I seriously started pursuing Python, did number of freelance projects and managed to write a few blog posts at http://www.kashifaziz.me
2018 will be the year of Python for me.
Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#122- left my old job like every year or so
- commenced an MSc course focussing on AI and Machine Learning
- according to GitHub I've created 624 commits and 35 new repositories in 2017
- built Botlang (https://botlang.org/), a scripting language for conversational chatbots
- have begun blogging about this and that (https://www.matchilling.com/blog/)
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#123Generating large amounts of banking/credit card data in a fixed width format in Go and python.
In an effort to reduce technical debt I've deleted 40-50K of lines of code in my work code base.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#124An automated system to drown the competition on Google and review sites... Hey, no one else offered me money for something else, so...
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#125I worked mainly on open source side projects such as:
Sandglass https://github.com/celrenheit/sandglass a distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time ordered message queue. It was developed to support asynchronous tasks and message scheduling which makes it suitable for usage as a task queue.
Sandflake https://github.com/celrenheit/sandflake decentralized, sequential, lexicographically sortable unique id.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service
Have you tried https://p2k.co/ ?
Yes, I've used it for a few months. That's the reason I've started working on my thing. I felt that it didn't have the features that I needed the most (hyphenation, dropcaps, ad removal etc.) and I would have felt like a jerk to ask for these things from the developer.
These are not common needs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#127Hosted Comments https://www.hostedcomments.com/ , a Disqus alternative with a focus on privacy. The learning experience of building Hosted Comments was great : using iframes to embed comments in websites, building a commenting system with voting and some features which Disqus does not have : locking comments, hiding comments (not yet deployed https://imgur.com/a/R89Cw ). It started out as a sideproject, then decided…
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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#128https://introspected.rest/ a kind-of publication and self-research around REST and APIs. One thing that I definitely learned is that these kind of things are much harder than writing some code.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had an opportunity to work for them but declined because I didn't want to look at the content. Tell me: how much of that do you have to actually go through? And to other devs: if you have thick skin and an iron stomach, go work for them.
It’s definitely a factor to be aware of. We are legally not allowed to be exposed to image content, as developers, but personally I do have some exposure to text content as part of my role. Thorn has an excellent support / wellness system, with professional counselors, in place though for proactively staying healthy and processing what exposure we do experience.
I’m very glad they have such a good support network. A close friend of mine got a job out of law school prosecuting child sex crimes, and there was absolutely no support. After a year, he couldn’t take it any more and left public service altogether. Even a decade later, you can tell he’s still bothered by it. I have an incredible amount of respect for people who can do that work; I’m absolutely certain that I don’t have what it takes.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#130I spent most of the year working my ass off consulting for one of America's most hated companies building an utterly pointless system. My only consolation is knowing that I wasted a ton of their money since there's no chance it will pay any returns.
Lol. I had a good laugh.
How do you manage to continue working on something you know is a dead end though? Is the money that good? Would the money go away if you worked on another project at the same firm?