lmiller1990

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   by lmiller1990 4y ago

   I do something similar but I’m based in Australia. I’m registered as a sole trader (one man LLC basically) and just invoice them once a month. I need to manage my own retirement fund, tax, health insurance etc.
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   by lmiller1990 4y ago

   I tried to explain a bit about how we came from a single index.js to the modern workflow work webpack etc in this video, maybe it’s useful for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QliwSwWHJoQ
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   List of HN projects making $500 / month, might give you some ideas: https://lachlan-miller.me/articles/side-projects-of-hacker-n...
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   https://lachlan-miller.me/ - some articles on Vue, some personal thoughts, and links to my paid content and resume.
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   I live in Japan for many years, it's a beautiful country and culture but there is a lot of obsession with the convenience stores. They are neat but the sandwhiches are really nothing special IMO.
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   Webpack and friends do a lot of what people used to do with Gulp, I guess. I still use Gulp as a task runner to kick off my various dev servers (including webpack).
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   How is your network? I wrote a technical book, I have around 1k twitter followers, a few hundred people on my emailing list. Each month I wrote a chapter or so, and sent it to my email list, and shared on twitter, etc. This is known as mar
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   I'd recommend getting comfortable explaining things while coding. I also listened back to my videos a lot and tried to pick up on my bad habits - an example would be I often omit the trailing "t" on words like "jest&quot
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   by lmiller1990 5y ago

   I made around $500 / month from selling courses on Udemy [0]. I have two courses, both about Vue.js. I do a ton of marketing by various blog posts I write, my YT channel (2k subs) and Twitter. [0] https://www.udemy.com/
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    I create Udemy courses about coding [1]. More than 1-2h a week, though. I made around 7k last year - over the moon. [1] https://www.udemy.com/user/lachlan-miller-4/
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    If you learn something, just write about it. Don't overthink it. Likely no-one will be reading your blog unless you have something super unique/interesting. If you have something really compelling (eg, solved some problem other pe
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    Not really a forum but more like reddit (for software), but many Japanese developers post here: https://qiita.com/
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    In Japan we say "GAFA" - Google Amazon Facebook Apple.
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    I can run it in a browser. I can just open a browser on anyone's machine and we can start coding together.
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    I try to make in depth, no BS content on my channel about Vue.js: https://www.youtube.com/c/lachlanmiller
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    I use notion. I create a check list for each day. The next day, I copy paste the list and rename it with today's day. Anything that didn't get completed yesterday just rolls over.
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    Until recently wrote a lot of Perl 5 (still very popular in bioinfomatics).
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    I create Udemy courses about coding. More than 1-2h a week, though. I made around 7k last year - over the moon.
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    Not truly advanced compared to some of the content posted here but I try to post videos about Vue.js and topics no-one else really talks about (mainly around testing): https://www.youtube.com/c/LachlanMiller/video
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    C, kind of. Fellow OSS maintainer recommended me.
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    The one you know, or the one all your co-workers know. Otherwise just choose the one that's easiest to recruit for (React). They ideals are more or less the same and they solve the same problem.
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    Not sure I agree with this one. Over the last few years, I've had tons of consulting work purely from my activity in the OSS ecosystem. I also got my last two jobs because of my activity in the OSS ecosystem. "... I saw your GH pr
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    by lmiller1990 5y ago

    I made a ball move in AS3 in 2012.
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    There is no hack or secret, just buckle the hell down and start working. Motivation is fleeting, discipline is what gets the job done.
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    I think the best way to learn. I was in a similar situation - I wanted to start making money selling things, but had no reputation, network, etc. All I did was work on OSS in relative isolation. Since around 1.5 years ago I started the foll
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    I make courses on Udemy [0]. [0] https://www.udemy.com/user/lachlan-miller-4/
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    Probably a hundred hours per course. Plus time to market and whatnot - I work on OSS a lot so I have somewhat of a pre existing funnel. Overall I probably make around 20/h? Not a ton but I really enjoy it!
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    Still in the coding area, but I make courses on Udemy. I made around 4k in 2020.
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    I post videos about Vue.js on YouTube [0] [0] https://youtube.com/c/LachlanMiller
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    by lmiller1990 6y ago

    Work on it in your free time while you work a day job to keep the $$$ flowing. Also spend more time validating if people will pay for your product.