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Trying to solve for tracking decisions, rather than issues, so that me & my coding AI buddy stay aligned with what I've decided previously: https://github.com/teekay/dictum Current…

500 days on Duolingo and it has felt like it was produced by ChatGPT 3.5 this entire time. 500 days of learning various bits & pieces and not being able to have a simple conversati…

SEEKING WORK | New York City Seasoned Product Engineer with 20+ YOE. Looking to help NYC founders scale beyond the MVP as your interim greybeard. I will clean up your code base and…

SEEKING WORK | Brooklyn, NY Keen to help teams in the tri-state area with hard problems around: - web performance - API integration - streaming media - modernizing legacy apps - cr…

SEEKING WORK | NYC | Remote Location: NYC, Remote Helping with maintaining and modernizing legacy code bases - PHP, JavaScript, .NET. As a seasoned generalist, I'll make sense of t…

A good way to get started is not to ask "How do I become a freelancer/consultant" but rather "what valuable business outcomes can I deliver with my technical skills" and then find …

You are right. Thank you! I edited it and removed the hourly billing bits so that I could better express my thesis.

Location: NYC, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Node, Typescript, C#, WPF, SQL, Mongo, PHP, HTML, CSS, Azure, AWS... Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/tkohl …

SEEKING WORK | Anywhere in the U.S. | Will travel I'm coming to the U.S. on an investor visa to build my agency. This is your chance to snatch a senior generalist developer hungry …

One thing that has worked really well for me in the past was joining Toastmasters International. This is a group of people who are working on their speaking skills, but the effect …

I made such transition years ago, and then went back to technical roles. The primary benefit of doing this is that you develop a product and people-oriented mindset. All of a sudde…

SEEKING WORK | CET, 6 hours overlap with ET possible | Remote I'll help your agency with software plumbing. Complex integrations, cloud deployment and performance, and backend code…

SEEKING WORK | CET, 6 hours overlap with ET possible | Remote I'll help your agency with software plumbing. Complex integrations, cloud deployment and performance, and backend code…

Good question. During the 2000 and 2008 crises, there were massive layoffs, which impacted contractors just as they did employees. In 2008, I contracted via an IT outsourcing compa…

I wouldn't let the lack of a relevant degree get in my way. Sure, there are some EU countries where degrees are still being listed as a job requirement. Hell, when I contracted for…

I've been deploying to the serverless stack on Azure (Functions, Service Bus), and have been mostly happy. Azure gets a lot of hate around here and it's hard to disagree with some …

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE, EU and US-East timezones | Back-end, integrations, performance Hi there! Need some help with complex backend topics, integrations, or your web app deployment…

Great points! Now, I don't think that a hustle must necessarily equal "passive income." It can be a freelancing hustle, or a product hustle, or a SaaS hustle, but there's nothing p…

They sure do! I have quite some experience working in Waterfall orgs. Starting around 2012, I noticed Scrum becoming the default. But, not much changed, just the ceremonies are cal…

There are two general paths that software devs can take: - do generalist software augmentation contracting, where you are essentially an employee but paid better (and fired faster …

I don't remember the last time I signed up to a mailing list just to be notified when some random app goes live. Let alone pre-ordering. I would do that if I already trust the orga…

SEEKING WORK | EU & US-East timezones | Remote Hi, I'm Tom, and I'm looking to connect with startups & agencies in NYC. I'll be coming over in late 2022 to set up my app dev shop o…

I have long thought that the JAM stack is primarily aimed at hobbyists, and I have changed my mind on the subject. True, for a hobbyist updating a blog a couple times per month, it…