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Software Technology Consultant Skype: sidlabs email: kadnan(at)gmail (dot) com Web: http://adnansiddiqi.me/ Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me
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pknerd··on Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
I know you're not asking about but did you think about starting your youtube channel and share what y you know and learning? This helps in multiple folds, you get to learn things in depth as you're teaching. You get another Income stream and it could present you as an authority.
pknerd··on Ask HN: What language would you code if you didn't need to make money?
Turbo Pascal and VB
pknerd··on Notion Is Down
That's why I prefer to use .com/.net TLDs who are not associated with any country.
pknerd··on Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)
Would be interesting to see a Go or Rust version not it.
pknerd··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
I am often contacted by people who ask me to scrape a dynamic/JS rendered websites. You might be surprised to know that many of such dynamic websites are actually depending on some API end-point which is being accessed via some AJAX like functionality which you can access directly and get the required data. I often faced the situation where data was not fetched via some external source was already available either in data-field or some JSON like structure hence no need to use Selenium with headless browser.
pknerd··on Web Scraping 101 with Python
I have been developing scrapers and crawlers and writing[1] about them for many years and used many Python based libs so far including Selenium. I have write such scrapers for individuals and startups for several purposes. The biggest issue I faced was rendering of dynamic sites and blocking of IPs due to absence of proxies which are not cheap at all, especially for individuals.

Services like Scrapingbee and ScraperAPI are serving quite good for such problems. I personally liked ScraperAPI for rendering dynamic websites due to the better response time.

Shameless Plug: In case if anyone is interested, long time back, I had written about it on my blog which you can read here[2]. Now you do not need to setup remote Chrome instance or anything. What all is required is to hit an API endpoint to fetch content from a dyanmic JS rendered websites.

[1] http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/scraping/

[2] http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/scraping-dynamic-websites-using-...

pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)
Location: PK Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Not ATM. Technologies: Mostly Python:

- Writing ETLs

- Writing Scraping and Integration tools

- Web Development(Flask, DRF, FastAPI)

Recently I learned and wrote blog posts about FastAPI, have a look at http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/fastapi

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Résumé/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan@ gmail.com Github: https://github.com/kadnan

pknerd··on Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
Going to make an unpopular opinion:

Well... Their content is being blocked on behalf of their own government while Pakistani social media content, especially Twitter content is being banned by Twitter India on behalf of Indian government. Recently my account was restricted when I RTed tweets of an Indian raising voice against farmer protest and once I got banned because I RTed a tweet about atrocities in IOK.

We also witnessed how parker app was banned and how many content is taken down on behalf of Many governments.

The point is, many counties are involved in such wicked activities one way or other regardless of who is pro democracy and who isn't.

pknerd··on Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
Then they will have to leave entire subcontinent and middle east.
pknerd··on FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
FastApi is quite awesome. I recently discovered it and covered on my blog for beginners [1]

Http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/fastapi

pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2021)
SEEKING WORK Location: PK(GMT+5)

Mostly Python:

- Writing ETLs

- Writing Scraping and Integration tools

- Web Development

Recently I learned and wrote blog posts about FastAPI, have a look at http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/tag/fastapi

My details given below:

Website: http://adnansiddiqi.me/

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan@gmail.com

pknerd··on What Ever Happened to ICQ? (2019)
It's been 24 years yet I remember my ICQ number. It's so weird as the number isn't easy either neither I was an addict icq user.
pknerd··on Ask HN: How do you find a business idea and motivation to leave the 9-5 grind
Not the OP but there are sites like CoFounderLab.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
The remote is for LA only? Angelist does not allow to submit application
pknerd··on I received my first donation on my open-source side project
I got $2 donation from someone who liked my docker php blog post. It felt great!
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)
Location: PK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Working in multiple technologies but mostly now focusing on things around Python. I could write scrapers, automation tools, API integrations, Data Pipelines/ETL.

Résumé/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me/CV2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan @gmail

pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2021)
SEEKING WORK Location: PK(GMT+5)

Though I am a generalist but especially interested and have experience in writing softwares in Python. I can help you in:

- Writing ETLs

- Writing Scraping and Integration tools

- Web Development

My details given below:

Website: http://adnansiddiqi.me/

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan@gmail.com

pknerd··on Ask HN: If you didn’t have to work for money, what would you be doing full time?
- teaching STEM to local communities.

- Join some RnD lab where I can usr my dev experience to solve science related problems. I can make website, write automation tools in python and data analysis.

PS: if anyone read this and willing to discuss some opportunity then mail me at kadnan@gmail.com Check my site given in profile to learn about me.

pknerd··on Ask HN: What are some channels that make you glad YouTube exists?
Lex Friedman podcasts.
pknerd··on All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
LOL. I loved it when ppl assume others are ignorant. Why and how did you assume I haven't? I have read multiple, in Urdu And english. You didn't read what I said. Your knowledge of Suffism is narrow and wrong. No point arguing with you unless you get to know what Taswwuf is.
pknerd··on Ask HN: How do you deal with stress during coding tests for a job?
As Long as I can afford,.I prefer not to appear in. Such coding interviews. I rather prefer off-line assignment with a reasonable time to solve it. I don't like solving riddles.
pknerd··on All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
I kept reading your comments above till reach here. Your knowledge about Autism is pretty narrow and region-centric. No one considers taking drugs and shaking as Sufiism. It's opposite of that. Sufism is all about self discovery and connecting to God with Dikr. The Dikr as described as in Quran as satisfaction of heart.
pknerd··on Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines
I am trying to figure out Kubflow. Surprisingly I found this one easier to write. Haven't run it or used it yet.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2020)
SEEKING WORK | PK Remote: Yes

Technologies: Web Development(Laravel, Flask, Django). ETL(Airflow, Bonobo, Spark). Web Scraping(Beautifulsoup, Selenium, Scrapy).

How can I be helpful? You could hire me for the following but not specific to it:

Code/System optimization: I could help to improve your system/website performance by checking code, Db Queries and Db itself. For websites, I can help to see what requests are unnecessary and how to minimize them and Db management.

Web Development: I am quite comfortable in Laravel and Flask but could also work in Django.

Product Development: I could take care of entire product development cycle.

ETL/Optimization: I can help in Data Scraping, writing data/ETL pipelines and automation tools to make your life easier.

Code Janitor/System Optimization: I can help you to improve both front/backend system speed, refactoring old code. Porting old code to new version. I am mainly focusing on PHP at the moment but could deal with Laravel as well.

Website: http://adnansiddiqi.me/

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan@gmail.com

pknerd··on Ask HN: Best companies working on climate in 2020?
I am a developer. If any One needs help then just contact me via my profile. I am into Python, data and a few other things. Happy to work on challenging tasks.
pknerd··on Ask HN: Best companies working on climate in 2020?
How as a programmer and data guy I can help?
pknerd··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)
Location: PK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: It depends on opportunity.

Technologies: Python, PHP, MySQL and a few others

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

Email: kadnan @ gmail

So unlike previous hiring posts I am trying my luck into something different, a code/system janitor and optimizer.

Background:- Lately, I got a chance to work on PHP-based systems that were on old code and not optimized(front/back/DB). A project I am about to finish was porting old php5 code to php7 and XSS vulnerabilities. It also includes a bit of optimizing queries and making the system efficient.

I am currently focusing on PHP related work whether it is checking of vulnerabilities, optimizing (front|back) end or refactoring. So drop me and email and we go from there.

Remember, poor quality systems code trillions in US only[1]

[1] - https://bitbar.com/blog/how-much-did-poor-quality-software-c...

pknerd··on Tony Hsieh has died
Hacker news is NOT about hacking systems.
pknerd··on Tony Hsieh has died
Shocking! His book, "Delivering Happiness" is one of the best book about establishing a business and giving awesome customer support.

Hope HN management will set a black bar in his honor.

pknerd··on Ask HN: Does it make sense to write a blog in 2020?
It makes more sense during pandemic. Especially if it's a professional blog related to your skills.
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