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Joe Wilson Data Janitor Seattle, WA
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joewils··on We are rebuilding Monica
I'll take "things you should never do" for $1000 Alex.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

joewils··on PostgreSQL for Everything
Same, I posted some corrections to Dr. Bauer's article: https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/
joewils··on If You're over 40, You're Ready to Use A.I
Interesting to see the original NYTimes article title at Archive.is: https://archive.is/uYj2f

"The Kabbalah Teaching That Changed How I See A.I."

joewils··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://joecode.com/
joewils··on How robust against spam should side projects be?
I've found most spam comes from bots operating from certain countries. Filtering traffic by IP address will stop a lot of spammy traffic. I've used a combination of GeoIP and IP address catagorization to limit the impact of bots on my side-projects.

Bot Protection: https://github.com/growlfm/ipcat

GeoIP Evaluation: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data...

You can dig deeper using dedicated services for URL and image inspection.

Image Evaluation: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-safe-search

URL Evaluation: https://cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/overview

joewils··on Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
https://www.classicpress.net
joewils··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://joecode.com/resume/

Email: joe@joecode.com

I'm a data janitor who prefers writing boring software using boring technologies. I'm particularly good at turning piles of spreadsheets into data-driven dashboards.

joewils··on Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
If print friendly reports are a requirement, I'd go with QuickChart (https://quickchart.io.)

Static charts similar to chart.js, but without all the javascript. I've found static charts are much easier to work with once print CSS layout becomes a requirement.

joewils··on SQLite-Web: Web-based SQLite database browser written in Python
My favorite web-based SQL editor and browser: https://www.adminer.org

Single PHP file. Super simple setup and configuration.

joewils··on The backpass ban: football’s best rule change
https://web.archive.org/web/20240123152245/https://theathlet...
joewils··on EHTML Docs
How does this library compare to Turbo/Stimulus?

Happy to see competition in the world of "minimal JS" frameworks. Have you done a comparison with Turbo/Stimulus from DHH and company?

joewils··on How Bear does analytics with CSS
This is really clever and fun. I'm curious how the results compare to something "old school" like AWStats?

https://github.com/eldy/awstats

joewils··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://joecode.com

Mostly links to various articles and noise I find interesting along with a photo journal of my school bus conversion project.

Not a lot of words. "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"

joewils··on Show HN: BillaBear – Self-Hosted SaaS Subscription Management and Billing
What's the reasoning behind the lack of transparent pricing?

> "How much does BillaBear cost? To get pricing email sales@billabear.com."

joewils··on Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose
mawise,

Where you thinking of sharing your code under an MIT license similar to Rails or something else?

I looked for a LICENSE file, but didn't find one: https://docs.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-communit...

joewils··on Show HN: ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hosted on AWS
Generating PDF's from HTML is a huge PITA. I really like what you've done.

re: "is it clear upon viewing the landing page what the product is about?" Yes. I think your landing page copy reads well, but could use a bit of polish. Emphasis how well PdfApi solves common margin and background rendering issues compared to other alternatives.

re: "are there any questions that you have that are not answered on the page" I'm not sure you need to answer all of a users questions, but considering you are targeting startups and developers, I'd focus on building out your API documentation.

re: "would this product provide value to you if your startup needed to generate PDFs" Potentially, but considering your audience (developers/startups) I suspect most of us would tackle the issue locally with a Chrome headless setup.

re: "what would you use instead" I've used the following to generate PDF's from HTML: * Chrome Headless * WKHTMLtoPDF

This is good work. I like what you've done. Build out strong API documentation with multiple code snippets and examples to improve your developer marketing.

joewils··on Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington
love the idea of building a geobox for filtering. I'll look into it. thanks for the feedback.
joewils··on Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington
Good suggestion. It's on my TODO list.
joewils··on Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington
Thanks @ccallebs. re: API, The Beer Mapping Project has you covered: https://beermapping.com
joewils··on Show HN: F.I.S.H. – Mashup of data sources to help explore state of Washington
F.I.S.H. is a mashup of several data sources to help me explore my adopted state of Washington.

I'm using data provided by the United States Geological Survey, TrailAPI.com, The Beer Mapping Project, ReserveAmerica, Mapbox and OpenStreetMap to build an application to map a few of my favorite things: fishing, camping, hiking, mountain biking, and beer.

Your feedback and wisdom is appreciated,

-joe-

joewils··on National Park Maps
Thank you for all the effort you've put into this project. Love the clean design and how you've used affiliate links and merchandising to monetize the site. A+ work.
joewils··on Show HN: Mount Exodus – Sinatra App to Convert TypePad to WordPress
This tool will convert TypePad/MovableType content to WordPress, update image references, and produce an audit of images that you can download.

Tech: * Sinatra * Heroku * Bootstrap

joewils··on Ask HN: How do you handle rude/aggressive recruiters?
Add them to the awful recruiters list: https://github.com/soffes/awfulrecruiters.com

Reply with a link to their pull request.

joewils··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
Wurts & Associates: Web Application Developer http://www.wurts.com/about/careers.php#WebApplicationDevelop...

Seattle, WA

Our ideal candidate will have experience developing web applications using Ruby on Rails, Angular.js, and PostgreSQL.

* Knowledge of a programming language for a framework such as Ruby, Python, Perl, .NET, PHP, or Java. * Application and scripting development best practices, architecture, scalability, etc. * Comfortable with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. * Solid knowledge of XML, JSON, and RESTful web services.

If you are an innovative, team-oriented professional with a passion for development, send your resume, github profile, and salary requirements to jobs@wurts.com.

joewils··on Show HN: Your "spare" domains
iphonedevelopment.com

riverlot.com