potomak

My personal advice, as a freelancer who worked from home for almost two years, is to use a time boxing technique such as the pomodoro technique (this is the reason why I also built http://tomato.es time tracker) or just find a nice coworking near your place (this is the reasong why I founded http://memecoworking.com).

I need to track my work time to get a measure of how much should I bill my clients and to get statistics about the work I do while "freelancing", but I really don't like time trackers.

I tried to use Freckle but I always forgot to start the timer or to stop it.

So one day I had the idea to mix the concept of the Pomodoro Technique time management with usual time trackers and Tomatoes[1] born.

Tomatoes is a open source web-based time tracker that helps you track your time while optimizing your time and keeping you productive using the Pomodoro Technique. It really helped me a lot.

[1] http://tomato.es

I can suggest https://weworkremotely.com/, a tool to search for remote positions by 37signals, but I don't have any personal experience in this field.

I'd also suggest* using tools such Tomatoes[1] that help you stay focused and manage your working time.

Another suggestion is to try to not work from home at all, find a nice coworking space or a shared office.

[1] http://tomato.es

* I'm the author a proud user of this tool

Mine too! I scored 44.

Note that Instagram doesn't encrypt requests to their private API, they're only signing them. In fact the parameter is called 'signed_body', not 'encrypted_body'.

Anyway interesting post.

I really like this kind of approach to 2D games JavaScript development.

I'm regularly using CraftyJS to develop 2D games but I feel like there's something wrong in the development process. The library is huge and therefore hard to maintain, and I'm only using a little part of it.

By using a "gameloop" library and npm + browserify to define dependencies you can include whatever rendering library you want (pixi.js, three.js, etc.).

I'm sorry that I can't tell you how to get paid to work on oss but great question!

I suggest to watch the first part of Aaron @tenderlove Patterson's closing keynote at Rails Conf 2013[1], that touches upon this topic.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgUL_FfUZY

Cool, what do you think about adding the chance to set a poll id directly?

Example: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6603807

Nice design, next step, a mobile friendly CSS.

I love this idea and your spec! What do you think about extending it to include little animations?

I would like to apply it to Draw![1] pixel art editor.

If somebody want to help me you can fork the project at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang

[1] http://drawbang.com/

I suggest also reading "GitHub Flow"[1] by Scott Chacon about this topic.

[1] http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

Or you can use Tomatoes[1] to track also your working time.

[1] http://tomato.es

I started using it when I started doing freelance work and it saved my life as working at home is much more distraction prone than working at office.

I also built Tomatoes[1] a tool that I suggest to track working time effectively.

[1] http://tomato.es

Neither ember-tools nor Brunch templates use an efficient system for dependency management for Ember, Ember Data, and Handlebars libraries.

I suggest using Bower to manage dependencies or (ember|ember-data|handlebars)-source gems if you're using Ruby.

Best comment: "MICHAEL IS A LAZY BASTARD AND DOES NOT WANT TO REFACTOR" [1]

[1] https://github.com/Continuities/adarkroom/blob/master/script...

Why are you making Potluck? Doesn't Branch take all your time? Or is it going to be closed? Or do you have so much money you don't know how to spend them but making another product?

Anyway I liked Branch even if I don't use it a lot and I can bet Potluck will be a great product, but I'm really curious about the "why"!

Almost the same experience but with Love2D[1] instead of Corona.

After learning Lua I also suggest to take a look at MoonScript[2] a dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua, you can think about it as the CoffeeScript of Lua.

[1] http://love2d.org/

[2] http://moonscript.org/

I agree about this point, thanks for the feedback.

Why not?

Well, yes, actually I'm building http://issuehunter.co at TechPeaks[1].

What do you think about it? Are you using it?

[1] http://techpeaks.eu

Ok, it has nothing to do with git but this is my personal contribution to pixel art movement: http://drawbang.com

I'm trying to do the same with Tomatoes[1].

[1] http://tomato.es/pages/sponsors

See also comments on HN[1] about an "old" post[2] from Hongli Lai (Phusion) about this topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007530

[2] http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/04/securing-the-rails-session...

Links:

[1] http://tomato.es

[2] http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

we're in berlin now, we'll leave on march 30th

I checked my app, Tomatoes [1], it's listed: https://starthq.com/apps/tomatoes but it has very poor ratings

Google 2/5 but from https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=t... I see it has 81/100

Trust, reliability and privacy are 1/5 and are taken from http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/tomato.es but they don't apply because there are "Not enough ratings for this site yet" so they should be listed as "n/a" probably.

[1] http://tomato.es

You're listing Hacker News as a productivity app :)

hi Sebastian, we'll be at betahaus for one week, we can meet there after work if you want