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Ask HN: OSS devs, what are your experiences working with corporate sponsors?
1 points by jlevers 1y ago|0 comments
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by jlevers 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote I'm a full-stack developer and OSS maintainer, primarily focused on generating SDKs from OpenAPI specifications, building custom e-commerce integrations (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, etc), and modern PHP/Laravel de
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by jlevers 3y ago
Much of my work the past few years has been working with Amazon's seller-side e-commerce APIs, and it's truly infuriating how impenetrable their "support" systems are. It's ridiculously hard to get even basic proble
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Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses(wikihouse.cc)
494 points by jlevers 3y ago|209 comments
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by jlevers 3y ago
I rode through a huge area filled with these sorts of walls somewhere wayyy down a dirt road in rural central Mexico, sorta near Zacatecas. It looked like it was once a vineyard, or something like that...I'd never seen walls that looke
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by jlevers 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | NYC | hi@highsidelabs.co Are you integrating with an ecommerce APIs and encountering lots of confusing behavior? Poor documentation? Really slow developer support? At Highside we have run into these issues many times
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by jlevers 4y ago
NYC | Remote | hi@highsidelabs.co | highsidelabs.co Are you integrating with an ecommerce APIs and encountering lots of confusing behavior? Poor documentation? Really slow developer support? At Highside we have run into these issues many ti
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by jlevers 4y ago
disclaimer: i've only been doing this for a couple years...but it's gone pretty well. i've written this more like a story than direct advice, because i think all the twists and turns are relevant. i went straight from college
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by jlevers 5y ago
thanks for the good wishes! definitely hit me up if you're in the area :)
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by jlevers 5y ago
That's so cool that you were part of the founding team for a makerspace! I'm working on building something makerspace-y right now...If you're open to it, I'd love to ask you a couple quick questions about it. If you&#x27
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by jlevers 5y ago
Well, it's not programming-related, but here goes... I'm building a cooperative hands-on workspace in Brooklyn in an old warehouse. I have lots of interests that require space and tooling (old motorcycles/cars, woodworking, e
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by jlevers 5y ago
I maintain a much, much smaller PHP library[0] (~1-2k downloads/month), and I've made a few thousand dollars in sponsorships, donations, and paid improvements to the library over the past year. I don't try all that hard to so
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Ask HN: What are your favorite resources for learning about testing?
1 points by jlevers 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How did you meet your mentors? What was their impact on you?
4 points by jlevers 5y ago|0 comments
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by jlevers 5y ago
I built a PHP library[0] for Amazon's new Selling Partner API, because none of the existing libraries were feature-complete enough for the projects I was working on. To my surprise, it's actually picked up some steam -- ~400 insta
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by jlevers 5y ago
Silly question, but...is your megastick just a large-capacity USB stick?
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The convoluted process for accessing Amazon's Seller API(jesseevers.com)
2 points by jlevers 5y ago|0 comments
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by jlevers 6y ago
Uranium can be extracted from seawater, and my understanding is that there's enough uranium in the oceans to last 10s (maybe 100s?) of thousands of years at current energy consumption levels. It's also renewable, albeit on a very
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by jlevers 6y ago
I think that if you consider storage, then you can in fact amortize panel power generation across day and night, because you need more panels during the day to create the extra power that will be used at night (when none of the panels are a
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A PHP Library for Amazon’s Selling Partner API(jesseevers.com)
2 points by jlevers 6y ago|0 comments
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by jlevers 6y ago
I don't think that what I said implies that, no. Even outside of work, don't you find it satisfying to do something you're really good at? A dumb example: I love skiing, and the better I get at it, the more fun I have doing i
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by jlevers 6y ago
I agree that it's not necessarily true that everyone can become world-class at their job, but I think most people have the intellectual capability to become really good, if expending the necessary effort is worth it to them. In my opin
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by jlevers 6y ago
Cal Newport has a book that discusses this this called So Good They Can't Ignore You, which I found really interesting. His thesis is basically that the people who are most satisfied with their work are those who stuck with something u
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by jlevers 6y ago
I fell for one of these offers on the first thing I made that got any traction -- it was a browser extension that solved an issue with a common photo hosting site, and I organically ended up with 25,000+ users, mostly on Chrome. Eventually
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by jlevers 6y ago
I'm currently working with this API, and I think that if I didn't have experience with Amazon's old seller API (MWS), I wouldn't even know where to start with this one. As it is, it's taken me many, many hours to fi
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by jlevers 6y ago
For some reason the data you send to eBay's REST APIs doesn't always show up in their UI...specifically, if you use their RESTful Inventory API, you can't see _any_ of it from the Selling page! Not sure why...e-commerce APIs
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Building an Application with Amazon's Selling Partner API(jesseevers.com)
1 points by jlevers 6y ago|0 comments
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by jlevers 6y ago
W.r.t. estimated taxes -- I seem to remember doing the math and concluding that I'd likely come out ahead financially by keeping the money for the estimated tax payments in the market, and then paying the late fees. Does that sound inc
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by jlevers 6y ago
That's really interesting advice about avoiding granular time reporting, which I've been doing habitually. Your reasoning makes a lot of sense, and I think I'm going to move away from doing that. As far as only breaking time
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Ask HN: Consultants and freelancers, how do you handle invoicing?
42 points by jlevers 6y ago|51 comments

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