Programmer for Hire

Essays

• It’s Just Me: Solo, and Proudly So
• If I Say “No” to Your Project
• Cheap Overseas Programming Revisited: Takeaways from a Lively Community Discussion
• Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India Cheap Overseas Programming
• Sometimes You Gotta Rebuild
• The Joys of High Visibility Micro Goals
• Knockout First Impressions
• The Free Day
• Mastering the Entire Stack
• The Right to Demand Satisfaction
• Why I Don’t Negotiate on Price (and Why That’s Good News)
• Programming at the Speed of Trust
• Working On the Business By Working In the Business
• A Nerd’s Perspective on Software Patents
• Designer Collaboration II: Respecting the HTML
• Designer Collaboration I: Respecting the PSD
• Programmer Resistance
• The Curious Nature of Hourly Rates
• Selling Less is More
• Two Approaches to Spec’ing A Project
• Fixed Price or Bust
• Pretty Software for All
• Creator/User Gap
• A Team of One