Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by zerr » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:14 PM UTC

javajosh wrote: post #79

jacobwg wrote: post #73

I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments ( https://webflow.com ) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse ( https://www.wearethorn.org ). The work has been incredibly rewarding, and although I was quite nervous about leaving an awesome job and jumping into an unknown, in hindsight almost everything about the change was a meaningfully positive improvement. Working towards a missi…

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.

No chance of contributing without a thick skin? e.g. maybe there are some infrastructure or generic dev needs as well, which do not involve working on actual "content"?

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by grahamburger » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:22 PM UTC

With some encouragement from fellow HNers I've been working on startyourownisp.com. It's a free guide to starting a (wireless) Internet Service Provider in your garage.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by thefounder » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

I've been working on a media player/browser. I'm going to put it on the shelf and move to the crypto currency stuff to get rich. See you next year!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by piotrkubisa » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

alin23 wrote: post #74

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…

Ad 1. I am really interested of about the progress of development of your service. I would love to see it as "Show HN" submission.

Personally, I am thinking about developing an online service, which will be offerring general-purpose providing distribution of content to Kindle or other ebook-readers. Initially, I thought about creating only a app which will extract a article tag from website and create ebook from it (pandoc) or exactly a Pocket-to-Kindle. But when I was thinking more about it more ideas had come to my mind, HN-frontpage scrapper, simple notebook/orgmode adapted to Kindle Experimental Browser, markdown-files-to-ebook, arxiv-to-ebook converter, some kind of IFFTT pipeline (stream X from Y and save it as a ebook) and even trying to implement most of features known from Calibre application... If I could somehow help you as a developer or you are interested in bootstrapping some online service together I really would like to receive an e-mail from you. My e-mail address: (put my HN nickname here) at gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:28 PM UTC

JDiculous wrote: post #230

Left $150k software engineering job (well got fired for making video called "9 Ways to cope with having a boring 9-5 job" which somebody found and sent to HR) to make videos about stuff I think is interesting ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1 https://www.facebook.com/HonestLogic ), with a slant towards addressing wage slavery, basic income, student loans, capitalism, etc. Still in the early stages, but I'll be h…

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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by decentralised » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:28 PM UTC

Left a career as an IT Architect to begin a new life as a Ethereum developer. I'm so much happier now :-)

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jrheard » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:31 PM UTC

I'm volunteering in a local high school, helping out with a few CS classes. My main focus is an introductory Python class. I've put together a few projects for the students in that class:

http://blog.jrheard.com/watercolorbot

http://blog.jrheard.com/python/passwords

http://jrheard.com/blog-staging/python/caesar.html

I'm excited to see how the rest of this school year goes - by the end of it, I'll have a suite of projects that beginners to Python might find very useful!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by sridca » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:32 PM UTC

Moved to Quebec; learned(-ing) French while living with a host family. Worked on my first Haskell backend project[1] and found a remote job.

[1] https://github.com/srid/slownews

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jacobwg » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:34 PM UTC

vonseel wrote: post #220

jacobwg wrote: post #73

I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments ( https://webflow.com ) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse ( https://www.wearethorn.org ). The work has been incredibly rewarding, and although I was quite nervous about leaving an awesome job and jumping into an unknown, in hindsight almost everything about the change was a meaningfully positive improvement. Working towards a missi…

Jacob, are you remote? This sounds like fulfilling work.

I am remote, yes! Thorn has a SF office, but the team is almost 50% remote.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by Lasher » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 10:35 PM UTC

decentralised wrote: post #296

Left a career as an IT Architect to begin a new life as a Ethereum developer. I'm so much happier now :-)

Are these private apps based on Ethereum or public facing apps? I'm curious at this early stage of the ecosystem what an "Ethereum Developer" does in terms of active projects.