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ActiveSphere
Company blog · activesphere.com/blogprogrammingweb
ActiveSphere is the company blog at activesphere.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Understanding SQLITE_BUSY”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
50mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly see ActiveSphere, a Bangalore software consulting firm, in 'Who is hiring' threads. Commenters mention its portfolio, its tooling work, and writings on compound interest and Elixir streams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ReactJS Elixir Erlang Golang D3 scalable web services developers
Most-linked posts?
- /hacks.html2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-10-01
- Understanding SQLITE_BUSY2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-09
- FoundationDB high contention allocator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-22
What Hacker News says?
ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India We are hiring programmers. http://www.activesphere.com/careers.html
Comment linking /careers.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted A primer on Elixir Stream as a story · 147 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer We're a software consulting company. Most of our current work is in JavaScript (React, Angular 2, TypeScript), but we have written code in Elxir, Go, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp, D3. A sample set of client projects can be found here http://www.activesphere.com/portfolio.html Apart from client work, we have built a tunneling solution in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted FoundationDB high contention allocator as a story · 62 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full stack We're a software consulting company. Most of our current work is in Go, JavaScript (React, TypeScript), Python. But we have written code in Elixir, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp, D3. Apart from client work, we have built a tunnelling solution in Go, TypeScript emacs mode (referred from TypeScript site), a font converter in Ha…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Y combinator in small steps as a story · 15 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore | ONSITE | Full Time http://www.activesphere.com/careers.html We're a consulting company. Most of our current work is in JavaScript (React, Angular 2, TypeScript), but we have written code in Elxir, Go, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp, D3. We built a tunneling solution in Go, a Chat Server in Erlang, a Font converter in Haskell, a DynamoDB emulator in Ruby, a Remote debugger (in JavaScr…
Comment linking /portfolio.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Understanding SQLITE_BUSY as a story · 3 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full stack We're a software consulting company. Most of our current work is in JavaScript (React, Angular 2, TypeScript), but we have written code in Elixir, Go, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp, D3. Apart from client work, we have built a tunnelling solution in Go, TypeScript emacs mode (referred from TypeScript site), a font converter in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Understanding Sqlite_busy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore | ONSITE | Full Time http://www.activesphere.com/careers.html We’re looking for sensible, curious and persistent programmers. We're a consulting company. If you join us, you would find colleagues who have written code in JavaScript (ES6), Go, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp and more using, D3, React, Angular, ko, NodeJS, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails and more. We built a tunneling solution…
Comment linking /hacks.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Sort order preserving serialization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full Stack We're a boutique software development/consulting company based in Bangalore. Apart from client work, we spend time exploring diverse topics. Sometimes these explorations lead to writings like compound interest[1], creating a visual primer on elixir streams[2] or diving into FoundationDB's high contention allocator algorithm[3]. Some…
Comment linking /blog/2018/08/05/high-contention-allocator
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Understanding SQLITE_BUSY as a story · 1 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full Stack We're a boutique software development/consulting company. Apart from client work, we spend time exploring diverse topics. Sometimes these explorations lead to writings like compound interest[1], creating a visual primer on elixir streams[2] or diving into FoundationDB's high contention allocator algorithm[3]. Some other times, it le…
Comment linking /problems/regex-gen.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Minimal mochajs api in about 100 lines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full stack We're a boutique software development/consulting company based in Bangalore. Apart from client work, we spend time understanding and exploring diverse topics. Sometimes these explorations lead to writings like compound interest[1] and creating a visual primer on elixir streams[2], some other times, it leads to discussions in ML or d…
Comment linking /hacks.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore | ONSITE | Full Time http://www.activesphere.com/careers.html We're a software consulting company. Most of our current work is in JavaScript (React, Angular 2, TypeScript), but we have written code in Elxir, Go, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp, D3. We built a tunneling solution in Go, a chat server in Erlang, a font converter in Haskell, a DynamoDB emulator in Ruby, a remote debugger (i…
Comment linking /portfolio.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore | ONSITE | Full Time | Full Stack We are a consulting company. But thats not the end of it. One of us has written Emacs mode ( https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide ) which is now linked directly from official TypeScript website. Another one of us, has written tunnelling solution, and used it to create a remote debugging (debug another browser session over the internet), as POC. We have don…
Comment linking /hacks.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full stack We're a software consulting company. Most of our current work is in Go, JavaScript (React, TypeScript), Python. But we have written code in Elixir, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp, D3. Apart from client work, we have built a tunneling solution in Go, TypeScript emacs mode (referred from TypeScript site), a font converter in Has…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore http://www.activesphere.com/careers.html We’re looking for sensible, curious and persistent programmers. We're a consulting company. If you join us, you would find colleagues who have written code in JavaScript (ES6), Go, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scheme, Elisp and more using, D3, React, Angular, ko, NodeJS, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails and more. We built a tunneling solution in Go, a Chat Server…
Comment linking /hacks.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full Stack We're a boutique software development/consulting company. Apart from client work, we spend time exploring diverse topics. Sometimes these explorations lead to writings like compound interest[1], creating a visual primer on elixir streams[2] or diving into FoundationDB's high contention allocator algorithm[3]. Some other times, it le…
Comment linking /problems/regex-gen.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full stack We're a boutique software development/consulting company based in Bangalore. Currently, 10 programmers. Our work depends on client and personal interests/ideas we care about. For clients, these days we are mostly working on Elixir, React. Apart from client work, we spend time understanding and exploring diverse topics and languages.…
Comment linking /hacks.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | Full-Time | Onsite http://www.activesphere.com/careers.html We are looking for colleagues, programmers, who have interests in topics in computer science and other fields (finance, ml, maths?). We are looking for colleagues who would like to do programming experiments, for the sake of curiosity. Most of our work involves consulting for startups. But we also have been doing our own pr…
Comment linking /hacks.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)”SEEKING WORK - Bangalore - Remote Technologies: Elixir, TypeScript/JavaScript, React. Can pickup tech (have touched zig, clojure, go) Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciju-cherian/ Email: ping@ciju.in Some code at: https://github.com/ciju (i.e https://github.com/ciju/adventofcode-21 ) Few things I have written about: https://ciju.in/posts/understanding-timezones (in progress) https://ciju.in/posts/understandin…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)”SEEKING WORK - Bangalore - Remote Technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Elixir, Terraform. Can pickup tech (have touched zig, clojure, go, python, ruby). Most recently, I setup infrastructure (prod/staging) for an AI startup, using terraform, and helping with concurrency issues in python code, etc. For another client, I had replaced there gcp infra located in US, to Mumbai, while also migrating the infra to te…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)”Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Elixir, Terraform. Can pickup tech (have touched zig, clojure, go, python, ruby) Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciju-cherian/ Email: ping@ciju.in Github: https://github.com/ciju I am looking for short term consulting work only. I am building https://finbodhi.com , a local-first pwa, double-entry account…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)”