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drinchev

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About drinchev

Freelance web developer, based in Berlin.

http://www.drinchev.com

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    Also npm audit times out.

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    Comment #38960275

    Note that we also had COVID and shifted to remote gigs in Germany. This means that we compete with people located in smaller cities or even villages which probably have a pretty go…

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    Comment #36698390

    As a contractor, based in Berlin, I also noticed that since the end of last year the market slowed down.

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    Comment #35374126

    Sublime Text editor is my day-dreaming destination when I feel depressed of work. It makes me really happy that 2-3 people can actually build something, sell a piece of it in an no…

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    Comment #35282145

    > bleeding edge tech solves many problems ... > which day to day tech workers working on internal B2B do not face That's so true. Good luck explaining to management that the front-…

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    Wow. I hope this won’t spread further. Looking at DAX, Deutsche Bank shares dropped as well as HSBC. When I first read the news, I thought about another hit for the crypto, however…

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    Comment #34458803

    This looks cool. However I was looking for a better “Alfred” on my Mac and found https://www.raycast.com/ . Seems like it’s not an electron app, but also works with JS and even Rea…

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    What I'm pissed about is that everyone hopped on the JWT train too fast a couple of years ago. Now it's really hard to argue with architects / developers why cookie authentication …

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    As explained in the article, if that's the case then you can't really trust the JWT anymore only for it's cryptographic signature and you rely on an internal store entry that makes…

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    Comment #30011137

    Well I think there are far more dangerous substances than alcohol which are considered legal and advertised. Eating sugar for example in excessive amounts leads to way worse diseas…

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    Comment #26871953

    There is hardly an app that I use these days that doesn't require internet connection. I guess once your app needs it, you will have the same problems.

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    Fun story explaining this to the PR reviewers though :D

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    Yeah I don't remember how I found about this, but I remember it involved some `console.log(JSON.stringify(...))`. It's tricky to notice.

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    Comment #26066820

    Really nice design of the home page! Do you folks use a template for that or you built it in-house?

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    Btw in this context I would like to share Type Fast by sindresorhus [1]. I find it excellent and definitely a helpful tool to think about when you are struggling with type safety v…

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    Comment #25814590

    > You could certainly build Facebook as a fully server-rendered PHP app, but that would hurt Facebook's business because its servers would need to do more work and its users would …

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    Comment #25629257

    I'm used to call this HTML5 boilerplate. So that's the way I google when I actually need something like this. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/src/in...

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    34 and I feel pretty happy freelancing. Freelance IMO is closer to real life for most of the devs I’ve talked to. You are not committed to bullshit, often excluded from company bra…

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    As a longtime WebStorm user I would really appreciate a WebStorm + let’s say PyCharm vs IntelliJ. I’m a bit happy by the default configuration of each dedicated IDE, rather than cl…

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    Comment #24536759

    Probably my 1 year old daughter talks right now, but I really have no time to do stuff on the weekend. I'm happily not living with a visa though, but still I think if you don't hav…

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    Ask HN: Good and logical resources on growing kids

    I have a 10 months old daughter and it's getting tougher than ever. We are living outside of "grandmas" location, so we're definitely struggling with focusing on something else tha…

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    Comment #23671948

    Thanks for that. Really appreciate the answer. I remember having similar struggles with infinite-scroll product page a while back ( ~5 years ago ), with variable card height. I tho…

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    I know that the OP probably did the research, so I'm just going to ask : Isn't this possible with only CSS? I see each article ( section ) with position absolute and heavy JS calcu…