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Definitely a side-gig. Early on I devoted about 1 hour/day to it. Now I get to it whenever I can.

Most projects I have reviewed for pullrequest.com have reviewers on the engineering team also. In a way, we are helping them get better at reviewing their own code. I imagine that …

A really cool side effect of working with pullrequest.com over the past year is that I do feel that I've gotten to know some of these projects. Some interactions end up becoming le…

For many of us who work for pullrequest.com, it's a side gig. Some are full-time, but I have a day job. I like to do 1-2 PRs per day, and it pays for my iPhone and MacBook habit.

In most of the projects I have reviewed for pullrequest.com, the engineering team is also doing its own reviews. We are "another set of eyes" as it were. Many of our larger reviews…

I'm one of those reviewers, and I agree with you about the talent. Not speaking about myself, but the people I've gotten to know and also the ones I have referred. Each PR gets two…

I am a reviewer on pullrequest.com and I can assure you I do not work for free. Many of us are Senior or Lead developers with day jobs, who do this as a side gig and to keep our sk…

Thanks. I haven’t yet decided how (or even whether) I’ll try to monetize any of these apps. For now I simply want to get them published somewhere permanently. When I do I’ll try to…

After four years as a paid Apple Developer, I finally decided to stop paying for it. Instead, I am going to convert my App Store apps into Progressive Web Apps. After a brief Twitt…

Most of my blog content ( https://walkingriver.com ) came from me keeping notes during projects. They are documentation for myself that I can refer to later. I have done that. When…

The book came from my being selected to train some of my coworkers in Angular. I hope others can find the experience helpful.

I was trying to figure out what to do with an old, but working Nook Color I found in my desk drawer. I decided to give it away, preloaded with some books. I'm hoping that someone m…

You have no visibility to your courses' students or their contact info. You can send a couple of "marketing emails" per month for each course. Inside those emails you may only have…

That's so cool. Thanks!

That's awesome. Thanks for the link. I don't anticipate ever needing to do this, but it's weird how your mind sometimes won't let go of an idea.

Udemy has been a bust for me. In fact, I went on a mini-rant on Twitter this morning about it ( https://twitter.com/walkingriver/status/1325772355449344001 ). I've had decent succe…

There was an episode of Seinfeld where George purchased a Frogger arcade machine on which he still held the high score. His problem was how to get it home without unplugging it. I'…

Definitely keep them separate. Sometimes, depending on whether or not you have side gigs, you might want more than just those two.

I was chastised for using C# and .NET for a problem that was proving difficult to solve. When I tried to explain why I had done it that way, I was told to redo it "the right way." …