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aidangrimshaw

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aidangrimshaw··on Newpipe Extractor in WASM
With google moving towards locking down unregistered apps, https://keepandroidopen.org/ I put together this demo of running newpipe extractor in wasm so that it can be used as a pwa
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
Yep! I'm going to be working on improving the regex but it should be correct for most postings
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
Here's a list of July whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
Here's a list of June whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
Good idea!
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
Here's a list of May whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Here's a list of April whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
Here's a list of March whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
Here's a list of February whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Here's a list of January whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Yeah I need to add a currency filter for posts to remove those. Thanks for bringing it up!
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Here's a list of December whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)
Here's a list of November whoishiring posts with job compensation listed in the post https://grepwhoishiring.com/
aidangrimshaw··on AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
This is called going on strike usually
aidangrimshaw··on Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
It calculates the tax amounts and fills them into the IRS and state forms to be printed out
aidangrimshaw··on Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present
Sort of tangentially, I'm working with other contributors on https://ustaxes.org, an open source tax filing webapp https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes.

Currently, many Federal tax forms are supported, as well as tax filing for the state of Illinois. Filing for Oregon and California is under development!

aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Glad to hear!
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
lol so kind! For those not familiar: https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/income-tax#:~:text=Washington....
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Do know of a better license alternative that prevents that from happening? Would be interested!
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Absolutely, yeah the project has a loose group of contributor volunteers but longer term we would probably have to have a larger, more formal structure.

Right now, we're focusing on tooling to make onboarding new tax forms simpler and require a lower threshold of project understanding to allow a larger, less technical group of people to contribute

aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Definitely true. The goal is to unify the filing so that the user doesn't have to refill in their information for separate state and federal tax application websites.
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
The project has an AGPL license if that's what you're wondering. We figured many people would feel the same way
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Yeah, we have been considering setting up a nonprofit org. I'm not sure if we have the scale to justify it yet, but it's sort of an open question.
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Yeah, currently the user would print out the PDF generated by the site and mail it in to the IRS. E-filing is on the roadmap, but registering as an E-file provider is a pretty complex process. One of the options we were thinking about is scraping and automatically filling in fields on the free fillable forms site https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Currently, it's states that contributors live in because our resources are limited
aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
I'm working with other contributors on https://ustaxes.org, an open source tax filing webapp https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes.

Currently, many Federal tax forms are supported, as well as tax filing for the state of Illinois. Filing for Oregon and California is under development!

aidangrimshaw··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
I'm working with other contributors on https://ustaxes.org, an open source tax filing webapp https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes.

Currently, many Federal tax forms are supported, as well as tax filing for the state of Illinois. Filing for Oregon and California is under development!

aidangrimshaw··on Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?
I'm working with some other contributors on ustaxes, an open source project aimed at helping tackle free tax filing https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
aidangrimshaw··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
Plug for ustaxes, an open source project aimed at helping tackle free and easy tax filing https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
aidangrimshaw··on Killing TurboTax
Hi I am one of the maintainers for ustaxes, here is a US tax model in the same vein as OpenFisca https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator
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