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Nathan Friedly
Personal blog · nfriedly.com/techblog · on HN as nfriedlyprogramminghardware
Nathan Friedly's personal blog at nfriedly.com covers programming and hardware. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Fixing USB-C charging on the PowKiddy V90 for $0.01”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nathan Friedly's blog for technical notes: one commenter cites his XSLT-for-RSS workaround (extra junk characters needed before browsers apply the stylesheet), and another mentions a Google Suggest proxy hosted on his site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fixing USB-C charging on the PowKiddy V90 for $0.012 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-10-11
What Hacker News says?
I built mine about 6 years ago, and it's starting to look a touch dated now, but I'm still pretty proud of it. It's helped me land my last two full-time jobs as well as a few freelance things here and there. http://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio/
Comment linking /portfolio/
on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Fixing USB-C charging on the PowKiddy V90 for $0.01 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionPaying all of my bills. All of them. My bank (Fidelity) can connect to most bigger companies to have the bills automatically sent to them and then they automatically pay it (with an optional upper limit on each biller). For other bills, I got all but one to put me on "budget billing" (same amount each month, so Fidelity just sends them a check for that amount without seeing the bill). For Windstream, which varies by…
Comment linking /techblog/2015/01/samsung-tv-turn-on-soundbar-with-arduino/
on “Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?”Submitted How Facebook sets and uses cross-domain cookies as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy TV and soundbar have the same issue: CEC works for everything except the "turn on" command. I ended up fixing it with an arduino-ish IR blaster that's powered by the TVs USB port - so as soon as the TV powers on, the Arduino boots up and tells the soundbar to turn on too. https://www.nfriedly.com/techblog/2015/01/samsung-tv-turn-on... I also had a NUC that I installed a Pulse Eight CEC module into, but I never en…
Comment linking /techblog/2015/01/samsung-tv-turn-on-soundbar-with-arduino/
on “Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable”Submitted Duck Duck Go search + Google suggestions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI think your time is probably best spent sprucing up your linkedin first. It seems like most recruiters just search through linkedin for keywords. Go through every job you've had and be sure to list your contributions, the impact to the business (if possible), and lots of keywords for every little language, library, technology, pattern, field, etc. that you're interested in working with again. Then in the Summary se…
Comment linking /Nathan-Friedly-Resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?”Submitted A better Google PageRank checker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: near Dayton, Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, ES6, Bootstrap, Java, Python, C#, Ruby, Express, React, Redux, Angular, REST, WebSockets, API Design, IoT/Embedded, DevOps, Postgres, AWS Résumé/CV: http://www.nfriedly.com/Nathan-Friedly-Resume.pdf Also see http://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio/ and https://github.com/nfriedly Email: nathan@nfriedly.com I'm a…
Comment linking /portfolio/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)”Submitted DIY Programming Board for ESP8266 ESP-01 Modules as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can also use the search plugin at http://nfriedly.com/stuff/duckduckgoogle/ if you want search suggestions. Note, however, that this kills some of the privacy as it sends your searches to both Google and Duck Duck Go.
Comment linking /stuff/duckduckgoogle/
on “Duck Duck Go Searches Are Now Externally Anonymous”Submitted Fixing USB-C charging on the PowKiddy V90 for $0.01 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat sounds like a good strategy. I'm not sure which site you're looking at, but elance and several other sites offer tests that you can take to prove your skills. I'd say a day or two spent on those is time well spent, and generally inspires confidence in the buyers. There are a number of other free or inexpensive things you can do to make yourself look better: use a sharp looking picture of yourself, have a halfwa…
Comment linking /techblog/2010/12/calling-all-avaiable-web-designers-developers/
on “Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?”Submitted .swf for JavaScript cross-domain flash cookies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIncidentally, I reviewed a pre-release version of that device a few months back. I didn't try flashing custom firmware to it though - are there any instructions for that that I could link to from the review? http://www.nfriedly.com/techblog/2015-12-16-itead-sonoff-sla...
Comment linking /techblog/2015-12-16-itead-sonoff-slampher-review/
on “Devastating Amazon hardware review of a wireless power switch”Submitted Advanced Javascript: Logical Operators and truthy / falsy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaking an XSLT stylesheet for an RSS feed is pretty easy, but I found out the hard way that you have to put about 512 characters of junk in your RSS file to do it. Otherwise browsers will just show unstyled XML no matter what else you do: See also: https://www.nfriedly.com/techblog/2009/06/how-to-use-xslt-to...
Comment linking /techblog/2009/06/how-to-use-xslt-to-style-an-rss-feed/
on “Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader”Submitted How to build a spam-free contact form without captchas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis looks interesting, but I find myself missing Google’s search suggestions. Does anyone know a way to enable them for this search engine? (I’m on Firefox.) I see somebody hosts a “Duck Duck Go + Google Suggest” plugin and proxy server at http://nfriedly.com:81/ . If there isn’t already a search plugin like I’m looking for, I think the easiest way to make it would be to just change the search URL (and name and ico…
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else”Submitted Building Spam-Free Contact Forms Without Captchas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy pleasure. Not trying to toot my own horn, but you might find the bookmarklett on this page useful, it certainly made things much easier for me: http://nfriedly.com/pagerank
Comment linking /pagerank
on “Google Doesn't Want to Lead You Down Any Dead Ends”Submitted Automatically unit testing client-side JavaScript with Jasmine and Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe only thing I missed after switching to DDG was the auto-suggest feature, so I added it on myself: http://nfriedly.com/stuff/duckduckgoogle/
Comment linking /stuff/duckduckgoogle/
on “DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for the past 7 months”Submitted Calling all (available) Web Designers & Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Requirements signaled by resistors on the device side if only 5V. You might get a kick out of this (or nightmares...): https://www.nfriedly.com/techblog/2021-10-10-v90-usb-c/
Comment linking /techblog/2021-10-10-v90-usb-c/
on “Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (2017)”Submitted Javascript: The differences between Objects, Arrays, and Array-Like objects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: Troy, OH Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, React, WebSockets, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.nfriedly.com/Nathan-Friedly-Resume.pdf & https://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio/ & https://github.com/nfriedly Email: nathan@nfriedly.com I’ve been working with JavaScript since before jQuery's release and have been using Node.js since v0.2. I also contributed a few patches to Node.js.…
Comment linking /portfolio/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)”Nice! I did the same thing for ESP-01, only with stripe board so that I could make it myself: http://www.nfriedly.com/techblog/2015/07/build-a-diy-esp8266...
Comment linking /techblog/2015/07/build-a-diy-esp8266ex-esp-01-dev-test-programming-board/
on “Stack traces on ESP8266: a GDB server stub”mirror: http://nfriedly.com/stuff/cross-browser-compatibility.htm
Comment linking /stuff/cross-browser-compatibility.htm
on “How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time”JavaScript is weird about truthyness / falsyness of arrays: if([] == false){ // this code runs } if( [] ) { // this code also runs } if([] == true){ // this code doesn't run } From http://nfriedly.com/techblog/2009/06/advanced-javascript-ope...
Comment linking /techblog/2009/06/advanced-javascript-operators-and-truthy-falsy/
on “A Rosetta Stone for jQuery & YUI3”