Miktor

This is probably a long shot - and I'm sure you'll see quite a few posts like this over the coming weeks - but I'm going to swallow my pride and ask nonetheless.

I've been a data entry clerk for the past twenty years, working for a major bookmaker in Northern Ireland. With the coronavirus pandemic hitting recently, many businesses have decided to lay off large numbers of staff. I've just become one of the unfortunate victims of one of these layoffs today, with a mortgage to pay, a wife and two young children to support.

I've also been programming, in my own time, over the past seven years or so, in Python 3, Javascript and PHP mainly. Over that time I've developed a number of tools that were used in my former place of employ, to scrape data from websites and automate the process of data entry. I've also built some online tools in Javascript and PHP for scraping/munging data. Most recently, until the coronavirus hit and unemployment loomed, I was working on a Mario/NES style level editor in HTML5 and a random tile generator for building platformer levels, while I learned C++ and wrote a platforming engine to develop a platform game for release on Steam.

I've placed a number of these tool in public repos on github. You can check them out at:

https://github.com/Zleet

I've also got a resume ready to go for anyone that's interested. What I'm looking for is any remote programming job that fits my skillset and will enable me to keep a roof over my family's head and food in the cupboard for the next few months.

I apologise for posting something like this here. I've been reading hacker news for years now. It's my favourite website. But, along with many other people right now, I'm in a pretty bad place and I've got several little people relying on me to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Be assured that any job offer right now would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance,

Miktor

http://www.amelyn.com/csvdriller/csvdriller.htm

CSV Driller is a simple webapp for drilling through information that you need to learn.

Simply paste csv information into the textarea in the middle of the page. Each line in the csv should be in the format: question,answer

It provides four random answers for the user to select for each question (one of which is the correct answer) and provides a running score, along with a final score at the end.

The advantage of this webapp, compared to other websites that offer quizzes on different subjects, is that the user can build a library of his/her own csv files, filled with the stuff he/she needs to learn, and use them with the webapp to learn a bunch of stuff specific to his/her current learning requirements. :D

I'm thinking of extending this and adding extra features, such as:

- saving previous scores and providing a list of the last x scores, so the user can see how his/her performance is improving/degrading over time - a button to reverse questions and answers in the csv text before drilling - a countdown where the user can select 5/10/20/30 seconds to answer each question - alternative answer formats other than multiple choice (e.g. type in the answer, numeric etc.) or adjust the number of multiple answers.

Any feedback or thoughts about what features people would be interested in seeing added to it is much appreciated. Please post feedback to this thread or post it to bigbadmick2000@hotmail.com.

Cheers!

Miktor

I was thinking about Nanowrimo and the daily word target to finish 50k words in November.

I wrote a free web app which counts the words you write and shows you how far along you are towards your daily target as a percentage.

It's here: www.amelyn.com/nanowrimo/nanowrimo_v2.htm

Feedback and suggestions for improvements are welcome, in this thread or to the following email:

michaelmclarnon@hotmail.co.uk

Cheers!

Miktor