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wprapidoon Ask HN: Would you find antipiracy telemetry intrusive?

Absolutely!

wprapidoon Ask HN: Are you still using a “legacy” stack to build new stuff?

Largely reminiscent of my stack. Awesome

wprapidoon Ask HN: Are you still using a “legacy” stack to build new stuff?

Oh yeah the mania of chasing shiny new objects. It feels so familiar.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Are you still using a “legacy” stack to build new stuff?

A kind of it counts. It's a mature yet fairly modern stack.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Do you have a daily cash stream?

Nicely put. Retainers are indeed a great revenue stream. Yet, I was thinking more in terms of daily cash stream generated by regular quick cash transactions. That's why I mentioned by buddy running a bar as his side hustle.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand, East Asia, EU or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

wprapidoon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand, East Asia, EU or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

wprapidoon Ask HN: Have developers become a commoditised resource?

There's a huge stratification going on, between developers as commodities and developers as assets.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Where are cheap regions to live with fast internet?

Romania, Vietnam, are your best bets

wprapidoon Ask HN: Why are Iranian websites blocked on T-Mobile US?

The land of the free

wprapidoon Ask HN: Has the market for software engineers diminished at all?

Hiring is definitely down. Been so since before the pandemics. Pandemics just accelerated it. The upside of pandemics, remote is more acceptable. There's a slight upswing since early June though.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand, East Asia, EU or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

wprapidoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand, East Asia, EU or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

wprapidoon Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?

Prestashop, WooCommerce, Snipcart, Magento, are all decent self-hosted solutions.

wprapidoon Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

A happy Matomo user

wprapidoon Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

Had a horror experience with PayPal. Lost tons of cash. Getting paid became incredibly difficult.

wprapidoon Ask HN: How many hours per day are you working?

3-5h a day, if lucky. Being busy or looking busy doesn't count as working.

wprapidoon Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

Cheers! Well done!

wprapidoon Help me with ideas to monetize my $10k DigitalOcean free credits

Sell at a discount. Maybe mine crypto.

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If there's one thing I absolutely love about HN, it's that it's largely fad-proof.

wprapidoon Ask HN: What do you think of WSL? Would you switch to Windows?

Been using it since it was available only for developers / insiders. It progressed from almost useless to perfectly usable Linux substitute.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand, East Asia, EU or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

wprapidoon Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

Avoiding Google and looking into the alternatives is what took a significant part of my working hours and spare time as of the last 2-3 years.

wprapidoon Ask HN: Is Node.js still good for writing APIs?

If you don't need much in terms of computing power or you just use the API for delegation, Node makes for a good choice. It's a mature ecosystem, well documented, well supported, has excellent community.

wprapidoon Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?

Burn it on hookers, booze, dope, travel, education

wprapidoon Apple will host WWDC virtually, beginning June 22

Networking is the main reason why I attend conferences

wprapidoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

wprapidoon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Thailand or Remote

Croatian developer living in Thailand.

I'm specialised at performance and reliability optimisation, security hardening, and debugging. Got experience taking projects from prototype and MVP to full products and services. Can take over and finish abandoned projects. Task and process automation is a pure joy to me. So is data scraping.

PHP (vanilla, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, SugarCRM, NextCloud), JS (vanilla, VueJS, Node, Ember, Angular), Python (vanilla, Django, Flask, Selenium, Pandas), Ruby (vanilla, Rails) is tech I'm most versed at.

My timezone is Indochina Time, but I'm fine working in any timezone.

Contact: email (milozo@yandex.com), WhatsApp / Viber / Line / Telegram (+385977311912)

Immediate availability, up to 15h a week.

wprapidoon How’s the development environment on the Surface Laptops?

A Windows dev here who transitioned from OSX back in '14. Surface is basically MS flagship, a highend Windows machine. Speaking of dev environment, mine is: - WSL - Virtualised Linux - Remote Linux machines

Works like a charm.

wprapidoon Ask HN: How to get back to web programming after a 8-years break?

80% of cases, you don't need a framework.