Most of my scraping jobs don't produce one clean dataset. They produce several that overlap: the same search run with four keywords, the same category page scraped every night, two scrapers pointed at
A retainer sounds like the easy part of freelancing. The client pays every month, you do the work, everyone is happy. Then month three arrives with 19 hours of "quick changes" on a 10-hour package, or
I wanted to ask questions about a podcast's back catalogue with an LLM. The obvious route is to download every MP3, run it through Whisper or a paid speech-to-text API, and then chunk the output. That
Plenty of freelance projects slip for reasons that have nothing to do with code: a date nobody wrote down, a content handover the client didn't know was theirs, a "final" review that turns out to need
Scope creep rarely shows up as one big demand. It shows up as "can you also add a signup form?" in a Slack thread on a Tuesday afternoon. Each request looks too small to argue about. Five of them late
A lot of rate advice for freelance developers starts with "look at what others charge." That tells you what the market might accept. It doesn't tell you the lowest number you can take before the work
Many freelance software engineers and technical consultants know this painful ritual: A prospective client reaches out with an exciting vision ("We need an AI workflow to automate our logistics pipel