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New comment by jameshoughton in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

jameshoughton — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:38:50 +0000

Location: West Sussex, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Go, Vue.js, Typescript, TailwindCSS, MySQL, SQL Server, Docker, git.

Résumé/CV: https://www.jwhoughton.co.uk/CV.pdf

Email: james@jwhoughton.co.uk

Github: https://github.com/jameswhoughton/

I'm a seasoned PHP developer with 10 years of experience, looking to move into a more Go-specific role.

New comment by jameshoughton in "Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed"

jameshoughton — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:37:52 +0000

Tags work for more general categories, I was thinking at a more granular level e.g.

Time entries

Ticket 123 - 0.5hrs

Stand up - 0.25hrs

Ticket 123 - 1.25hrs

Total time

Ticket 123 - 1.75hrs

Stand up - 0.25hrs

I guess you could achieve this with tags but you would potentially end up with lots of tags to manage!

New comment by jameshoughton in "Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed"

jameshoughton — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:20:25 +0000

Very nice, well done! I built something similar (although with far fewer features): https://jameswhoughton.github.io/timetracker/

Some suggestions:

- Have the option to round the times when reporting (for example, at my work we log in 15m increments).

- Have the option to see the combined total grouped by description/tag, e.g. if I'm working on a ticket ABC-123 and I log multiple entries throughout the day, it would be nice to see the total time spent on the ticket without having to manually calculate.

- It could also be useful to add a button to copy the description/tags, for example if you needed to transfer your times to an internal system.