Yeah, well be careful of Hetzner, I used to love them but I just migrated away. They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute. (~30 VMs we were using for our CI/CD pipeline) We provided them evidence with records of the payment in totality from our bank, they refused to look at it / discuss the dispute, even when we were communicating urgently and just ultimately shut off all our access. We're on Scaleway now.
Hm. Hetzners billing stuff is highly automated - but they usually give you about a month to pay your bill if the credit card payment failed for some reason.
Have had some hiccups with payments not going through myself that ended up in server IPs being restricted but they were very helpful on the phone and service was restored in about 30 minutes after the call. Decidedly not ideal but has been easily manageable since.
We were on invoice, and yes we had about a week or so of warning, but again, we had done the wire transfer to the full amount, and provided evidence of such.
They stated to have the bank statements showing everything was paid but the company refused to look at it. Sounds like they may not have been in a deficit but company refused to look at anything
I agree, but it's not clear if the situation was "hey we paid, look at our docs" and hetzner was just like "no give us money" and they were like "no we're not paying", or if hetzner just shut them down without recourse.
Personally, if I knew they were gonna shut me down if I didn't pay before X date, I'd fight it up until X-2 days, pay it, then continue fighting (depends on the amount of). But it's not clear that OP was given such a deadline.
Erdos Miller | Data Wrangler (Part-time → Full-time growth) | Remote (US preferred, flexible otherwise)
We build Measurement While Drilling (MWD) equipment — and we love it. That passion helped us capture the majority of the North American oil & gas market, and now it’s fueling our geothermal innovation, building underground navigation systems for the next generation of clean energy.
We’re now looking for a Data Wrangler to help us make smarter, faster decisions with our data. This role blends data engineering and data science: wrangling quirky file formats, structuring messy datasets, and turning it all into live tools that guide company strategy. Starts part-time with the opportunity to grow into a full-time, career-defining role.
What you’ll do
Partner with the CEO + stakeholders to translate business needs into pipelines, dashboards, and tools.
Build ETL pipelines, write parsers for proprietary formats, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Create interactive dashboards/apps with Dash, Streamlit, or similar (we avoid Tableau/Excel hell).
Deliver insights via live web apps where data isn’t static — it’s explorable.
Tech we use
Python, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), S3, modal.com.
Bonus: React/web dev experience to shape customer-facing real-time tools.
Why you’ll like it here
You’ll own projects end-to-end, avoid over-engineering (no Kubernetes, no Airflow — just the right tools), and directly influence decisions. As our company and data needs grow, so does your role.
If this sounds fun, email ken@erdosmiller.com with your background and what excites you about wrangling data.
I worked here for a few months several years ago - justifiably let go for non-performance, it was a strange time in my life and I had a lot of distractions, it was an amicable separation.
While they expect consistent high performance, the bar is reasonable and the hours can be a bit long for some but aren't insane. Everyone at the company is smart and driven. Both founders are highly technical, very passionate, genuinely business-savvy, and great with customers. Abe Erdos is borderline polymath genius - topics like wavelet decomposition are relatively pedestrian to Abe, and he seems equally comfortable in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science (all of which are critical to this business). Abe's also a good listener, it's easy to underestimate him and difficult to overestimate him. Ken Miller has more energy than anyone I've ever seen, a very broad and reasonably deep understanding of pretty much everything, and generally has strong opinions - if you want to challenge his roadmap, it's best to stay one step ahead of him and show rather than tell.
It's a fairly mature product, but the business still moves at a much faster pace than the rest of their industry and they constantly innovate. They stay on top of technological changes; they rarely take more than a year to adopt something new that is applicable to their products. Has the feeling of a "very stable start-up". They truly own both the hardware and data end-to-end, which is very helpful. They have expertise and ownership of every level of abstraction - they'll build Helmholtz coils in-house to calibrate instruments on custom PCBs designed and soldered in-house, while managing distributed systems from edge to datacenter, run their products at customer sites, maintain personal relationships with their customers and employees, and deal with legal action directly themselves.
If you're interested - understand that what might take 1-3 months at a large corporation is often accomplished in a few days to a week here. Working, manipulable demos are appreciated over presentations. If discussion hits a wall where it's impossible to know whether going direction A or B is correct, they will simply pick one direction to explore rather than deliberate further and they'll use that exploration to gain more information, open to backtracking and going the other direction, but only if it's profitable to do so.
Every person there has built a lot, either product or business. They focus on building things that don't suck, and they don't have much patience for things that do. So generally you won't have to worry about being forced to use crappy tools that make you miserable. There are a LOT of different personalities in the company, all strong in their own ways (some quiet, some loud, some blunt) so it's probably best if you are the type of person who can work with a variety of personalities - but this isn't a euphemism to indicate toxic personalities - if you're high energy and passionate you'll feel at home, sometimes opinions can fly fast and hot but the best results are gained by communicating clearly and decisively, not emotionally. Some employees are quieter and it's often best to be quieter with them and listen more. Keeping an emotional buffer/distance between you and work decisions made by your colleagues/bosses will help a lot. If there's loud direct criticism, it's about the work - not the person.
Most of their employees are on-location, but they integrate remote workers well enough - quite a few excellent employees work remotely and communication is good. You might miss some in-person chatter but you won't be completely blindsided (at least not much more than anyone else in a company that makes decisions faster than you can complete a story point).
When I was there, compensation was definitely reasonable - I was comfortable. It's an MCOL, but we had a competent developer in NY who stayed with the company through the tech boom years.
Thank you for writing that. It may be the most remarkable and insightful recommendation and advisory I have ever seen. And from someone who was let go, no less.
Super glad to be a part of this. Our MicroPulse Measurement While Drilling Systems have been used to drill numerous wells for Fervo. We also developed a first of its kind navigation system for the first full scale Eavor loop in Germany.
Great, take a step further. The future is docking your phone, probably ultimately wirelessly, and have a keyboard, mouse and multi monitor, why not a solid voice interface at the same time?
What Apple has done with these mobile processors is insane. The M-series MacBooks were the first laptop I ever owned that felt like a Desktop, no compromise to go mobile.
Sure, you'll have to make a bunch of thermal/size compromises for the phone form factor but given wall power as a daily driver it is far more than enough for email, teams, web browsing, even development.
Nearly everything about the experience of a terminal is better than iTerm though? I turned off all of the AI stuff since I can just use Claude directly for one off things. But it's very nice having the terminal treated like a text file instead of terminals pretending the mouse doesn't exist and there have been no advancements in text editing GUI in decades. It has issues with ssh ing into one machine but I just use command ssh for that single machine.
That’s literally how I use it too. I like file like editing in the terminal and that’s all. Maybe there’s something I can download for iTerm instead though.
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