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More people have been messaging me privately about job searches, so I pulled open data to see what’s actually happening in the IT labor market. The market isn’t dead—but competition is clearly up, and the picture varies a lot by region.
I’m seeing a new constraint in the mobile market: it’s not just building features fast—it’s getting updates through App Store review on time.
Inside FreeBlock, we’ve started building a new internal startup—FreeBlock AI—to reduce chaos in project delivery by keeping context, decisions, and history in one place.
We recently received a classic DDoS extortion message: pay $10 or your site goes down for days. It didn’t work—but it’s a good reminder that online business includes basic security hygiene.
At FreeBlock, we finally did something we’d postponed for too long: we started collecting and openly publishing client feedback. Here’s why transparency matters—especially when not every project ends perfectly.
When a company grows, chaos can masquerade as flexibility—until it starts slowing the team down. I’m rewriting our team regulations with my lead and PM, and it’s a reminder that processes must evolve as fast as the business does.
Anxiety about how AI will reshape outsourcing pushed me to test the tools myself. In three hours, using Lovable and Cursor, I built a working Next.js portal—and it changed my perspective on what’s possible right now.
I built a lightweight Make automation that finds the most important niche news, turns it into a post, generates a matching poster, and publishes on a schedule—saving thousands per year.
There’s a long-standing scam account/channel impersonating my development brand. Here’s how it works and how to protect yourself before you pay anyone.
Over the past year I’ve received more than 10 requests to build a so‑called “Flash USDT” smart contract. It’s not a product idea—it’s a fraud pattern, and here’s how it works.
A scammer posed as a potential client, faked an AML block on Binance, and tried to push me to a “cash-out check” site designed to drain my wallet. Here’s how the script works—and how to avoid it.
A “client” offered a 50% prepayment, sent a screenshot showing 3,643 USDT, and hoped I’d refund the “extra.” The wallet showed the truth: $3.64.