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Wearing one right now. I am very sensitive to weight on my wrist and it doesn't cause me any problems.
Re:Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue) on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:44AM (#32787858)
Ha, I switched to keepassxc this week because of the VC funds sketched me out. Makes me sad because I don't know what password manager to recommend for average users now.
https://github.com/h0ldnack/Scripts/morse I did just rewrite it so it currently only "plays", I don't know the right word for feeling Morse code, each notification once. I'll be updating it in a bit.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022) on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @01:07PM (#31584880)
Location: Portland, OR Remote: Preferred, but not strongly Willing to Relocate: Only for a very good offer, and only to some areas Technologies: Python, JS/HTML/CSS, SQL, Elixir|Phoenix, Shell Scripting, Emacs, Visual Design, Linux Sysadmin Email: [email protected] Resume: https://holdnack.net/resume.html --

I've been programming as a hobby for ~6 years, mostly in functional python. I've also explored both Common Lisp and Elixir enough to be fairly comfortable in either. I've worked on a large number of projects over the years; I am currently going through and updating some of these projects for public consumption. They will be referenced at https://holdnack.net/portfolio.html

Thank you for the detailed reply!

As for what I actually did with Python, it was a mixture of cli apps, apis in Flask and a fair amount of personal libraries, like an async couchdb client library and a wrapper around termux-api commands.

Ask HN: What to focus on for proving I am a competent programmer?

I am a self-taught programmer, and I am trying to get my first job related to coding. I've been programming in general for 6 years, most of the time in python with a few incursions into other languages. I also have the experience to be a Linux sysadmin, but I'd prefer something more dev-focused. I have a bunch of partially finished projects; most would take a bit to finish, but a few would be...

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