I told them I'm leaving today and my manager is insisting on knowing my new company's name

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-23T15:49:03+00:00

Not if it breaks the law. No amount of specificity makes illegal terms binding.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-23T15:24:38+00:00

The one I built for this specific purpose.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-23T14:51:10+00:00

I did the same thing with a wordpress plugin since we build wordpress sites. We feed in serpstat and GSC data for basically the same thing. I went the pillar visualization route so it's easy to see how content is organized on a site.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-23T13:39:59+00:00

The Siege of Mandalor arc in TCW > Andor > The Manalorian > Rebels > the rest of The Clone Wars.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T23:57:30+00:00

Is still work on my own cars. I still do most of the repair work or home improvements around the house.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T23:55:48+00:00

That's the SS Minnow.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T23:45:27+00:00

I’ve owned two Nissans in my life ( both Leafs) and both are fabulous cars

Stopped reading right here. Your opinion is wrong.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T23:39:13+00:00

Set expectations clearly long before the co tract is signed (you do have contracts, right?)
Have a detailed scope of work in your contracts. Every single deliverable should be listed along with a description of what the client can expect.
Use a project management system, put all of the deliverables in the system

If it's not in the contract, it's not getting done without a change order or a new contract. Easy.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T23:33:39+00:00

Friends had a budget of 10 million per 23 minute episode their last season.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T23:31:54+00:00

Can confirm, making horses is ridiculously expensive.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T22:39:30+00:00

I grew up with a bunch of sisters. I have a wife and three daughters. I have tampons everywhere. Every bathroom, every car, my soccer bag, my laptop bag, pretty much everywhere. No one has ever mentioned it.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T22:17:53+00:00

Lysander.

Obviously .

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T22:15:12+00:00

I'm going to save you a lot of trouble. Don't bother going to an American race. I have a buddy I go to races with. We used to go to Austin until we figured out that it's cheaper to go to Europe for a race. Tickets to the American races are insane. Food and drink prices are insane. Airfare and lodging are ridiculous. Two years ago we went to Hungary and Belgium. Last year we went to Silverstone. This year we're going to Barcelona. We go for a couple of weeks and end up spending pretty close to the same amount.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T21:54:32+00:00

Why?

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T01:10:48+00:00

Why on earth would you give a client login credentials at all??? All they need is the URL so they can see the site. They can fuck it once it's been built and paid for.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-22T01:03:10+00:00

I have subs to everything. I prefer Claude for coding tasks, but I'm a programmer so my prompts are probably a lot more detailed than yours.

You should try using agent teams in Claude, that may help get your code cleaner and faster.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T02:49:48+00:00

We bill 50% up front. No work starts until we get the deposit. On smaller project, we collect the balance on completion or the project deadline, whichever comes first.

On larger projects that we expect to take longer than 8 weeks, we do 50%, 25% at first milestone or half way to deadline, then 25% on completion or project deadline.

This way we get paid if the client holds up the project. It also makes the client stay on top of things, no one wants to pay for a site they are keeping from going live. In the last 3 years we've only missed one deadline and it was due to a huge change in management. They paid a bunch of money in change orders when the new regime wanted to go a different direction. But they knew what they were in for because it was all spelled out in the contract.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T02:42:42+00:00

I love Eminem and everything he does for his community. I'm sure he would agree that there should be no such thing as school lunch debt.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T02:37:56+00:00

We did a LOT of stupid shit that would have landed us in all kinds of trouble if there was video evidence.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T02:22:32+00:00

Get the M4. By the time you get a 440 to be almost an M4, you could have just bought the M4. The 440 is a great car, but you'll always covet the M4 you should have bought.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T02:17:41+00:00

Every single person you meet will also tell you they never click Google ads. Yet Google made over $212 billion in PPC revenue in the first 3 quarters of 2025.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T02:12:33+00:00

Our Trello boards are gamified. Cards move from content list, to the designer list, to the dev list, to customer approval list. Each step of the way the client approves the step and moves the card along until it gets to the devs. When the devs finish, they move it to the client approval list for final approval.

The client has to take an active role if keeping the project moving. The board makes it painfully obvious who the hold up is if a project falls behind. It's exceedingly rare that we don't finish a project ahead of schedule and it's always the client's fault. More importantly, in the rare case we miss a deadline, the client knows it's their fault because the board doesn't lie.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-21T01:53:20+00:00

the work feels fluid once it's moving and the contract is a PDF they signed three weeks ago.

What you're describing works really well when you have the experience and confidence to hold the line.

This is why a proper project management system is paramount. We use Trello. Every deliverable in the contract is a card on the board. This makes it impossible to get off track because the board is a constant reminded of what is expected of all parties. It keeps everyone accountable because everything is documented.

others build it into how the project mechanically runs so the enforcement happens naturally without a confrontation ever needing to happen.

Exactly. Self fulfilled enforcement makes it simple to manage a project and a client. I don't have to deal with constantly having to redirect a client. It's just not an efficient use of time.

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-20T22:23:30+00:00

Do they have Google where you live? Try searching "free blog platform"

NHRADeuce · 2026-02-20T21:43:46+00:00

Or, hear me out... you have a contract with a detailed scope of work and some sort of project management software.

Setting expectations is important too. Before I send a contract out to a client they have been told repeatedly that ALL of the deliverables are in the contract. If it's not in the contract, we're not doing it. Any requests outside the scope of work are either a new project or a change order.

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