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ianwootten

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I'm a freelance developer running a small company Nifty Digits in the UK.

My blog: http://www.ianwootten.co.uk

Twitter: @iwootten

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ianwootten··on Ditching Claude for OpenCode and OpenRouter
Definitely - Also been using it a few days with their own Go service on deepseek v4 since writing this and that's been great too.
ianwootten··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
I made a minimal news aggregator for dev sites I regularly visit this weekend: https://n3ws.dev
ianwootten··on Architecting on Cloudflare - Book by Jamie Lord
"for developers and technical decision-makers who want to understand whether Cloudflare's compute, storage, and AI primitives can replace or complement what they're building on AWS, Azure, or GCP"
ianwootten··on One does not simply 'pip install'
PEP 704 is a recent proposal to require a virtual environment by default for any package installer - https://peps.python.org/pep-0704/. Again, you can opt-out if you want.
ianwootten··on Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
Or that it even redirects to 4xx or 5xx. I had considered this, but decided to draw the line here.
ianwootten··on Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
Glad you enjoyed the post - I hadn't considered this.
ianwootten··on Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
Hi all, post author here. Just to say this was a really interesting piece to work on - I had a lot of fun poring through the data.
ianwootten··on Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
For anyone who's interested - there's a podcast with Eben about the announcement here: http://www.raspi.today/podcast-episode-6/

In this he states that a second version of the pi isn't likely to happen until 2017. http://www.raspi.today/raspberry-pi-2-expected-in-2017/

ianwootten··on Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
Nope, he's stated publicly that any major overhaul isn't likely to see the light of day until 2017. Listen to an interview here: http://www.raspi.today/podcast-episode-6/
ianwootten··on Plasso: Payments Made Simple
Until a better solution arrives. It obviously depends on the context, but that will be an hour for every project/domain I take payments on. In some cases something like this might be a better fit.
ianwootten··on Plasso: Payments Made Simple
Except it doesn't, if you need to: send an order confirmation, manage an inventory, deliver files digitally etc.
ianwootten··on Plasso: Payments Made Simple
So you don't have to do anything yourself? I personally don't want to set up a https certificate every time I want to take a payment.
ianwootten··on Plasso: Payments Made Simple
From Drew Wilson: drewwilson.com. Described as the successor to spacebox.io
ianwootten··on Stripe adds multiple subscriptions
Not from stripe, but from looking at my own account and the documentation - You can charge in any of those three currencies (where a additional 2% conversion charge is added between different currencies) but need to choose which single currency you're going to be sending those payments to. You can do so just by making the charge and specifying the currency you want to charge in.

There is an additional feature for US customers that allows paying out to arbitrary bank accounts, but this isn't available in the UK yet.

https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers

ianwootten··on Availability.is
I'm not an agency. This is an app to indicate availability for freelancers.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
You guessed right.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
I'm going to take it as a testament to the idea that you'd really like to sign up that you've left such strongly worded comment.

There had been the option to sign up with twitter too, but I dropped everything but Google because that gave everything I needed very simply (dates, avatar, email), in a single step.

Part of the problem I felt was consolidating different auth mechanisms into a single account - which I decided not to deal with by leaving out.

ianwootten··on Availability.is
I've updated this to now make it obvious that you need to enter your handle, rather than full url.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
There is. Immediately under the freelancers name, if they've added it. Here's mine: http://availability.is/for/niftydigits
ianwootten··on Availability.is
Not broken, you just don't need to include the full link to your twitter profile - just your handle.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
Yup - I want to do this too..but I need a certain number of people in the same location to make it worthwhile. You can hack the urls to include the "location" parameter in the meantime though.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
Yup, sure thing - I'd like to add tagging for descriptions of skills.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
My experience as a freelancer tells me this is not always the case.

Besides, even if it is, knowing when a particular freelancer is available still is useful - isn't it?

ianwootten··on Availability.is
Just beefing up the server. Two ticks ;)
ianwootten··on Availability.is
I also operate the domain http://available.is - we'd discussed using it for checking whether availability.is was available...

A friend pointed out we'd then need a subsequent site for checking available.is's availability too

ianwootten··on Availability.is
You're right, some explanation wouldn't go amiss - I'll be sure to add this soon.
ianwootten··on Availability.is
Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently dealing with a 2 m/o baby but will get right on with fixing these as soon as I can...
ianwootten··on Weekend Project: Starter Stats - Get stats on any Kickstarter project
Originally built as a means of determining how much funding a kickstarter project would actually end up with following deduction of fees.

It since has evolved. Feedback welcome.

ianwootten··on Ask HN: Raspberry Pi coming soon. What's going to be your first project?
For me, it has to be a media centre.

I'm very happy to have been accepted on to the qtonpi developer program too, building software for use with digital cameras.

ianwootten··on Creating a Web Development Newspaper. Thoughts?
I guess my reason is selfish. I prefer to read this way. I find content I read in print tends to have more of an impact on me when I can take it away and properly absorb it.