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I took part in a remote only multi-day hackathon and found it hard to collaborate as in a on-site hackathon and keep sane during the long hours behind the screen.

What experiences have you made with remote only hackathons? Which worked? What did not? Especially if you don't sign up as a team but where teams form at the beginning of the event so you work with new people.

When you search a new job, apart from the regular job description (position, technology, Joel test) which criteria are important for you?

What makes a good job for you?

I feel that a lot of companies still underestimate softer criteria like "remote possible", "deep work possible" or "development plan from day".

What are your favorite resources for total testing beginners, no matter which programming language?

My three favorites are: 1. Obey The Testing Goat (Python, [0]), 2. Test Driven Laravel (PHP/Laravel, $$$, [1]), 3. the RSpec book (used for ~5$, or the new one [2])

[0] https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html#toc [1] https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com/ [2] https://pragprog.com/book/rspec3/effective-testing-with-rspec-3

What is your favourite (video or written) tutorial for beginners – in any technology?

Mine is Django Girls Tutorial (https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/) because it does not assume any prior knowledge and has a good balance between the big picture and small details.

I do have a static HTML site that I want to make accessible via user/password authentification. I have at least 500 private users. Which options do I have apart from Netlify Pro's Identification (99$+/month), using Lamba on S3 (0) or fiddling with NGINX/Apache Basic HTTP Auth?

Setting up a full Laravel seems to be overkill as well. Hosted solution with custom HTML would be best, but any framework (PHP, Python, JS) would work too.

(0) (https://hackernoon.com/serverless-password-protecting-a-static-website-in-an-aws-s3-bucket-bfaaa01b8666)