normandy
wintermoon
normandy | wintermoon | |
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2 | 2 | |
6 | 7 | |
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0.0 | 10.0 | |
about 8 years ago | about 12 years ago | |
Ruby | C++ | |
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normandy
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1 hack† for a compiler flag later and it was back flying.
A month later I received a cold email from a CTO to chat a bit about that PR, turns out they were using mini_racer heavily and forked it for their own purpose, and also created PyMiniRacer for the Python side of things. Next thing I know I got hired. Two years later the company got acquired.
Of course conditionally adding a compiler flag wasn't what got me hired per se, it only got my profile noticed. Probably side projects such as porting go by example to Ruby by implementing a ~1:1 CSP channel API[1], an Electron desktop client for Mattermost basically on a dare[2], ex mode for the Atom editor so that I could have that frackin' `:w`[3], leveraging Blocks to bolt on object-oriented-ness onto C because "closures are a poor man's object"[4], or reverse-engineering the Xbox One USB gamepad and writing a kext to turn it into a HID device on macOS from scratch on a lonely 7+h train ride with passengers judgementally staring at me sideways[4] probably contributed to it a bit.
My takeaway: luck is when preparation meets opportunity; but don't to side projects to get hired, because if you don't get hired then that time is lost. Rather, of all things, scratch your itch, have fun, embrace whatever quirkiness you fancy; no one can take that away from you.
[0]: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/commit/2086db1bbf2b5de4...
[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
[2]: https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront
[3]: https://github.com/lloeki/ex-mode
[4]: https://github.com/lloeki/cblocks-clobj/blob/master/main.c
[5]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller
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Ruby 3.0.0 Released
Do learn Ruby. You seem to answer your own question! You’re curious about it, worst case you’ll have opened your mind to something else which is only a good thing.
But do not be fooled by Rails, Ruby is quite something else, of which Rails is a very small, opinionated part.
Tips: look at MiniTest source code, Sinatra and Rack source code are quite interesting too.
Shameless plug, a couple of idiomatic Ruby repos of mine:
https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
https://github.com/lloeki/rebel
wintermoon
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Tell HN: SourceForge removed the page of my project
I am aware that my project holds no significant value to the open source community and that hosting it incurred a cost, but my project was taken down without any warning.
http://wintermoon.sourceforge.net now redirects to their homepage.
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
15 years ago I wrote a game engine[1], and on my first interview of my life I presented the code and got the offer!
1 - https://github.com/skhaz/wintermoon
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