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Fantastic job Johnathon. To HN readers, I just want to point out that this awesome library was created by a high school student (who is extremely motivated and

Fantastic job Johnathon. To HN readers, I just want to point out that this awesome library was created by a high school student (who is extremely motivated and builds a bunch of stuff)! This is Hacker News at it's best. Highlighting creation. Interesting to note that this was submitted a few days ago and received only 3 points - I mention this because this is the sort of thing that should have made the front page the first time it was posted! I'm thinking of writing a weekly post that highlights the things people created and posted to hacker news to deaf ears (thankfully this is not the case with this post!). In fact I'm going to go and write it now (and create!). Edit 1: If anyone is on Medium, here's my draft. https://medium.com/p/e394f6d917d3?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km_postIds=e394f6d917d3 https://medium.com/p/e394f6d917d3?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km... Edit 2: And while I have the chance for something to not to fall to dead ears, here's something I just wrote that would be interesting to anyone who's annoyed with recruiters and would rather work at SpaceX than Snapchat. https://medium.com/p/de5c73174a4e?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km_postIds=de5c73174a4e https://medium.com/p/de5c73174a4e?kme=collabEmail.clicked&km...

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DjangoReinhardt 13y ago
Wait, HN doesn't mind reposts? Shut the front door! o_O Also, I wistfully disagree with you about the "highlighting creation" bit. I mean, FSM knows I want to agree with you but my experience so far says otherwise. In all the time I've spent on HN (most of it as a lurker) I've found HN to be quite snobbish about the show-and-tell attempts. Then again, maybe I am experiencing sour grapes since my own Show HN posts seem to disappear rapidly even before I can say, "Hey HN, loo-"... :( I'm thinking of creating an HN spin-off for young, upcoming devs to do a Show-And-Tell about their recent attempts at learning/developing. Heck I've been dying to give discourse ~~(the django-based discussions platform)~~ a try, maybe I'll finally get around to it now. In fact, I'm going to go and write it now... (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) Not meant as a dig.) Question is, should I do a Show HN, when it is done? :P EDIT: Turns out discourse is rails-based, not django-based. Still gonna give it a try, I guess... :(
- voltagex_ 13y ago
  Highly recommend Discourse, even if you don't know Rails.
  - DjangoReinhardt 13y ago
    Sold! Caveat: I don't know Rails. I've only recently started teaching myself to code/program/develop. So I guess now is a good time to start with Rails as any, eh? 8 months ago I jumped straight into working with Django/Python - one fine day, I made a list of project ideas that I've had in my head for a while and started chalking out the corresponding algos & coding them without a care about how 'bad' my code was going to look. (Yeah, I belong to the 'learn first, refine later' school of thought.) 8 months since I first started, the score is two ideas done, six more to go. Wait, scratch that, seven more to go. Wish me luck!
    - hobs 13y ago
      Code without giving a shit. The best way to start!
    - voltagex_ 13y ago
      Actually, if your goal is to set up a discussion forum, then you can get away with "ignoring" the code behind Discourse (except for some YAML config files)
    - voltagex_ 13y ago
      Also, email me (details in profile) if you need some more help with this idea - it's a good one!
    - sdoering 13y ago
      I can only agree. I started learning to code, because I wanted to acomplish one special thing (downloading and parsing xml from a weather-source to look at historical wether data for five places). I started with python, learned a little bit sqlite on the way, learned about parsing files (good for understanding our devs at work better) and so on. Now I've gone on, got a little sandbox-server at work (I'm an editor) and atomated some really bad jobs at work with python. And did some funny things to make life better for our editorial team. Yes, I am probably still writing spaghetti code, and there are a lot of things left I really like to learn, but with time comes understanding and I get better week by week. When I look at code from 3 month ago, I get the urge to refactor it. But it works, it runs as it should and today I am more inclined to learn new things and get new things done first. So yes. Keep coding and have fun!

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DjangoReinhardt 13y ago

Wait, HN doesn't mind reposts? Shut the front door! o_O Also, I wistfully disagree with you about the "highlighting creation" bit. I mean, FSM knows I want to agree with you but my experience so far says otherwise. In all the time I've spent on HN (most of it as a lurker) I've found HN to be quite snobbish about the show-and-tell attempts. Then again, maybe I am experiencing sour grapes since my own Show HN posts seem to disappear rapidly even before I can say, "Hey HN, loo-"... :( I'm thinking of creating an HN spin-off for young, upcoming devs to do a Show-And-Tell about their recent attempts at learning/developing. Heck I've been dying to give discourse ~~(the django-based discussions platform)~~ a try, maybe I'll finally get around to it now. In fact, I'm going to go and write it now... (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) Not meant as a dig.) Question is, should I do a Show HN, when it is done? :P EDIT: Turns out discourse is rails-based, not django-based. Still gonna give it a try, I guess... :(

voltagex_ 13y ago
Highly recommend Discourse, even if you don't know Rails.
- DjangoReinhardt 13y ago
  Sold! Caveat: I don't know Rails. I've only recently started teaching myself to code/program/develop. So I guess now is a good time to start with Rails as any, eh? 8 months ago I jumped straight into working with Django/Python - one fine day, I made a list of project ideas that I've had in my head for a while and started chalking out the corresponding algos & coding them without a care about how 'bad' my code was going to look. (Yeah, I belong to the 'learn first, refine later' school of thought.) 8 months since I first started, the score is two ideas done, six more to go. Wait, scratch that, seven more to go. Wish me luck!
  - hobs 13y ago
    Code without giving a shit. The best way to start!
  - voltagex_ 13y ago
    Actually, if your goal is to set up a discussion forum, then you can get away with "ignoring" the code behind Discourse (except for some YAML config files)
  - voltagex_ 13y ago
    Also, email me (details in profile) if you need some more help with this idea - it's a good one!
  - sdoering 13y ago
    I can only agree. I started learning to code, because I wanted to acomplish one special thing (downloading and parsing xml from a weather-source to look at historical wether data for five places). I started with python, learned a little bit sqlite on the way, learned about parsing files (good for understanding our devs at work better) and so on. Now I've gone on, got a little sandbox-server at work (I'm an editor) and atomated some really bad jobs at work with python. And did some funny things to make life better for our editorial team. Yes, I am probably still writing spaghetti code, and there are a lot of things left I really like to learn, but with time comes understanding and I get better week by week. When I look at code from 3 month ago, I get the urge to refactor it. But it works, it runs as it should and today I am more inclined to learn new things and get new things done first. So yes. Keep coding and have fun!