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by ptasker 8mo ago
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by ptasker 6y ago
Dealing with unicode bugs taught me a lot about computer science academic theory. It helped to understand memory addresses and how encoding works.
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by ptasker 6y ago
Repo was created by this guy: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-i-studied-full-time-fo...
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by ptasker 6y ago
I started looking up plans online and built a bench and table. From there I've built various other pieces of furniture - tables, benches, shelves etc. It's mostly as others have said, trial and error. Wood is pretty forgiving, esp
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by ptasker 6y ago
I would imagine using a GPU compute instance would bring this time down significantly.
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An Introduction to Gatsby for WordPress Developers(petetasker.com)
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by ptasker 6y ago
Yup ignore it. Front-end dev is super complex these days! I started when it was just HTML/CSS. JavaScript dev these days is much more complex than some 'real' programming languages!
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by ptasker 7y ago
For real, the OPL is awesome. Great spaces and they even rent out video games.
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by ptasker 7y ago
Yup, I also tried to use the debugging tools in the new FF Dev Edition with a larger React codebase and it's a bit buggy for sure.
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by ptasker 7y ago
We're currently using Level now and it's definitely different from Slack. I think the biggest issue we have with it at this point is that it's still in active development. It's also missing a lot of things that you take
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by ptasker 7y ago
Same here. Apple music had trouble loading music and just generally acted sluggish. I gladly pay for Spotify.
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by ptasker 8y ago
Yep, also disappointed to see it in GA missing queries and back ups. Makes it a non-starter for most folks.
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by ptasker 8y ago
The issue we had with cloud Firestore is the inability to _really_ query documents through the Firebase console. It’s very basic and there is no third-party tooling available yet. To run any kind of specific query you’d need to handle that
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by ptasker 9y ago
Pretty cool, but I recommend anyone wanting to do this kind of thing to check out the source Puppeteer library. You can do some really powerful stuff and make a custom crawler fairly easily. https://github.com/GoogleChrome&#
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by ptasker 9y ago
Also, find companies that you'd like to work for that hire remotely. There are plenty these days.
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by ptasker 9y ago
Yep as been mentioned, it's obviously a lot more difficult to get remote gigs. I probably applied to around 20 places over the course of 6 months. Some I heard back from, some I declined, and most I never heard a peep. I've got al