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tbergeron

75 karma · joined April 15, 2012

️ I'm a full-time freelance developer and open-source contributor who've been building mobile, web and software solutions for the past 12+ years in multiple industries including the Adult Industry, Health, Social Media, SaaS, VoIP, VPN, Web Hosting, E-Commerce & Marketing, ERPs, Automobile, Metallurgy and more.

Expertise areas: PHP 5 & 7, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, REST APIs, Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS and more), VueJS, React, Angular, Ionic, TypeScript, Bootstrap, SCSS and more.

  Why choose me?
- I'm always available and extremely responsive. That's what passion is! - I focus not only on delivering value, but I also improve all the projects I touch by bringing suggestions and ideas to every client I work with.

I encourage you to take a look at my work history and other related profiles. (I'm active on GitHub, StackOverflow and LinkedIn)

Contact me at anytime, thanks for checking out my profile!

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tbergeron··on R/ElonJetTracker
This is ridiculous...
tbergeron··on Dracula Pro
Why would I pay for a theme that has been free for over 5 years now? Bundling your free and open source tools and selling them seem like the most crooked way of building a business. I just don't get the point at all.

> Got laptop stolen, had to reconfigure everything. VSCode settings sync anyone? or pushing your .vimrc to a git repository? If you're a developer, you definitively know about a hundred different ways of backing up your settings.

> License for 3 computers Just WHAT? Is this an April fools?

Don't get me wrong, I love the theme and been using it for years but that's not the proper way of asking for financial support. I'd pay for a Patreon, or any kind of other financial support instead, before buying this kind of unreasonably expensive package.

tbergeron··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
Thanks that's nice of you :)
tbergeron··on The next outbreak? We're not ready. Ted talk by Bill Gates (2015)
Seems he was ready after all. Look up Event201 and ID2020.
tbergeron··on Don't write documentation in Markdown
This place is becoming a meme of itself more and more each and every day.
tbergeron··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
Location: Quebec, Canada (Speaks English and French) Remote Only / Not willing to relocate

Technologies: JavaScript, NodeJS, *SQL, MongoDB, PHP5/7, Laravel, Angular, React, Vue, Ionic, AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS and more) (see resume for more details)

Email: tbergeron [at] brainpad.org

Résumé/CV: https://tbergeron.github.io/resume/

Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/166612

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tbergeron

Github: https://github.com/tbergeron

ABOUT: I'm a full-time freelance developer and open-source contributor who've been building mobile, web and software solutions for the past 12+ years in multiple industries including the Adult Industry, Health, Social Media, SaaS, VoIP, VPN, Web Hosting, E-Commerce & Marketing, ERPs, Automobile, Metallurgy and more. I encourage you to take a look at my work history and other related profiles.

tbergeron··on DefaultApp
The fact that we need such boilerplate solution to start building a simple Mac app without having XCode in the way in 2020 means a lot about the current state of native app development.
tbergeron··on Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix
How is living on Planet Mars? Go out of the valley once and you'll learn about a whole new world!

t. using vim, tmux, i3 and linux.

tbergeron··on Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)
> Weird-Looking Freak Yet fails to show a picture of the weird looking freak?
tbergeron··on Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
Not high performing enough to make sure your website shows something with javascript off? That's a freaking blog and all I see is a white blank page. Using React for a blog is kinda over-engineering it nope?
tbergeron··on Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
Non corporate job is not a solution? I've been freelancing for the last 3 years doing very good money and having great clients, doing everything I want, how I want them, convincing my clients to use cool tech and teaching them at the same time. There's a lot of other ways to get a nice resume other than having shitty jobs. All corporate jobs I had were total nightmares, I wouldn't go back for nothing in the world to be quite honest. Low salary, bottom feeding whores waiting for the next project to rapidly spit out to get more done faster every week with tons of never ending meetings, no thanks. I'll go back to my home office, with my coffee, music, cat and awesome living room to take breaks in.
tbergeron··on Steam In-Home Streaming
I guess so, I've been using it to run Chrome just for the lolz and it works really well. Just add an app to your Steam library, then run it and good chances are that it'll actually start. Sometimes it doesn't but in most cases it works well!
tbergeron··on Steam In-Home Streaming
It's really working great, I've been using it for about the past six months (beta) and it always went great, way better than expected. I wasted hours and days trying to come with a similar solution and it always sucked. Glad they came up with something actually enjoyable.
tbergeron··on It's OK not to use tools
Logged in just to say, whoever thinks the old or the new Joomla is a great tool says bullshit or never really had to get their hands dirty with it because it plain sucks. I hate Wordpress and I'd rather use it than Joomla. Plain HTML FTW.
tbergeron··on Ask HN: What it's like to move from home to pursue a dream opportunity?
Sometimes I forget how young I am! I'll go there to see what's going on and we'll see ;-)

Every time I spent more than a few weeks in another country, it always totally changed the way I acted about life. I totally see this happening again.

Thanks for the reply, greatly appreciated!

tbergeron··on The Future of AngularJS
I 100% agree, I just started using AngularJS and I'm very happy to see a preview of what I'll have to learn in the future and how current practices will change.
tbergeron··on Email clients needs to evolved, what do you think?
Amen. I 100% agree with you on all points. I'm not against emails, but against the software we used to manage them.

If it wasn't for so much trouble and different case scenarios I would definitively work on an Email client. I'm sure we're not the only one who are looking for something new and better.

Thanks for replying.

tbergeron··on JavaScript, isn't it a standard yet?
Thanks for checking out my article, do not hesitate to discuss about it!
tbergeron··on Just Ship It
That is the real only enemy and this case, and one that I myself fear. That is why you must back yourself up with a good blog with announcements and an goal descriptive product page (showing the user/client which way we're heading and what's the vision).

A good vision description (sales pitch) can sell almost anything.

Thanks for reading by the way!

tbergeron··on Brainpad: How I get stuff done using Trello
Oh, I forgot about missing stuff. I really should write an article about these, with suggestions and send it to Trello's dev team.

I couldn't agree more about the points you mentioned. They really should have saveable filters. That way everything would be manageable more easily.

Markdown and card comments could really use a good overhaul as well.

Thanks for your comment! :-)

tbergeron··on Using Trello for Project Management
If for any reason the introduction header of the page gets erased (it's a wiki), here it is:

Hi! I just posted this on Hacker News because I wanted some help to define how Trello can be used for project management. I made my own take on it and I'd love if people could help me and add some of their own concepts on the list. Feel free to add, edit or remove anything.

Thanks!

Tommy Bergeron http://brainpad.org

tbergeron··on The Disappointing Surprise From Apple
Apple always removed what they found weak and this is a part of why OS X is a strong and well integrated operating system.

I can't see what all the fuss is about. I remember Apple removing many features in ten years of usage and it always been for the best.

If you can't stand this anymore, to to the app store where's there's way better options such as Reeder and NetNewsWire.

tbergeron··on From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0
There's a nuance there and it's called an amateur. If I use this concept I could be anything and if everyone tells they're everything than what's the use of titles?

You can be a passionate, an amateur but to be a programmer, a professional programmer there's only one way of becoming it and it's by doing a professional job.

tbergeron··on Try Haxe
Infinite loop of compilation! Haha
tbergeron··on Try Haxe
Nope.

Stop fragmenting languages, we don't need another one except if it's revolutionary.

There's some very good principles like the fact that it can compile to many languages but like CoffeeScript I just don't see the point. Want to do some c++ why not using it? Want to do some JavaScript? Then use JavaScript.

There is just too much on the table when it comes to language compilation, I mean if the compiler itself has a problem with your code? It's a bug between what you built and its runtime: what can you do about it? A client is waiting for you, you've got no time to lose contacting the compiler's developers, you're just fucked. Don't get me wrong, I like to play with these languages but that is what they are: toys.

The hard reality is that browsers only support n amount of languages and we are stuck using them.

tbergeron··on Android: Emerging UI Pattern - Side Navigation
Good article but still I believe that this is far from innovative. What's wrong with dashboards? I mean why not take all the space when you've got something to present to the user?

The useless right part of the screen is a complete waste of space and looks totally weird.

I really don't like where the general UI concepts are going. Apple UX is now very discussable, Windows' tiles are a good idea but replacing the start menu with them is kind of a misstep... Argh I could go on for days...

Apple, what's happening with the futuristic look and feel? Why including leather in your calendar?!

tbergeron··on Ask HN: Project and time management app for a freelancer?
So far I really like Project Bubble, it is simple, has time tracking and looks to be more freelancer oriented.
tbergeron··on From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0
I read until I stumbled upon that line: "I've been a programmer since I was six."

You're NOT a programmer at six, you are a KID.

You can play with computers, but being a programmer is a whole other story.

You can tell yourself you're a programmer when you can code through a project by yourself, write classes, do OOP, implement basic concepts, differ public from static, know your data types, and more and more.

You are not a programmer until you work as one. That's it and that's the reality.

Nowadays kids called themselves programmer, guru, ninja, entrepreneur, etc and it makes me rage and laugh in anger.

I'm sorry, your article seems fine, but you've lost all your credibility with this very single line.

tbergeron··on Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding
I'm also wondering this, there's a lot of that kind of clientside frameworks lately and I've been wondering the same about them all...
tbergeron··on Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding
Thanks for that comment, it expresses exactly how I'm feeling towards this. This is stupid and pointless. Instead of developing a framework I should be designing a beautiful website, fuck features, it's gotta be good looking!
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