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wordpressdevon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019)

SEEKING WORK Location: Pakistan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python (Flask, Requests, Pandas and more), SQL, WordPress

Can do: Web Scraping, Data Transformation, Backend Development, WordPress customization, APIs , Content Marketing

Github: https://github.com/kashaziz/

Website: https://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-data-mining-services/ https://www.kashifaziz.me/portfolio/

Email: contact@kashifaziz.me

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

  Location: Karachi, Pakistan

  Remote: Absolutely

  Willing to relocate: Sure, if you can sponsor visa

  Technologies: PHP, Python (Flask, Pandas, Requests), SEO, Content Marketing. Love to play with APIs

  Résumé/CV: https://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-data-mining-services/

https://www.kashifaziz.me/portfolio/

  Email: contact@kashifaziz.me

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?

To me, passive income is to make content based sites, streamline traffic sources, paste ads and check back twice a month to see how it goes.

So, if I have 10 sites each making $100/month "passively", that's some nice passive income on the side.

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?

Good to know the old school way still works. Kudos.

wordpressdevon Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls

My parents were on Human OS, never tried to switch them to Linux. Have I missed something?

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?

How do you find clients? Can your mantra work from someone outside US trying to offer exceptional services? :)

wordpressdevon Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?

Everyone dies.

"you live only as long as the last person who remembers you"

wordpressdevon Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

I am in the process of moving my digital life to Notion. This includes my huge collection of bookmarks, 40+ browser tabs, dozen or so text files and content of some spreadsheets.

Here's my work in progress: https://imgur.com/a/LKY7RlP

wordpressdevon Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

My go to folders that are usually backed up.

/downloads - for all downloads under respective sub-folders like /media, /books, /software etc

/projects - personal projects

/freelance - for the freelance / consulting work with a sub-folder for each client

/business - accounts, taxes and stuff

/my-name - personal stuff including scanned documents, pictures etc

/archive - random stuff

I currently have lots of files on the Desktop which requires sorting out. Most of these are either text files with notes and ideas and some PDF. I am planning to move them into a system like Notion.so

wordpressdevon Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

Do you blog? It would be great, and beneficial for most of us, to read more about your thoughts and reflections :)

wordpressdevon I call my OCD ‘Olivia’

Have you checked her latest series, Mindhunter?

wordpressdevon Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?

I use Todoist to plan my life (and work), and try to stick to it.

If you are interested to know what is Todoist and how does it work, I have written a blog post on it. Have a read.

https://www.kashifaziz.me/todoist-productivity-tips.html/

wordpressdevon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

Built http://www.vitiligotreatmentinfo.com/ some time back. It generates income through Adsense and Amazon associates program. Planning to update the content whenever I have a few days off. So far, it is on auto-pilot.

wordpressdevon I call my OCD ‘Olivia’

I know.

wordpressdevon I call my OCD ‘Olivia’

Olivia, as in Olivia Dunham?

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)

  Location: Pakistan
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python [Flask, Web Scraping, SQL], PHP [WordPress]
  Résumé/CV: https://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-data-mining-services/
  Email: contact@kashifaziz.me

I have experience of PHP (WordPress), Python, SEO and Content Marketing. I am working with Python since last year and am very much interested to have an intermediate level position to further enhance my Pythonic skills.

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?

Sorry to hear about your ordeal. With my experience of working from both sides of the table, I can say for sure that you get what you pay for. Quality is not cheap. Companies in the west usually think that outsourcing to Asia and Eastern Europe would mean they can hire slave labor and pay peanuts for work that would cost an arm and a leg back home. As I said, you get what you pay for.

I am working with clients in the US, Europe and Australia. I know my limitations and never bid for work that me, or my team, can't deliver. This is why I have clients giving repeat work since last 7-8 years.

wordpressdevon 67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months

Most companies in my part of the world opt to hire a new employee on higher salary than given raise to existing person. Can't fathom the logic.

wordpressdevon Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis

> Chinese assumptions when a Chinese-Canadian I was dating explained she always goes to busy restaurants on the assumption that a lot of customers means they have good food.

Same concept here in Pakistan [guess we Asians think alike ;) ] - we go to busy restaurants and shops assuming they are full because they meet the requirements (good food, low prices etc)

wordpressdevon Show HN: A simple interactive resume-making tool

Although I have my resume in plain old MS Word, I'd love to automate it to create resumes on the go for various areas I apply to (web dev, SEO, content marketing etc)

wordpressdevon WordTsar – A Wordstar clone

Started my word processing with Wordstar (and spreadsheets with Lotus123). Those were the days.

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Depression and job

Recently left a job because it was not aligning with my values. Have to rely on freelance projects for a while.

This is not a professional advice, but IMO if the job doesn't match your values, you feel depressed thinking about, and aren't in position to change anything - better walk away while you are sane enough to take the decision.

Best of luck with your future endeavors.

wordpressdevon The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie

Wagtail looks good. Wonder what's the learning curve from someone coming from WordPress development background.

wordpressdevon The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie

So, what's the WordPress equivalent in Python?

wordpressdevon Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it

After procrastinating for quite some time, I finally picked up Python and fortunately got a web scraping assignment. Once I did the job, I thought to share the process online so that others may benefit from it. [0] and [1]

As I deep diver into the wonderful world of Python, I plan to document my Pythonic journey, noting that things of interest, the obstacles I come across and how I try to push my way through them.

[0]: Web scraping with BeautfiulSoup and Requests in 20 lines of code. http://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-python-beautifulsoup.h...

[1]: A proxy rotation script. http://www.kashifaziz.me/proxy-server-rotation-python.html/

wordpressdevon Ask HN: How to overcome fear?

I present you, the litany against fear..

"I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

---

from Frank Herbert's Dune series.

wordpressdevon Ask HN: How has working remotely for long periods affected your social skills?

After working from home for a decade (own projects + freelancing), I have now taken on a full time role mainly because I wanted to change the scenario a bit.

My routine was very haphazard while I was working from home. Being an introvert and with a very small circle of friends, I was lagging on social activity - in general a pretty miserable situation.

Now, 15 days in the new routine and I already feel way disciplined as I have to sleep early to get early for the office. Also, staying away from home for 10 hours makes me feel eager to return back to family, and they seem more welcoming too :)

I may not continue this job (office politics, incompetent management) but I will try to find another day job or some sort of activity where I can spend at least 8-10 hours out of home.

wordpressdevon 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

I started my coding journey with GW-BASIC. My teacher used to make whole class do coding on paper, "dry running" the code before we go to the lab and sit in front of an actual computer. The process seemed to be an overkill initially but as I got better with it, I started to take interest in reviewing other people's codes and understanding code written in books without actually typing it in.

wordpressdevon Ask HN: Work from home (WFH) setup

What system you are using to support that many sub-screens filled with applications??