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New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

istoselidas — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:23:54 +0000

Location: Greece

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Hotwire, Kamal, React Native, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://xeri.eu/cv

Email: hi@johndel.gr

New comment by istoselidas in "Tell HN: Wise froze $40k+ in funds for 10 days and counting"

istoselidas — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:12:38 +0000

I used Wise for five years as a freelance developer. Last year, they suddenly blocked my account. At that time, my only client was a company listed in the S&P 500, who sent my salary through Wise. When Wise asked for proof of my contract, I sent them the documents. However, they still blocked my account without telling me why. They gave me my money back after seven days, but my account remained blocked without explanations.

New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

istoselidas — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 01:12:56 +0000

https://johndel.gr/

New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: Django or Rails?"

istoselidas — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:13:35 +0000

Laravel is also similar and catching up and php version 7 isn't that bad.

I prefer rails because:

1) I love the community and the gems (I always find everything I need)

2) I feel that the decisions of the core team are the right ones and they are still innovating in the small details

3) Finally and most important, because of ruby. Ruby in my eyes is much more expressive.

When I do something in rails I feel like that's the right way to do it (I am a rails developer for about 8 years now). Maybe my brain has been wired too much with rails but everytime I tried to do something in laravel, django, or even phoenix, it just couldn't cut it.

I think it is a matter of preference than anything else.

A Practical Scrum Overview

istoselidas — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:53:52 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@tsif/a-practical-scrum-overview-f46810295e8b#.u5rzm68dn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561336

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: What is your daily rate?"

istoselidas — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:02:07 +0000

I am working from Greece, working remotely, my daily rate is approximately 200euro per day (before taxes), 4 days per week (it depends a bit as I am getting paid in dollars), working 9 hours per day (one hour is "paid" break).

5 years of experience as a rails developer, 8 years of experience as a web developer (full stack as I have helped on the server and our app is on angular).

To be honest, I enjoy the team and the company I am working on, even if I believe I could find a better salary. Btw my salary is about 4 times more than the average salary in Greece.

New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?"

istoselidas — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 13:37:50 +0000

For public repos and company's private repos I am using github. For personal private projects I use bitbucket.

New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?"

istoselidas — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:42:33 +0000

I've created my own https://github.com/johndel/freeze but this one isn't the last version (too lazy to push it as far as I am the only one using it. I have a private repo also). I feel more comfortable to host my own solution and add custom feature that I want.

New comment by istoselidas in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on?"

istoselidas — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 06:47:24 +0000

I am using rss a lot, I've tried almost all of the popular solutions but I didn't find some specific features I need, Like knowing which rss feeds I usually skip, which I read the title and pass and which I actually click and read.

I created a fetcher/bookmarker for storing the information I am interested in https://github.com/johndel/freeze

Right now you can just connect rss but I'd like to add facebook, twitter, stackoverflow, github and youtube updates and of course a powerful search.