Location: Remote - I’m from the UK, living in Portugal
Remote: Only remote work
Willing to relocate: No
Availability: up to 3 days per week
Technologies: JavaScript (front-end and Node.js), SVG, CSS, HTML
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/premasagar
Email: p@premasagar.com
Recent projects include: data visualization of social inclusion, a Meteor/React-based community voting app; a Node.js web scraping spider; an SVG generator; and a test suite for a legal document generator. I’m happy to share details.
It sounds like bullshit, but there's actually some truth to it: when providers of legal services with sketchy uses (I'm talking things like usenet searching, seedboxes, VPNs, scan4you, etc) lose access to PayPal they generally add Bitcoin as at least an option.
It's harder to obtain currency in some of the sketchier webwallets (things like PerfectMoney, WebMoney, etc) and they've been largely replaced with Bitcoin.
Likely because with Bitcoin you don't have to risk a government raid or an allout scam because the payment provider is sketchy (look into Liberty Reserve and Fethard Finance which used to be popular for this purpose).
Location: Remote - I’m from the UK, living in Portugal
Availability: up to 3 days per week
I’m a JavaScript programmer, both front- and back-end. I’m familiar with ES2015+, the Node.js ecosystem and toolchain, and have been a web developer since my first website in 1999.
I have created and coordinated many web apps through my Brighton-based agency (http://dharmafly.com), and know what it is like to lead a project. These days I focus on my role as a freelancer for startups, companies and individuals.
Recent projects include: a Meteor/React-based community voting app; a Node.js web scraping spider; a SVG generator; and a test suite for a legal document generator. Happy to share details.
I agree. There is always a choice, although the shift may be difficult or unsettling, and some people will feel freer to make a change than others. I think one huge component of this is location.
A little while back, I moved with my family from the city to the countryside (the foothills of central Portugal), where there is a growing community of migrants from western cities, living around and alongside the local villagers, who are mostly small-scale subsistence farmers. People call us the Neo Rurals.
Land and living costs are way less than where we came from, which means I can afford to work three days a week, rather than the 5 out of 7 days I was working before. I am fortunate to be able to work remotely (I'm a freelance JavaScript programmer) and to have come from an existing network (the wonderful Brighton, UK). Somehow projects arrive when I just need them (get in touch if you're looking for someone). But people here to do all sorts of work, and often grow food and generate their electricity to lower the base costs.
The door is open. Neighbours' children come by because they want to play. Many people home-educate / unschool. And we do pretty well as a community amusing ourselves, learning from and helping each other.
Uprooting is difficult, but I have never looked back. And it does come with some "hardships", but most of those are really joys.
The elephant brain is better than the human brain. The fact that the elephant faces extinction at the hands of human brains and is only being saved from extinction by the work of other human brains is evidence at least at some level.
You could as easily say that snails' brains are better than human brains because some humans try to save snails. It doesn't mean anything about the snails or elephants, it just means the human brains don't all agree on this one topic.
Another place I'd love to see Meteor move towards the (future) standards would be an eventual replacement of Fibers with async/await throughout, which to me is more explicit and intuitive.
As well as snap.svg, you may want to take a look at Pablo (I wrote it). It is for SVG manipulation and includes some animation methods [1] that utilise CSS or JavaScript callbacks (also SMIL which is recently deprecated).
