ajroach42, 29 days ago

This will be the home of my soon to be returning Impractical Computing zine.

It will also be the home of the Impractical Computing web series, if I ever make that.

In the meantime, it's a great way to see a showcase of the kinds of projects that I've worked on in the recent past, and to get an idea of the kind of work I'm willing to do.

ajroach42, 29 days ago

The core here is:

• I am accepting work
• If you are doing open source stuff, a hobby project, etc. I'm $25/hour.
• If you're a tech company, I'm $125/hour.
• If you're a small business, etc, I'm in between those two numbers, but closer to the hobby number.
• I can do lots of weird computer bullshit, and I can contract out to people I already work with and trust for the small number of things I can't do myself.
• Initial discussions are free, and I'll quote the whole project up front.
• I'd rather do weird BS for individuals than corporate stuff for corporations.

azonenberg, 29 days ago

@ajroach42 How's your C++, technical writing, and general electronics knowledge?

Does https://www.ngscopeclient.org/ seem like something you'd be a good fit for? I have a long list of wishlist items I'm too busy to work on and will gladly throw some budget at someone willing to spend time on it.

azonenberg, 29 days ago

@ajroach42 In particular, there are literally hundreds of pages of documentation that needs to be written for various processing blocks.

ajroach42, 29 days ago

@azonenberg My C++ is basically non-existent. I've dipped my toe, mostly for embedded work, but at the very beginning of my career.

I'm sure it's something I could get back up to speed on, but I'm probably not the right person for a heavy c++ project.

General electronics is fair to good, and I've worked as a technical writer in the past, but it's a few steps out of my core.

Happy to discuss the project further, or to shop it to some other folks who I think might be more well suited.

azonenberg, 29 days ago

@ajroach42 What I'm looking for is:

• Someone willing to work at a discounted rate for open source work (I'd be paying out of pocket and can't afford to pay commercial rates, and the pool of people willing to do it for nothing is small)

• Someone who understands general electronics concepts

• Someone who can read C++ code that implements various protocol decodes and DSP operations well enough to write documentation about how to use it

If this isn't you, but you can hook me up with someone who is, I'm all ears.

azonenberg, 29 days ago

@ajroach42 Basically, for each of ~100 processing blocks (or as many as we have time/budget for):

• Get a screenshot of it in use in the waveform viewer

• Get a screenshot of it in use in the filter graph editor

• Document all of the inputs and outputs

• Write a paragraph or two about what it does at a high level

azonenberg, 29 days ago

@ajroach42 Check out the "filters" section in here https://www.ngscopeclient.org/downloads/ngscopeclient-manual.pdf

The first dozen or so alphabetically are fairly well developed and are a good benchmark for what the rest should look like.

Note the remaining 100+ are a sentence or two, if that. This needs to change before a full release.

ajroach42, 29 days ago

@azonenberg I suspect I have the perfect candidate for you. I'll will forward him this thread, and follow up if he is interested.

azonenberg, 25 days ago

@ajroach42 Just following up, did you hear anything from your candidate or are they not interested or what?

badrihippo, 28 days ago

@ajroach42 hey nice! I've been thinking of getting this kind of sliding scale thing going for myself too, so good to see someone else doing it 😁

I'd also rather do weird BS for individuals than corporate stuff for corporations (although here the pay scale is probably 2½ times less than yours because that's all people can afford) 🧶