512 karma · joined August 31, 2010
For example, when I was learning about DIY Bio, one of my cards might look like:
Front: "What allows plants and algae to photosynthesise sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into energy?"
Back: "chloroplasts"
My memory isn't great and I think rewording what you've read helps in the process.
eBooks.com (https://www.ebooks.com) is a popular ebook retailer with a reputation for innovation, integrity and independence.
Location: Perth, WA - Must be on-site initially
Compensation: 90K-110K AUD
A small, collaborative, harmonious team environment. Based primarily in Perth, but also London, Los Angeles and Melbourne. We're a smart, friendly and motivated team who enjoy the challenges of working in a competitive industry, up against One Huge Scary Competitor. Everyone has share options and, after a qualifying period, you can apply for a stake in the company too.
Your day to day job will be working with our other devs on our retail site and back-end applications. We have one formal meeting per week, the rest of the time you collaborate as needed.
Responsibilities:
* Develop new features, maintain, and upgrade our retail site and back-end applications
* Iteratively improve our development process, your voice is important
Experience:
* Skilled with .NET (C#, .NET Core MVC), SQL Server, HTML5, CSS (LESS/Sass)
* A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and development best practices
* Hands on experience working with RESTful APIs, dependency injection and unit testing is highly desirable
* Will tackle problems head on until they're resolved
Email your resume to: hn@ebooks.com
Most days I do 20 mins first thing when I wake up. With 12 days, you could finish the beginner course if you do 1 session in the morning and one in the evening.
On the side I've been building a job listing site for tech jobs in Australia with .NET core, currently it's on a $5/m Vultr instance with a postgres DB. This wouldn't have been possible to do a few years back: https://www.headhunted.com.au
Shameless plug -- I wrote an article about growing them at home, it's not too hard. We eat a lot of them: https://www.mushroom.guide
Even so, well done experimenting with a different model Jeff, you'll have a larger (and more appreciative) fan base because of it.