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ChairNerd
Company blog · chairnerd.seatgeek.comprogrammingsystems
ChairNerd is the company blog at chairnerd.seatgeek.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “SeatGeek for Android”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link ChairNerd, SeatGeek's engineering blog, for technical posts on data stacks, fuzzy string matching, Kalman filters and spatial data structures, and for its code and design writing.
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.
Intro: From Pain to Product In Part 1 we shared the problem: IAM was slowing everyone down. Access requests were confusing, unpredictable, and …
Most-linked posts?
- SeatGeek for Android3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-14
- Building Out the SeatGeek Data Pipeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-23
- High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-19
- The Outbox Pattern: Transforming Real-Time Data Distribution at SeatGeek2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-07
- FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-25
- Spatial Data Structures for Better Map Interactions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Company: SeatGeek ( https://seatgeek.com/ ), App ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seatgeek.a... ) Job: Android Engineer ( https://grnh.se/ormck1 ) Location: New York, NY Allows Remote: in the US Visa: No SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world experience more live – concerts, sports, theater, and more – and our Android app is vital to making that vision a reality. Our humble, yet bold goal since w…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Secret Management with Vault as a story · 209 points
HN discussionNice post. Looker ( http://looker.com ) is an alternative to Periscope that a ton of venture-backed tech companies are using (mostly in conjunction with Redshift). Here are two posts from Buffer and SeatGeek on their stacks using Redshift, Luigi and Looker. Buffer: https://overflow.bufferapp.com/2014/10/31/buffers-new-data-a... . SeatGeek: http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/building-out-the-seatgeek-data... Looker does n…
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on “Building Analytics at 500px”Submitted High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas as a story · 177 points
HN discussionI only heard about SeatGeek after reading this great blog post from them: http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/high-performance-map-interacti... . Congrats!
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on “SeatGeek Raises $35M”Submitted Spatial Data Structures for Better Map Interactions as a story · 113 points
HN discussionUsed SeatGeek the other day to find concert tickets, the interface is fantastic. They also maintain an interesting code+design blog http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/
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on “SeatGeek Raises $35M”Submitted SeatGeek Raises $35M as a story · 95 points
HN discussionThis is more or less the path we take for event matching at SeatGeek[1] using our fuzzywuzzy[2] library. There are places where this falls flat since it's kind of naive, though at that point you can stop thinking about adjacent characters and start thinking about adjacent words. [1] http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/fuzzywuzzy-fuzzy-string-matchi... [2] https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy
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on “Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript”Submitted Building Out the SeatGeek Data Pipeline as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSeatgeek is pretty good too: http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com
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on “GitHub's Engineering Blog”Submitted Introducing Mailroom: An open-source internal notification framework as a story · 42 points
HN discussionWe setup multiple[1] Gollum wikis at work, and had the following changes: - Removed a bunch of features that were confusing to our non-dev users - Used nginx/lua to do custom OAuth-based authentication [2] - Set the committer's name and email to the currently authenticated user (from an env var in the request) - Mucked around with the templates - Added a /_status endpoint to do simple healthchecks for our load-balan…
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on “Show HN: Realms Wiki – Simple Git-backed wiki inspired by Gollum”Submitted SeatGeek for Android as a story · 31 points
HN discussionShameless Plug: I work for an NYC-based startup - SeatGeek.com - that is basically this[1]. We used to do forecasting but found that wasn't really useful[2] or worth the time it took to maintain, so we nixed it. - [1]: As an example, here is the Firefly event the OP was scraping. : https://seatgeek.com/firefly-music-festival-tickets - [2]: We haven't included Craigslist because the data is much less structured and i…
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on “Finding the best ticket price – Simple web scraping with Python”Submitted A Lightweight iOS Image Cache as a story · 30 points
HN discussionAll you kalman filter fans out there will be happy to hear that you can grab a ride from SideCar and some Giants tickets from SeatGeek[1] for a truly algorithmic afternoon. 1. http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/using-a-kalman-filter-to-predi...
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on “SideCar's Kalman Filter models San Francisco brunch”Submitted FanSnap Is Now Part of SeatGeek as a story · 29 points
HN discussionA bit off topic, but seatgeek seems like a really impressive engineering organization. They pump out some seriously useful code and articles. Examples: http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/oauth-support-for-nginx-with-l... https://github.com/seatgeek/sixpack https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy https://github.com/seatgeek/djjob https://github.com/seatgeek/soulmate http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/spatial-data-structures-for…
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on “A Lightweight iOS Image Cache”Submitted SeatGeek Marketplace as a story · 24 points
HN discussionGood name! Looks like SeatGeek use that naming convention here: https://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/transactional-outbox-pattern/ This looks like a good definition too: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/outbox-pattern-for-reli...
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on “Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python”Submitted Cross-Event Search as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Successful Android App Development at a Small Scale as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sixpack-Java: A/B Testing for Android Apps as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Integration for Android Applications as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Druzhba: A Data Pipeline Framework as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted SeatGeek Delivery Time Predictions with Quantile Regression and TensorFlow as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted SeatGeek Dev Challenge: Open Sourcing Our Admin Panel as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitLab CI runners rearchitecture from Nomad to Kubernetes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GIS Technologies for Venue Mapping as a story · 6 points
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