer design system. If you are comfortable building single page applications in Ruby on Rails, and work within 5 hours of GMT please email [email protected] with a couple of examples of your work, detail about your responsibilities on those projects, and your proposed day rate in USD, EUR or GBP.
Hello there!
It's been nearly four years since Andrew and I posted an update on Octobox. A lot has happened in that time: a global pandemic, new jobs, and most recently the release of Ecosyste.ms, the successor to Libraries.io. Meanwhile Octobox has carried on providing a relaible service for thousands of users, indexing nealy 24 million notifications from GitHub. But it's starting to look a little long in the tooth.
It's time for a refresh!
Octobox.io is (in our opinion) the best tool for managing notifications from GitHub. It would be relatively easy for us to integrate notifications from other developer services, but we believe that path leads to 'another email inbox'. GitHub is and will remain our singular focus.
Given this, we feel that aligning Octobox's design philosophy and aesthetics with GitHub's will provide our users with an interface that is as familiar as it is intuitive. Thankfully GitHub open sourced it's design system, Primer, a long time ago, as a starting point for developers to create interfaces of their own.
Octobox Ltd, the company behind Octobox.io is looking for a front-end developer to update the current interface to use Primer's design system. The project will include importing the design system, updating css classes and dom elements to use the system, while maintaining the current user experience, and expanding frontend testing to create a robust framework for future development.
If you are comfortable building single page applications in Ruby on Rails, and work within 5 hours of GMT please email [email protected] with a couple of examples of your work, detail about your responsibilities on those projects, and your proposed day rate in USD, EUR or GBP. From there we'll arrange a short interview to discuss details of the project, and answer any questions you may need to answer in order to prepare a quote.
Please share this notice with anyone you think may be appropriate. Do not contact us if you represent a recruiter or web agency. We have nothing against these organisations, we just want to work with an invdidivual — preferably drawn from the open source community — over established organisations.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Hello there!
It's been nearly four years since Andrew and I posted an update on Octobox. A lot has happened in that time: a global pandemic, new jobs, and most recently the release of Ecosyste.ms, the successor to Libraries.io. Meanwhile Octobox has carried on providing a relaible service for thousands of users, indexing nealy 24 million notifications from GitHub. But it's starting to look a little long in the tooth.
It's time for a refresh!
Octobox.io is (in our opinion) the best tool for managing notifications from GitHub. It would be relatively easy for us to integrate notifications from other developer services, but we believe that path leads to 'another email inbox'. GitHub is and will remain our singular focus.
Given this, we feel that aligning Octobox's design philosophy and aesthetics with GitHub's will provide our users with an interface that is as familiar as it is intuitive. Thankfully GitHub open sourced it's design system, Primer, a long time ago, as a starting point for developers to create interfaces of their own.
Octobox Ltd, the company behind Octobox.io is looking for a front-end developer to update the current interface to use Primer's design system. The project will include importing the design system, updating css classes and dom elements to use the system, while maintaining the current user experience, and expanding frontend testing to create a robust framework for future development.
If you are comfortable building single page applications in Ruby on Rails, and work within 5 hours of GMT please email [email protected] with a couple of examples of your work, detail about your responsibilities on those projects, and your proposed day rate in USD, EUR or GBP. From there we'll arrange a short interview to discuss details of the project, and answer any questions you may need to answer in order to prepare a quote.
Please share this notice with anyone you think may be appropriate. Do not contact us if you represent a recruiter or web agency. We have nothing against these organisations, we just want to work with an invdidivual — preferably drawn from the open source community — over established organisations.
We look forward to hearing from you!