Noodles Explore is my latest project to help anyone find the best recipes on the web as quickly as possible. Just enter whatever you're looking to cook, and Explore will find some fantastic recipes for you. You can see the recipes right there, and clip them back to your Noodles library in just one click.
Interesting story. I think that while I may not find an internship this summer, I can just work on side projects and keep learning — that can always continue, even if I can’t work with other folks. I really appreciate your story, and interesting perspective!
Thanks, John! I really appreciate your response; you’ve got a lot of good advice there. I’ll quickly respond here from my phone.
I’m trying to learn some other languages/architectures, and side projects are basically everything I’ve worked on so far. With school in the way it’s hard to find enough time for everything. That’s why I’m trying to find something really interesting to work on this summer.
Also: I looked into those laws a bit and it seems like once I’m 14 (I will be once an internship for me could start), I can work 8 hours/day while school isn’t in session.
littletimmy: It’s not at all driven by my parents. I’m doing it only because I love it.
On self-started projects: Noodles was my first of them, and I’m working on some more. Side projects are great, but right now I’m looking for something bigger.
It’s not for the cash — I’m not even concerned that I’ll get paid at all. I more want it because endlessly building things on your own isn’t as challenging or as much fun as being with a team for a little while. I’d also like to meet some more new people along the way.
On security: I’ve emailed several companies about security bugs on their websites, but I hadn’t considered being paid for it. I’ll check that out!
That’s definitely true, jfoutz. I built Noodles because I wanted to, and I’m thinking about some more projects I might take on personally.
I’m also going to try and start writing tutorials to make learning things less painful for new folks, because with more recent frameworks like React there just aren’t a ton of articles out there yet.
Let me know what you think!