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Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming?
Original EnglishI have tried freelancing, but it seems that most clients want to have a time commitment.
Ask HN: Have You Burned Out?
Original EnglishWhen I started it was only for foodservice and when Covid hit I lost all my customers overnight.
Ask HN: How do you and your spouse handle big income differences?
Original EnglishFrom the time we started dating until the beginning of 2020, our income gap went from $40K to $120K.
Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier
Original EnglishI left a large corporate job to start my own business: I ended up going 18 months without income, and then working for a startup.
Show HN: Hellō, a cooperative approach for online identity
Original EnglishBut I have to ask, why am I paying them when I have to do all the work?)
The Business Impact of Code Quality
Original EnglishSo I made "deployability" a priority, and created some huge debt by using docker-in-docker containers to at least have an automated, reproducible deployment unit available.
Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces
Original EnglishFirst, Taipy was created because we failed miserably when we tried Python GUI tools on real data/AI projects.
SaleInvaders: Rent-a-sales organization
Original EnglishDue to all of us having a 9-5, and this being our first project, we failed, because we didn't realize beforehand that you had to …
Ask HN: Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much?
Original EnglishWe're sticking with it for now because we don't have the time to develop an alternative but I really wish it was faster and more …