AlexITC

Hi hn, This post is missing from November and December 2025 from the usual whoishiring account [0], is this gone? I'm aware that the latest posts barely got any comments looking for freelancers and the market sucks,…

Hi hn, over the years I have interacted with the stock market as well as cryptocurrencies but I have never put any serious effort on tracking this portfolio. While I have saw that there are many portfolio tracker apps,…

Hi hn, Its been a while since my kid has been dreaming to make videogames, as you know, the entry bar is high, too many technical details are involved. A few months ago, we started making games, we have tried many…

Hi hn, As devs, we got used to take-home challenges while applying for jobs/projects, some challenges ask you to write code from scratch, others expect you to update an existing project. Today I had a case where I…

In short, I just received a nice proposal to work on a new contract, the potential customer sent me a "document" with the project specs which turned out to be a password-protected compressed file with some pictures and…

Hi fellow freelancers at hn, Over the last years, I have been commonly found with potential customers in situations where their production app is either down or its main feature is not working (my last work involved a…

Hi hn, today I received an email from Slack explaining an issue with one of the invitation links I created to invite others to my workspace, which apparently included my hashed password, I'm pasting the text I received.…

Hi everybody, I just ported some 2018-scalajs games to Scala 3, it is amazing that such 8-year old code base required less than an hour to get all the games working in Scala 3. I encourage you to try Scala.js/Scala3…

More than 3 years ago, I saw Kismet [1] being announced in a Show HN [2]. I gave it a try just to see how it goes, since then, I have met interesting persons thanks to it, I even got a nice contract from the one of…