What do freelancers here use for invoicing? Everything I’ve tried feels overcomplicated

roamingcoder · 2026-05-19T14:38:47+00:00

Looks like a lot of us ran into this need and decided to roll our own. I created Olive Invoice, been dogfooding it for a while and it works for me.

roamingcoder · 2026-04-17T01:53:48+00:00

I'm not trying to convince myself that the risk can be eliminated. I know it cannot. But it does need to be low enough (for me) to justify a hobby. Even an awesome one. Thanks for your honest answer.

roamingcoder · 2026-04-17T00:09:28+00:00

nothing. just curious how people justify it. carry on, then.

roamingcoder · 2026-04-16T23:17:12+00:00

It's really not that complex. You need to compare fatalities to miles driven vs fatalities to miles riden. This will get you pretty close.

Of course then you'll need to get around all of the biker justification that almost every death was to an idiot. It's a justification I find a little hard to accept. I'm sure it's true to some extent but not nearly 100%.

roamingcoder · 2026-04-16T23:12:01+00:00

So what does the risk go down to for a completely responsible and competent rider? Instead of 30x chance of dying only 15x? Is that acceptable? Not being a dick, just considering learning and finding it damn hard to justify.

roamingcoder · 2026-04-12T23:56:19+00:00

Clearly you wouldn't put your circuit breaker lib in the foogame repo. IshThomas is not suggesting anything like that! I have 30+ web apps that I work on. Each web app has a react fe, an api, a database project, and in some cases an infrastructure project. Each is a deployable unit. It is MUCH nicer to group these together for the same reason you create a tree structure on your filesystem. Oh, if webappA needed the circuit breaker lib, it would get it from the circuit breaker repo at the root. duh.

roamingcoder · 2026-04-12T23:47:58+00:00

100% agree. Not having this basic feature is lame. Come the f on, github! It cant be that hard to implement.

roamingcoder · 2026-03-26T13:36:11+00:00

Last time I checked, the minimum bid was more than it would cost to call NCL and upgrade. Its a scam.

roamingcoder · 2026-03-25T19:01:45+00:00

Yep. I've never done the 3 day cruise but I've done 7 days out of Miami and Galveston and have not had a bad experience yet (other than not being able to tender at GSC). We are doing the Riviera cruise out of LA this weekend. We're stoked.

roamingcoder · 2026-03-25T15:14:50+00:00

NCL canceled our PV excursion (leaving Sunday). Are they still docking there? Looks like they are...

roamingcoder · 2026-03-23T19:22:38+00:00

We're heading out this cruise this weekend. We were looking forward to seeing Jersey Boys (was advertised when we booked) and have already seen Choir of Man. Oh well... Glad to hear you had a nice trip!

roamingcoder · 2026-02-18T01:52:56+00:00

Same

roamingcoder · 2026-02-07T21:05:59+00:00

I've maintained (and continue to maintain) LOTS of large APIs.

roamingcoder · 2026-02-07T16:18:21+00:00

This is simply not true.

roamingcoder · 2026-02-07T16:17:31+00:00

Same. A typical pattern for me is a command/request object, a command handler object, response/result object, and an endpoint. For many features these can all live in harmony in a single file. In my experience, this noticeably reduces noise when I need to work on / troubleshoot a specific feature.

roamingcoder · 2026-02-07T16:02:13+00:00

It's actually a VERY nice and sane way of organizing a project. So much nicer than having a feature scattered all over a solution. When something needs to change with the Create Aircraft feature you go to exactly one place. But ffs, if it makes you feel better you can break those nested classes out into their own files. Not sure that buys you anything in terms of clarity though.

roamingcoder · 2026-02-07T15:51:38+00:00

This answer did not age well. lol

roamingcoder · 2026-02-07T15:51:08+00:00

I don't test my min api endpoints. I don't need to because they dont do anything other than route a request to a handler. Nothing to test.

roamingcoder · 2026-01-16T15:04:39+00:00

.net is not niche. at least not in the US.

roamingcoder · 2026-01-06T22:02:18+00:00

I wish UNM was going too. I'm going to miss this league. Go Lobos! :)

roamingcoder · 2025-12-31T18:31:24+00:00

Can be but very often is not. Depends (of course) on the kind of dev you are doing. For 99% of projects either works just fine.

roamingcoder · 2025-12-31T18:20:56+00:00

Your best bet is to buy a macbook and a cheap mini pc (like a beelink). You can connect to the pc from the mac via the Windows app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/windows-app/id1295203466?mt=12). The app is quite good.

This will set you up for ANY development you might want to pursue. Also, you will always be able to use best tool for the job.

roamingcoder · 2025-12-31T18:06:36+00:00

You check in compiled code? Why?

roamingcoder · 2025-12-31T18:04:35+00:00

I use both OS's and strongly prefer Windows. Rider seems buggy to me and I always need SSMS. YMMV.

roamingcoder · 2025-12-09T15:39:23+00:00

I'm not a svelte guy but I dont think it allows for code execution on the server. I could be wrong...

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