Greg Hluska is a software developer, consultant and product founder based out of Regina, Canada.
Based out of Regina Canada, Greg Hluska is a product-obsessed software developer, consultant and founder. Educated in marketing, Greg has spent almost his entire career either in and around startups or providing startup level technical consulting for non profits. A gifted publisher and writer, Hluska won an award for his first publication and has since founded two more.
Outside of work and products, Greg is a proud parent to a nine year. They own a two year old cat with anger management problems. A lifelong baseball fan, he manages a fantasy baseball team and follows the New York Yankees religiously. Running long distances, learning about fitness, reading about economics and history and listening to music fill the rest of his time.
Founded by a startup founder in 2010, Greg Hluska Consulting specializes in helping companies solve their hardest technical problems. Sometimes that involves helping a very early stage founder build an MVP. Other times, it involves helping more established startups migrate their services over to AWS.
Starting in 2024, GHC started staffing highly skilled developers, designers and project managers on other projects. So whether you need a fractional CTO, an MVP or a whole team spun up, GHC can help you.
Do you want to scrape the content on here? Go ahead - scraping is a great way to learn the intricacies of our beautiful web and knowledge is meant to be free. My robots.txt file is extremely permissive and while I do secure against certain types of attacks, an ethical scraper would never run into problems.
If you have problems scraping the content on here, get in touch with me. If you will post your code somewhere, I can show you where you're going wrong.
On May 7, 2024 the world lost a great audio engineer, musician, thinker and writer when Steve Albini died. Over the years, he made some of my favourite music, taught me a lot about building with integrity, wrote many of my favourite articles... and even made me a better cook. After two years, it is time to lay down some words about him.
A quick announcement for the new NDJSON Formatter on hluska.ca: a local-only browser tool for formatting NDJSON and JSONL files, plus a first step toward a fuller Siteimp support workbench.
Siteimp has evolved from an old performance-testing script collection into a local-first Windows desktop application for website integrity, accessibility, content analysis, monitoring, media inspection, and support diagnostics. This article explains how the project came back to life, why the cloud version stalled, how Tauri made the desktop version practical, and how testing Siteimp against real websites exposed the exact small problems it was built to find.
If Greg let his old dnd DM mind run too wild with this section, it could turn into an epic tale of two imps and a tracker. The crazy thing is, it has, and the source code for all these apps has a lot of cheeky fairy tale references. For example, technical support is built right into the very core of FitnessTracker through a co-implementation of documentation, siteimp logging and formimp's tauri SDK. That implementation is called a Magic Bean.
With a mission of making the web faster and more accessible, Siteimp launched in 2022. The web has changed dramatically since 2022 and Siteimp is currently being redeveloped. Greg Hluska Consulting is using the new version both for logging and for performance, accessibility and integration testing within FitnessTracker.
Together with Formimp, Siteimp makes up the *imp project. *imp is an old idea about making the web faster, more private and much more accessible.
If you know Greg in person, you will understand how sometimes he underestimates how hard something will be and jumps into a product anyways. You will also know that he calls these 'learning experiences'.
Formimp has been a great learning experience. It is currently for clients only but is being redeveloped alongside Siteimp to provide in app technical support for FitnessTracker.
This is the big one and is more 'life mission' than 'product'. You see, Greg made a lot of bad fitness choices over the course of his life and ended up spending a week in a cardiac ward because of them. That self inflicted heart condition lead to some serious life changes and an application.
Seven years later and this is the application. It is now fully local, built with a privacy in mind and will be back for round two of beta testing in July 2025.