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Jon Lim
Personal blog · jonlim.caprogrammingdata
Jon Lim writes JonLim.ca, a personal blog at jonlim.ca about programming and data. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Full-stack developer based out of New York.
What Hacker News says?
It's my second go at getting a TN visa (for Computer Systems Analyst designation) and you don't necessarily need a CS degree, but if you don't have one, you will need at least a two year diploma and three years of experience in the field. My current TN visa application was held up by USCIS questioning my experience in the field, and the validity of the visa for my new role. (Despite having cleared both last year. Fi…
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on “I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA”Submitted WTF, Amazon. What The (Price) Fix? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI have a tremendously long commute to work. An hour and forty five minutes, one way. Reading is my only salvation on this commute. I am saving up for a down payment on a place that I can call my own, and I can single-handedly credit reading for making it easier to grin and bare it. That, and having an awesome job helps a bunch. Hell, check out the number of books I've read in the past year alone: http://www.jonlim.c…
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on “I dare you all, test your strength: Open a book”Submitted Octocat Attacks: Our entry for the GitHub Game Off as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGuess it's having connectivity issues? Haven't read the post yet, but any advantages to using Gitlab Pages and Cloudflare with Hugo over using Netlify? My personal blog[0] is Hugo + Netlify, and it's been a pretty great experience, so I'm always curious about alternatives! (I'm not a fan of the Netlify CMS though.) [0] https://jonlim.ca/
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on “Using Hugo, Gitlab Pages, and Cloudflare to Create and Run a Free Static Website”Submitted The Price Difference Between Book and Kindle Prices on Amazon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scraping Steam for Data using Python + BeautifulSoup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Analysis of Steam (Used Python, BeautifulSoup, and Google Spreadsheets) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kindle Paperwhite vs Kobo Glo, a side by side tech-specs comparison as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Week 1 of Coding: Ouch, right in the feels. as a story · 1 points
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