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Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by aryamaan »

ehartsuyker wrote: post #27

I was hired as a Data Engineer for my skills in Scala, AWS, and other data technologies. I ended up falling into Backend Engineer (also Scala) as our core services needed significant support. From there, I drifted into Operations as our infra and deployment processes were negatively impacting QOS and the time from code-to-prod. In my spare time I: - made a shitty personal website[0] for kicks - maintain an npm packag…

I see. Your site is shitty and good simultaneously. berlinLeaks is a nice idea but I don't see any posts on it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by aryamaan »

KevinUK wrote: post #26

I'm a full stack web developer and I created https://www.quirkycushion.com last week. If it gains any traction then I plan on setting up sister sites for other products. I read the book http://www.startupbook.net/ which says to pick a niche which is why I will have several sites each focusing on one product rather than one site with multiple categories.

How is http://www.startupbook.net/ book?

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by ehartsuyker »

aryamaan wrote: post #61
ehartsuyker wrote: post #27

I was hired as a Data Engineer for my skills in Scala, AWS, and other data technologies. I ended up falling into Backend Engineer (also Scala) as our core services needed significant support. From there, I drifted into Operations as our infra and deployment processes were negatively impacting QOS and the time from code-to-prod. In my spare time I: - made a shitty personal website[0] for kicks - maintain an npm packag…

I see. Your site is shitty and good simultaneously. berlinLeaks is a nice idea but I don't see any posts on it.

Thanks.

There's nothing there because setting up SecureDrop is a pain in the ass. These (among others) are errors I hit while trying to get it running:

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1244

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1247

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1251

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/1252

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by idkwid »

I just made a full-time switch from front-end developer to Android developer with the agency where I work.

Current side projects, nothing mind-blowing:

- Just launched a small developer swag site[0]. I know, not very original. It only carries a small amount of stickers right now, but 15% of every product goes to support its related organization or OSS project, or it goes to support a charity. So there's that.

- A little Mac toolbar utility for designers that tests color combinations against the WCAG. I'll be releasing it within the next two weeks.

[0] - https://developerculture.com/

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