In this installment of our community guest speaker series, we talked to Swizec Teller about balancing serious side hustles with full time employment. He has balanced a career working for startups in Silicon Valley with building info products and businesses on the side.

To find out more about Swiz:

• Check out his latest project, defining the senior mindset for software engineers, to help get you ahead in your career: https://seniormindset.com/

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This Week's Picks:

Check out this useful developer’s guide to containers

Check out this great post on enterprise configuration management

This Tricentis page on test management software

This handy guide on lcp metric

This great guide on bpr meaning, steps, and examples

This interesting page on codeless mobile testing

Not all clients are created equal. Many are great, but some you'd rather avoid. How do you tell the difference ahead of time, in order to avoid the headache of having nightmare clients?

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This Week's Picks:

This easy to digest post on event-driven architecture

Check out Enov8's Top 10 Cloud Optimization Tricks

This handy guide on quic HTTP/3

This great post on software testing application

This handy guide on Slack auto reply

If you're used to salaried employment, especially in the US, you're used to having a lot of stuff taken care of for you when it comes to benefits. Medical, dental, vision insurance covered and mostly paid for, retirement savings, and more. But what do you do when you go freelance and this goes away?

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This Week's Picks

This handy guide will get you up and running with Django using Kubernetes.

This useful guide to healthcare data compliance

This episode of the Request Metrics podcast on tweaking systemd services with Ansible is super useful for setting up systemd service environments

This guide to QA testing tools

This great post on SOC 2 Trust Services Principles

Check out this page by Tricentis on End-to-end mobile testing

I get a lot of questions about freelancing, but this is both one of the most interesting that I get and the least-asked. When should you quit freelancing? People set out with nothing but plans for success, so the "when do I do something else" is infrequently considered until things are ugly. I'll walk through how to assess what you should do when things are ugly, but also encourage you to have a quitting scenario from the outset.

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• The blog post about freelancers and profit: https://daedtech.com/freelancers-arent-yet-business-owners/

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• Jira Ticketing System: An Introductory Guide

Invoicing Basics for New Freelancers

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This Week's Picks

• Deploy a Django app with Kubernetes in 20 minutes

In this installment of our community guest speaker series, we talked to Cory Koehler about how he went from being an employee to running a collective of application development freelancers. A lot of folks in our community are interested in exploring models like this, so tune in to hear about Cory's journey.

You can find out more about Cory: * Reaching out to him through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-koehler/

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• Master Terraform: A cheat sheet for infrastructure automation

Subcontracting? Bringing on a VA or a bookkeeper? As a freelancer, when does the time come to start hiring people to do other things? Join us to learn more.

• This Appium tutorial that explains how Appium helps with cross-platform mobile testing, and how to get started with it

If you're a new or aspiring freelancer, this is probably one of your worst nightmares. What do you do when a client won't pay? What options do you have and what recourse?

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• This offering from Tricentis that provides ServiceNow test automation

In this video, I field a specific question about how to structure pricing for an offering around legacy code remediation. But because that's very specific, I lead up to it, spending most of the video talking about the different pricing models and options available to you as a freelancer.

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• This comprehensive guide to building Slack workflows.

As a freelancer, winding up with bad clients can be the bane of your existence or even drive you back to the salaried world. So what can you do to avoid having bad clients? I walk you through my tactics to help toward this goal.

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• This new offering from RequestMetrics, around user experience monitoring.