walkingriver

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by walkingriver 5y ago
Definitely a side-gig. Early on I devoted about 1 hour/day to it. Now I get to it whenever I can.
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by walkingriver 5y ago
Most projects I have reviewed for pullrequest.com have reviewers on the engineering team also. In a way, we are helping them get better at reviewing their own code. I imagine that some teams won't need us after a while. On the other ha
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by walkingriver 5y ago
A really cool side effect of working with pullrequest.com over the past year is that I do feel that I've gotten to know some of these projects. Some interactions end up becoming lengthy conversations between the reviewers and the engin
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by walkingriver 5y ago
For many of us who work for pullrequest.com, it's a side gig. Some are full-time, but I have a day job. I like to do 1-2 PRs per day, and it pays for my iPhone and MacBook habit.
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by walkingriver 5y ago
In most of the projects I have reviewed for pullrequest.com, the engineering team is also doing its own reviews. We are "another set of eyes" as it were. Many of our larger reviews can end up becoming lengthy conversations between
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by walkingriver 5y ago
I'm one of those reviewers, and I agree with you about the talent. Not speaking about myself, but the people I've gotten to know and also the ones I have referred. Each PR gets two reviewers from pullrequest.com, and we get to see
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by walkingriver 5y ago
I am a reviewer on pullrequest.com and I can assure you I do not work for free. Many of us are Senior or Lead developers with day jobs, who do this as a side gig and to keep our skills sharp. During my code reviews, which tend to revolve ar
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by walkingriver 5y ago
Thanks. I haven’t yet decided how (or even whether) I’ll try to monetize any of these apps. For now I simply want to get them published somewhere permanently. When I do I’ll try to remember to post them on some cataloging sites.
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by walkingriver 5y ago
After four years as a paid Apple Developer, I finally decided to stop paying for it. Instead, I am going to convert my App Store apps into Progressive Web Apps. After a brief Twitter poll, this is the one that I decided to move first. It is
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Show HN: Theme Park Scavenger Hunt Game Deployed as a PWA Instead of App Store(white-meadow-011ecd910.azurestaticapps.net)
5 points by walkingriver 5y ago|4 comments
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by walkingriver 6y ago
Most of my blog content ( https://walkingriver.com ) came from me keeping notes during projects. They are documentation for myself that I can refer to later. I have done that. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, I managed to scrape to
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by walkingriver 6y ago
The book came from my being selected to train some of my coworkers in Angular. I hope others can find the experience helpful.
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Show HN: My new book on how to become an Angular Advocate at work(twitter.com)
1 points by walkingriver 6y ago|1 comments
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by walkingriver 6y ago
I was trying to figure out what to do with an old, but working Nook Color I found in my desk drawer. I decided to give it away, preloaded with some books. I'm hoping that someone might find it useful.
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Fun and Bizarre eBook and Reader Giveaway(walkingriver.com)
1 points by walkingriver 6y ago|1 comments
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by walkingriver 6y ago
You have no visibility to your courses' students or their contact info. You can send a couple of "marketing emails" per month for each course. Inside those emails you may only have links that go back to Udemy, so they are use
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by walkingriver 6y ago
That's so cool. Thanks!
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by walkingriver 6y ago
That's awesome. Thanks for the link. I don't anticipate ever needing to do this, but it's weird how your mind sometimes won't let go of an idea.
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by walkingriver 6y ago
Udemy has been a bust for me. In fact, I went on a mini-rant on Twitter this morning about it ( https://twitter.com/walkingriver/status/1325772355449344001 ). I've had decent success with Gumroad selling direct
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Ask HN: What is the solution to the Seinfeld “Frogger” problem?
1 points by walkingriver 6y ago|4 comments
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by walkingriver 6y ago
Definitely keep them separate. Sometimes, depending on whether or not you have side gigs, you might want more than just those two.
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by walkingriver 6y ago
I was chastised for using C# and .NET for a problem that was proving difficult to solve. When I tried to explain why I had done it that way, I was told to redo it "the right way." I hung up everyone on the conference call and esse
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by walkingriver 6y ago
My boss falsified my resume to make the company look better when he bid on a custom software development job. I handed him my keys and left. He then tried to have me arrested for stealing company property.
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by walkingriver 6y ago
Congrats to the entire Ionic team. Another win!
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by walkingriver 6y ago
It's like a real-life version of The Last Ship.
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by walkingriver 6y ago
Seems like it would be better to vote in person if you can.
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by walkingriver 6y ago
Maybe this is a naive take, but I don't see why platforms such as Facebook and Twitter bother. Just let the marketplace of ideas flourish. Isn't that ostensibly why they were created? Why put your thumb on the scale? In this case,
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by walkingriver 6y ago
The issue was an affidavit I signed swearing that I returned all the company's property after I resigned. Then I realized I still had some CDs. It all "hit the fan" when I tried to return them. It's been more than 20 yea
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How do you feel about “exit paperwork?” Signing once nearly got me arrested(walkingriver.com)
4 points by walkingriver 6y ago|1 comments
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Our software developers carried guns(walkingriver.com)
3 points by walkingriver 6y ago|0 comments

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