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Show HN: The gap between tracking time and getting paid is frustratingly manual

I've freelanced for 15 years. Every month it's the same routine: check my time tracker, open Xero, manually create an invoice, try to remember what "Client X - 2.5hrs" actually meant, type up line items, double-check rates, hope I didn't miss anything.The time tracker knows what I did. The accounting software knows how to invoice. Why am I the glue between them?I built Hour Cap to close that...

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Re:Code Reviews Do Find Bugs on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:13PM (#40852935)
It really depends on the code. To find a CSS bug, yes easy peasy. To find a logic hole in a payment integration of what someone has missed or should have implemented but didn't (eg webhooks), then this requires a lot more time and the developer basically has to sit down properly to work out exactly what should have been implemented / how they would have developed it, and then cross-check it against what has been done, otherwise you won't be able to easily find those logical holes which effectively are bugs, just not simple code bugs like a missing semicolon.
Re:Code Reviews Do Find Bugs on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:10PM (#40852921)
I'm not sure code reviews hold much merit. I've been a web developer for around 12 years and I've worked in companies big and small.

I think there should be a manual QA process to test the functionality of what the developer is pushing out.

The issue with code reviews is always that they take so much time for another developer and many devs are super busy so they just have a quick review of the PR and approve or feel they have to add some comments. Context switching between what the dev is already doing and having to come to the PR to review properly means they should switch to that Git branch, pull down the code, test it all and check for logical bugs that a static code review won't pick up.

For juniors, code reviews are still useful as you will be able to spot poor quality code, but for seniors, not as much for the reasons above, better off having a QA process to find and logic holes rather than expecting devs to invest so much time in context switching.

Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:06AM (#37305935)
Honestly sounds like correlation vs causation. I doubt doubt Elixir is amazing - it is. But maybe the old code was just written poorly from a performance perspective, and then they rewrote it, and now it's performant.
Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:13PM (#35365263)
Interesting to see what the Government will focus their time on. Obama outrightly said recently that it's clear that a significant portion of the US (and outside of - namely Australia and the UK) is essentially mind-controlled by Murdoch Press through fear mongering and extreme sensationalism - whether that is Fox in the US, Sky in the UK, and a variety of news papers & channels in Australia.

At no point has anyone actually done anything about this, even though it significantly affects peoples views in a negative way through false truths, voting etc.

What about kids with social media and how bad it is for them? Evident through the fact that most people who work at social media companies ban or severely limit their kids from having phones and/or social media. Nope, let it slide.

But the China war with Tiktok? Of course this gets focus. How about they care about the country they actually live in by looking after the people that live in it rather than only focusing on external country threats.

It's sad living outside of the US and watching it fall apart by their own doing. If they cared, they'd focus on their employment rate, homelessness, free quality healthcare, gun control (yes), clean streets, and better education. If they can't solve it with their Military, they don't care.

Re:Tell HN: Best Use for old iPads (that I found) on Sunday January 15, 2023 @05:59PM (#34394589)
Have a read of the Alfred website and your questions will be answered.
Re:Digital Ocean vs. Vultr vs. AWS for minimal downtime? on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:49PM (#33793839)
Care to expand?
Re:Digital Ocean vs. Vultr vs. AWS for minimal downtime? on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:49PM (#33793833)
Correct, but I prefer to understand the actual downtime experienced by people over the years (eg data centre issues, network issues, unplanned server maintenance) as that data seems hard to find centrally.
Re:Digital Ocean vs. Vultr vs. AWS for minimal downtime? on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:47PM (#33793814)
That’s great! My experience back in the day with them was the same

Digital Ocean vs. Vultr vs. AWS for minimal downtime?

What’s everyone’s server provider of choice when it comes to minimal downtime? I have 20 servers on Vultr in Sydney and they’re mostly reliable with a few hiccups over the years but very solid recently with only one this year across all my servers. AWS I have about 10 servers and almost never issues there. And then DigitalOcean just released their new Sydney servers (finally) so I’m curious on...

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Re:Fresh – Next-gen web framework on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:17PM (#31720674)
This comment is the overplayed take that because a lot are heavy frameworks, that this should be acceptable. As soon as something is classified as a framework, it seems ok to be >200kb.

If you take Tailwind CSS for example, when correctly using their CLI tool, it only includes the size of the css classes actually used, keeping it to a minimum, when compared to people just doing a standard import of the entire library. I like this mentality because it's offering the ability to be very lightweight, or as large as the 'framework' it offers. NextJS offers this as part of their build process, but not sure how big their assets are with it for a simple usecase.

Re:Fast (2019) on Thursday March 31, 2022 @10:01PM (#30874439)
That's his entire point
Re:Google Analytics 4 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:27PM (#30706933)
FYI GA4 was released over a year ago, it seems it hasn't 'stuck' with not many people upgrading, at least with many people I've worked with. It is the default version when you setup a new GA property though.
Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:12PM (#30267305)
It'll be interesting to see how Square reacts to this, and how much traction and market share this builds over the next 12 months, if any.
Re:Laravel 9 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:16PM (#30266255)
You must be fun at parties
Re:Community for pre-seed startups (MVP) on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:30PM (#30017537)
This doesn't look finished, there's still dummy data on the startup pages?
Re:SSH public keys for any GitHub user on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:42PM (#29547568)
Do you mind expanding on why this is important? As @ezfe says below, it's a public key.
Re:YouTube Shorts vs TikTok on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:48AM (#27650796)
Yeah, but not really the point I was making.
Re:YouTube Shorts vs TikTok on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:17AM (#27648808)
You make great points, obviously focused on the UX portion. I definitely agree. TikToks algorithm is just amazing too, incredibly personalised. Borderline addictive app.

A huge reason for TikToks success that might not be seen by the average user is that they spend a lot of their marketing budget on their content creators. This is something that not a lot of platforms do - they send free lighting equipment and have reps that teach up and coming content creators how to make better content.

I do wonder if YouTube did this more, that they’d get better traction on their other products. People follow the content creators not the platform so if the content creators start using a platform, people will follow.

Just my two cents anyway, for what it’s worth.

Do you say the same to HN?
Re:SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:21AM (#22263443)
Worth noting also that "ApolloDigital" cofounder and writer of the article is also the Head of Content & SEO for "Tallyfy". So not sure that constitutes as a client, nor take full ownership of this growth. Not saying they couldn't do it, but seems misleading.
Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:40PM (#20270436)
Has anyone used it for any car-related mods? I share my passion between coding and cars so I'd love to push some boundaries there if anyone has tried before? Gauage display from sensor units, just a cool OS display for music, or maybe something cooler?
Re:Facebook.com website is down on mobile and desktop on Monday May 08, 2017 @10:01PM (#14297229)
It's Facebook. The entire world is practically on the site. So yeah, it is newsworthy.
Re:Facebook is down on Monday May 08, 2017 @10:00PM (#14297225)
It's back online. But the app was always up as that uses their API, then they did a redirect for the mobile site to m.fb to fix for mobile users.
Re:Facebook.com website is down on mobile and desktop on Monday May 08, 2017 @09:58PM (#14297216)
Nope, because everyone is now talking about it.

News headline reads "Productivity down as people stop to tell everyone about Facebook going down"

Re:Facebook is down on Monday May 08, 2017 @09:47PM (#14297155)
Yep - this topic keeps getting flagged too - fishy
Re:Facebook.com website is down on mobile and desktop on Monday May 08, 2017 @09:46PM (#14297151)
Yep - this topic keeps getting flagged too - something fishy

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