New comment by unleashit in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2020)"

SEEKING WORK | Portland, OR or REMOTE

Front End Engineer (Full Stack Javascript) with 20 years of experience working with startups to enterprise. My specialty is currently the front end and React, although I'm also skilled in Node.js and general backend.

I'm available for either substantial projects or as part of your team, on a temporary or possibly a permanent basis (I am happy to consider a full time employment in the right case).

Skills: Javascript ES6+, Typescript, React/Redux, Node.js, HTML, CSS, React Native, Angular, REST, GraphQL, Webpack, Babel, Postgres, Mysql, Mongo, Linux, Nginx, Docker, AWS, Lambda, PHP, Drupal, Wordpress.

Things I'm good at: user friendly, performant, modern UIs made with current best practices, single page apps, creating or integrating web services and APIs, backend, deployment and more.

Note: I'm no longer interested in taking the lead in design/ux, sorry! Haven't kept up.

Website: https://jasongallagher.org

Github: https://github.com/unleashit

You can reach me via the contact form on my website. There's also a real time chat you're welcome to use if you have any questions or want to say hello!

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New comment by dotcoma in "New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing"

I like this. Thanks for the note.

> Impassioned thoughts either stimulate the soul’s desiring power or disturb its incensive power, or darken its intelligence (396).

https://thoughtsintrusive.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/what-logi...

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New comment by melling in "Apple Watch momentum is building"

This is actually taking longer than I thought it would.

5 years ago I wrote a blog post essentially saying everyone will wear a smart watch for health and safety reasons:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...

It’s disappointing that Google hasn’t done a better job of competing. The industry needs 2 strong competitors.

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New comment by amanzi in "Multi-Tenant Architectures"

I quite like the Wordpress Multisite model which deploys a separate set of tables for each blog in a single MySQL database. Then you can add on the HyperDB plugin which lets you create rules to split the sets of tables into different databases. This gives a lot of flexibility.

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New comment by DoctorOW in "Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better"

I don't think there's a public blogging software unless you count Sharepoint but I doubt that would scale well. Still Microsoft has a number of web products that could be used instead of Medium. A lot of the smaller Microsoft weblogs use Azure websites with Wordpress and the bigger ones are part of Micrsoft's in-house multisite.

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New comment by memexy in "Storex Hub: offline-first API platform for creating workflows"

> Storex Hub is an offline-first Zapier-like API platform. With it you can connect any app in custom workflows, by building Wordpress-like plugins. You can also work with Memex data more efficiently.

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New comment by throwawaygh in "Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections"

Yeah, I used to think of it like this.

In particular, my view was basically: "don't like FB/YT/Twitter policies? Spin up a wordpress; it's as easy as posting to FB/YT and you can pay the monthly bill for a quite decent audience using loose change."

I've come around in the past couple of years. Social networks/content platforms are... well, networks and platforms. Like it or not, the policies of the largest networks/platforms will have a non-trivial impact on public opinion. They have become a (perhaps the) public square. And the government doesn't have to extend Section 230 protections to those networks/platforms.

I really like the idea that individual users should be able to create their own content filters and buy/sell content filters. At least in the abstract, this seems like it would address the need for content moderation without centralizing the censorship.

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New comment by unleashit in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2020)"

SEEKING WORK | Portland, OR or REMOTE

Front End Engineer (Full Stack Javascript) with 20 years of experience working with startups to enterprise. My specialty is currently the front end and React, although I'm also skilled in Node.js and PHP/Drupal/Wordpress.

I'm available for either substantial projects or as part of your team, on a temporary or possibly a permanent basis (I am happy to consider a full time employment in the right case).

Skills: Javascript ES6+, Typescript, React/Redux, Node.js, HTML, CSS, React Native, Angular, REST, GraphQL, Webpack, Babel, Postgres, Mysql, Mongo, Linux, Nginx, Docker, AWS, Lambda, PHP, Drupal, Wordpress and more.

Things I'm good at: user friendly, performant, modern UIs made with current best practices, single page apps, creating or integrating web services and APIs, backend, deployment and more.

Note: I'm no longer interested in taking the lead in design/ux, sorry! Haven't kept up.

Website: https://jasongallagher.org

Github: https://github.com/unleashit

You can reach me via the contact form on my website. There's also a real time chat you're welcome to use if you have any questions or want to say hello!

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New comment by nickthemagicman in "Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?"

Namecheap WordPress hosting.

3 bucks a month and they handle scaling and all that shit for you supposedly.

It's not free but you get a way more functionality than a static site offers.

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New comment by simonw in "Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?"

This is pretty much how WordPress.com works - or used to work, I don't know if they changed this.

Each account gets its own set of database tables (with a per-account table prefix) which are located in the same database. Upgrades can then take place on an account-by-account basis. They run many, many separate MySQL databases.

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New comment by justinmeiners in "SQLite 3.32"

Yes, most wordpress or joomla sites come to mind. There is typically only one application communicating with it, the user doesn't typically doesn't admin the database directly (and if they did they want a file), medium traffic load (hundreds per second), and most of the queries are reads, with the occasional content update.

As soon as you get into privilege levels or heavy loads, then those others make more sense.

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New comment by unityByFreedom in "Tiny Websites Are Great"

That's a cool initiative. The HN in me wants to critique it a bit. Why no markdown or WYSIWYG editor? Is it because that would turn it into wordpress?

I feel like there's a place for a service that can,

* Host static content like netlify/neocities on a CDN

* Allow you to register a domain

* Choose a template and enter content with basic markup

This should be able to be done in < 5 minutes for a non-tech user. You'd think registrars would be incentivized to build such a service.

edit: ~~markup~~ markdown/WYSIWYG

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New comment by rgbrenner in "Tesla says it has health official's OK to run California plant"

IMO there's a lot to dislike about Elons handling of this.. but the conditions are different than a meat packing plant.

This is a meat packing plant: https://postmediacalgaryherald2.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/... Shoulder to shoulder all day long. Those are their stations for their entire shift.

Notice also: no masks. And because they've been deemed a critical industry, they aren't necessarily getting masks now either. So no distancing, and no masks. These are also very poorly paid jobs, and it would be unusual if they had health insurance or paid time off.

It's pretty much the perfect conditions for covid.

Cars tend to be a bit bigger than chickens.. so in a car factory, the workers are usually more than 6 ft apart.

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New comment by social_quotient in "Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?"

Yes I agree... but let me add some color to me personally.

Me = small business owner. Revenue less than 2mm per year.

Major public company clients moved payments to net 60 and net 90 from net 30

2 clients emailed April 1st (emailed) effective immediately no contractors or agencies effective immediately.

1 major retailer we have done WiFi access point metrics for all stores in North America (roughly 4k stores) had an invoice bounce back to me. After researching I find on LinkedIn my stakeholder is no longer with the company. I push hard to get someone in AP to reply and finally I hear they stopped the entire program and didn’t think to tell us. 11 years of providing this monthly data analysis and collecting roughly a billion data points a month... gone. Without a heads up.

2 new prospective projects set to kickoff April May moved to June July.

PPP covers last years salaries. We have sizable raises to key staff (project managers in January) . 60% of my workforce if outside of the US and can’t be covered under current monetary relief. I’ve not taken a check now in almost 2 months.

Entire line of business (WordPress) is now zero.

So yes stress is in relative forms. for me it’s confining, silent, and endless.

For me I’ve been running this company for 21 years now (started in college). I’ve hit a couple of near breaking points (08 and now). And it’s an unbelievable amount of stress. I sympathize, empathize and understand what people are going through.

What gets me through this is the following:

- The time I’ve gotten to spend with my family, my kids is absolutely amazing and I will treasure it forever - I love my team and I’ll do what I can to keep them employed and without disruption - Even with the stress and uncertainty I still love my job and what I’ve built

On the business side: - As a service business I now fully and completely understand that I need to figure out how to make a more resilient business that can weather business interruption to this degree and scale. It’s easy to blame covid but it’s inevitably my job to have considered this and prepared for it. This is everything from specific contract language changes to planning cash flow for a 40-60% reduction in business for maybe 6 months.

Anyway, I thought I’d share, maybe someone finds solace in knowing they aren’t alone and that they don’t need validation for how they feel.

Hang in there everyone!

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New comment by wprapido in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)"

SEEKING WORK - Thailand or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

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New comment by AlchemistCamp in "No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?"

WordPress

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New comment by jhallenworld in "Zombie Coal"

There are not even that many jobs. How many people do you think it takes to run a strip mine? Take a look:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Li...

https://earthfirstnews.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/narm_aeri...

It turns out that the biggest competition for coal jobs is more efficient coal mines- in this case the strip mines of the Powder River Basin.

It's all the more astounding that solar is cheaper than coal.

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New comment by thomaslord in "'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs"

Part of my current job is handling the technical side of managing Wordpress sites (we have people who do the design/content writing/page building, but I get pulled in for "why isn't this plugin working" or "why is the site slow" type stuff).

For my personal sites I've always done something custom or a static site generator. That definitely requires some more in-depth setup on the frontend, but the long-term maintenance is drastically reduced compared to Wordpress. Sure you don't need to know the command line, but unless you log in weekly to check for plugin updates, make sure you properly vet your plugins, and either get lucky or spend a bunch of time on site optimization, your site will probably be slow and, at some point, get hacked.

You can pay for more hands-on hosting that includes managing a lot of that stuff, but all of a sudden the costs get a lot higher. For a personal blog, I don't want to pay $30/month for hosting.

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New comment by morphicpro in "Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers"

I'm actively developing my personal site which is built with elixir and phoenix. That said if you are looking for an out of the box solution I would stick with simple and go with a static site generator like you mentioned or possibly Wordpress.

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New comment by ejstembler in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

https://ejstembler.com

I've had a blog since 1998, though my posting frequency has waxed and waned over the years. I use it as a partial résumé and also as outlet for my interests. Mainly, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Electronics, Robotics, Cooking, DIY, Cars, Travel.

Last year I had a falling out with my blog host, GoDaddy. They convinced me to upgrade up a level ($3xx). Though when their site transfer service didn't work they said they'd have to charge me another $150 to get the back-up. That's when I cancelled all of my accounts with them. I didn't like WordPress/PHP anyhow. In my haste to cancel GoDaddy, I forgot to export my content from WordPress. That's when I slowly starting writing my blog from scratch using Crystal, Kemal, and Bulma. Some of my content I was able to retrieve via scraping the Internet Archive, and some I was able to extract from Mars Edit by parsing the Content.plist files.

I'm very happy with the blog code and utilities I wrote, it was a fun exercise. Now I need to dedicate more time to writing...

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