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The game felt like it had significant input lag, and at 720p with upscaling text becomes very hard to read. The game's visual style of "glitch" effects also translates badly with upscaling and I really had a tough time actually understanding what I'm looking at on the screen.
Perhaps the situation is better on OLED.
E.g. an "average" tomato in many countries being used in a dish = fine, but wouldn't eat it alone. I just find them sour and flavourless. An Italian/Greek grown tomato however is truly delicious.
The unsaid part of your post I think is that you actually have to be good at the job and be capable of networking, if you want to be taken seriously and keep getting jobs - as well as getting paid a decent amount in the first place.
In my view, effective coding agent use boils down to being good at writing briefs as you would for any ticket. The better formatting, detail, and context you can provide BOTH on an outcome level and a technical architecture level, the better your results are.
To put it another way: If before LLMs came along you were someone who (purposely or otherwise) became good at writing for documentation and briefing tickets for your team, I think there's a decent chance you're going further with these agentic tools than others that just shove an idea into it and hope for the best.
Ideally, yes. I think the reality however will be that most "perpetrators" will be ignored, and anything else will be easy wins and collateral damage to small site operators that these regulators to happen to notice.
You don't need a 100% complete project to get hired, but you definitely need more than a few models and a controller. E-commerce can be a big thing to bite off, so try and define a concrete (and simple!) scope of what your app should be doing.
Bonus points if you get some tests written in there too.
Otherwise, applying for jobs right now in the junior area is quite the crapshoot. It's a volume game, so you might as well start applying for any and every junior role you see. It might not even be Laravel/PHP related.
Yes, you're right, AI cannot be a senior engineer with you. It can take a lot of the grunt work away though, which is still part of the job for many devs at all skill levels. Or it's useful for technologies you're not as well versed in. Or simply an inertia breaker if you're not feeling very motivated for getting to work.
Find what it's good for in your workflows and try it for that.
Find dedicated Laravel communities like Laracasts, Larachat Slack, the official Laravel Discord, your local tech community group's #laravel or #php channel.
To your question: Will this code get you a job? No, it's a super basic example. You seem to know that demonstrating more advanced concepts will do you good.
Basically, a snippet of code isn't enough to get you hired. Yes, you've done the absolute basics of MVC with Laravel, and split logic out into a Service class which can be handy.
What you need to do is put the entire project on your Github. Use everything you're learning in the app. Then, make sure the readme is up to date with what the project does, and add some screenshots or a recording to the readme of how it works. You don't have to build the next Amazon, but a basic "fake" e-commerce app and similar is good enough to demonstrate what you're doing.
Make sure you commit code frequently and logically (commit groups of code by the feature you've added), so that your progress can be seen. Otherwise it can also look like to just copied and pasted code into the repo.
All that being said, the sample you've built is decent for junior work! If you want to keep levelling up, I recommend Laracasts (plenty of free content on the site and Youtube channel) and Laravel Daily to start with.
The other poster is right that understanding the fundamentals of your tech is arguably more important than learning a framework, but at this stage in your career I think it's more of a tomato tomato thing. You can start with a framework to be productive and then learn more about the fundamentals over time as you need to. Don't get bogged down in building a perfect understanding of PHP and associated technologies if it's resulting in you not getting anything built.
Found it super helpful for getting around London. Would be great for somewhere like Athens. Google Maps decently supports this as well, bit CityMapper UX is better for the task.
The one I stuck with the longest was Gnome on Manjaro.
Otherwise, I kind of like them all in their own way. The only reason I left Cinnamon in the first place was ~4 years ago I had this bug where switching virtual desktops by the arrow shortcut would get progressively laggier.
One service I've heard of and seen recommended here and there is Aramex Global Shopper. Basically you ship things to them and they forward it to you.
Otherwise, if it's "international shipping" but they're just using essentially global mail, I avoid it if possible - South African mail services are spotty at best. I was very pleasantly surprised my risk on an ebay nostalgia purchase shipped from Hawaii arrived at all.
Never been interested in bookmarking tools, and to me being able to save notes next to the link is a simple but effective use case.
Why is it so difficult for half the people replying in this Show HN to accept that some people still want to use social media as social media and not just throw all of it out?
I take a hybrid approach - keep uninstalled by default most of the time, engage a browser extension for web to keep me in place, and failing all that use an app like this as well.
I keep Facebook because certain communities and events only happen there.
For some of us, it is plain better to only block short form video.
"Be yourself" is not wrong, but it's not specific enough.
You can be perfectly authentic, but that doesn't mean being socially uncalibrated.
Get good at being sociable, then blend that with your personal tastes and preferences.
I thought "be yourself" was fine until I grew up and learned I was just being rude to most people and called myself introverted when I didn't make friends.
But, no way to change that in public perception without taking risks and being open about it.
So, if you're an HN reader, not wanting to be branded as a PUA but still want to find help socially (especially romantically), my two cents is look into the Ars Amorata community.
Genuinely curious. I'm supposed to be in the third world but COL has become ridiculous in the last few years.
I felt similarly to you not long ago, sometimes still do. Honestly right now SWE is still a valuable skill to get paid for. Leverage your network to find calmer waters after taking a break, or freelance part time instead.
Recovering from burnout in my experience is a combination of changing environment, finding tools to help with mental health, and lots of patience with yourself. If can take years to feel like your old self again, and even then your output never quite comes back the same.
I can offer some info for the latter.
It's possible, but increasingly rare, especially if you're expecting to be hired directly. Even with the remote boom a few years ago, US orgs still prefer timezone alignment where possible, which mostly means outsourcing to South America instead. Every once in a while and eastern US role will ask for some overlap that western EU peeps can cover for about half the workday.
You could find a company/team that's basically an outsourced dev department for a US org, but the entire point of that is that they'll pay you local rates.
If you're looking for better income overall, remote work for EU orgs is probably a better bet for getting hired.
If you want to know about the practicalities like getting paid and dealing with taxes, I've written on this topic from the South African perspective. Some of the topics may translate over to wherever you are. So self plug: https://nik.software/working-remotely-from-south-africa/
I'm your guy. Worked as IC and tech lead, meetup organiser for various PHP related meetups over the years, passionate about the Laravel ecosystem.
Prefer: Remote, collaborative environments on real product teams - if your SaaS revenue is mostly from enterprise contracts dictating your every move, that's not a product but an agency in disguise.
Location: Cape Town / sometimes Athens
Remote: Yes
Relocation: Maybe, within EU
Technologies: PHP/Laravel, Livewire, Vue, all that good stuff.
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaos-spyratos / https://nik.software/
Half understandings are sounding more dangerous and susceptible to ChatGPT sycophancy than ever.
- For the majority of financial transactions you might want to make, fiat is still what you need, because realistically very little IRL uses any L2 solution. Thus, you need a fiat off-ramp... Like an exchange. - Exchanges mandate you identify yourself to them - KYC/AML and all. Governments might not be able to know which wallet is yours, but they sure as hell can and have secure those off-ramps this way.
I've seen plenty of pro-BTC arguments on a technical level about privacy, resilience, independence from central banks, etc. but fundamentally I've never seen anyone able to come up with something that can out "your opponent is the government and no technical project can overcome a legal obstacle".
man-choker would just be a choker (you know, the accessory usually for women) with some tech on it, in this case to accept a command to check with another bio-device if the glucose spike of more expensive rice is better or worse than cheap rice.