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Hey HN, I've been quietly working on a small project called Forge Buddy. It's a menu bar app for Mac, designed to work with Laravel Forge. You can take a look here: forgebuddy.com.…

I don't know personally. However perhaps ask on LinkedIn I'm sure there will be some recruiters that specialise in contract work?

https://www.freecodecamp.org/ is pretty good. there's also https://www.codecademy.com/ https://www.codeschool.com/ if you're interested in PHP then I've not found any better resour…

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

Laravel is doing pretty well if you aren't too put off by PHP.

Surely the problem is that there are more jobs than skilled programmers out there? It's hard to get through the door the first time.

What is your skillset?

What I mean is seek to volunteer work at real companies rather than paying them. You may be learning but it sounds like you have some knowledge so you should still be providing the…

You shouldn't have to pay. Have you tried for volunteering? Perhaps working for free for a short term rather than paying to work? That sounds quite extreme.

Openedge ABL is a niche language.

I think it depends on where you live to be honest. Obviously as others have said HTML, CSS and JS will always be valuable skills to have and you should make sure you have a solid f…

Do any of you guys make use of online tools to save your code snippets? I'm currently working on a tool for saving Code Snippets online. Something like Snipplr but a bit more moder…