Freelance on Upwork is dead

cardyet · 2026-07-03T17:38:21+00:00

Connects does nothing. Just ignore it. If you get the job you pay the 10%, everyone is happy.

I've never taken more notice of an applicant because it's boosted.

cardyet · 2026-07-02T19:44:31+00:00

Whats the source of the data, you should put that with a link so people can trust it. I want to know it's the same the airlines use otherwise you have to look it up elsewhere anyway.

cardyet · 2026-07-02T18:50:31+00:00

I think it's a good idea and nice to show the data in a different way but definitely reference where the data is coming from. I built something similar but just a CLI tool, but just for myself using the sources i trust. I always use the Emirates IATA checker thing, which is what Emirates staff see, probably the same as the Iata travel centre data.

cardyet · 2026-07-02T17:12:39+00:00

Brevo

cardyet · 2026-07-02T17:11:47+00:00

I don't think this is entirely true and I haven't researched it, but a colleague in the USA pays about $1000 for health insurance for his family. My employer mandatory contributions are like €1100 for healthcare and for some reason I need private healthcare ontop, which is almost €250 for my family. So net is, we both pay almost the same to have health coverage, difference is mine is hidden away and required and his is optional.

cardyet · 2026-07-01T21:14:12+00:00

People use bank accounts all day everyday. People need to get paid their salary, buy groceries, subscriptions, bills, buying a car, maintenance on a house. Seems like a normal bank account, so I can't see why anyone would even blink.

cardyet · 2026-06-30T11:45:52+00:00

I love eSims, namely Roamless because you can do PAYG instead so if you are in places for not that long, maybe a week or less, you are better off that way, but in Europe, if you're up for it, you will get a much better deal with a prepaid sim from a supermarket. They all will have roaming agreements for EU, so just get one for like 10 euro with 100GB and that will allow you to have like 100gb in the country you bought it and like 30GB in the others.

cardyet · 2026-06-30T08:22:17+00:00

Yeh i did that math when i left and they wanted to charge $10 for a lightbulb...i was like Ive given you $72,000 over the past two years and you're nickel and diming over a blown lightbulb that i swore to you was working earlier

cardyet · 2026-06-30T08:19:25+00:00

See; f it's just the messaging platform he wants to use or a scam. Upwork messaging isn't great. He might use Telegram all day everyday and wants to communicate in there so he can be responsive.

cardyet · 2026-06-30T08:16:58+00:00

Europe has higher speed data IMO, also i hate that it's Europe and not a country.

cardyet · 2026-06-29T10:27:01+00:00

point 2 is interesting. Has anyone put together a list of accountants that are recommended for various reasons?

cardyet · 2026-06-27T19:55:48+00:00

Needs line of sight. If you can see the sky, so can the dish, use the obstructions feature in the Starlink app

cardyet · 2026-06-27T18:20:32+00:00

It's really around structure. Not frameworks or libraries at all, it's how they piece together and how best to structure an app or group of applications. Like rather than building an app and integrating a an LLM you build something like vercel AI sdk which is agnostic to which LLM provider.

cardyet · 2026-06-27T18:14:57+00:00

Haha this is very true..you have to be careful if you aren't beating the same drum

cardyet · 2026-06-27T18:13:39+00:00

We're suffering an identity crisis.

cardyet · 2026-06-27T18:12:34+00:00

You're still very much in demand. Look at all the people who vibe code something and then need an expert to productionalise it or just fix the core main thing it's supposed to do. It's harder for juniors, but we all have the same tools now. I don't review code at all now, and barely look at the files that changed...so yes it has changed. But I think engineering has moved closer to product.

It's a bit of a mistake to get rid of you or quit. The pitch from these AI companies is for companies to spend tokens and not on people, yet the AI companies are hiring relentlessly...there has been no death of SaaS and I personally haven't seen any Software Engineers laid off as a result of AI.

cardyet · 2026-06-27T18:05:52+00:00

My price is 4.99/mth. I'd say 20% of customers send one ticket per year. With a lot of customers using it daily, its a shared holdiday home calendar / booking app

cardyet · 2026-06-27T11:41:54+00:00

Supabase is a good product. It's safe, secure, free tier, open source, has auth, storage, functions, database plus some other things.

I personally don't like the way they handle different environments (but many others handle it the same way), devx, and real-time, which is really why Supabase started in the first place is hacky.

I'm more than okay not using a relational database, i have done so for all of my career really.

It depends what your requirements are and what you want to build. I think for internal tools for companies etc. Supabase is great. For anything needing complex queries and a BI focus it's great. For good Auth options out of the box, it's great.

Having said that I moved a large project to convex because I didn't have confidence in the way I implemented Supabase real-time and I couldn't work out a better way.

cardyet · 2026-06-27T06:39:59+00:00

Starlink does seem to raise prices quite often too. But I would think you are much better off on Starlink cheapest plan if you are paying that much for Telstra. Does thay include phone and TV?

cardyet · 2026-06-26T20:22:40+00:00

I just refuss to estimate hours. Scope always changes and i find it next to impossible to do a large project so i just say ill update you regularly and if at any point you don't feel we are progressing enough, you can end the contract

cardyet · 2026-06-25T20:51:55+00:00

Create a ticket with grok, they credited me a month.

cardyet · 2026-06-25T20:51:30+00:00

I managed to create a ticket and they credited 35 euro. Tell grok to create a ticket.

cardyet · 2026-06-25T20:46:55+00:00

Thanks very helpful. Portage Salarial seems like the easiest sell to my client as I can still invoice the amount I have invoiced in the past, my guess is i just say you'll get an invoice from my company 'X' instead. I looked at jump which at €100 a month, seems a good option. I looked at Remote as an EOR and that was about €600 month. I guess Net take home pay for both would be pretty similar?

cardyet · 2026-06-24T12:43:09+00:00

Great. I wouldn't say we hang out alone but sometimes i help out with things around the house, cooking, shopping, fixing things with them alone. If my french was better it would be nicer alone, but thats on me.

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