DarrenDev

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Show HN: Vanya – FHIR data viewer for developers working with healthcare APIs(vanyalabs.com)
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
LinkedIn. But I don't post a link to the post on LinkedIn, I post the content as a text post and link from the blog to the LinkedIn post for comments. This generates far more activity than a link to a blog post would. LinkedIn has a ve
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
Go into a pharmacy a couple of times a year and get your blood pressure checked. Twice a year, should cost less than $50.
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
Very timely. I'm in the middle of trying to work out how to do this for an Electron app built using Electron.Net and it's a bit of a nightmare. Different steps, but looking for the same outcome. Thanks.
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
I was a junior developer (called a programmer back then) working for a tiny startup (called a business back then) in the UK. I barely even noticed there was a slump. I remember a conversation with the owner just before the bubble burst wher
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
https://benigninteroperability.com/ I blog about FHIR, in the healthcare space. Short posts that I also post on LinkedIn. I started at the beginning of the year and typically post two or three times a week. It's helped
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
I once worked a short contract for a big name telecom company in Ireland. I was one of about 15 contractors they’d hired for a big project. Every day we’d all form a big circle on the balcony on the third floor, right next to the pool table
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
- Fastmail - LinkedIn Premium - Shield (for LinkedIn) - Canva (every few months, then cancel) - Domains & hosting - Wordpress.com - Plausible - Beanstalk git - Spotify - Disney+ (I change up he streaming every few months, never pay for
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
I think the focus on particular technologies is wrong. Better to focus on a sector and become a master of that sector than of a particular technology. If I could go back 20 years I would stop myself from jumping between jobs while staying i
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by DarrenDev 3y ago
If you're an employee of the company, then no, they can't withhold wages. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment-... If you're a contractor, then the rules around prompt payment
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
The learning curve is low. Write and Publish - that's it. The new Wordpress UI is very Medium-like now. I hated it at first, but that's only because I was so used to adding HTML to my posts, which is hidden in the new UI. It'
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Not drag and drop like WinForms, but there are suites of components you can buy that serve the same purpose. A common look and feel across the page you build. Similarities in how they work. DevExpress and Telerik spring to mind. What's
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I have the same experience. A 3 bedroom villa with swimming pool compares in price to a room in a 4 star hotel (Canary Islands, Spain).
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
The 'digital nomads' do it too. They all seem to be selling courses on how to become a digital nomad by selling courses to wage slaves on how to be a digital nomad just like me by selling courses to wage slaves on how to...
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
> Side projects and blogs As in, multiple different side projects and multiple different blogs? Maybe that's your problem. Pick one. One side project or one blog, and park the rest. https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Thing
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
My current blog is a primary home for my LinkedIn post content. Four or five posts a week. I don't allow comments on the blog, but I link from the bottom of the blog to the LinkedIn post page. I do it this way because my target audienc
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Not so much people I respect, as people who have had a public persona I was aware of for decades, who suddenly out themselves as being a little less than tolerant, sometimes bordering on the bat-shit-crazy spectrum. Recent examples are Van
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
"Perfect is the enemy of good." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good The answer. Seth Godin: "Just ship it."
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
There is a third option which I'm surprised no one has mentioned so far: Ignore them. First, people or companies using the cracked version of your software were never going to buy it. These people do not pay for software, and nothing y
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Knowledge base for dev teams -- a problem we all have. I almost built a potential solution to this problem years ago but backed out. I'd love to see a solution that sticks, and to be wrong about this, but it feels very much like a Tarp
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Easily https://vanyalabs.com/ (Access your FHIR API Data) My own app, not even at the Alpha stage, has already saved me and my team 100s of hours of parsing JSON results in Postman.
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I built an Add-In for Microsoft Word for creative writers that counts occurrences of different types of words and displays each occurrence next to the sentence it occurs in for context. The copy on the website describes it differently, but
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I thought I was being clever asking it to write a haiku. Apparently I'm not as original as I thought. Syllable count was off too. Write a haiku about an Irish mountain and a Spanish sailor. Amidst the rolling hills A Spanish sailor roa
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
You can't always avoid it. I had an incident only a week ago where I had to sign up to Snyk and the only way to do so was to use a third party sign in -- no option to create a new account using email. The end results was me signing in
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
The trend is towards smaller lap tops anyway, regardless of developer age. But, carrying a heavy lap top in a backpack for long periods of time is not a good idea. A few years of this in my 40s led to shoulder tendonitis that still has me s
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
If you're thinking about building something commercial rather than something for your own personal use, take a look at this recent YC Startup School video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIawSAygO4 I could be wrong,
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
Why should you never buy a Dell laptop? What can go wrong with that?
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I'm also very surprised by these numbers. I'm a senior dev in Ireland and my success rate over the past number of years would be around 1 in 5 CV submissions lead to a first interview / tech screen. And once I reach that stag
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
1. Working for a couple of small startups in the early years, which meant writing code 8 hours a day for 6 years and being responsible for delivering not just features but full products to users from the very first year. If my first job had
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by DarrenDev 4y ago
I think you just need to find a company where devs do not do oncall. Companies that have a dedicated "production support" team or something similarly named that handle maintaining production environments. I've worked for a do

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