Once I solved their issue, they asked me if I could add features to the site. I turned them down and told them they would be better off rewriting it from scratch, which they then hired me to do.

Still working with them 6 years later.

I had a previous career in commercial photography. I spent a lot of time on a Facebook community group for photographers doing the same thing; chatting, being helpful, being willing to share what I knew. I got a significant amount of work through the members of that group and met my wife through those connections as well!

Be nice on the internet, I guess.

List a business with a Google voice number and you can call in, check messages, and _dial out_ from Google voice. Free international calls!

I was in school in Canada where we had a payphone in a hallway. People heard me randomly saying "Funny Business Name, City State ... Connect me" into the phone so much, it became a running joke.

When I eventually got my own phone, I transferred the number and I still have it.

Another note: in the email, it's totally not clear what I'm "approving" which is not really a huge issue. But it might be nice to include the username in the email.

My site link of

> Avi Perl's personal site!

Shows as

> Avi Perl's personal site!

On the edit page, there's no link to my homepage where the links are shown. In fact, it wasn't obvious that that's where I needed to visit in order to see my links. It was a guess that brought me to my page.

The confirmation links are going to spam in Gmail.

Perhaps the confirmation page can have a link to redirect me to my edit page, or my homepage?

With a very long bio, on mobile, the last button is floating over your text on the bottom which doesn't look great.

On mobile, the text on the bottom of the page is also a bit off-kilter in its centering.

Idea: If each entry had its own short name, you could also operate as a URL shorter. If I could add "p" as the "short name" for my personal site, lynx.boo/aviperl/p could function as an alternative to tinyurl. Combined with an option to hide the URL from my homepage, I never need those services again. :)

What happens when you need to reclaim a URL for the site that someone has already set up as a user? As the owner of your about page, I guess I'll find out :D https://lynx.boo/about

I'm new to the world of querying through my logs, but I can already see a benefit to logging with JSON...

This is what I've defined as a solution for a need of mine for the moment: https://gist.github.com/avi-perl/b173fdc30219155eb9ee4bb3a21...

For this I've used the requests-cache lib.

Convert your GitHub Gists into a full featured blog and RSS feed.

Example: https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl/rss

By default it works as a simple redesign of an existing set of gists. But gist hosted configuration files and compiling gist data to a static site can turn it into something much more rich, seo friendly, etc.

I tried different formats and pre-planning and have basically made peace with my reality, that I don't know what I'll be doing in it on any given day. So I operate like a log, whatever is next comes next. Sequentially. But I'll also jump to a page, or two-page spread, for notes on a particular project.

Here's what I use:

Moleskine Cahier Journal, Soft Cover, Pocket (3.5" x 5.5") Dotted, Black, 64 Pages (Set of 3) https://a.co/d/9jXRxNt

I also use a 4 color flexion erasable pen, but I can't recommend that since you're liable to lose all your notes if you leave it in a hot car. Not so bad though, it comes back if you stick it in the freezer. No joke.

With zero extra effort, you get a simple blog. With configuration via settings files stored in a secret gist or on a gist itself, a rich blogging experience.

A currently hidden feature that is useful is RSS feeds for any GitHub users gists: https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl/rss

I'm hoping that the GitHub graphQL API might let me get list of gists with their file content, in which case, no outside build step would be needed to provide the full experience for a GitHub user.

What I mean here by "full experience" is adding a title, image, tags, etc.

https://gist.aviperl.me/

It's an outlet for sharing some small code ideas I have here and there.

Looks great!

And once I was done, asking it to write up some functions for the way they interact worked out very well.

In general, I've made a habit of asking it coding questions (usually how to do something in a complicated framework) before bothering teammates. Probably about 80% success rate.