bdukic

>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I remember thinking that things like these will happen with Meetup.com more and more ever since they got acquired by WeWork -- and I've personally heard many organizers around me say that Meetup.com is getting worse and worse, but there's really not much to be done with the discovery dimension as they have the grand majority of the users.

I've since been working on an alternative: https://blinkmeet.com, but that didn't really account for much for various reasons.

I really do think that it's only a matter of time before Meetup.com goes down, this way or another.

>it's free (at least at the individual level)

Is it though? As far as I remember, to visit a doctor you had to pay €25 out of your pocket at the moment of the visit, 70% of which would be refunded by your health insurance at a later point (under the state system, and potentially more if you're paying for the additional private insurance or "mutuelle".

Agreed, I always feel like there is so much great shell-related code scattered all over people's dotfiles and we could all benefit from a kind of modernization you and the parent are mentioning.

This is my attempt so solve a small personal pain point in the shell while trying to keep track of various commands: https://github.com/bonidjukic/aka

It definitely comes nothing close to the Z.lua, but the enjoyment generated from getting to write the thing which optimizes even the tiniest parts of your daily tasks is quite wonderful.

Python conference: the conference was abruptly cancelled after the social event which went awry when couple of attendees got into a fight over mixed tabs.

Just wanted to say great job on the gist with the details on roles, funding etc!

I hope to see more of this sort of communication in job postings in the future.

Yes, it would be nice to see results with WAL, as it's significantly faster in most cases.

My guess is that the "catch" comes in the form of the list of limitations.

SEEKING WORK Location: Toulouse, France

Remote: Yes

Full-stack web developer (7+ years), background in physics, previously co-founded a small software development agency and did a lot of freelancing, mostly mid-complex web apps, looking for new projects.

Technologies: Python, Django (Django Rest Framework, GeoDjango), Linux, Lua, Javascript, PHP, (Social Media) API's

Technologies (secondary): PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Fabric, Drupal, Symfony, C#,

Rate: $60/hr

Personal web: https://lansor.co/boni/

Github: https://github.com/bonidjukic

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonidjukic

Email: boni at djukic.com.hr

More information on request.

Of course not. I'm not sure why would you even think that.

SEEKING WORK Location: Toulouse, France

Remote: Yes

Full-stack web developer (7+ years), background in physics, previously co-founded a small software development agency and did a lot of freelancing, mostly mid-complex web apps, looking for new projects.

Technologies: Python, Django (Django Rest Framework, GeoDjango), Linux, Lua, Javascript, PHP, (Social Media) API's

Technologies (secondary): PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Fabric, Drupal, Symfony, C#,

Rate: $60/hr

Personal web: https://lansor.co/boni/

Github: https://github.com/bonidjukic

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonidjukic

Email: boni at djukic.com.hr

More information on request.

I have the same issue when trying to start the challenge:

>The login id and password combination is invalid. Please verify the credentials. If you have received the link to this test by an email, please open that link again from email to login into the test

>Our in person interview is generally focused on debugging a python script or javascript on a laptop, with full access to google/docs/tools you prefer. We want you to succeed. We're interested in how you get there. If you've got any specific questions about our team or process I'll be happy to answer below.

To me, this sounds like a great approach to do the interviews - kudos!

SEEKING WORK

Location: Toulouse, France

Remote: Yes

Full-stack web developer (7+ years), background in physics, previously co-founded a small software development agency and did a lot of freelancing, mostly mid-complex web apps, looking for new projects.

Technologies: Python, Django (Django Rest Framework, GeoDjango), Linux, Lua, Javascript, PHP, (Social Media) API's

Technologies (secondary): PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Fabric, Drupal, Symfony, C#,

Rate: $80/hr

Github: https://github.com/bonidjukic

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonidjukic

Email: boni at djukic.com.hr

More information on request.

EDIT: formatting

For me as well.

>This project looks very interesting and monetizeable (by reaching out to venues for very targeted advertising).

Yeah, that was the idea -- provide a high quality database of outdoors activities to the end users and then charge the providers / venues a fee for some extended information etc. But in order to even approach the providers / venues I had to have some kind of traction from the end users, which I failed to achieve.

>One thing that doesn't seem quite right though. >Shouldn't location, not activity, be the first bit of information requested from the user?

At the beginning I wasn't sure how to pull off the location filter nicely (should I use HTML5 geolocation, Gmaps geolocation, simple dropdown etc.) and just went without it but I have received this same piece of feedback more than once so I might go and add that, just for kicks.

I haven't come across anything similiar to what you're suggesting, although I'd probably be very interested in opportunities like that.

The closest thing I found to something like that was Simbi (https://simbi.com) but I hesitated to make an actual step forward as I never heard or read of anyone going down that route and wasn't sure if that was the "right way" to do it.

I built Thrail (https://thrail.io) 6 months ago wanting to solve my own difficulty to find and book quality outdoors activities in a certain area, especially when coming to a new place (tourism or recent relocation).

I think there are multiple reasons why it wasn't successful as I believed it might be, most importantly because I built something without first researching the market enough, and failure to do so got me building something which wasn't very helpful to people.

Another important issue was marketing. I'm developer myself, and even though I tried my best to get the word out there, the results weren't as good as I imagined they would be, on one side because I had no idea what I was doing, and on the other, because I didn't spend enough money on higher quality marketing.

I spent couple of months building it but I don't regret that time -- although this conclusion is probably specific to my personal situation at the time, where I had just closed the shop on my own development agency of 3+ years and wanted to get a break by working on something fun. Additionally, out of all the "weekend projects" I started over the years, this was the first one I actually "finished", and that means something to me, regardless of the outcome.

If I get into something similiar in the near future, I would definitely pay much more attention to the aspect of getting the feedback to build something people actually want to use. And marketing, definitely marketing.

Since you've written the rest of them in English, maybe Crna Gora should be Montenegro.

Toulouse, France

>One problem I have is that I'm not noticed at all for my skills. Everyone I know who is this age and has the skillset I have are either blackhat or legit depressed. There's nothing for us at this age.

Anyone else found this part a little bit sad and somewhat disturbing?

I wanted to comment on the same thing, IMHO something like `pip uninstall --all` would be a better choice. Great work otherwise!

Nice work!

FYI: CTA button for creating an account under the "Useful features coming soon" section doesn't seem to be working.