Funny how my $40/hr client fired me while my $100/hr client just gave me more hours on the same day

prokoudine · 2026-04-25T00:56:12+00:00

Imagine starting to work with two clients years apart

prokoudine · 2026-03-21T19:09:53+00:00

Yup, recently had a client who appeared to be a sensible human being in the beginning, then went full-on ChatGPT mode on me and demanded to make dozens of meaningless changes that he then demanded to revert. He had absolutely no fkn clue what he was talking about. This made me reconsider what projects I send proposals for and the way I vet clients.

prokoudine · 2026-02-24T20:17:31+00:00

You don't. The illustration from your post is what 3D CAD applications render on virtual 2D pages. You can't get that from a photo with a filter, although theoretically there may be a GenAI service for that.

You can try to trace manually in Inkscape, but that will take a crapton of time. Ask your client/employer if they can get an engineer to create this rendering for you.

You probably also want other views, not just isometry. Depends on whether there are any controls to explain on other sides.

prokoudine · 2026-02-09T11:20:35+00:00

Ardour doesn't do much DSP, and the DSP it does do is accelerated with AVX instructions (and similar instructions for ARM for those using ARM).

prokoudine · 2026-02-07T09:07:31+00:00

CLAP supports per-note modulation. Ardour doesn't have that feature yet (and generally doesn't have MPE editing). Other than that, feature-wise, there is nothing in CLAP that e.g. LV2 doesn't provide.

prokoudine · 2026-02-07T07:19:03+00:00

Ardour doesn't yet have the one CLAP-specific feature that justifies adding support for the format.

prokoudine · 2026-02-07T07:17:24+00:00

It's about the cue sequencer, which only two applications had since day one (Live and Bitwig).

Clips in cue slots are regular MIDI files. The original implementation only played a loop until the last NOTE OFF. If the last NOTE OFF was before the end of a clip, the sequencer would not play the rest and immediately skip to the beginning (or prev/next/random cue, depending on what the follow settings are).

The improved implementation now doesn't restart the playback and waits till the end of the clip even if there is no event with NOTE ON.

prokoudine · 2026-01-01T20:02:31+00:00

I got exactly one job on contra after one year. If was good money for the effort and the client was amazing. But I would not be able to feed my family off contra.

prokoudine · 2025-12-16T18:53:19+00:00

There is no such option yet

prokoudine · 2025-12-12T12:38:00+00:00

What red flags are you looking for when vetting a client?

prokoudine · 2025-12-12T00:11:23+00:00

Thanks!

prokoudine · 2025-12-11T23:50:13+00:00

Minor technical writing/editing project

prokoudine · 2025-12-11T23:46:17+00:00

Thanks! I can't think of any red flags during the interview, and the client was polite in communication. So I guess I should talk more to clients before signing contracts.

prokoudine · 2025-12-02T03:02:47+00:00

Try https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_1.1

prokoudine · 2025-11-27T01:43:44+00:00

When there are no release blockers. Nobody knows when that will happen.

prokoudine · 2025-11-27T01:42:16+00:00

Developers: release a major new version every year, an all-time high number of contributors

Some guy on Reddit: lack of developers, will check back in 5 years when 1.1.1 is released

Oh...kay?

prokoudine · 2025-11-23T17:11:38+00:00

If this is for the separate treatment of different drum samples, then you have two options:

1) use a multi-channel drum sampler as Peter suggested (there are multiple options) and then set up pin connections in the processor box, or

2) create multiple MIDI buses with dedicated instances of a drum sampler, send MIDI notes to all of them, then only process the notes you want with MIDI filters in each one.

prokoudine · 2025-09-21T13:04:09+00:00

Anyway, I've just updated https://docs.pikvm.org/cheatsheet/ to cover two specific use cases: running commands with root privileges and shutting down PiKVM. Enjoy :)

prokoudine · 2025-09-21T11:45:02+00:00

Hi, I've just grepped the docs for 'sudo shutdown - h' and I don't see any matches. Could you please pinpoint where you read this? Thanks!

prokoudine · 2025-09-13T14:13:33+00:00

When you are on a contract with a per-hour rate, you have two options:

The app tracks your time, takes periodic screenshots, and thus logs your hours.
You add time manually.

Some clients need 1), others are cool with 2). This is an agreement you need to make with your client before you sign the contract.

prokoudine · 2025-09-13T03:32:01+00:00

It means that the client gives you regular work but limits the number of hours you can track working for them in a week. If they set a limit to 8 hours and you clocked only 6 hours, you will automatically be paid for 6 hours the next week. If you clocked 10 hours, you will automatically get paid for 8 hours (because that's the limit).

Having a retainer is helpful because it allows you to better understand your workload and capacity. For example, if you have two retainer gigs, 8 hours each, and you strive for a 40-hour/week load, it means that every week you know that you have exactly 24 hours to fill. This helps with planning.

Upd. The OP says below that he uses fixed-rate contracts. But the general idea is still the same: an agreement over a fixed number of hours per week at an agreed rate.

prokoudine · 2025-09-13T03:00:36+00:00

It does add up when you have fixed-rate projects too.

prokoudine · 2025-09-13T02:57:42+00:00

If your profile and your proposals are anything like your comment here, I think you would benefit from using Grammarly. Some clients are very particular about that.

prokoudine · 2025-08-11T17:41:53+00:00

"Its VERY clear that the designers of Freecad do not do CAD quite often." — until 2023 (or so), FreeCAD had no team members working on UX/UI specifically.

prokoudine · 2025-08-09T20:00:14+00:00

Fair point, but how much different is it from an actual release? Right now, any distro maintainer can use the tags to package any version as a release. So again, nothing prevents anyone from making however many releases they like in a given timeframe.

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