rl1987

By what metric freelancing never worked? As long as someone needs something done that they cannot or don't want to do themselves it is quite simple to get paid for doing the work for them. Self-employed artisans and professionals existed for centuries.

This sort of stuff already exists. The term is Data Loss Prevention.

Two reasons:

1. Significant decrease of funding available for speculative projects due to end of ZIRP in 2022.

2. Oversupply of people who want to work in tech due to overhyping and perception of that being easy kind of money until the crash happened. #learntocode, they were saying.

Plenty of people have ideas, but not many of them have resources and skills to actually build even a lifestyle business. Just say no unless they are going to pay you enough to be worth the effort.

Any kind of ship is a plausible explanation.

I would run this on VPS and use it via SSH: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

Direct consequence of programming gold rush of 2010s and esp. 2020Q3-2022. When you have choirs of people whining about how companies are "desperate to find anyone being able to solve Fizzbuzz"... when influencers are making videos about how they supposedly (in some cases - actually) do 1-2 hours of work per day in FAANG campus... when even some technical people honestly believe that average salary of developer is $150k per annum... when completely random people with blue collar backgrounds are looking to get into software development... when bootcamps are making claims about making random people hirable in software in six months there is a problem. The gold rush problem. What we as industry and community were broadcasting for a long time is that making money is easy in software, but that is not true and mostly never was. What the masses are hearing is "six figures in six months". What ends up happening is that for many positions there are large number of juniors, freshers, aspirants, wannabes, bootcamps grads, some opportunistic chancers and even some blatantly fraudulent imposters. Imagine posting a junior dev position and having a flashmob of 100+ people instantly appearing, yet the objective is to hire one person. One way or another, rest of them have to be told off. It's just mathematical reality that is made even worse by end of ZIRP and significant slowdown of VC money.

They could do what PayPal is doing - steal customer balances by using "risk management" and legal technicalities as excuse. Perhaps that is already starting to happen.

If you need them for IPC within same host then POSIX queues (see https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/mqueue.h.h...) are a thing.

Redis can be used as simple message queue as well.

Just use one of the many data providers that scrape (or maybe buy?) LI data and resell it via API (Nubela/Proxycurl, Prospeo...).

Exactly the problem with whiteboarding and the likes of Leetcode being so widespread. If getting a job becomes a complex skillset on its own largely disjoint from actual realities of day-to-day work you don't select the person best at doing the job - you select the person best at doing interviews.

Ironically speaking, the person in question could handle all the interviews with new candidates if he's so good at interviewing.

Link missing?

By developing many small modules that are meant to run within the generalised machinery. Something like this: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/tree/master/packages/nodes-bas...

Do they count as developers if they only write SQL?

Most of the startups and side projects are dead before reaching that point. When you're just starting something there are more immediate problems to worry about.

In Japan they would say something like "this would be difficult".

Agile coaches who never wrote a single line of code. Blockchain people. Coding bootcamps and content/course creators promising unrealistic timelines to developer jobs. Pretty much anyone talking like they just made OVER-9000-DOLLARS(!!!) in a week with ChatGPT/Midjourney/Bitcoin/affiliate marketing/whatever the latest fad is. To lesser degree consumer grade VPN companies.

Back of the envelope... $300 per month is $10 per day. At 2 hr. of work per day it's $5/hr. I don't know your urgency level, but you can trivially make that much on Fiverr by doing small scale work (setting up stuff on servers, developing simple scripts) once you establish yourself a bit.

You may be overestimating the real amount of truly focused work that was done by many technical employees back in 2010s.

Don't they keep you under surveillance while you work?

I thought Moore's law ended years ago and the current transistor sizes are merely marketing numbers?

One man's outdated tech is another's timeless classic.

What kind of cert do you have from Bellingcat? Maybe you can do some freelance OSINT work?

I stick with Vim, as it tends to be pre-installed on many Linux systems in the cloud (e.g. Digital Ocean droplets). I get the same on the server as I use on my MBP locally.

Most people in the cemetery are too dead to care.

In my opinion we are facing the crash of programming gold rush, especially in web development. The only exception is AI (especially LLMs). For a long time, software development was greatly overhyped as a way to make money, with no shortage of self-proclaimed tech leads selling training on how to pass the FAANG interview and common whinings about supposed developer shortage. What goes up must come down. Right now, the market is correcting itself, as the rivers of VC funding for the WeWorks of the the world are running dry under the changing macro-economic conditions.

Web will still exist for a long time and people will keep making money in software development, but things are changing. Easy money is going away, which makes us face the ever-present matter of actually creating the value for the world that was so easy to forget when money was pretty much growing on the branches of Merkle trees.

Google Ads platform has "Keyword Planner" thingy that can also be accessed via API: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/keyword-pl...

In my view Pandas is a far better additional thing to learn than Excel if you already know Python. It will build up from your existing Python skills and let you accomplish a lot of tabular data work that you can do in spreadsheets.

Were you able to get these projects at first world rates though?

> To be realistic ... 300K in the bay is barely livable if you're targeting a middle class life with kids and targeting retiring at 65.

LOL. Do you live in Mars?

If 300k is "barely livable", then how does a Starbucks barista make a living in SV?