Article Archive

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Writing

The Dangers of Content Platforms
Which Shapes To Write? A Guide to Choosing Content Forms
Blog Posts As Bets: An Expectancy Analysis of Publishing Content
An Actionable Definition of “Content Strategy”
Case Study: 1 Talk + 1 Article = 2 New Clients
How To Improve Documentation For New Users
Writing Tools: 12 Tools I Use For Publishing Content Today
The Struggle of Marketing To Skeptical Developers
What’s The Best Publishing Cadence?
Should You Write Longform Articles or A Shortform Series? – Reader Question
How Do I Complete Against Other, Better Bloggers? – Reader Question
How to Choose Your Blogging Platform
Get Value From Content Without Traffic
Choose Your Next Article Topic With This Exercise
Writing With Siri
Process Documentation: The First Step to Eliminating Tedious Work
How I Used Writing to Double My Freelancing Rate As a Programmer

Software Development

Side Hustle to For Investment, Not Income
5 Ways to Carve Large Pull Requests Into Bite-Sized Ones
Code is a Liability
Is Your Engineering Focus on Product or Craft?
How do You Make Technology Stack Choices?
Why Do They Call It “Serverless” If It Runs On A Server?
Set & Achieve Your Goals Using OKRs
The Budget is Set. Now What?
Moving Fast Without Breaking Things
Reading Articles Because You’re Bored, Huh?
I Google Simple Functions Daily… Am I A Bad Developer?
Get Out Of Your House & Out of Your Head With A Coffee Cowork
Freelancing vs. Employment — When to Go Solo and When to Join a Team
Should You Repeal and Replace Your Legacy Code Base?
It’s Never About Your Slide Deck
Tiny Rock Side Hustle
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
A Low-Risk Way to Improve Your Estimation Skills
10 Reasons Projects Fail, According To Science
Developers: Make Better Estimates By Being Less Precise
What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Understand About Risk
SaaS Development Tools: 18 Tools To Build a SaaS Product Today

Freelancing & Consulting

How to Find Leads & Niche Down? – Reader Question
Why I Quit Freelancing
Win Clients With Robots: Marketing Automation for Consultants
What Did The Contractor Say to the Consultant?
Who Do You Serve? Defining Positioning
How To Use Pipedrive to Close More Sales
Dear Client: Why I Won’t Bill You By The Hour
How to Constructively Handle Clients Who Want Quotes Yesterday
How do You Create a Portfolio Before You Have Clients?
Overcome the Fear of Transitioning to Full Time Freelance
How to Raise Your Rates with Existing Clients
Increase Retainer Profitability Using Assets
When Should You Write a Proposal for a Potential Client?
Cut Unpaid Hours with a Streamlined Proposal Process
On Gross Potential Income and F*** You Money
Breaking Out Of The Bad Client Cycle
Reduce Scope Creep with This One Question
Is Freshbooks The Right Invoicing Software For You?
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
13 Lessons Learned From Consulting In 2015
A Guaranteed Strategy to Get Your First Clients
How to Survive Feast or Famine Cash Flow
What I Learned at the Double Your Freelancing Conference
The Only 3 Numbers That Matter to a Freelancer’s Bottom Line
5 Ways to Build a $200,000 Consultancy
Why Multiple Packages in Your Proposals Instantly Increase Conversions
How I Used Writing to Double My Freelancing Rate As a Programmer

Tutorials

Roll your Own Redux With useContext & useReducer
Add Hooks to Class Components With Higher-Order Components
Redux Now Has Hooks. A Before and After Comparison
How to Use useEffect (and other hooks) in Class Components
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”?
Pure Array Modifications: Plain JavaScript vs. Modern JavaScript
How to Update Content Based on URL params; No Libraries Required
No More X-Frame-Options Errors: How to Use Multiple URLs in A Rails Shopify App
A Workaround for CSV Upload Limits
How to Make an AJAX Request Without Using Frameworks or Libraries
Building Chrome Extensions: A 15-minute Overview [Video]
A Real World Metaprogramming Case Study
How to Remove the Hash From Angular Routes in Rails
Building Reliable Web Applications
Testing AngularJS With Karma + Jasmine
How to Test Controller Concerns in Rails 4
AngularJS: an Overview
My Eureka Moment With Regular Expressions

Digital Marketing

The Struggle of Marketing To Skeptical Developers
What BuzzFeed Can Teach Us About Image Sliders
What is a Marketing Developer?
How to Apply Design Principles To Your Marketing Initiatives
Win Clients With Robots: Marketing Automation for Consultants
Salutation Formatting For Nameless Subscribers
How to Trigger a Workflow For Every New Subscriber In Drip
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
How to Hide a Secret Landing Page from Google in WordPress with Yoast SEO
Integrating Calendly with Drip
Automatically Prune Inactive Subscribers From Drip
How to Use First Names With a Fall Back (Drip Quick Tip)
How to Change the Confirmation Link Text in Your Drip Welcome Emails