ElongatedTowel

I'm basically in the position where I feel I need to have a portfolio to have a chance to find anything better. Now, whether or not a portfolio should consist of decent but stupid code slapped on github seems up for the…

Short preface. My life didn't go so well (my own fault). I'm not that young anymore, have barely worked in my life, school didn't go so well, had to teach myself most of the stuff I know about programming. My friends…

So far I've been sticking to a handful of personal preferences and tried to adhere to set standards depending on which programming language I'm using. The problem is, the number of languages I'm interested in has…

I'm still a novice when it comes to JavaScript and though I did a few smaller projects in Angular and dabbled a bit in using Canvas for games I'm far from having the knowledge to find the right answer to most problems.…

Coming up with ideas is a problem in itself, but I find it very hard to verify whether an idea is worth pursuing, worth money, or even just an endevour to learn something on the way. I don't have many friends who have…

I'm writing on some articles I wanted to publish on a blog. Additionaly that site will act as my portfolio. Nothing fancy, a lot of those are out there and a lot of those never get many hits. I often come across blogs…

I seem to be more scared by advertisement than I should be. I'm working on a few really small projects, not yet close to release and some of them probably only getting money from one ad. But right now I'd be happy to…

I'm about to own my very first domain and of course I really like the idea of having a mailbox on my own domain, especially because I now feel confident to put stuff on github without having to worry that the mail…

I've been using Firefox in combination with Firebug for years and it seemed that most web developers are quite fond of that combination. But in the recent year or so the development of Firebug not only has slowed down,…

I still haven't made a choice which framework I should focus on and writing enough code in all of them to familiarize myself seems daunting. I used Django for a long time for my personal projects until I realized what I…

I've never listened to podcasts in the past but I've started to enjoy using them as gap fillers. I've been looking trough HN and reddits tech podcast topics and while there is a ton of material most of it is rather…

I'm trying to secure a somewhat decent .com domain so I have a space to put projects or even a blog so I can find some work. Also to have a mail address that does sound a bit more professional. So far I've looked trough…

I love how pip adresses the problem, especially in combination with virtualenv. Other languages have similar well thought out solutions. But JavaScript doesn't seem to have one. The requirements.txt is usually added to…

I've detailed my life situation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378269 and freelancing as a (temporary) solution has been mentioned several times. I have no experience with that whatsoever (nor working as a…

"My name is Christian, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents.". I probably don't deserve anyones attention, but please, bare with me for a moment. I should add that I'm nearing my 24th birthday, live in Europe and…

I guess I'm doing what most people did before the rise of blogs, github and social media. Stuff whatever I wrote in some folder, have code rot on some hard drive and receive mail to my yahoo address ending in four…