When you're going independent as a freelancer, you are starting a small business. You have to do more than just coding now: clients have to be invoiced, payroll has to be run, taxes have to be paid, and more. All that fun stuff! Well, perhaps fun for professionals: the accountants. You need to find one, … Continue reading How to find a good accountant →

I enjoy programming. Unfortunately, my skull is too small to hold a lot of stuff at the same time. Because of this, I have to keep my eyes on the target and I have to take small steps. If I don't, I risk introducing bugs and unneccessary cruft. Perhaps you're different, but this is how … Continue reading Programmer Friday: I love pseudocode →

We keep coming up with new ways to build software. Many of them are positives. Some of them are temporary setbacks. They are often new takes on things that have been tried before. Sometimes it's a joy to jump on that new framework, library or language. "Yes! Finally a better way of doing this!"  But … Continue reading Programmer Friday: Careful conservative or grumpy grouch? →

If you join a team I'm working at, you'll probably hear this from me on your first day: “...we've done our best to write documentation, but I know that it could be way better. Could you help out? It would be awesome if we could improve the docs together while you're getting to know the … Continue reading Programmer Friday: New here? Please help with the docs! →