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In the real world, got a squirrel out of my attic. :-) Equally challenging!
I've been trying to meditate for exactly five minutes a day. I'm not sure it's helping but I'm pushing on.
Almost landed my first Fortune 500 client for my one man startup, jQuizzy.
So far, it's heen s kind year.
I decided to jump in head first and build a company. I'd been planning to do it for years as a side-project but always ended up too tired in the evenings - so, now that my partner has a job (he was previously at university so we were relying on my income), I've decided to just go for it. It's scary and chances are I won't make it - but I'm so glad I've at least made a start. At the very least it'll be a nice break fo…
Got a patch accepted into the Linux kernel, started my final semester of undergrad.
My number one piece of advice to college kids that want to differentiate themselves from the pack is to try get something substantial (i.e. new feature or tough bug fix, not just something small/cosmetic) committed to a prominent open source project (ideally in C or C++). From a hiring perspective, knowing that you were able to get a patch accepted tells me so much more about you and your technical competency than anything else on your resume (or your internships, or your GPA, or which school you went to, etc).
I got an alpha version of something we call FastBoot working for Ember apps: https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot FastBoot allows you to boot up your JavaScript application on the server, gather model data, and send the rendered output as HTML to the client. This allows search crawlers, cURL, and people with very slow JavaScript engines to access apps that were previously unavailable. I've had a fire in my b…
A common pattern is to instantiate a new store for every request, to avoid collisions.
Started online grad school at Georgia Tech in CS and managed to launch a beta of my first product. http://www.thesnaffu.com
Quick suggestion, the main image is pretty, but makes it hard to read this text: ("Mobile QA Simplified") and ("Logging a bug has never been easier with Snaffu")
I Had got contract work from HN (Thanks HN) 8 months back. I Purchased my own office out of it in Jan. And soon will work on same contract from there.
What do you mean by purchasing an office?
Kicked off my personal challenge - 12 Apps in 12 Months - in order to force myself to deliver personal projects as opposed to just tinker with stuff and never make it past the beginner phase. It's working great; I have a slick kanban workflow on Trello going on, and a (tiny, irrelevant, but useful for this purpose) SaaS app in production. App #2 is under way ahead of schedule since #1 reached MVP with a full week to…
Ha, identical goal for me, except it's about shipping something rather than just apps each month. I've posted elsewhere with links, but good to know others are doing the same. I'm thinking one months project might even be a platform to encourage others to do this in 2016...
Additionally, I'm allowing myself to port a previous month's app to another language or environment; January was my first exposure to Node.js for example, but maybe later in the year I'll rework it in Go.
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What's the tiny, irrelevant, but useful SaaS app? Great username, by the way.
Thanks. I guess I'm about to blow my cover. :-) http://icon-sizerator.davidjpeacock.ca/ I know zillions of people have solutions for this, but it was a nice self-contained project.
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What do you mean by purchasing an office?
I am freelancer I am working from home. So to feel good I just purchased 300 sq feet office from where I can work more efficiently.