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tomiplazon Maybe you should learn something

Beautiful quote I strongly relate to. When I was 16, I had a sudden realisation one day that no one knows what anything of this actually is. That was a profoundly defining moment of who I am and the deepest and most beautiful thought my limited mind managed to grasp. It made me become in awe of the universe, inspired me to learn and has been a pillar I could lean on during difficult times. I cherish that thought every day.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://tomiplaz.dev/

tomiplazon Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?

When I was being payed by hour, I billed only effective work hours.

I was pushing myself to do 6 effective work hours a day, which was not always easy (some days I would work throughout the whole day just to accomplish those 6 effective hours).

I was tracking procrastination / break / meal time initially in 5-min and later in 15-min intervals. That was kind of extreme and my friends did not understand why I was being so honest or felt guilty otherwise. In hindsight, they were right.

I suggest you bill by day, or by month if you can. Rather than lowering your rate, consider taking a slightly more relaxed, less stressful approach and don't feel bad about it as long as you deliver. If it'll make you feel better and you think there's no risk involved, consider discussing this openly with your client(s).

tomiplazon Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?

Cosmos by Carl Sagan is my favorite.

Planet Earth and Blue Planet are amazing.

Jodorowsky's Dune is great.

tomiplazon Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

Make use of HN's whoishiring threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

tomiplazon Five major Canadian banks mysteriously go offline in hours-long outage

There have been only two Bitcoin downtime events, last one in 2013. Its uptime is 99.987%.

tomiplazon Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies

Please try to expand your lists. Also, please try to create the same kind of expanded lists for other such related tech you're comparing Bitcoin with.

tomiplazon Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies

I don't think you understand what Bitcoin has brought to the table. Consider its fundamentals and its network effect. Other blockchain tech, most prominently permissioned blockchains, should be reprobated, since they don't require blockchain tech and could be better implemented using tech that relies on standard database systems.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

No. I got all of my contracting jobs via HN (except the first one, which was a natural transition) and am very grateful for that. All of my clients were / are great, professionally and personally.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

I've always been very honest when logging my hours, that is when I was paid by hour, and back then I was doing 6 hours of effective work per day.

A few months ago I started being payed by month, and now I do around 5 hours of effective work per day. The more relaxed work day due to less effective hours done was something I was looking forward to; I don't drag this mental burden with me the whole day anymore and it feels great.

My friends always say I work more than I should, but doing less always seemed like cheating and stealing to me.

Employees and colleagues value my output, which is encouraging, but hearing my friends' arguments and reading this post and comments makes me feel like I'm missing out.

tomiplazon The most underused browser feature: reader mode

My favourite and often used browser feature (Firefox).

tomiplazon A Visualization of Galactic Settlement

There's a great video on this topic from the Cool Worlds Lab channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7OeeGcMFMc

Taking into account ship ranges and settlement lifetimes produces very different results (15:36 in the video).

tomiplazon Show HN: My personal website is a shell

I've done a similar thing few years ago. You can check it out at the bottom of the website at http://138.68.65.145/ (website is old and needs updating, same with the domain). I decided to print the output to the alert popup. I have `clear` and `exit` implemented, and going up/down the command history.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)

  Location: Croatia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Depends when and where
  Technologies:
    * HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NodeJS, GraphQL, Jest, PostgreSQL, Git  most recently / strongly
    * NextJS, Relay, Slate, PHP, Laravel, Redux, Angular, RxJS, AngularJS, Sass, Python, Django, MySQL, Docker, Redis, AWS, Heroku, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Google Cloud and other technologies in recent or distant past, or with less experience.
  Résumé/CV:
    http://138.68.65.145/cv.pdf
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomislav-plazonic-3b45261a3/
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com

Hi. I'm a full stack web developer and software engineer from Croatia. I have several years of experience in building APIs (REST, GraphQL), single-page applications (React, but also Angular) and relational databases (PostgreSQL, but also MySQL). I also have some dev ops experience (Docker, AWS, Heroku, Google Cloud, CircleCI, GitHub Actions). My primary OS is Debian. For more info, please see my CV. I am looking for either full-time or part-time remote work.

tomiplazon PayPal launches crypto checkout service

I presume you are not familiar with the Lightning Network? I suggest reading https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

tomiplazon I don't want to do front-end anymore

> The complicated web is here because users insist on interaction

Do they, though? Or is it the product managers who insist on such things? I'd put more weight on them. Some of it might be backed by user data, but generally it feels like they're pushing things unjustifiably or for wrong reasons.

tomiplazon The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harvard Astronomer

Here's also a review of Avi Loeb's arguments written and presented by prof David Kipping from the Cool Worlds Lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_Bj7064Ms

tomiplazon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

  Location: Croatia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Depends when and where
  Technologies: JavaScript, React, NodeJS, Angular,
    TypeScript, NextJS, Redux, RxJS, Jest, Chai, GraphQL,
    HTML, CSS, Sass, PHP, Laravel, Python, Django, MySQL,
    PostgreSQL, Git, Docker, Heroku, CircleCI, AWS 
  Résumé/CV:
    https://tomiplaz.xyz/cv.pdf
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomislav-plazonic-3b45261a3/
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com

Hi. I'm a full stack web dev and software engineer from Croatia. Most of my experience is working on SPAs and RESTful APIs. I have some dev ops experience as well. Lately I've been doing deep learning specialization on Coursera. I am looking for either full-time or part-time remote work. Potentially willing to relocate.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?

  Location: Croatia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Depends when and where
  Technologies: JavaScript, React, NodeJS, Angular,
    TypeScript, NextJS, Redux, RxJS, Jest, Chai, GraphQL,
    HTML, CSS, Sass, PHP, Laravel, Python, Django, MySQL,
    PostgreSQL, Git, Docker, Heroku, CircleCI, AWS, Fastly 
  Résumé/CV:
    https://tomiplaz.xyz/cv.pdf
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomislav-plazonic-3b45261a3/
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com

Hi. I'm a full stack web dev and software engineer from Croatia. Most of my experience is working on SPAs and RESTful APIs. I have some dev ops experience as well. Lately I've been doing deep learning specialization on Coursera. I am looking for either full-time or part-time remote work. Potentially willing to relocate.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2020)

SEEKING WORK, Croatia, remote OK

  Location: Croatia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Depends when and where
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node, NextJS, Angular, PHP, Laravel, Python, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
  Résumé/CV: http://138.68.65.145/cv.pdf (sorry, domain expired)
  GitHub: https://github.com/tomiplaz
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com

tomiplazon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)

  Location: Croatia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Depends when and where
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node, NextJS, Angular, PHP, Laravel, Python, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
  Résumé/CV: http://138.68.65.145/cv.pdf (sorry, domain expired)
  GitHub: https://github.com/tomiplaz
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com

tomiplazon The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain – And Almost Lost His Mind

Very interesting story. Posted on 01.26.2016. On a related note, if you haven't watched recent Neuralink's presentation, I would definitely recommend: https://youtu.be/r-vbh3t7WVI

tomiplazon Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy?

When it comes to that, I accept that I am a different person, a person with different past, values and traits. I also like to think (mostly to make myself feel a bit better) that such a person might not be experiencing many other (valuable) things in life that I am or other people are. If that is not true and that high level peer is having a great life outside of work as well, then I simply admire them. If anything, that just shows me how good one can be; it propels me to push harder at least a little bit more.

It all depends on one's state of mind. I've had times when it was difficult for me to face such a fact, and times when I looked at it in a quite positive way.

tomiplazon SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight

At the post-launch press conference [1], Musk was asked a question whether they intend to use the capsule for tourism if there were interested individuals. His answer was affirmative, but not for the very near future. Also, it seemed as if they don't intend to go down that path for the general public, but rather have that capability ready for interested people willin to pay a premium.

[1] https://youtu.be/HuXPLtJXd14

tomiplazon If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed

Thanks for sharing these. The comment very much resonates with me. There are some other resonating comments in these threads. It feels good to read those; I feel less alone.

Those nicely articulated thoughts might honestly help me deal with my episodes.

I should take a look at the book too.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)

SEEKING WORK | Full-Stack Web Developer

  Location: Croatia; moving to Birmingham, UK in February
  Remote: Yes
  Technologies: JavaScript (Angular, React, AngularJS), PHP 
  (Laravel, Lumen), Python (Django), GNU/Linux (Debian)
  Résumé/CV: https://tomiplaz.xyz/cv.pdf
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com
  Website: https://tomiplaz.xyz
  Repos: https://github.com/tomiplaz

I am a full-stack web developer with more than four years of experience in total. I have independently developed or jointly worked on circa a dozen single-page applications and RESTful APIs. Next to standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), I am experienced with Angular, React, AngularJS, Laravel, Lumen and Django as well. My experience also includes database design and implementation (MySQL, PostgreSQL), test-driven and behavior-driven development (Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, Gherkin, Cucumber), Git, responsive web design, Redux, Lodash, Ajax, Sass, Less, Gulp, Postman, Apache, JWT, OAuth. Feel free to visit my personal website for more information and links to my pet projects and/or their repos.

tomiplazon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)

  Location: Birmingham, UK
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes (moving in February)
  Technologies: JavaScript (Angular, React, AngularJS), PHP 
  (Laravel, Lumen), Python (Django), GNU/Linux (Debian)
  Résumé/CV: https://tomiplaz.xyz/cv.pdf
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com
  Website: https://tomiplaz.xyz
  Repos: https://github.com/tomiplaz

I am a full-stack web developer with more than four years of experience in total. I have independently developed or jointly worked on circa a dozen single-page applications and RESTful APIs. Next to standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), I am experienced with Angular, React, AngularJS, Laravel, Lumen and Django as well. My experience also includes database design and implementation (MySQL, PostgreSQL), test-driven and behavior-driven development (Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, Gherkin, Cucumber), Git, responsive web design, Redux, Lodash, Ajax, Sass, Less, Gulp, Postman, Apache, JWT, OAuth. Feel free to visit my personal website for more information and links to my pet projects and/or their repos.

tomiplazon Ask HN: How to get a job while having a job?

How do you stay motivated? Do you have negative days, days full of doubt, insecurities, etc.?

tomiplazon Molten – A minimal framework for building HTTP APIs with Python 3.6+

Previous discussion (2 months old): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18107818

tomiplazon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)

SEEKING WORK | Full-Stack Web Developer

  Location: Birmingham, UK
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes (moving in January)
  Technologies: JavaScript (Angular, React, AngularJS), PHP 
  (Laravel, Lumen), Python (Django), GNU/Linux (Debian)
  Résumé/CV: https://tomiplaz.xyz/cv.pdf
  Email: tomislav.plazonic@gmail.com
  Website: https://tomiplaz.xyz
  Repos: https://github.com/tomiplaz

I am a full-stack web developer with more than four years of experience in total. I have independently developed or jointly worked on circa a dozen single-page applications and RESTful APIs. Next to standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), I am experienced with Angular, React, AngularJS, Laravel, Lumen and Django as well. My experience also includes database design and implementation (MySQL, PostgreSQL), test-driven and behavior-driven development (Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, Gherkin, Cucumber), Git, responsive web design, Redux, Lodash, Ajax, Sass, Less, Gulp, Postman, Apache, JWT, OAuth. Feel free to visit my personal website for more information and links to my pet projects and/or their repos.