lmiller1990

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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Same. I work for a US company and have regular 2ams. At least they gave me the opportunity.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I am taking a rest from coding projects (eg SaaS) and focusing on building my developer brand via my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LachlanMiller . I mainly talk about Vue and some other things.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
The main thing that worked for me is giving away good stuff for free. I wrote a book [0] which has tons of free info about Vue testing, then I put a small advertisement in the corner. I was able to get around 1.1k emails over the period of
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I made some income from content creation. I made 2 courses about Vue.js and wrote 1 book, for a total of around 7K USD. Not exactly passive, but I'm still really happy with my progress. I wrote about it here: https://lachlan
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Medium was really good a while ago. I posted there a lot. I got a lot of traffic, it loaded fast, there was no paywall etc. I have since abandoned it like many others, but it's still a low friction way to get writing and traffic.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I use docker-compose everyday and it works great.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Blogging helped me a ton. I got a few freelance opportunities from people who read my blog. I also was able to use it to advertise some material I was working on (course, book) to make some money (few thousand $).
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I find the spaces repetition approach good for learning new Japanese words I don’t often use. I made an app that lets you look up a word and get a reminder a few days later: https://shirabe.app/
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I started making paid content this year. I have made around 7k USD so far. My take-aways: - Pick a niche you know really well. A lot of sales come through reputation, since there is always going to be other competing products out there. My
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Watching League of legends World finals.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Not directly related, but do people like programming tutorials to have a video of the person speaking? I personally feel like it just wastes space and distracts from the content, but this seem to be the norm.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
If you want to make money from your product eventually, you need to get good at building an audience. Start small. Blog posts about the problem your tool solves, post on Twitter and Reddit. It takes some time and effort but anyone can do it
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
At first I recommend no tooling. Use your favourite editor and start. Once you have content you can figure out what tool(s) you (might) need. Let the content and needs drive the tools - you might find your use case change as you write.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Looks like it's aimed at Japanese people learning English rather than the opposite way around. I wonder why their is no Japanese homepage.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Yep, this is my favorite thing about Vue. People will respond saying you "can do this with React, too". But in practice it's not nearly as nice to do as with Vue. You need React and React DOM AND JSX to really make it practic
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Been a happy user for years, will continue to be. It works, it's battle tested, and powers many of my apps just fine.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I read the his book "Ghost Boy" many years ago. It's a great read; a heavy and hard one, but I recommend it.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
It has a super well vetted standard library written in TS. I think this is a pretty great feature.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Hi - I have submitted an application on your website. - Lachlan
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Get a job where that language is the primary one. Coding it 8h+ a day gets you up to speed.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Just grab any introduction to Chinese textbook, they are basically all the same. Get a pencil and paper and practice words. Once you get better make some small sentences. Repeat. This is how I learned Japanese (including the around 1.5k Chi
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Used both for years in production. Maintain several core Vue libraries. Honestly I am happy with both - much of a muchness really.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I think it depends. It's hard to learn more than one thing at once; if you already know JS well, learning about functional programming using it makes sense to me. It's tricky to learn both a new language paradigm and a new syntax
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I think most people using Perl for anything non trivial (eg, large web app with Catalyst) are unlikely to be changing their version of Perl without a good reason, and very few people are starting large Perl projects now days. My day job is
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I make screencasts [1] about Vue.js. I get a pretty good quality recording with a simple setup: - Blue yeti mic - QuickTime on Macos for screen recording - any editor - no editing what so ever When I need to show the browser I just cmd tab.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Are you only aiming for big, FAANG like companies? Many small(er) companies will not bother with things like algorithm questions. Most companies I have interviewed at will have a coding assignment, usually timeboxed to 3-4 hours, where you
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
Input is not the bottleneck. I don't have a good reason why, but I love editing text with Vim. I enjoy learning complex tools. Maybe that's why. I am also a JS developer, I guess it all makes sense now.
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I'd say the average 12-13 year old could comfortably pass N1; that said, the average 12-13 year old is fluent in Japanese. Not getting 100% of course... but you don't need 100% knowledge of a language to be fluent and communicate
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
I agree with the other responses to this comment. Many people who I know who passed N{1..5} say things like "It wasn't too bad", "It took me a few years"... I think a lot of people who have learned a second language
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by lmiller1990 6y ago
My full-time job is working a codebase where the back-end is entirely written in perl. Codebase was started around 2014. This was probably a bad decision, the founder was a perl guy. Perl is not bad but no new codebases should ever be writt

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