Article Archive

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Roll your Own Redux With useContext & useReducer
Why Do They Call It “Serverless” If It Runs On A Server?
Add Hooks to Class Components With Higher-Order Components
A Holistic Guide to Marketing Page Optimization
Setting and Achieving Your Goals With OKRs
Redux Now Has Hooks. A Before and After Comparison
How to Use useEffect (and other hooks) in Class Components
The Budget is Set. Now What?
Finding Development Leads, and Niching Down: Reader Question
Moving Fast Without Breaking Things
Reading Articles Because You’re Bored, Huh?
Test Clicks On Connected Components In Under 10 Lines of Code
Write Redux Reducer Tests Fast
How to Test Async Redux Thunks
How to Perform HTTP Requests with React & Redux
Which version of JavaScript is “Vanilla JavaScript”?
I Google Simple Functions Daily… Am I A Bad Developer?
Why You Should NEVER Walk Out of A Job Interview
Choose Your Next Article Topic With This Exercise
Pure Array Modifications: Plain JavaScript vs. Modern JavaScript
Get Out Of Your House & Out of Your Head With A Coffee Cowork
How to Update Content Based on URL params; No Libraries Required
Writing With Siri
Why I’m Quitting Freelancing
Freelancing vs. Employment — When to Go Solo and When to Join a Team
What is a Marketing Developer?
How to Apply Design Principles To Your Marketing Initiatives
Win Clients With Robots: Marketing Automation for Consultants
What Did The Contractor Say to the Consultant?
Salutation Formatting For Nameless Subscribers
Breeze Through Your Next Whiteboard Interview
Is Drip A Good Solution For Shopify Stores?
No More X-Frame-Options Errors: How to Use Multiple URLs in A Rails Shopify App
Who Do You Serve? Defining Positioning
6 Places You Can Look For RFPs
How To Use Pipedrive to Close More Sales
Process Documentation: The First Step to Eliminating Tedious Work
How to Trigger a Workflow For Every New Subscriber In Drip
A Workaround for CSV Upload Limits
How to Run Losing Split Tests and Still Win
Drip Workflow: Split Full Names into First and Last Name
12 Ways to Increase Revenue With Drip
How to Share Your Google Analytics With Your Consultant
Using Growth Initiatives To Increase Focus
The Difference Between Marketing and Growth
How to Increment a Custom Field In Drip
How to Write More Analytics Friendly Code
Step 1. Automate Keyword Research; Step 2.Gain 10,000 New Leads; Step 3: Profit
Dear Client: Why I Won’t Bill You By The Hour
The Good Book Bad Title Book Club
How to Constructively Handle Clients Who Want Quotes Yesterday
Should You Repeal and Replace Your Legacy Code Base?
How do You Create a Portfolio Before You Have Clients?
Overcome the Fear of Transitioning to Full Time Freelance
Recommended Reading for June 2017
How to Raise Your Rates with Existing Clients
Increase Retainer Profitability Using Assets
It’s Never About Your Slide Deck
Minimum Viable Team Management
When Should You Write a Proposal for a Potential Client?
Cut Unpaid Hours with a Streamlined Proposal Process
How to Hide a Secret Landing Page from Google in WordPress with Yoast SEO
On Gross Potential Income and F*** You Money
Tiny Rock Side Hustle
Breaking Out Of The Bad Client Cycle
Reduce Scope Creep with This One Question
How to Make the Time for Your Side Project
Why I Can’t Tell You How Much It Costs to Build an Online Real Estate Listing
Building Your Clique: How Many Clients Does Your Business Need?
A Low-Risk Way to Improve Your Estimation Skills
How to Make an AJAX Request Without Using Frameworks or Libraries
Is Freshbooks The Right Invoicing Software For You?
10 Reasons Projects Fail, According To Science
How to Create A Developer Portfolio When You Can’t Show Your Work
How Do You Deal With a Meeting-Happy Client?
Places to Find Work Besides Upwork and Freelancer.com
Why You Should Charge Flat Project Rates
Building Chrome Extensions: A 15-minute Overview [Video]
Case Study : How I Increased Email Signups By 481%
How to Write A Software Program Roadmap
13 Lessons Learned From Consulting In 2015
A Guaranteed Strategy to Get Your First Clients
Integrating Calendly with Drip
Automatically Prune Inactive Subscribers From Drip
How to Use First Names With a Fall Back (Drip Quick Tip)
Bringing Mobile Marketing to Thousands of Athenians
A Simple Solution for Complex Software Estimation
Applying a Fresh Coat of a Paint to Enterprise Storage Monitoring
How Borrowing Magnolia Brought the Sharing Economy to the Wedding Industry
How to Change the Confirmation Link Text in Your Drip Welcome Emails
How to Survive Feast or Famine Cash Flow
What I Learned at the Double Your Freelancing Conference
Career Advice Tweetstorm From Patrick McKenzie
Develeopers: Make Better Estimates By Being Less Precise
A 9-Step Content Process That Will Grow Your Business
A Real World Metaprogramming Case Study
What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Understand About Risk
What You Can Learn From Apple About Launching Products
How to Remove the Hash From Angular Routes in Rails
SaaS Development Tools: 18 Tools To Build a SaaS Product Today
Building Reliable Web Applications
2014 Post Mortem
The Only 3 Numbers That Matter to a Freelancer’s Bottom Line
5 Ways to Build a $200,000 Consultancy
Testing AngularJS With Karma + Jasmine
Yeoman + AngularJS + Foundation: A Modern Front End Setup
Why Multiple Packages in Your Proposals Instantly Increase Conversions
How to Write More Personal Emails to Your List That Get Open and Convert
How I Used Writing to Double My Freelancing Rate As a Programmer
How to Test Controller Concerns in Rails 4
10 Resources That Shaped My Career
AngularJS: an Overview
Writing Cron Jobs and Command Line Scripts in CodeIgniter
My Eureka Moment With Regular Expressions
Setting Up a Template and Assets in CodeIgniter