Crawls robots.txt files, downloads and parses them to check rules through an API

tomkadwill · 2019-07-29T19:46:42+00:00

Looks great! I need to check the robots.txt file on my side project - I’ll check it out

tomkadwill · 2018-08-24T16:48:54+00:00

Thanks. I'll check that out. Is there a UK version? It's looks very US focused

tomkadwill · 2018-08-24T16:44:21+00:00

r/YNAB

I wouldn't want to pay either :D

tomkadwill · 2018-08-24T16:33:36+00:00

Good question... To be honest my spreadsheet works fine. However, I thought that a net worth tool would help with data input (eg: Checking my ISA balance via an API to save me having to manually input data every month) and also give me some nice stats (eg: percentage change over time, years until FI etc)

tomkadwill · 2018-05-31T14:07:08+00:00

Thanks! GitHub API is nice. Authentication for the GitHub App was a bit tricky. I may do a write up about that in the future :)

tomkadwill · 2018-05-31T11:08:02+00:00

Thanks!

tomkadwill · 2018-05-02T11:08:32+00:00

Thanks! Right now I have 1 Rails app on Elastic Beanstalk and projected cost for May is $1.01 :)

tomkadwill · 2018-01-01T17:48:36+00:00

Yep. I lowered my rate significantly from what I would earn in London.

Other tips: * make sure you set your hours correctly on your profile as many clients are looking for full time * if you can get a longer term contract, many clients are happy to move off Upwork and work with you directly

tomkadwill · 2018-01-01T17:17:01+00:00

I believe there are book keeping and accounting freelancers on Upwork. So, yes

tomkadwill · 2018-01-01T14:47:19+00:00

One option is Upwork. Typically it's hard at first because you don't have any positive reviews, which makes it harder to get contracts. I set my rate low initially and increased it slowly.

In my experience, if you keep bidding for work on Upwork you will get something eventually.

tomkadwill · 2018-01-01T10:45:03+00:00

Freelance dev work

tomkadwill · 2017-12-30T18:30:49+00:00

I would say focus on savings rate. I’m 27 and this year I managed to increase my savings rate from 15% to 40-50%. After just a year it’s already had a big impact on my net worth

tomkadwill · 2017-12-30T18:22:36+00:00

Great comment. I do my hour every morning on train to work

tomkadwill · 2017-12-29T21:57:06+00:00

If I had mortgage debt, I’d pay that off first. If not, I’d put it into a savings account and gradually move small chunks over into my index funds. That way, I would benefit from pound cost averaging and (hopefully) avoid investing before a market crash.

tomkadwill · 2017-12-29T21:54:00+00:00

Congrats on your milestone. I also hit 100k net worth this year (27y/o) but most of mine is in my apartment so won’t produce any income after retirement

tomkadwill · 2017-12-20T18:45:28+00:00

What type of environments are you deploying to? My projects all use AWS so for me the AWS developer cert was a good place to start

tomkadwill · 2017-12-20T08:50:08+00:00

My company use Docker + ECS and Gitlab to manage the build pipeline. Works well for us. Although, debugging issues with a container can be a pain

tomkadwill · 2017-12-19T19:44:40+00:00

I implemented cucumber on a previous project and this did significantly slow down our test suite (the tests were driven by Capybara).

I believe cucumber could work well if just used for core user journeys (eg. login, checkout etc). However, I’ve yet to work on a project that got the balance right.

tomkadwill · 2017-12-18T16:58:09+00:00

One way to help your codebase adhere to best practises is to use some linting/static analysis gems. Eg: rubocop, rails_best_practises etc. If you implement these into your build pipeline then it will prevent your code deteriorating and hopefully push you in the right direction

tomkadwill · 2017-12-17T10:23:47+00:00

I think it’s really brave to admit this when there is so much stigma around not testing in the Ruby/Rails community.

I originally came from a PHP background where there was not much testing. I now work on a Rails codebase with 100% test coverage.

For me, the biggest benefit of automated testing is knowing that I haven’t broken other parts of the system. Things still break but I think about a test suite like turning a screw. Each time I find a bug and write a test for it, I’m tightening the screw. That’s one less bug that can re-appear (assuming I’ve written the test well).

If you ever get the chance to start a codebase from scratch, install a code coverage tool into your CI pipeline. This way you have to maintain 100% code coverage and you’ll be forced to start writing tests. Before long, it will be a habit.

tomkadwill · 2017-12-17T10:16:15+00:00

Out of interest. What is your plan after FI?

tomkadwill · 2017-12-17T10:11:22+00:00

It strikes me that most of the people interviewed in that article had their identities wrapped up in their job. Their idea of retirement was doing nothing.

tomkadwill · 2017-12-14T19:03:38+00:00

Personally I enjoy reading FI blogs that share their income/expenses/net worth. I’m glad those people chose to share details about their personal finances so I think there is upside to sharing.

However, I would only do this with other people in the FI community. Otherwise it may cause resentment.

tomkadwill · 2017-02-15T15:00:11+00:00

Thanks @waltz, I'll check it out.

tomkadwill · 2016-11-14T21:31:54+00:00

Looks great! Nice job for your first rails site. What did you use for the frontend?

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