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X-Team Magazine
Company blog · x-team.com/blog · on HN as ryanchartrandwebprogrammingcareer
X-Team Magazine is the company blog at x-team.com, writing about web, programming and career. Since 2013, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “How to Regain Focus in the 21st Century”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link X-Team's blog posts on storing passwords with pgcrypto in PostgreSQL, a Rollup vs Webpack vs Parcel build-tool comparison, and a git workflow using forks. Comments mostly mention X-Team as a company.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scale your engineering team with X-Team's elite, vetted developers. We embed senior remote talent that ships, so you build faster without the hiring overhead.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Regain Focus in the 21st Century2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-30
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
- How to Fight Loneliness with a Remote Workforce2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-23
What Hacker News says?
X-team | DBT, Data Management, Python, Ruby | Remote | Full Time | PST Required Hi!, we're looking for a DBT/Data Management for a customer based in Calfornia, USA We offer: 40hours/week of contracting work directly for us Projects that are usually longer than 6 months Fully remote work2.500 USD per year as a bonus for growth and happiness Paid-for hackerhouses around the world If you're interested, and think you mi…
Comment linking /join-application/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)”Submitted Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIs there a specific tie for you between being a contractor and working remotely? I started contracting on-site for a Federal government department (leaving a salaried state government position for it), through an agency, then moved onto more on-site contracting for a telco, through a different agency (in a different state), before finally starting to take on clients directly. For several years I worked primarily wit…
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on “Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?”Submitted The Definitive Guide to Remote Development Teams as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWith pgcrypto? https://x-team.com/blog/storing-secure-passwords-with-postgr...
Comment linking /blog/storing-secure-passwords-with-postgresql/
on “PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans”Submitted Slack Tips Tuesday: How a developer's daily standup should look as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI don't want to point to ones I remember from back in the day in case I got their model wrong, but a current company doing something like this at scale would be https://x-team.com/ .. I think it could work at a much smaller level though.
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on “UK 'heading towards digital skills shortage disaster'”Submitted The development industry is broken as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI got my start remote working with X-Team ( https://x-team.com ) and their sister company X-Five (then called XHTMLized) ( https://www.xfive.co ) I don't know if they have any openings currently but definitely worth checking them out in my opinion.
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on “Who is hiring remote workers?”Submitted Tips to Becoming a Great Remote Developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd slow? https://x-team.com/blog/rollup-webpack-parcel-comparison/
Comment linking /blog/rollup-webpack-parcel-comparison/
on “Show HN: Create-React-app-parcel, a CLI for Creating React Apps with Parcel”Submitted How to Onboard Remote Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhere are you from? Most visa laws are related to the applicant's country of citizenship. A few points: - Australia is a great place to live (I am Australian, lived there till my late 20s), but be aware that it's expensive compared to e.g. USA. - While you can apply for a PR (permanent resident) visa from within Australia, it's much cheaper to do it from outside the country. From a more general view I see two points…
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on “Ask HN: Canadian visa woes. Should I try Australia?”Submitted The Top 5 Reasons Developers Stay Happy in Their Jobs (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you're looking for React work, we're hiring too :) http://x-team.com/join
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on “Show HN: React Jobs”Submitted Top remote developer myths busted as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm sure that git's branches could allow you to maintain one repo for both free and pro features for a project. It may take some wrangling but I don't see any major caveats to doing it this way. https://x-team.com/blog/our-git-workflow-forks-with-feature-...
Comment linking /blog/our-git-workflow-forks-with-feature-branches/
on “Ask HN: How to maintain open source and enterprise Python code repositories?”Submitted Want more women in tech? Start hiring remote developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey, I just moved out from Germany! and I'm an iOS Developer working remotely in Brazil for US Company, the salary range is totally doable as a contractor so you need to take care of your taxes, check these companies and set up a profile there: - TECLA https://www.tecla.io/ ( I got a position with that company, pretty smooth to deal with them and very professional) - Turing https://www.turing.com/ - Revelo https://w…
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on “Software dev from Europe working in LATAM?”Submitted 25 Awesome Tools Every Developer Should Have as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Lead a More Rational Life with Bayes' Theorem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I was checking out Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, looks promising as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Few Principles of Clean Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Regain Focus in the 21st Century as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Fight Loneliness with a Remote Workforce as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Lead a Remote Development Team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top JavaScript Trends to Watch in 2018 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top JavaScript Trends to Watch in 2018 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Level Up Your Development Career as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Trends to Watch in 2017 as a story · 2 points
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