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tombrm··on Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data
good point, and there are tons if interesting companies building R&D teams in Switzerland. I’ll look into the data and add Switzerland soon. thanks.
tombrm··on Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data
thanks:) I'll fix it in the morning.
tombrm··on Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data
Awesome project!

I've been doing something similar with all "software engineer" job posts for the last 10 months: https://devquarterly.com/insights/trends

Interesting to see the trends on YC are pretty much the same as they are on linkedin, indeed and glassdoor.

tombrm··on New dev job posts (daily avg) are down 60% since May
Might just be the end of summer inactivity. We will see in September.
tombrm··on Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
Reminds me of an early version of Product Hunt.
tombrm··on Ryanair Condemns Hungarian Govt’s Idiotic ‘Excess Profits’ Tax
Ryanair's completely right, even with the tone. Meanwhile the Hungarian state media pretends being outraged and surprised(!) about Ryanair's decision of passing down taxes on consumers. This country's a joke.

The narrative broadcasted by local (state owned) media is still that Orban is protecting people from evil corporations making "extra profit" (that's how they keep calling it, no matter how stupid and meaningless it is) with these nonsense laws and he won't let companies getting away with passing down these new taxes on consumers. Obviously he cannot do anything about it, not even with Hungarian entities.

tombrm··on Show HN: I built a dev job post tracker to see if we are in recession (not yet)
With LinkedIn it's a bit of both. The number of new jobs (last 24 hours) is collected by scraping but we do zoom into countries to make sure the data is correct.

Other job boards it's mostly scraping.

tombrm··on Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
Track you calories and start small in terms of exercise.

Eating, drinking: track everything. In my experience it does the trick on its own. What you're aiming for is caloric deficit, so don't overcomplicate it. If there's a diet that works for you, great. If not, just analyze your intake from time to time and you will come up with your own diet automatically.

Exercise: depending on your current level of fitness, I'd strongly suggest taking small steps. Changing your diet while getting started with running and 1-hour workouts three times a week sets you up for failure. If you haven't been active before, aim for N steps of walking a day. That's it.

Be patient, the first results will show in 2-4 weeks.

Good luck!

tombrm··on Eastern Europe created its own Silicon Valley with 1M developers
"Gartner estimates there are over one million IT professionals in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, with one-quarter (250,000) working for consulting or outsourcing firms.[...] It can take decades to create a technology hub as strong as Eastern Europe’s and it has become an essential digital link in the business needs of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, but what is being called “digital geopolitics” now threatens its accomplishments."
tombrm··on OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light
how did this make it to the homepage? :O
tombrm··on Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
Loving the app's simplicity and the straight-to-the-point approach you had taken with the website. Definitely giving it a try, great work!
tombrm··on Show HN: Respresso – localization and design asset optimizer for iOS and Android
It’s a free tool
tombrm··on Show HN: Respresso – localization and design asset optimizer for iOS and Android
Respresso helps mobile developers by automatically optimizing their design assets for iOS and Android and comes with a live localization feature.

It's still in beta and all feedback is highly appreciated.

tombrm··on Ask HN: How to find a sponsor for 1442 Designers who want remote job newsletter
I would suggest going through similar newsletters and blogs, collecting their sponsors and reaching out to those companies:

"since you've been sponsoring X, you might be interested in mine too"

tombrm··on Bitrise launches ASMR video tutorial series (YouTube playlist)
Give it a try with headphones
tombrm··on Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?
Have you seen this video? It is basically the war of art book illustrated with movie scenes: https://youtu.be/1lTcgSzf0AQ
tombrm··on Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
tombrm··on Asana’s Rise to a $900M Valuation
Glad to hear that Asana is doing well financially. It is at the center of my GTD-ish productivity setup since Microsoft decided to shut down Wunderlist. Really don't want to move all my stuff again...
tombrm··on The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation
"if you’re depressed, [sleep deprivation] can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. But, Benedetti adds, there’s a catch: once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you’ll have a 95 per cent chance of relapse."

Sounds like there's a high risk for turning depression into insomnia. Not sure if it's an improvement.

tombrm··on Show HN: Devstream.tv – Watch developers code live
So this is basically a twitch aggregator for developer streams. Cool idea!

An idea: it would be cool to have separate feeds for the available tags so that users could browse the available streams/channels by topic.

Good luck for your project!

tombrm··on The Latest React and React Native Conferences on 99 Videos – React Talks Q3/2017
I know this list is especially overwhelming, but Q3 had been busy for React conferences. :)
tombrm··on Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court
+1

So Uber is a better cab service, than the original one. Hopefully the upcoming regulations will result in only slightly increased pricing and a more sustainable system (keeping the drivers in mind).

tombrm··on React Talks Q3: the latest meetup recordings with descriptions
USA ReactNYC (New York, NY) The Road to Router v4 (44:34) Easy Server Side Rendering with GraphQL (18:38) Formik: Forms in React without tears (25:06) Storybook: a Visual Testing Environment for React (19:59) Getting started with GraphQL and React (28:30) Augmenting Reality with ARKit and React Viro (20:59) React Chicago (Chicago, IL) MobX (37:45) Automatic React SPA Delivery (21:24) React.js + Vim (29:52) Storybook for Prototyping and Testing of React Components (28:03) React Minneapolis (Minneapolis, MN) React Router v4 and animating transitions (53:35) Validate This, That and the Other Thing (44:32) ReactJS Austin (Austin, TX) Big Testing in React (37:43) ReactJS Portland (Portland, OR) Learn You Recompose (48:18) Prototype to Production (20:29) Phoenix ReactJS (Phoenix, AZ) Never Write Another HoC (51:07) Making Reactjs real time with WebSockets (39:17) Wentworth Computer Science Society (Boston, MA) Basics of ReactJS (45:43) UK React.London Mixing ReasonML into your React apps (37:10) CSS in React: Spoilt for choice (16:05) Lightweight GraphQL (26:52) Migrating from Angular to React: A tale from the trenches (39:21) The Curious Case of Monorepos (26:58) Building a real-time Q&A app using GraphQL (30:02) Germany ReactJS Munich PostgraphQL – Creating a Relay compatible GraphQL server without a line of coding (48:52) Embedding Microservice UIs (48:49) Austria React Vienna React ing htmlFor=”empathy” (37:31) Gatsby 1.0! Build blazing fast static websites with React (and Markdown, GraphQL, WordPress & Friends) (36:54)