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jitendrac··on Ask HN: Are my web dev skills still relevant?
Good wordpress developers are in great demand. If you find the right clients, you can earn above average the market standards.

About your skills, There are many new trends in tech in last decade. Since you have worked withe web, I will suggest you to start with HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript's new features which you may already be knowing.

Start learning server side js. Node.js is bit confusing if you are old folks but see some tutorials and follow them, start with light framework like Express and make small app. The benefit of node.js is you can share many modules at both server and client sides if needed[though beware of it].

Alternatively if you want to stick to PHP, the easiest will be to start with codeigniter and when you feel likes getting grip move to Laravel. Laravel is in great demand. Learn to use it with docker.

jitendrac··on Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
Same preferences, I learn what is new (at least 2-3 year old) but stick to vanilla PHP, JS and HTML.

though I prefer learning a new programming language every year.

jitendrac··on Why Some People Think They're Great Even When Their Work Is Terrible (2017)
> How many people actually remember their own code months later?

Certainly, I don't. After a month, I mostly think was this terrible/brilliant code really written by me. And then comments confirm it was me.

jitendrac··on Ask HN: Always on low power home server
Try Rpi once again with external ssd[1], preferably with external power source like psu[2]. Rpi has huge community which will help you if you ever need solution for bespoke config

[1]https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/im-booting-my-raspber... [2]https://superuser.com/questions/1239449/using-a-separate-pow...

jitendrac··on Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood
+1 for it.

some notable addition, H2O2 itself is a great bleaching agent but exposing it to UV creates the Ozone gas which is also used as bleaching agent for wood pulp in industries. so, the process accelerates in its own. this process could be further accelerated if H2O2 soaked/brushed wood is placed in transparent airtight container(glass aquarium with sealed lid) for sunlight UV exposure,this process increases the concentration ozone and can ultimately give better result.

Other notable thing is the thickness is 1mm only which reduces the required penetration depth of epoxy to only 0.5mm if applied from both side separately. In the video they used 3mm which is three times more thick. The 1mm thickness itself also a limitation for wide array of applications, further research to increase effectively increase the required thickness of wood will make it viable for bigger market.

btw,I really liked the newer process which uses the already well-known chemistry and give better results.

jitendrac··on Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
I will do following

   mailid<img src='at.png' alt="@"/>mydomain.com
then just skip creating at.png
jitendrac··on Is it wrong to demand features in open-source projects?
yes, It happens. Just like rude users there also are rude developers. Once I tried the demo of a small CRM,I filed the bug related to it. Later Developer rudely showered me with comments like I am asking for free goodies and closed issue, and I later replaced my CRM with custom WordPress plugin ;).

My suggestions to fellow developers; Every bug, feature request and question (good FAQ candidates) is the contributions, if you are not interested in accepting, just be upfront and polite.

jitendrac··on Is it wrong to demand features in open-source projects?
Feature request is also useful when you want to create and contribute some new feature to existing OSS, the response from maintainer makes you know if it will be accepted in mainstream version or not, hence in my opinion its not always asking for others to put efforts, though mostly it may.
jitendrac··on Is it wrong to demand features in open-source projects?
Demand is wrong, but polite feature request is not. Just drop a polite feature request. if they are not ready/interested and its essential for you, you can build it or hire someone for it an may be push to main project. complementary contribution is great way to support OSS project.
jitendrac··on Don't use 'to whom it may concern' in job emails
"To Whom It May Concern", its most formal way to address person/authority whom you don't directly know. Many potential good candidate don't know company contact info or they are remote but interested to work with you. they may or may not be suitable for position but one should not ignore if they are too formal. Just read bio, Introduce yourself responsible person and shoot few questions and wait for personalized reply. If goes well do skype meeting.
jitendrac··on Ask HN: How to deal with financial regret of what could have been?
Just let it go, I came across bitcoin when it was valued at 5-6 Cents, I had spare $500 and wanted to long-term invest $100 into it, I even created my cold wallet, But later it slipped off of my mind and I lost opportunity of having 1500+ BTC.

Do I regret ?, I don't know.

I just let it go.

jitendrac··on Ask HN: How to deal with hundreds of open browser tabs
Currently I have 468 Tab, I use firefox with few tab open and just restore previous session before quiting. In case of crash or accidental crash, I use firefox plugin Tab Session Manager, It has many good option.I export my open tabs once in every week to a folder.
jitendrac··on Launch HN: Albedo (YC W21) – Highest resolution satellite imagery
From what I know satellite images we use are limited by government regulations, they are already 4-5 times more clear than what we see, so that may be a big roadblock for the idea?

have you got the regulatory approvals? and any roadmaps? most rules changes by area and region like in India images are really blurry due to regulations.

jitendrac··on GitHub Should Start an App Store
would you mind sharing the script? I earlier used noip.com,and my router's dyndns, I will love doing it other way.
jitendrac··on GitHub Should Start an App Store
Do you Host it at Home with static IP or DynDNS?? and which internet service provider do you use? Edit:Found its BSNL
jitendrac··on India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
In reality its complex matter farmers have more to gain than lose. For my personal belief I support the farmer reform proposed by the governments, but there are many fake news and political propaganda acting against it. If its about Indian politics never trust what you see on Internet news most are fake.
jitendrac··on Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations
I disagree with it, OSS ecosystem heavily rely on individual contributions at first. Both Elastic and CentOS cases are successful just because they are opensource, otherwise there would way little buzz around it, I strongly believe they would not have been successful if they were not licensed under Opensource license.
jitendrac··on Open-source, not open-contribution
Duel licensing the contribution is always an option. you can add contribution agreement with statement like

"all the contributed code will be under duel licensed, original commit will should grant all rights and ownership of it to the XYZ INC/LLP. the copy of it will automatically be commuted to GPL licensed source repository under original contributor's name. "

jitendrac··on Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
If I have an option to pay every article, post, tutorial I read automatically pay $0.01, I will willingly do so. But in real world all website want their own payment processing independence, on top of that payment processors charges some minimum fixed 20-30 cents per transaction + 2-3% of transaction and that is crazy. I will not pay 30 cents for a brief article written in 20 minutes, also not pay to a website that I am going to visit once in a lifetime. the only solution I can think is a crypto wallet based browser add-on which takes deposit of $xx from me every month and distribute the 1 cent per article I read to original author every once in a while with a pool of thousands of transactions ultimately making processing fees negligible per transaction.
jitendrac··on I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
I am really not a choosy person in this matter, and to reduce toll of selection, I have a simple habit of using only two pairs of clothes, I wear them alternatively. When at home I use loose cotton pants and undershirt. For washing, I wash my under-garments daily and my shirts/pants after one-three uses based on season, in summer its daily wash and in winter its 2-3. My cloths on average lasts 4-5 months and under-garments 2 months.
jitendrac··on Ask HN: Is it worth to move to another country for 1mil$?
Doable with many proxies in tax-heaven who acts like the real company board, holds virtual meetings etc. They create all required paper trails which can comfortably bypass CFC restrictions.
jitendrac··on Ask HN: Is it worth to move to another country for 1mil$?
why not create a company in tax friendly country and transfer all your business to it. work as a CEO/Remote emplotee of it,Get healthy base salary as fixed income from it ,whatever else you need can be given to you as business expense and allowance. all money lays in the company with lower tax jurisdiction.
jitendrac··on Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments
If a developer gets a hold of a RHEL copy[legally] regardless of its subscriptions terms, he have all the rights to re-distribute it due to the nature of GPL2 licensing, only thing is he cannot claim to be IP/copyright owner of redhat assets like logo.
jitendrac··on Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic
Keeping personal opinions aside, Elastic has all the rights what they are doing and from the point of view of an organization, I respect their move. We always have the last liberally/permissive open-sourced version of it which we can fork and do whatever we want.
jitendrac··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
yeah, I think telegram has taken the place of torrents for this purpose.
jitendrac··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
yup, I agree. They just can't wait for duration and want instant access to released content.
jitendrac··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
Torrent trackers are responsible to introduce Peers to each other who are downloading/uploading the same files[torrent]. Its basically the backbone of torrent.

say for example, you have a torrent file or a magnet link. And you start downloading the file using client application, it will go to known trackers and ask them the address of peers who are uploading the file based on unique hash of it. Torrent breaks files in the chunks with size of few MB referred as pieces, Tracker will get the current status of downloaded and remaining chunks from you and give you the list of peers with same file available, at same time it will register your address for the other new peers to connect. now connecting peers have knowledge of one anther's address they will share pieces to others and download remaining from other peers to complete the download.

so, basically peer is backbone of system, its a tool which can have multiple use legal or not, one cannot simply call its source code violating the IPs, that's just an absurd argument.

jitendrac··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
Torrents were great threat in past years, but now in world with streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime,Hulu and all others torrent is not a serious threat. So,that's a baseless argument, Its like don't sell knives they can be used to murder. Torrents are also useful for many others purposes, like distribution of big opensource software, downloading files with unreliable connection and slow speed, to distribute things [kind of]anonymously peer-peer etc.
jitendrac··on Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online
look like, you get an inspiration from https://tinyprojects.dev/guides/tiny_website

How do you plan dealing with charge-backs?, and how often do users get paid after selling product?

jitendrac··on Today I'm open sourcing the code that I've made $500K off of
I second this. Use it as a reference for quick mvp.
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