Let's talk about life goals

PlayBossWar — Thu, 30 May 2019 15:02:22 +0000

Hello everyone,

So I'm here to talk about my life goals and my future, searching for advice since I feel like I want to do way more than I'm capable of.

At the moment I'm studying full stack developer at Open Classrooms and I'm nearly done, and I love it.

Now the problem is that I have a lot of projets and I don't know what to take.
Si right now I want to continue my parents business what consist in renting holiday chalets to other people since I love that, but I also want to continue another 2 years at Open Classrooms and follow Expert Java. I like them both so I can't decide.

Even for the future I can't decide. I love coding and would like to live from that, but I also have plans to expand my parents business or start a cocktail bar with my wife.
The problem here is that I can choose one of those and do the rest as a hobby in my free time but I can't do all of them, or at least I don't feel capable of.

If someone has any good advice here I would appreciate that 😊

A Geoloc website for a friend

PlayBossWar — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:56:14 +0000

Let's start with the beginning, a friend in Ecuador got her wallet stolen, and I only knew his name.

So I started googling him a bit, found his Facebook and of course created a fake account that seems a minimum legit.
While waiting let's figure out how I can retrieve his localisation.

Remember that in some countries what I'm going to do next don't work. I tested it with my friend and the localisation gave me her exact coordinates, while in Belgium for example it gives me a location 100 km away.

I found a pretty cool Json API that allows me to get the localisation data that is linked with the ip that is used to do the request : http://gd.geobytes.com
So with a simple fetch it was really easy to get the information if someone opened my website.
Now the problem is a bit tricky, since it's a static page and I don't want to install a node-js back-end, just upload the files to a server host and done, so I decided to email the information to myself.

After a little bit of research, I found PostMail https://postmail.invotes.com/ , and it worked great.

Tried it myself and I can easily get the information in my mailbox of anyone who visits this page.

GITHUB REPO : https://github.com/titivermeesch/geoloc-website

There is just one downside, someone can simply extract the token I use to send the mails and use it for himself, but yeah, that's the risk I take to catch that thief.

Thanks for reading. Hope my first article is interesting.

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Let's talk about life goals

A Geoloc website for a friend