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wprapido··on Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?
Give UpWork a go
wprapido··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 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)

wprapido··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 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)

wprapido··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 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)

wprapido··on Ask HN: Should I be learning PHP in 2020?
Completely. That's why it's my bread and butter
wprapido··on Ask HN: Should I be learning PHP in 2020?
PHP is rather potent and I absolutely love it. Built lots of non-web stuff in PHP myself.
wprapido··on Ask HN: Should I be learning PHP in 2020?
PHP is not going away anytime soon. The only downside, it has no use beyond web. If you're new to programming, no. Better focus on Python, Node, Go, Java, or even JavaScript. There's still a strong and in certain niches growing demand for PHP, but definitely not suitable for a beginner, as lots of that work involves maintaining and / or upgrading legacy code.
wprapido··on PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
It wasn't even meant to
wprapido··on Ask HN: Modern office life has become unbearable to me
See a therapist, first and foremost.

You got plenty of choices, luckily. None being escapist neither implying you having to back down as some of the answers here imply, though there were some valuable advices you were given. All choices and solutions basically revolve around not working at a corporation. Join a small company, go contracting / freelancing. They do imply short term discomfort, bear a certain level of risk, yet they yield great dividends.

wprapido··on What do you want to learn?
Mathematics
wprapido··on Ask HN: Popular Alternative to Urban Dictionary?
https://www.tubabel.com/ for Spanish and https://vukajlija.com/recnik/definicije/indeks for Serbo-Croatian. Not alternatives, more like equivalents
wprapido··on Ask HN: Am I the only one who feels bad for using free software?
You can donate money, and / or time and skills.
wprapido··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 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)

wprapido··on Ask HN: So I Hired a Homeless Guy
You're a great human being! I love you, and I don't know you. Get Jake first and foremost appropriate mental health treatment.

Speaking of housing. Offer him a hand with housing or put conditions on his stay at your premises.

Some mean spirited, empathy deprived, sociopathic comments in here are not deserving of being answered to. I genuinely feel sorry for comment posters.

wprapido··on Ask HN: Would you use Phoenix/Elixir for your SaaS startup?
If you or your engineers liked Rails, sure! Otherwise, namely at MVP stage, stick to whatever you guys are familiar with
wprapido··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
It's amazing, given how great Turkish coffee and tea is. Yet, Starbucks' core business is not serving good coffee
wprapido··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
Starbucks coffee sucks and it's overpriced. As someone who patronises it, I go for cheapest brew, Americano

Starbucks does not compete with local coffee shops, neither with premium chains. They target different markets, serve different needs and got different business models

When do I patronise Starbucks? When I get tired of working from wherever I happen to work from and while on the road. Also I use it as a hangout spots for social and business purposes

Where they have to compete as a proper coffeeshop, they fail miserably (Israel) or struggle big time (Australia)

wprapido··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Starbucks beat local coffee shops?
They failed miserably in Israel. Opened recently in Italy and cater almost exclusively to tourists. The only place with good coffee where they are doing okayish that I'm aware of is Sweden. They also do rather well in Turkey among hipsters, tourists and rich local college kids. Yet, it's limited to Istanbul
wprapido··on Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself?
I also reply
wprapido··on Ask HN: What’s the story behind your username?
My former startup, wprapido.com . I had a previous YN username where I forgot the password. Applied to YCombinator and needed a username. Stayed with it. Sold the underlying tech behind WPRapido, but retained its identity (domain, many usernames all over, etc.) and even had a Ltd. company that I used for it till like 6 months ago
wprapido··on Ask HN: What is the fastest distro to boot Raspberry Pi in full screen Chromium?
FydeOS is the way to go. Arch is super fast, lightweight and works on Rasp
wprapido··on Ask HN: Do you pay someone to install self-hosted apps?
I was both paying and getting paid to install self-hosted apps. Some of them at best are time consuming to install. Also you might run into compatibility issues of all kinds
wprapido··on Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base
Selenium is multi language and multi browser and works at a bit lower level of abstraction
wprapido··on Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base
Awesome! Would love to see something like that for Selenium
wprapido··on Ask HN: What Internet based checking account do you recommend?
Well, I'm European, so not sure if it helps, but might help someone else. TransferWise is what I'd highly recommend. They do have US presence. I'm just not sure which features are available to US customers. They got excellent customer service via mail, chat, social media and phone. Not outsourced to India
wprapido··on Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
That's pretty much the norm in every developed country and many developing countries.
wprapido··on New York incubator requires participants to grant IP rights
The entire startup ecosystem is exploitative by design. It's a dream of exiting big that sells. Few very few do exit big. Others provide cheap labour and generate lots of intellectual property for virtually no compensation.
wprapido··on Ask HN: What tech companies allow all employees to be remote?
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job is a great resource. Many remote companies listed
wprapido··on Ask HN: What tech companies allow all employees to be remote?
Automattic
wprapido··on Ask HN: How do you cope with political stress (and get work done)?
Not watching / reading news and not getting involved in political discussions online helped me a great deal!
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