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Akciumon The Miller Principle (2007)

I would love to answer your comment but I didn't read it :P

Akciumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

Location: Armenia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: VueJS 3, Tailwind, PHP/Laravel/MySQL. Mostly frontend developer with strong attention to UI/UX area (that's important to me)

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-ponamariov/, https://vpon.bio/, https://vpon.me/

Email: victor.ponamariov@gmail.com

Akciumon The world through the lens of ADHD

Thanks for your comment. Yeah, I posted it mainly because I liked the artistic side of it - the landing itself is quite complicated (a lot of interactions), but I really enjoyed the creativity.

I'm also diagnosed with ADHD. Unfortunately, there are no ADHD meds available in my country at all. :(

I'm not exactly sure what ADHD feels like for me, but there’s one thing I’ve noticed. I used to take methylphenidate, but the effect was pretty small. In order to get it, I had to fly to another country, which was expensive. So I eventually gave up on that idea.

Now it’s been a year without stimulants, and I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence or not, but for the first time in my life I’ve ended up in debt, with almost zero productivity, no finished projects, and so on.

It doesn’t matter whether I sleep well or not — over the past 12 months I’ve had different conditions (good sleep, bad sleep, good diet, bad diet, etc.), but overall, my focus has stayed close to zero.

By the way, I’ve never tried nicotine patches. I’m pretty sure I won’t find them here, but at least I can probably order them.

Akciumon When poor usability causes death

Wasn't sure which term to use, it's like "UX in real life".

Akciumon How to Write a Newsletter Introduction

That's funny that I found the link to my newsletter in this article that says:

"Even though this is a newsletter about user interface design, Viktor starts off by talking about the weather in Armenia and his vacation."

Want to run a successful (I exaggerate) newsletter about UI/UX? Start off by talking about the weather in Armenia :)

Akciumon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

Well, it's a shameless promotion but I'm working on my UI/UX course. I make it with NuxtJS, so it's a custom platform.

The key idea is that I'll try explain UI/UX by redesigning a big application (with old UI and poor UX), combining theory with real-world practice.

https://doing-design-right.com/

Akciumon Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have?

I'm always afraid to lose something valuable that I might be willing to read years after.

But it never happens

Akciumon Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have?

3Gb?! Woah How many is that O_O

Akciumon Modals Are the Worst

- Looking at modals on mobile is the nail in the coffin. Due to the screen size it must take up the entire screen. What is the difference between that and "navigating to a new page" in the mobile UI metaphor?

That's a nice quote from the article

Akciumon X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines

Same here. And good engagement dropped down significantly. When I had 10K followers, I can easily get 200-400-500 likes and they were more or less real because I also get a lot of impressions and replies.

Nowadays with 35K followers I get, say, 20 likes and ~3 of them are bots.

Akciumon X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines

I wonder, why they cannot just check your card, instead of charging $1?

It's not much and I'm ready to pay if it helps fighting bots.

But at the same time I noticed that before Elon took over Twitter, there were less bots (or it at least seemed so).

Will it help - that's the question

Akciumon "ADHD is now fashionable. Social contagion drives this"

Well, it's under paywall, so I cannot even read this :(

Akciumon "ADHD is now fashionable. Social contagion drives this"

It's funny that I've just asked a question if anyone takes ADHD medicine and how it works for them.

Akciumon Ask HN: Did you use ADHD medication?

Interesting.

Some people report that they have very nice results. Some people report that they feel nothing.

I'm right now in the process of testing it, will see how it goes.

Akciumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

Location: Armenia

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Main stack: VueJS 3, Laravel/MySQL. HTML/CSS/JS/TS/git/MacOS/Linux CLI, PHPStorm.

Résumé/CV: Don't have one, but can make on demand. My socials/projects:

https://github.com/victor-ponamariov/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-ponamariov/

https://twitter.com/vponamariov

https://user-interface.io/

https://reform.user-interface.io/

https://pulsetic.com/ (sold my startup, written in Laravel/Vue)

https://hundred.user-interface.io/

Email: victor.ponamariov@gmail.com

Strong areas: VueJS + UI/UX, design.

Weak areas: algorithms, high-load, tests and devops tasks (though I can run Docker :) )

Akciumon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Armenia | Remote | Frontend developer

My Stack: VueJS 3 & Laravel. HTML/CSS/JS/git/MacOS. UI/UX competency, has written two books and active on twitter:

https://twitter.com/vponamariov

Github https://github.com/victor-ponamariov/

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-ponamariov/

English: B2+, able to communicate verbally.

Personal site: https://user-interface.io/

personal projects UI/UX related:

https://history.user-interface.io/

https://fifty.user-interface.io/

https://hundred.user-interface.io/

https://reform.user-interface.io/

Ideal job: startup with high quality of UI/UX and VueJS 3 as a framework. Part time preferred, at least in the beginning.

Made a startup and sold it: https://pulsetic.com/ (vue/laravel stack as well). Previously called Pingr (https://www.producthunt.com/@victor_ponamariov)

My email: victor.ponamariov@gmail.com

Akciumon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)

  Location: Armenia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: VueJS 2/3 versions & Laravel (JS, CSS, HTML, Git etc assumed).  UI/UX oriented.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-ponamariov/
  Email: victor.ponamariov@gmail.com

Akciumon Ask HN: How long does it take to find a job?

First time I heard about... craigslist? Hm

Akciumon Ask HN: How long does it take to find a job?

The only problem with learning new stuff is that learning != having experience.

E.g., she can learn react, make a to-do app, but it's not a real commercial experience, and in most cases it won't be counted.

However, I agree with you.

The problem is that she needs money right now, due to mortgage and stuff, I would maybe learn something additional like a backend framework, so that she can say "I'm good at Vue, have experience, but I also know next.js, made my own pet project with it"

something like that

Akciumon Ask HN: How long does it take to find a job?

That's crazy! I mean, how many interviews did you have?!

But you know, if you have enough money to live for that time, I think it's totally fine.

Yet, impressive

Akciumon Ask HN: How long does it take to find a job?

It might also depend on the salary. E.g. in Russia there are quite a lot of positions, but the salary rate is poor.

I would say "if you want to get a decent salary, then keep on searching". Or just a get bad position/salary.

Akciumon Ask HN: What are you working on?(Non-software projects only)

I'm making Armenian language course with my teacher, learning Armenian simultaneously! :)

Akciumon Show HN: UI Quiz for Devs

Haha :D well.. sorry for that :D

Akciumon Show HN: UI Quiz for Devs

That's pretty much an opinionated, quick test. Don't take it too seriously. Even though some questions should be decent, I hope

Akciumon Tell HN: I found a correlation between chess rating and depression

I play in incognito mode, and I barely watch my rating. I mean, I know that "I'm somewhere in 1750" or "1850", but I'm not trying to get high rating.

I just play when I eat and I don't care THAT much.

The thing is that if I'm in a bad mood (I take antidepressants so to speak), then I don't focus, don't care much, blunt a lot and so on.

But there are periods when I'm in good mood (hopefully I don't have bipolar disorder), and I'm still eating and playing in the same manner except that I focus more and tell myself that I'll destroy the opponent

Akciumon Open source project plays Ukrainian hymn and froze navigation in .ru zone

I'm not even sure how to react to this.

Since, I don't think it barely helps stopping the war, but shouldn't open source (as well as science, sports and other areas) be free of this kind of stuff?

Akciumon Show HN: Book about forms usability for devs

Never seen this, interesting

Akciumon Show HN: Book about forms usability for devs

Already researching what people need https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/what-is-missing-in-t...

Akciumon Show HN: Book about forms usability for devs

Oh thanks. I made the discount more to decrease the price, holidays is a nice day, but later on I think I'll reduce it much, since there are tons of books about this topic and it's overpriced.

I'm going to switch to something... like an interactive platform, something big, in the next year, so that it's both decent and has a good price

Akciumon Show HN: Book about forms usability for devs

I know it's overpriced, people told me so.

So I decided to drop the price by 50% for Christmas, and then I think I'll keep it at least at this level or make it even cheaper.

It's not a sacred knowledge, just some material that I gathered for the past year.

The sacred knowledge, something really cool, I want to make the next year, but I need to afford it. Working FT job and making an interactive course at the same time is way too hard