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Career in education is one of the most important and difficult ones. But at the same time teachers around the world are overworked and underpaid. There are many factors that affect teachers’ income. In this...
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Recently I wrote an article about how I prepared to join the world of freelancing. Now that I’m over a year into freelancing and loving life, I thought it would be beneficial to share with you what I’ve learned so far.
Time is money, and as a freelancer, you have to be very specific as to what exactly an hour of your time is worth. This varies depending on the type of software you write and the amount of experience you have. I suggest that you research your direct competitors in the area and find out how much they charge. Initially, you probably want to charge a bit less until you have a considerable amount of projects under your belt and numerous references from happy customers.
In November 2018, we launched CircleCI orbs. I recently wrote about the design decisions we made while building a new package manager. Here, I want to share some of the lessons we learned (or re-learned) launching a major new feature. You likely won’t be surprised that we think a lot about how to ship working software, and our retro process helps us put in words what we observe and learn along the way.
An internal deadline is a great motivator to stay focused on having a working prototype. In our case, it also gave us a clear but fairly low bar of “good enough” to test the concept. Coming out of the first major migration wave after the launch of CircleCI 2.0, we had a renewed interest in addressing the difficulties of bootstrapping and managing our new configuration format. In March 2018 (8 months prior to the marketing launch of orbs), we started the preliminary design work on orbs.