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h0ldnackon Pebble, the OG smartwatch that may never die, updated to work with Pixel 7

Wearing one right now. I am very sensitive to weight on my wrist and it doesn't cause me any problems.

h0ldnackon Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)

Ha, I switched to keepassxc this week because of the VC funds sketched me out. Makes me sad because I don't know what password manager to recommend for average users now.

h0ldnackon Ask HN: What's one of your favorite personal programs, and why?

https://github.com/h0ldnack/Scripts/morse I did just rewrite it so it currently only "plays", I don't know the right word for feeling Morse code, each notification once. I'll be updating it in a bit.

h0ldnackon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022)

Location: Portland, OR Remote: Preferred, but not strongly Willing to Relocate: Only for a very good offer, and only to some areas Technologies: Python, JS/HTML/CSS, SQL, Elixir|Phoenix, Shell Scripting, Emacs, Visual Design, Linux Sysadmin Email: hackernewsjob@mail.holdnack.net Resume: https://holdnack.net/resume.html --

I've been programming as a hobby for ~6 years, mostly in functional python. I've also explored both Common Lisp and Elixir enough to be fairly comfortable in either. I've worked on a large number of projects over the years; I am currently going through and updating some of these projects for public consumption. They will be referenced at https://holdnack.net/portfolio.html

h0ldnackon Ask HN: What to focus on for proving I am a competent programmer?

Thank you for the detailed reply!

As for what I actually did with Python, it was a mixture of cli apps, apis in Flask and a fair amount of personal libraries, like an async couchdb client library and a wrapper around termux-api commands.