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steven_braham

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About steven_braham

Dutch internet entrepreneur. 2 times winner of Top 500 young Dutch IT talents. Interests: web development, online advertising & affiliate marketing

If you want to reach out, contact me on Twitter: @steven_braham or e-mail steven@braham.biz

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbraham/

Website: https://braham.biz

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/steven_braham; my proof: https://keybase.io/steven_braham/sigs/6Geay2Aoc_xli5fH7IA6Tk3r3UY-cIqrPyCGx7OD5o4 ]

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    I often watch video's from this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/jsonmez It focusses on all the non-technical stuff like finding clients as a freelancer, how to learn a new pr…

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    Comment #15147249

    Thanks everyone for the responses. It seems that forcing clients to use a particular ticket system is not a good idea. I have now created a free account at Hubspot. Hubspot keeps t…

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    Comment #15147239

    It's a mix. For example, I have taken over the Wordpress hosting and management of several existing websites. They pay me a fixed fee and from time to time I adjust some things for…

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    Could you please explain that further? Isn't it standard practice at a lot of companies that you raise a support ticket instead?

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    Ask HN: Freelancers do you use a ticket system for clients?

    I recently transitioned to freelancing and things are going relatively well. However, some of my clients keep sending short emails with simple questions and requests. For me, it is…

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    Comment #15142931

    https://mega.nz is a popular online encrypted file sharing website. Maybe you could check if they have an affiliate program?

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    Ask HN: Who actually uses crypto currency to buy stuff and not as investment?

    It seems to me that most people just buy crypto coins as an investment al la "quickly get rich", due to all the media hype and rising prices. I was wondering who on this website ac…

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    Comment #15000406

    Tweeting about new tools or discussions is an interesting option. Thanks for the suggestion :)

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    Ask HN: Developers who tweet a lot, what do you tweet?

    I would like to use Twitter more. Most online guides about Twitter talk about curating content and basically aggregating articles. I have done that for a while, but it gets tiresom…

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    I don't think as a developer that you can fully escape from crud, since nearly every application has to do some database stuff. I recommend trying to move to a position where you d…

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    Probably every major popular framework has good crud support. Most of these frameworks contain a orm that will the heavy lifting. I don't think anyone has a specific language or pl…

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    Nice. One of the things that kept me away from the .net platform, is that the only viable development IDE is Visual Studio. Especially on OSX and Linux. I hope that together with t…

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    Ask HN: Why has Firefox still no support for the html 5 date element?

    Just curious, because Chrome has it since 2012 and even Microsoft Edge supports the new date input. Firefox however is the only major browser that does not support the date input t…

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    Comment #14989456

    One of the things I like really well about Laravel is that it integrates with modern front-end development tools and frameworks. They have an excellent asset manager called Elixir …

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    Comment #14987935

    I saw that thread before, but nothing really appealed to me.

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    Comment #14987926

    Damm RoR is nearly Laravel with a different syntax. Development and deployment is also very easy. I was always wary of RoR, because I read online that it's so good at simplifying a…

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    Ask HN: What non PHP framework resembles the structure/deployment of Laravel/Yii

    PHP has been my main language for years, but I want to learn other languages to create web apps. The thing I like the most of PHP is how easy it is to deploy and develop an applica…

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    Comment #14865770

    Maybe on Medium? They have great search functionality and lot's of high quality content.

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    Comment #14865748

    Django, started learning it in may and loved it so far. I have a lot of experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel and the Yii platform and NodeJS + React + Redux. So I wanted …

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    Franz: http://meetfranz.com/ It's a cross-platform messaging client that combines, Whatsapp, Facebook chat, Slack etc. into one application.

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