jawmes9's comments

jawmes9 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)

Location: Kauai, HI-USA

Remote: Required

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: React, Next.js, Typescript, C++, Python (Some Docker as well)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesthesken/

I'm a software engineer that's worked as an independent tech consultant for the past two years, and formerly as a systems engineer for a US defense contractor.

jawmes9 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search

Most searches I do now are search + {nameOfForum}

Especially looking into new libraries or programming languages, I always append "hackernews" to my search

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What makes you want to keep on reading README?

Examples and screenshots are my favorite. I don't like it when there are too many distracting emojis.

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

So excellent, happy to see you're open to contributions too!

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

Kind of similar: https://tiresize.com/calculator/

I've used it for buying my truck's tires in the past.

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Getting started with Web3 ("decentralized web") development

I'm in the same boat, just got through with their solidity tutorial. Great course paired with: https://cryptozombies.io

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

What's the best way to contact you? It's been ~2 years since my last robotics project, but interested to learn more.

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is “the answer” to distracted driving due to cell phones?

> regulation attention-grabbing industries, just like we regulated cigarettes

There is surely a good argument to be made for regulating social media for certain age groups.

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Death by Coconut

I was taught to always look up when you are under coconut trees

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts

Love to see Bulma in the mix, it is my favorite CSS framework. Thanks!

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Will many small businesses be interested in this?

The justification I see often is helping with SEO as well

jawmes9 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on?

Using a Reddit API Wrapper [1] to collect comments from /r/wallstreetbets, and compare stock mentions to prices. Found a cool way to store historical stock data [2] (or any time series) - surprisingly haven't seen much discussion here about that.

[1]: https://psaw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2]: https://github.com/man-group/arctic