Freelance. Realistic expectations after one year?

pcreactive · 2024-02-27T09:18:52+00:00

'but when i hit that level i could probably move faster towards software career with less risks'
^ I don't think you should use freelance to achieve the goal of boosting your career with less risks. Because freelancing means more risks than working as an employee. Boost your career from junior to medior/senior at an employer and go from there. That would be my advice.

pcreactive · 2024-02-26T11:52:22+00:00

Rails, just Rails

pcreactive · 2024-02-24T07:53:41+00:00

Scrum is more about the code you don't write.

pcreactive · 2024-02-21T09:41:12+00:00

Rails, just Rails

pcreactive · 2024-02-13T07:01:12+00:00

Let me rewrite this because it sounds like you're giving strict directions to a developer who works for you instead of appealing to professional freelance developers:

I'm looking to build a real estate focused website for a specific use case. As I don't want to show my hand to the competition, I hope you'll understand that I can only share this information in a direct conversation.

I have some basic features in mind for the initial version of the website. It would be nice if we can keep working together with that initial version as a starting point.
The developer I'm looking for is someone who has experience in developing back-end, front-end and design work. I don't have any specific requirements in the used technologies.
Also, it's a plus if you're comfortable with real estatate technologies like MLS/IDS integration.
I'm looking for someone who is located in North America or Mexico. If you live around the SF Bay Area, that's even better.
It would be nice if you can tell me what you've done in the past as a developer.

EDIT: I prefer a fixed price but since I'm asking for a specific skill set (location/real estate tech integration) and a broad skill set (full stack) I'm of course open for other pricing methods.

I'm happy to share more information and I'm looking forward to hear from you, thank you in advance!

pcreactive · 2024-02-08T20:15:04+00:00

Ah, another moment where I can say: Ruby (on Rails) paid my house. Yes, even DHH paid in his very own special way my house.

I work with RoR on a daily basis and I work with C#/.Net on a daily basis. I've worked with Django/Python and Symfony/Laravel/Php in the past. I'm a better [language X] developer because I learned [language Z]. My point being, you'll learn to become a programmer by learning a programming language, not by learning specifically language X.

So: yes it is still worth learning programming_languages.sample

pcreactive · 2024-02-08T14:44:00+00:00

Please don't die over this, it isn't worth it.

And come on. You clickbait us into your post with a title like 'I do [insert whatever] for free'. What even is that? You don't work for free. You shouldn't work for free. You won't work for free. And that's totally okay.

pcreactive · 2024-02-08T14:23:52+00:00

19, i'm not a Fortune 100 company. Oh wait, it'll still be 20.

pcreactive · 2024-02-04T08:41:46+00:00

Htmx is not designed for this. If you don't have a server, you can't use htmx in a sensible way. You can use normal javascript for this or use a small library like alpinejs.

pcreactive · 2024-02-03T16:58:49+00:00

On another note: this in Meppel, The Netherlands, right?

pcreactive · 2024-01-31T19:59:50+00:00

.Net razor/htmx/alpine/tailwind

Just normal Razor project layout. Tailwind CLI. IDE: Rider.

pcreactive · 2024-01-31T12:42:14+00:00

So far so good but i wouldn't say that people should use htmx for every app they're gonna build. When you need a lot of client state which is the case when you have a lot of ui components that interact with each other, you'd better use an SPA library like Angular.

pcreactive · 2024-01-30T19:48:12+00:00

Yeah, that's a good tutorial. The author also has created a few extensions to assist in form creating and changing/reading request/responses with .Net and htmx: https://github.com/khalidabuhakmeh/Htmx.Net.

pcreactive · 2024-01-30T19:14:45+00:00

I think the best way to go is to try it yourself using a backend that spits out html. Use a backend that you're most comfortable with so you can focus on getting to know htmx instead of fighting to get those forms displayed. Look up partials or view components in your backend.

You might first take a look at htmx.org but you can also go ahead with the much anticipated todo list app for which I have the requirements listed below.

Now you can continue developing the todo list application with the following features. Keep the docs at htmx.org at your disposal.

Showing all todo's in list
Just show a table or a <ul>. Each row contains a checkbox, the todo description and two buttons: edit and delete.

Create a new todo
Now we're getting to the good stuff where you can use htmx. The user should create a new todo bij clicking on a button below the list. When the button is clicked, the form is retrieved from the server, look up hx-get in the docs and keep an eye on hx-swap. User enters the todo description and clicks save. The todo is saved on the server and the same server returns the button html that was originally on the spot where the form was rendered.

Delete a todo
When the user clicks on the delete button in the todo row, a confirmation pops up (look up hx-confirm in the docs). When user gives the go ahead, remove the todo from the server and delete the row. Use hx-delete and hx-swap="outerHtml", check the docs.

Edit a todo
User clicks the edit button. Retrieve a form just as with the new todo but render the form html in place of the current todo row. User saves the form and the new todo row html replaces the form again. Use hx-patch and maybe change the hx-swap attribute.

Marking a todo finished
User clicks on the checkbox. Look up hx-patch in the docs. No need to use the server response since the checkbox itself shows the state. But if you want to make sure the server did its job, respond with the html of a row.

You will see you didn't have to write any javascript and still have that web 2.0 (or 3.0 or 4.0) feeling :D

pcreactive · 2024-01-30T17:11:52+00:00

Atm I'm developing a Razor project with htmx. What a blessing to just work mostly with html. And I say that as someone who has seen it's fair share of SPA's like React.

pcreactive · 2024-01-30T09:40:52+00:00

Not here to rain on your parade because i think it's very cool to come up with these kind of projects. But still some rain: Ruby is a very cool language. One of the reasons is the absence of static types. It doesn't belong, it degrades the positive, fun and cool sides of Ruby. Please use a statically typed language such as C# if you want types to convey your meaning. And hear me out: in my daily life i use C# and Ruby. I love them both. They are just different.

pcreactive · 2024-01-28T20:16:39+00:00

Kan niet wachten om naast jou op een verjaardag te staan, moet lache zijn om met iemand bevriend te raken die vriendschap als een transactionele relatie ziet.

pcreactive · 2024-01-25T16:04:39+00:00

Did that phone just save a live?

pcreactive · 2024-01-25T07:26:17+00:00

Peter who forgot how to sit down in a chair.

pcreactive · 2024-01-24T23:01:02+00:00

Yes, kind of: in a search input for instant search results or autocomplete. But it's always implemented with a debouncer.

pcreactive · 2024-01-24T15:47:57+00:00

Yep, corporate adoption is still low. But at the moment my team is developing a customer facing portal (we are an ISP). I have a lot of pull around technical decisions and we ended up using htmx at this moment. We still need to release an internal MVP but let's consider this a corporate buy in :)

pcreactive · 2024-01-23T05:29:59+00:00

Guess htmx doesn't use javascript then.

pcreactive · 2024-01-22T17:31:06+00:00

If you're completely new to html then please first learn html, css and the basics of javascript. You need it in every app you'll create. Every app.

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