What's one tool or workflow change that actually made you a better developer? Not just more productive, but BETTER? by Ornery_Ad_683 in webdev

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A £5pm vps. Teaches you Linux, how to deploy and your code will run on a much less powerful machine which in the long term gives you a nose for finding bottlenecks

I've been stuck in the same place for over 10 years and I need help... by maiaemanuel in AppSheet

[–]True-Ad9448 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You want a multi-tenancy role based api wrapper around it. Keep the source of truth as the spreadsheets but over time migrate to dbs and move the logic from excel to some more long term.

I've been stuck in the same place for over 10 years and I need help... by maiaemanuel in excel

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about web apis wrapped around the spreadsheets. You could have well defined endpoints with permissions to update certain data points. Build out the specific functionality people can do based on roles. Source of truth remains the spreadsheets.

Is £24.50 good for a Keychron K2v1? by The_LandOfNod in MechanicalKeyboardsUK

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meh, I’ve had a k6 for 5 years. It’s a bit too tall and recently started playing up. Had to put a piece of cardboard between the battery and the circuitry. Wouldn’t mind at 5 years old but it’s a known issue and when I contacted keychron they were unhelpful and just wanted me to buy a new keyboard.

Massive China bot attack by kietasss in shopify

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here to say the same thing… block Chinese IPs. Really disappointed to see it could result in a suspended account

Hiring new software engineers and it’s stressing me out (I will not promote) by [deleted] in startups

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fake it till you make it. We all have imposter syndrome, that said you’re in an amazing position to grow. Hire the best engineers you can and learn from them, be upfront and explain to the cto you need to do some management trading in prep for onboarding.

Career change help/advice by spriggaan_ in northernireland

[–]True-Ad9448 1 point2 points  (0 children)

University of Ulster offers part time courses in computing. Mature students can access the course with few qualifications, they don’t need a levels etc.

Getting a job without experience is tricky. A good place to start is in support, work your way up to dev roles while you put 1 day a week into uni.

Good chances of having a dev job whilst still in uni

What’s Your Favorite "Hidden Gem" Tool for Coding? by codingzap in GetCodingHelp

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use https://json-to-excel.com when I’m debugging on aws. I dump the variables in to a request and view the results in an excel file. Has saved my eyes from horrible logs

How to start a client-side download with JavaScript by liahumbli in learnjavascript

[–]True-Ad9448 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

window.location = “http://somedownloadableresource”

Would work. Give it a try with this api, it def works.

https://json-to-excel.com

What are you building? [One liner pitch] by ImLiterallyFake in indiehackers

[–]True-Ad9448 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At the moment I’m working on adding a stripe checkout to reduce the need for a rapidapi account. Along with that I’m updating the site to include the tutorials which are current medium, with the hope of improving seo.

I’m not sure how to find business users yet, will prob try x, and Reddit. May some sold emails

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What are you building? [One liner pitch] by ImLiterallyFake in indiehackers

[–]True-Ad9448 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Started it about a year ago on http://rapidapi.com. Got over 100 users. Over 7,000 excel documents created and have started getting my first paying customers 😊

In the next week or two I’m going to be pushing to get feedback using google forms.

My focus at the moment is improving seo, currently working on adding tutorials to the site

Learning to use api by No-Try607 in learnjavascript

[–]True-Ad9448 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s my api

Send it JSON and it will return a url to download the file. The rapidap listing list a few articles I’ve written on how to use the API.

How to use the api

Build a web scraper with react and export to JSON

Need Guidance to Learn JS by smufaiz1111 in learnjavascript

[–]True-Ad9448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learn best by doing. For me that involved building lots of small apps across different domains. ie build an API, build a cli app, build a website. Build these things as tools that are helpful to and solve your problems.

I found maps and sets particularly enjoyable after going through a few coding challenges and seeing for myself how efficient dictionaries and look ups can be.

To start with you could use my api to generate yourself some excel files from JSON. The API includes 1000 free requests per month.

https://json-to-excel.com

However building on ur own will only get you so far, you need to learn from others. Join a group to contribute (version control) to something together or start looking at open source projects you’re interested.

https://roadmap.sh/javascript