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Ask HN: What should I learn next?
Original EnglishNow I've been working freelance for the same company on several projects since June, doing 100% JavaScript; mostly frontend, with bits and pieces of nodejs, …
I learned more from selling posters than 4 years of business books
Original Englishbecause I sucked at management) and succeeding (having another awesome painting crew groomed to take over all client relations, to where I worked 10 hours …
Ask HN: Do I give up now?
Original EnglishI would do nothing but earn enough to support my family for 12 months) I started connecting with likeminded (especially the microconf crowd) …
Are we Blub programmers? (2006)
Original EnglishAnd finally, shell scripting I've used and abused hundreds of times and my failure rate there is extremely low.
Ask HN: Those running K8s in house, can you please explain your architecture?
Original EnglishOnce the nodes are provisioned we use ansible to deploy Kubernetes. (Lately it's been RKE2 on top of Rocky.)
Show HN: Pullbox – A dead-simple dropbox alternative using Git
Original EnglishI was trying to avoid rolling my own syncing solution but I guess my Google-fu failed me :)
Cram your test driven development up your ass
Original EnglishI used to write lots of code without tests and I paid the price - lots of wasted time tracking down bugs, delayed releases because …
Ask HN: Why aren't you starting your own company?
Original EnglishBut that failed, because every library I talked to said, they cannot support commercial software.
Sufficiently Advanced Testing (2019)
Original EnglishAfter fixing them all, I ran the simulator for a simulated 100 years with a simulated 50% failure rate for everything.