Aidan Feldman afeld

A friend is looking for a new tech job and asked if I knew anyone at a handful of companies. I'm (meaningfully) connected to more people who are relevant to this on Twitter than LinkedIn, so figured it would be easiest to scour people's bios. Naturally, I did this in the nerdiest way possible and automated it.

<3 @aidanfeldman

P.S. See also:

my list of recommended job boards
SocialRank (structured search of followers)

Projects

Matt Walters - mockrequire
Leon Stankowski - monty
Costa Michailidis - payopal
Haris Amin - kyatchi (Paypal API wrapper)
Matt Walters - coinbase API wrapper
Matt Walters - forecast.io API wrapper
Sohel S - dropweb

I have a lot of people at Hacker Hours ask about where to look for jobs - here are some places I recommend.

Boards

AngelList (startups)
Authentic Jobs
Craigslist (mostly freelance)
Digital DUMBO (NYC-specific)
Github
Idealist (social good)

I've seen waaaay too many people modifying their Wordpress sites live, which is fragile because when (not "if") you break something, your visitors will see it. Here are steps for setting up a copy of your site locally, so you can muck around without worry. These instructions are for Wordpress sites hosted on GoDaddy specifically, but they should be fairly easy to interpret for other providers.

To back up your database

Log into GoDaddy, and go to "My Account".
Under "Web Hosting", click Launch next to your site's name.
Under "Databases", click "MySQL".
Next to your database name, click "Actions"->"Back Up".
Log into FTP, and under /_db_backups/ you'll see a new *.sql file.
Rename this to be mydb-YYMMDD.sql format (e.g. superwordpress-130220.sql).

This list has been superseded by Public APIs. Check there for APIs with Auth: No, HTTPS and CORS Yes.

List of data APIs that require no server-side auth or private credentials, and are thus good for small browser-only JS projects.

3taps (information)
Adobe Creative SDK (image editing)
App.net
Bing Maps

	for D in `find . -type d -depth 1`
	do
	cd $D
	echo $D
	git status
	cd - > /dev/null
	done

	require 'benchmark'

	require File.expand_path('../../../load_paths', __FILE__)
	require "active_record"

	RECORDS = 20000


	conn = { :adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => ':memory:' }

	$(function(){
	var kittenize = function(){
	$('.fillmoreInner:not(.kitten)').each(function(i, el){
	var $el = $(el);
	var url = 'url("http://placekitten.com/' + $el.width() + '/' + $el.height() + '")';
	$el.css('background-image', url);
	$el.addClass('kitten');
	});

	$('img:not(.kitten)').each(function(i, el){

	{
	"_id":"659f632137e5bf99fb7e49caed006459",
	"_rev":"2-832c2ae4a7472636d852c9ad1517b9a2",
	"status":"ok",
	"payload":{
	"id":5334632,
	"repository":{
	"id":63478,
	"name":"jsonp",
	"owner_name":"afeld",

	<div class="galleryRow rowOf2">
	<div class="introPanel xsome rowOf2-0 groupOf0 galleryPreview medium" data-gallery-id="5112c78b932b6315e6000115" data-xsome-size="0"><div class="introPanel-inner"><a href="http://gimli.aidan.jux.nu:8080/"><div class="galleryInfo"><div class="cornerButton"></div><div class="galleryInfo-child descriptionLinksEmpty"><div class="galleryInfo-sub-child"><div class="gallery-title"><div class="titleWrapper"><div class="juxTitle">EVERYTHING</div></div><div class="juxByline">by <span class="authordisplayname" data-empty-value="gimli" spellcheck="false">gimli</span></div></div><div class="galleryInfo-descriptionAndLinks" data-elem="descriptionAndLinks"><div class="juxByline">by <span class="authordisplayname" data-empty-value="gimli" spellcheck="false">gimli</span></div></div></div></div></div></a><div class="clear"></div></div></div>
	<div class="introPanel xsome rowOf2-1 groupOf0 galleryPreview large" data-gallery-id="5112c78a932b6315e60000ea" data-xsome-size="0"><div class=