mariocesar VS Metalsmith

- Location: Bolivia, B1H1 visa.

- Remote: Yes

- Willing to relocate: Yes

- Technologies: Django, FastaPI, Python, Docker, Terraform, JavaScript, Ansible, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React, Vue, Next.js, Vercel, AWS, Zapier, Airtable (Scripting), Notion (API integration)

- Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariocesar/ ask for for my CV by email

- Email: [email protected]

SEEKING WORK | Full Stack Python Developer with 10+ years of experience. | Remote and available to Travel

I have most of my experience working remotely with startups and web-based projects throughout my career. In over half of the projects, I was the sole developer, taking on everything from sysadmin to backend and frontend work.

My expertise lies in scaling applications to support more users or matching resources to a budget. I specialize in creating custom CRMs for niche industries and can help bring your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to market while also converting your homemade tools to Software as a Service (SaaS). Additionally, I am skilled in creating complete and robust automation projects using tools such as Zapier, Notion, Airtable, and AppSheet. I am also available to create integrations for your SaaS or in-house tool for Zapier, Make, and other Automation Services.

To see my coding skills in action, please feel free to check out my GitHub profile https://github.com/mariocesar. I also frequently post code snippets at https://gist.github.com/mariocesar, and you can find most of my links at https://mariocesar.xyz/.

- Email met at: [email protected]

I have worked most of my life remotely, primarily for startups and related to web-based projects. 6/10 projects I have been a solo developer, building from ground doing sysadmin to backend and frontend work. I now enjoy a day job but still, take on exciting and challenging projects with my software agency https://humanzilla.com.

We're a small software agency, and we're all family and close friends. We typically help scale apps to support more users or match resources to a budget. Work on creating custom CRMs for niche industries. We can help you get an MVP on the market. Convert your homemade tools to SaaS. We can create complete and robust automation projects with Zapier, Notion, Airtable, AppSheet, and other services. Recently started to automate Content Generation and tools for Sales Lead generation projects.

You can get an idea of my coding skills by looking at my GitHub profile https://github.com/mariocesar, and I often post code snippets in https://gist.github.com/mariocesar. Most of my links are in https://mariocesar.xyz/

https://mariocesar.xyz

Soon to be also a Blog :/

Code that generates my site → https://github.com/mariocesar/mariocesar

Metalsmith — the best customizable SSG

I use Metalsmith. Been happy with it. I build my site into a self-contained nginx docker image.

const Metalsmith = require('metalsmith') const markdown = require('@metalsmith/markdown') const layouts = require('metalsmith-layouts') const permalinks = require('@metalsmith/permalinks') const collections = require('metalsmith-collections') Metalsmith(__dirname) .metadata({ sitename: 'Website Name', description: "Website description.", generator: 'Metalsmith', url: 'https://metalsmith.io/' }) .source('./src') .destination('./build') // .clean(true) .use( collections({ projects: 'pages/*.md', reverse: true, refer: true }) ) .use(markdown()) .use(permalinks()) .use( layouts({ engineOptions: { helpers: { formattedDate: function (date) { return new Date(date).toLocaleDateString() } } } }) ) .build(function (err, files) { if (err) throw err })

I also started to move to hugo, but they didn't merge the pr [2] which would have helped in the transition. :(

The look is still similar to what it was in the beginning, in terms of colors at least.

[1] https://github.com/metalsmith/metalsmith

Metalsmith

A static site generator I've been enjoying lately (and using for my blog) is Metalsmith: https://metalsmith.io/

It feel like it's the best of both worlds, because it's simple to learn and customize, but there are plugins for the things you don't want to spend time writing yourself.

For example, I'm using plugins to: check for broken links, generate an RSS feed, and run a test server with automatic reloading.

But then I was able to easily add in my own code to handle relative links, generate Graphviz diagrams, and format dates.

One other recommendation: I hated almost every template language I ran across (Hugo's, Liquid, Nunjucks, EJS), but I'm thrilled with the simplicity of Handlebars (https://handlebarsjs.com/), although it is a bit limiting and the "block helper with parameters" syntax is strange (perhaps an indicator that I'm trying to do too much in the templating language!).

I believe Metalsmith [1] is trying that approach

[1] https://metalsmith.io/