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by wjg 5y ago
This post made me look through the pages of Goodnight Moon, and I noticed that on top of the bookshelf on the left side of the room is a book titled The Runaway Bunny. All of the other books on the shelf have scribbled lines on their covers
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by wjg 9y ago
Thanks. Played the hell out of JK2 when I was 12-13ish. Loved the old zone.com multi-player matchmaking. Sabers only, no force, of course. There was a site (cannot remember name) that JK2 players used as a ladder. I got up to around 10
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by wjg 9y ago
Ha, this post provided around 620 unique visitors yesterday. I had 1 visitor (who was probably me) the day before, so that's a nice bump from HN :) It will be interesting to see how traffic dies/tails off in the coming days.
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by wjg 9y ago
I simply highlight/mention it in a cover letter when I apply to a job. To your point though, the 30-40% number is pure gut-feeling, I've certainly done no proper study to arrive at that. But there is definitely a marked increase
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by wjg 9y ago
Steal away, but the credit goes to https://github.com/AWEEKJ/Kiko-plus as I am just using his Jekyll theme.
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by wjg 9y ago
Yes, this is it. It's very early-stages/preview-mode as I haven't quite nailed down the exact architecture I want for the client but it has helped a lot as far as job searching goes!
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by wjg 9y ago
Even if you aren't using it to become attractive for recruiters, this will probably happen. I went from rarely (like, extremely) getting callbacks for remote gigs to getting around 30%-40% callbacks. The difference was that I started
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by wjg 9y ago
kristopolous' console script is a godsend. But, sometimes I like to just search for keywords without filtering others out. Ctrl+f does the job but has issues such as losing my place after scrolling a bit, or not showing the searched
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by wjg 10y ago
Thanks man, really appreciate your thoughts. I've put it on a Show HN before, but as it's tough to get off the New page, got discouraged and kinda gave up on getting it traction. :) I'll do another ShowHN and the like, and m
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by wjg 10y ago
Ha, cool. I am actually in the process of writing up a blogpost on building an SPA w/ React/Redux/Node/Postgres/GraphQL front-to-back in hopes of getting some traction. :) The networking makes sense, I don't h
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by wjg 10y ago
Wow. This thread is blowing my mind. I'm a js fullstacker who is moving to Europe within two weeks and and I'm having trouble even getting replies to job postings when I offer a rate of $60/hr (I'm wondering now if tha
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Show HN: Atom package displays tooltip with git-blame info(atom.io)
2 points by wjg 10y ago|0 comments
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by wjg 10y ago
Nope, it does not work for me anymore. So I was inspired by it and made another that does mostly the same. It also removes nonmatching posts and highlights matching terms. https://github.com/joelgardner/hnfilter hn_fil
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by wjg 10y ago
Yep, mine never made it to the front of ApplyHN either. It seemed like unless it got at least one or two immediate upvotes, it disappeared into the abyss, thus making it even less likely to get traffic.
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by wjg 10y ago
Seconded. Additionally, I'd love to see a distribution of comments/upvotes by date of submission (such data I think could be gleaned from HN search). My eyeballs tell me posts submitted within the first 2 or 3 days of Apply HN g
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by wjg 10y ago
Exactly. There was a time when I didn't want to do point-and-click at all because it is very limited, like you say. But, it might be the spark needed to get someone to try it initially. Maybe a "Record Automation" button, t
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by wjg 10y ago
Point-and-click is definitely THE next technical milestone. And I think it's essential, because right now I have a bit of a conflicting message to QA analysts: stop fumbling with writing automation scripts and come into my environment
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by wjg 10y ago
Thank you! By standing up, I simply mean getting to a place where your team is taking full advantage of web automation scripting. "Implementing" is probably the better word there. And right now, "implementing" web UI a
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Apply HN: TestBeacon – Web Automation Testing as a Service
4 points by wjg 10y ago|6 comments
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by wjg 10y ago
Definitely agree on the "tests in the repo" critique. That is a tough one, and a kink I've experienced as well. Some ideas I've had are webhooks to pull tests from a repo, but that's pretty janky and I'm not
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by wjg 10y ago
Hey HN, I built TestBeacon, a platform for writing web UI automations (think Selenium/iMacros) without ever leaving the browser. No native drivers or extensions to install (although we do have an extension for quick writing/testi
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Show HN: TestBeacon: Web UI Automation as a Service(testbeacon.com)
4 points by wjg 10y ago|3 comments
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by wjg 11y ago
An attempt at clickable links: https://testbeacon.com https://app.testbeacon.com http://docs.flytrap.io https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/testbeacon/ibonccc...
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Show HN: TestBeacon: UI tests in the browser; we run them and email the results
3 points by wjg 11y ago|2 comments
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by wjg 11y ago
Yep, a good idea and I'm currently looking at ad rates for the product. Just initial users who can give me some product feedback is my main goal for now. Thanks!
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by wjg 11y ago
Thanks! That's exactly what I'm shooting for. It is meant to be a substitute for Selenium while making it easier to create and share them! I appreciate the reply and would love to hear your coworkers's feedback, good or bad!
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by wjg 11y ago
Just one: me. I've been in stealth mode and I basically "finished" building the website within the last week and have done no advertising (in fact this is the first time I've talked about it online). That leads to the
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by wjg 11y ago
Hi Michael and Aaron, I built Supertask ( http://supertask.co/ ) to make web automation easier and more accessible. Supertask allows users to write shareable, composable automations that make testing webapps and repeating co
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by wjg 13y ago
Would you mind if I emailed you a few questions about some of the things you've outlined? I'm working on something that could help with some of the issues you mention (it's not a competitor w/ this product). Feel free