Back to the Internet

Hey Hackers,

Missed yesterday’s AMA with Alicia Ferratusco, founder of Starfish — one of the most vibrant emerging tech co-working and event spaces in California?

Read the full AMA for Ferratusco’s views the blockchain community, co-working, experimental real estate, ecosystem building and mechanism design for space operations.

When we’re not providing you with access to the brains of legendary founders and makers, or creating a space for you to experiment with building projects in public, or thinking about what it really means to treat your internet friends with respect, we’re talking /tech. In this week’s community round-up:

asked & answered in /software-development

From a developer standpoint, what are your opinions on WordPress and its relevancy? — @jordan

“I know traditional wordpress installations can be annoying, especially working with PHP, but I really recommend checking out headless WP development with WP custom fields and the WP API. You’ll be amazed of how much you can achieve with it (you can actually use Ruby on Rails, .NET, React, Vue, you name it).” — @agnelnieves

Getting into dapp development — anyone know of any good resources to learn more and get into it properly? — @raziel2244

“GUN 8 is interesting. Getting a hello world up and running is very easy 2 compared to alternative approaches I’ve seen.” — @dane

Help regarding my open source project — how do you spread the word?— @jojo.lichtenberger

“Post about your project on relevant subreddits and utilize social media for raising awareness. You could also try submitting your project details and a write-up to popular websites that would typically feature this type of content.”— @jordan

How much does an eCommerce website cost in 2019? — @marissa

“I found that approximately, a small-sized ecommerce website is determined by a few aspects: small product catalog (100–1000), some custom programming, off-the-shelf themes, light traffic, basic design. Small websites have no more than 25 pages and out-of-the-box functionality. Estimated small ecommerce website development cost: $2,000 to $15,000.” — @gln

Your favorite cool GitHub projects? — @jordan

“[Product Crawler] This open source project aims at creating a database that stores important information about everyday products (it initially concerned only food, edible products). Product information such as the ingredients, the nutritional value, preservatives, family companies etc.” — @ckerha

hot-off-the-press on hackernoon 2.0 in /product

How will the HN 2.0 commenting system work? — @agnelnieves

“We plan on using the community forum itself as the commenting system. For every story, there will be a related thread on the forum where you can comment and discuss the story. We decided to integrate with Discourse in this way for a few reasons, but the biggest reason is that we truly believe we can build a great community here, in part thanks to story discussion.” — @austin

Bonus Design Update: Contributor Profile I-1 — @faithcorinne

Should we label stories as Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced? — @dane

“I think the context provided around expertise level will really frame the title better for the reader. We could play with the language for the 3 levels a bit more. Maybe “Intro, Intermediate & Advanced”? Or “Intro, Tech Professional & Advanced Hacker”? Or “Basic, Professional & Expert”? Like a ski slope, the colors could be green, blue and black.” — @David

/random turns in /crypto and /technology

Name a band/song/album using only emojis — @austin

Thinking about how to fix traffic congestion during rush hour in cities. Is it possible to have a 1-way street that switches direction? — @dane

“Yes it is! That’s what people have to do in such crowded, small city like Hanoi. It’s like a sneak attack on people though because the rules of when the streets become one-way or two ways or one-way the other way change all the time, very much confusing people. Traffic cops also take advantage of this by “hiding” behind stop signs and jumping out of no way to catch people who didn’t know about the switch beforehand.” — @linh

Should Hackernoon come out publically against Bitcoin SV(BSV)? — @jayz

“For its part, Hacker Noon, as a community driven technology publication, invites its readers to take positions on the ongoing debate regarding the antics prevalent in the realm of cryptocurrencies. We’ve published several articles that herald Blockchain technologies as the greatest innovation since sliced bread, just as we’ve published several articles calling it the scam of the decade/century (depending on the hyperbole)…” — @hackerhodl

Best video game soundtracks? — @austin

“Try Mass Effect: Andromeda starting theme song. It will inspire and motivate you! very addictive stuff.” — @h3ypb

Online classes vs. on-site classes? — @caternoon

“The tuition bubble will pop one day…” — @David

What will replace Google search? — @austin

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