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rafaquequeon Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding

I'm currently fighting with poor README instructions on how to get a project up and running locally. It's been a couple of hours already and I just want to code, not fight with these tools.

rafaquequeon Remote OK Open Startup

Not sure how you define great, but as long as you provide a platform for people to find new opportunities and is quite successful for both parties, I'd say it's great and quite an achievement.

rafaquequeon My personal site is a terminal

I understand what others are saying: there's a lot going on at the same time. Getting rid of the effects while typing would be a major plus.

I've also done something similar, but way simpler: https://rafael.pt

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

Mine is quite different: http://rafael.pt

rafaquequeon Show HN: Page00 – Publishing content anonymously

Quite weird to open the website and see social logins. Taking this post title into account, the "anonymous" option should be first.

rafaquequeon Elixir and Phoenix – hands-on introduction

We started right away from scratch on Elixir. No Erlang before, just Ruby and some other "best tools for the job". It's pretty cool to be able to select whatever technology fits what you want to achieve.

rafaquequeon Elixir and Phoenix – hands-on introduction

After 2 months using Elixir in a big project for a big company, I must say that I'm really enjoying what's going on. Some libraries are still young, but other than that, the main ones work as expected.

rafaquequeon My first programs: Old Pascal programs I wrote in the early nineties

I also have code that I wrote since the very beginning and it's amazing to see how we improved over time.

rafaquequeon Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal

Looks pretty cool. I often open the website, but since I work mainly from the terminal, this will be useful. Hope to see this project grow.

Offtopic: What's the font in the screenshot?

rafaquequeon Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project

Pretty cool. I also found this while ago: http://firstpr.me/ – shows your first pull request and contribution to the open source community.

rafaquequeon Show HN: My failed-wannabe-saas-startup project Beyondpad going open source

Did the same a few years ago: https://github.com/rafaqueque/responsly

It's always cool to give back to the community :)

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

Backend engineer at Sherpany (https://sherpany.com) and my side project is called numbers.today (https://numbers.today), a quantified-self platform.

rafaquequeon Show HN: Hnr.el – Simple Hacker News Reader for Emacs

Amazing. Any good options for vim?

rafaquequeon Show HN: mq, sub-200 byte DOM manipulation

I don't see the point of using this. Can you please elaborate?

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

I built https://numbers.today. A quantified self platform with an API available for everyone.

In the beginning was very hard; it's your new baby and you need to put a lot of effort, passion and discipline to get things done.

Now I'm struggling because I don't have much time to work on this, but I hope in the next few weeks I'll be able to ship some features that are already built.

rafaquequeon Show HN: Mimic – class-fied inline CSS

This is getting crazy.

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What project are you currently working on?

https://numbers.today

A quantified-self platform that allows you to track your daily routine and change your behaviour based on data. There's an API available.

At the moment, trying to push some features and get more traction. Is getting worse and I'm feeling quite lost.

rafaquequeon Finish your stuff

That's a very good idea. I'm up for that, remotely.

rafaquequeon Show HN: WhatsApp for Desktop

They blame Apple for that. Limitations.

rafaquequeon New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

Useful. There are some things that can be improved, like a nice padding around the boxes, which looks weird right now.

PS: Barcelona fan/supporter?

rafaquequeon Uber.com blocked in Portugal due to court decision (portuguese link)

The content is in portuguese (sorry about that). Seems like every ISP in Portugal is now blocking access to uber.com. I can still use the app, but I don't know how long it will last.

What the f is wrong with these guys? This is following a stupid "law" where cab drivers can now charge 20 euros (as soon as you sit inside the cab) to go to city centre. And yes, that's the minimum you'll pay when you arrive in Portugal.

rafaquequeon Ask HN: How to integrate coding into primary school?

Why there's a need for children to learn coding? This is getting really crazy. Seems like everyone needs to code and everyone is pushing towards that.

I don't see this happening for plumbing, to give you a short example, or any other professional area.

EDIT: I was a coach at a Django Girls event. I support these kind of events, but still, I don't see the reason to really push children to learn coding in their 5 or 6 years old. At that age, they are supposed to play with other children in the backyard, getting dirty. We are losing that. Probably, my generation (1990) was the last having that joy.

rafaquequeon How to turn your smartphone into a microscope for 1 cent

The URL says 3 cents, the title says 1 cent. Massive drop in the cost. What changed?

rafaquequeon Online curl command line builder

Good idea. It's quite difficult to remember all those parameters and command structure. Thanks, bookmarked.

rafaquequeon NASA data API

Glad to see this.

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What license should I use in my open-source startup/product?

Thanks for your explanation. AGPL3 sounds nice. I hope my next question doesn't make this more confusing, but in my roadmap for the next months I have a paid subscription plan. Is this still doable with this license?

I guess I'm just overthinking about this problem instead of focusing in the real deal. I have the product in place, I'm preparing a paid plan for the future and after that, release the source code. Shouldn't be that hard to decide. Damn.

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What license should I use in my open-source startup/product?

Thanks for your kind explanation. What I really want here is making sure that this code belongs to the community and doesn't end up in any proprietary/closed-source software in the future.

rafaquequeon Ask HN: What license should I use in my open-source startup/product?

Thank you. Already checked and really thinking about MIT at the moment.

rafaquequeon First Startup of its kind

Quite scary because I see people buying this for fun. There are a lot of startups struggling to find paying customers, with real products, and then you have this kind of joke that will sell more than those startups.

It's really sad.