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I love JSON Resume. I even built a project leveraging it!

My blog: https://brendonbody.blog

Just a basic Jekyll template. I have had a 2 year break and recently got back into it. In that time I also forgot to renew my old .com domain and had it taken over.

Have had a few posts that previously got attention on Hacker News.

This looks great! I wish I found this at the start of the year. I have been building something similar closed source.

I think it highly depends what kind of company you are looking for, FAANG? Tech startup? Finance? Average company?

To more directly answer your question: 1. Like you said, a recruiter spending 5 seconds on your resume might not understand and move on. However in an interview your passion for this project will be an asset.

2. How self driven are you? Can you spend X hours on something you find boring?

I try to stick to one main project (https://issueembed.dev/) but do allow myself to indulge in one or two other ones when I need a break.

I also try to have my environment setup automated and some level of testing so that if I do switch between projects, I am not wasting time on regression or environment setup. This may be best practice but it is very easy to not bother with in a side project.

It used to be a free for all and I'd have a lot of different projects working on at different stages but I'd rarely finish anything or get it to a stage I was happy with. I now just track any other ideas I have in a Trello board and look at it occasionally to get inspiration.

Before people start posting various programmer falsehood articles, here is a compilation: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Thanks for the feedback, I have been thinking of whether making email optional or allowing the admin to not show it. Your feedback is a noted data point, thank you!

Hey thank you very much. No login needed for submitting an issue. However follow up is handled differently:

Public repos: the reporter is given the link on successful submission, so to communicate further a GitHub account is required

Private repos: the reporter needs to supply an email (not shared with repo) which will be held by Issue Embed and handle communication from the issue to email (and visa-versa)

You can try a demo here: https://issueembed.dev/

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Hey HN creator of Issue Embed here, this is my lockdown project.

I wanted a tool to collect bugs on my websites but every other tool I could find would either want me to use their issue tracking platform or was too expensive. I just needed something simple for small websites, so I could receive issues straight into my GitHub Issues. I am able to use the issues in my current workflows. I scratched my own itch then a few friends asked to be able to use it too.

So here we are today, Issue Embed is on the GitHub Marketplace. I am launching a free plan. Any feedback is welcome.

My favorite is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797391, it is a reply to a story about a time traveler coming back warning us about Bitcoin.

I always thought "force of habit" was "forcive habit".

I have lost too much time to this, thank you.

I lived in Vanuatu for a couple of months working, I used to have kava once a week. I found it to be a lot better than alcohol at helping me wind down from work, got used to the taste after a little bit.

Exactly, agree with you 100%. However I think when we start our careers there is a resistance to put ourselves out there.

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the feedback, I am glad you interpreted what I wrote that way. I was trying to essentially take my conversation with my friend, take the advice I gave to him and add some self-reflection.

Nothing like the feeling of seeing some terrible old code in a shared repository, looking at git blame and seeing it was written by you.

Thanks for pointing out the typo, it has been fixed. I guess it is a phrase I heard more than I read/wrote.

Author here, with regard to "taking it down/replacing it", I found a middle ground. I moved all those repositories to another organization (that I control), so my profile is clean and if I need/want to see that code I can go there.

Thank you for linking this, definitely going to use it.

I think it is now a ploy by candidates/public figures to just dismiss their opponents as bots. I am in no doubt that there are bots out there sewing mistrust and chaos but accusing someones followers of being "Russian bots" is being weaponized.

Handy article but I still wish there was an easier way to use filters.

I like to read fiction, play video games and socialize to relax, I find that these activities force me to concentrate and helps me temporarily forget about work and other obligations.

I think improving communication skills, particularly technical topics to non-technical people will always be advantageous regardless of where your career takes you in tech.

Might be a bit out there but I always thought there should be tools which help provide code snippets inside your IDE as you develop. I think Twitter Bootstrap might be a low hanging fruit for this.

A really common example (outside of the UK) is Melbourne, Australia & Melbourne Florida.

I would also ad to that, timezone. Some employees are flexible on country as long as you fit into a certain timezone range.

Oh I see. I think your self-awareness about the fact that other products will influence you is probably a good sign. None of us build products in a vacuum, I think most companies (big & small) keep tabs on their competitors to get ideas. Is it immoral for eCommerce websites to also implement things that Amazon does? Unless it is something that has some protection (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click), I don't think there is really a problem. Your competitors are also looking at your site, doing similar things.

This might make you feel a little bit better, instead of focusing on the other products. Focus on your own, what features do YOU need? Build for that and let your customers guide you product. At your lower price point, you might be attracting customers with different pain points than your other higher priced competitors. This way you are solving your problem but your journey might take you on a completely different path. Use their features as inspiration but not necessarily your own road map.

The first paragraph was a little confusing to me as to what you were trying to say but the second one made a lot more sense.

Although I can see this as an interesting idea, I think it would end up being essentially paid marketing. Those who care the most about their content are those trying to sell it. Although not directly comparable, https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ does something similar to what you suggested. It requires $249 to post a new product.

A lot of large companies have ripped off or been accused of ripping off other companies and made millions if not billions e.g. Xero and Apple UI, Microsoft & Apple UI, Facebook & MySpace, MySpace & Friendster, etc. It is common but this doesn't exactly speak to the ethics, which is what you are asking.

I am a similar situation as you also working on a similar product. Here is what I would ask myself:

- Are you intending to copy them?

- Is their product particularly novel?

- What are you doing differently? Price, UX, features I require, integrating into different API's, etc.

I would highly focus in on differentiation, what makes you different from them? Are they too expensive, so you are disrupting their market with a comparable lower cost option. This is how a free market is supposed to work in a capitalist society.

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