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What? Where?

I honestly thought Sublime Text went to join Textmate in the editor afterlife.

Not sure if this will help, but this post was on HN yesterday. Skills to learn for standing out as a web developer: http://fullbit.ca/learning-web-development-stand-out/

Bill Harris is on the wrong side of history.

Democracy worked out pretty well.

"Whatever just use 1.1.1.1! Nobody will ever use that address!"

Didn't even notice Leaflet there, nice spot. TIL

> There are, of course, two very different reasons why people wear glasses

Actually, three. Probably more. I wear glasses for astigmatism.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY - Cape Town/Amsterdam/Ubud

Full stack Ruby/JS engineer with 9 years of experience, mostly in startups.

Tech I've worked with: Ruby on Rails, EmberJS, Bootstrap/Semantic UI/Foundation, Digital Ocean/AWS/Heroku, Postgres/ElasticSearch

I have around two days a week open over the next few months, but happy to meet up and chat.

https://constant.co.za

https://github.com/constantm https://za.linkedin.com/in/constantmeiring https://stackoverflow.com/users/162034/constant-meiring

constant@constant.co.za

Had an issue with my previous Macbook Air and a USB3 external drive where the wifi would completely stop working when I plugged the drive in. Sounds like it might be related to this.

QBasic was the first language I dabbled in as a kid. This is absolutely insane!

Everything great in the world was once shitty.

Software engineer freelancer here. Started freelancing full-time in January 2017 and currently making a decent living, but not yet the salary I used to make. Another freelancer I spoke to recently mentioned it took him two years to reach his former salary.

1/2) Almost all the meaningful work I've done so far has come from my network. I've also picked up some nice jobs from Slack channels.

3) At this point I mostly work alone. I have a client which subcontracts to me and provides me with a project manager, which is amazing. I also know a designer to which I'll outsource design when I think it's needed.

4) This fluctuates wildly for me so I can't really give a specific number.

5) Slightly less at the moment, but would certainly be able to get and probably surpass my former salary with focus and grafting. However, I try and live a more balanced life at the moment as well as work on a side project, so salary isn't my #1 concern.

If you've not checked it out yet, there's lots to be learned from posts on https://www.indiehackers.com

Wow Ant Design looks pretty great.

I recently dropped Bootstrap early in a project and switched to Semantic. I've been using it for a few months - so far it seems fantastic and much more "natural" to work with than Bootstrap. The gigantic set of components, and integration with both EmberJS and React make it even more amazing.

Yay one other person saw that. :D

Hmmm. Most people I know who own iPads have had them end up as rather expensive children's toys.

I've never actually seen one of these threads, and I tent to visit HN on a daily basis. Is there a system around these posts that I should be aware of?

This looks like a very stripped down Ember.js - it also looks pretty awesome.

I know of one or two South African devs that joined Toptal and it sounds like they're pretty legit.

Great! We're busy rewriting a part of our Rails app that we are having difficulty scaling in Elixir. So far what I've seen is phenomenal. Coming from Ruby/OO, it's a bit weird sometimes, but the code is very readable and it's insanely fast. Really the first language since Ruby that I'm quite happily riding the hypetrain for.

This is so incredibly far over my head.

Dropbox says no.

This thread isn't particularly mega.

That "template" is really not okay.