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After Chernobyl and Fukushima, all I can tell you is that the U.S. is seriously cooked.
This isn't even done for anyone's benefit except greedy tech bros that don't pay taxes or care about the planet.
#ShutDownNuclearPlants #BanAI #AISlop #US #America #BanDataCentres #BigTech #BigCorpo #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #CorporateGreed #GreenEnergy #AlternativeEnergy #WindPower #SolarPower #BeTheChange #ResetSociety #Socialism #ProtectNature #SaveThePlanet
Elon Musk's AI movie is only 7 minutes?! 🎬🤖
Grok Imagine's AI "Odyssey" turned out to be a 7-minute Episode 1, and viewers roasted it. Musk says the full movie is still coming by end of 2026.
▶️ https://youtube.com/shorts/ou7Rigxf7bc
🌐 https://tekthrill.com
Most orgs chasing the latest AI model are missing the point entirely.
Sophie Dionnet from Dataiku puts it plainly: the transformation you need today doesn't require the newest model. It requires the hard, unglamorous work of change management.
The real trap? Preferring the new toy over actually putting it to use.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/1iSO634q-Lw
People with NPD are actually not what wannabe influencers and coaches are trying to portray them to be.
So, here is a short-form video showing some ACTUAL traits of a pwNPD.
I chose to make a click-baity thumb to lure people in (master manipulators that we are), but it's for the greater good, sooo... have fun watching!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EmDDtYO4R8M
#Narcissism #Narcissist #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder #MentalHealth #Awareness #Inclusion
A reported $300M DeepSeek raise at a $10B valuation rapidly became a $50B+ story. Our guest Jing Yang says the deal structure was unlike anything she’d seen in seven years covering VC.
What does it reveal about financing frontier AI?
Watch on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/FmkOgB7VPyM
Yaaaaay! Everyone got to be in a challenge for a change. Thanks Woodz! 🤘
Oh, Just come into #DragonPony #드래곤포니 's world! 🌍 #WOODZ #우즈#Come_into_my_world
Jon Russell from Asia Tech Review says the valuations don’t make sense. AI startups are being priced beyond Apple or Amazon, yet we haven’t seen any filings. When OpenAI finally goes public we’ll finally see what’s behind the curtain.
Watch on YouTube 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/eBnbM50IKmY
AI isn’t magic. In our conversation with Sophie Dionnet (Dataiku), she cuts to the real enterprise AI trap: not models, but change management.
“Taking a decision is one hour, implementation is two years.”
That gap is where AI succeeds or stalls.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/Rh2kZ4P_ib4
Since #AI is getting so good at churning out music mimicking existing styles, are we going to have to start listening to the audio equivalent of captchas to be sure a human created it?
If so, #JonRagel (of #BoyEatsDrumMachine fame) is certainly exploring that space with his recent #synthesizer experiments.
Technikwoche.de ▹ China, ChatGPT, Internet, Durchhalten, AI Wahl, Starlink, Smartglasses ▹ eicker.TV » https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XLI6KBv7oCQ #eickerTV #Tech #Community
The Internet That Remembers You're Not a Product
A system built so your identity, posts, and followers travel with you across apps, sovereign, portable, and finally yours.
Watch: https://youtube.com/shorts/bU7JLxSnW9U
#Nostr #DigitalIdentity #Decentralization #Web3
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕: 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 "𝑴𝒊𝒏" 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒈𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒚
A rarely met short story by Montgomery, and a bit darker than her Anne books.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/waypoint-montgomerys-min/
#frictionalreading #booksandsociety #literarygeography #readingforchange #bookphilosophy #literarypodcast #bookpodcast #criticalreading #literarycriticism #readingcommunity #bookdiscussion #travelwriting #travelogues #literature #podcast #books #reading #bookclub #booklovers #bookworm #min #reading #shortstory
#SciFi #Fantasy #LitRPG #FREEBIES
Over 60 #IndieAuthors collaborating through #BookFunnel :ablobcatrave:
80+ #FreeBooks and an incredible variety to browse and sample. 🤓 📚 We each have a #newsletter if you want more from us!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/free_books_friday_2026/rjprkgpj2x
⚔️ 🦄 🚀
#Books #Writing #SFF #AsianFantasy #PostApocalyptic #DarkFantasy #ShortStory #UrbanFantasy #Cyberpunk #Horror #Magic @bookstodon
Elote is a popular Mexican street food. This Mexican corn on the cob is creamy, tang and packed with bold flavours. Perfect for summer BBQs, cook outs and parties!
Recipe link: https://youtube.com/shorts/xRfEkT76pzY
https://kitchenstagram.com/index.php/elote/
Posted into Kitchenstagram @kitchenstagram
#dinnerrecipe #dinnerideas #mexico #breakfast #brunch #dinnerrecipe #lunchboxideas #dinnerideas #mexicanfood #mexican #mexicancuisine #corn #cornrecipe #elote #streetfood #streetstyle
The scary part of fake-AI-tool scams isn't the domain — it's the domain you already trust. Any.Run traced 1,258 sandbox submissions: lures sat on GitHub, GitLab Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Google Sites and inside shared AI chats. Claude was impersonated in 60%. 45% ended with a command pasted into a terminal (InstallFix 341, ClickFix 220); 320 started in a shared chat or artifact. Blocking domains won't save you — a step the employee takes will. #infosec #AI
#TheJuiceMedia #humor #sarcasm #irony #politics #protest
-> #takeaction #organize #unite #protest #resist #boycott
I repeat: I'm so sick and tired of these psychopathic criminals running our governments everywhere around the globe. To the streets everyone!
In Germany: Saturday 31.10. at 14:00 in every big city #GenZRegelt
Trust in digital safety isn’t built by promises. It’s built by results: taking down scam networks, sharing intelligence, and helping law enforcement deny scammers the impunity to operate openly.
Dr. Rafael Frankel of Meta explains the “positive snowball effect” when collaboration works.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/h7KhnOCmNXk
A Mac has no Print Screen key. Shift-Command-3 captures the whole screen, Shift-Command-4 lets you drag over an area, and adding Control to either copies the shot instead of saving a file to your desktop.
Here it is in a 21-second video, no sound:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gblwk3f2kVg
そっくりさんに電話した本人が信じてもらえなかった
そっくりさんに電話した本人が信じてもらえなかった 世界中に、彼女のそっくりさんがいます、本人は、最高の褒め言葉だと笑います。番組が見せたのは、そっくりさんたちの写真の数々。どれが本物か、分からないほどです。そして番組は、 [...]
#MAGMOE #JP #JAPAN #Celebrity #Entertainment #celebrity #entertainment #Shorts #Talent #エピソード #ハリウッド #俳優 #映画 #有名人 #有名人裏話 #海外セレブ #芸能
https://www.magmoe.com/3305845/entertainment/2026-10-25/
DeepSeek’s leap from a rumoured $300M raise at $10B to $50B+ wasn’t just a funding story—it marked a U-turn for the last major holdout against external capital in frontier AI.
Jing Yang unpacks the deal structure that stopped even a veteran VC reporter in her tracks. Watch on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/FmkOgB7VPyM
Herr Merz, Frau Reiche, Herr Klingbeil, Frau Radovan,
machen Sie sich keine allzu großen Sorgen mehr
es nehmen gerade neue, kreative Kräfte unsere Wirtschaft in die Hand,
es geht voran!
This is unbelievable and shocking.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an organisation that is already 100 years old.
It NEVER was a terrorist organisation until Trump's administration retroactively assigned it earlier THIS year to be so. Only so they could accuse El-Sayed's mother to support a terrorist group.
A clear example of changing history by Trump.
#Trump #MuslimBrotherhood #xenofobia
https://youtube.com/shorts/7yQwfYMmjP0?is=b96CiC1lJnaMxaZR
Chasing the latest AI model? Sophie Dionnet says you're missing the point! AI's accessibility has created a gold rush mentality, but real transformation requires doing the hard work of change management, not just playing with new toys. Watch on YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/1iSO634q-Lw #DigitalTransformation #ChangeManagement
http://www.lexwilliford.com/Tenure/Tenure%20Documents/Adobe%20pdfs/Eloquent-Story-Pendergast.pdf
Techniques of literary realism, narrative POV, regionalism, gender, domestic violence, the ethics of intervention....so much to discuss about such a short, short story.
#LexWilliford #PendergastsDaughter #Literature #USLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #ShortStory #FlashFiction #Microfiction #Realism #DomesticViolence #Texas
Who owns your phone, when you buy a new one? Easy answer would be: the person who bought the phone. But that's not completely true.
In UK we see that people who bought a new iPhone had to verify their age using their ID card to get unrestricted access to the device as David Bombal explains in this short.
We see that baselines are shifting, slowly. Once we are used to it, the next step is about to follow. Today it's age verification. C'mon, it doesn't hurt. It's done very quick, you only need your ID, once....
But what's next? The digital wallet is just around the corner. It will make everything so much easier, for everyone – including those who want to monitor us.
Welcome to our private Truman Show.
Long live the General Strike on October 30! Long live the international solidarity of workers and pensioners! The fight continues! Internationalist ...
I messaggi di appoggio internazionali allo sciopero generale ed alla mobilitazione internazionale dei porti del 30 ottobre
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I messaggi di appoggio internazionali allo sciopero generale ed alla mobilitazione internazionale dei porti del 30 ottobre
Gyns tell me I'm not crazy here. No one I've told about this so far has sympathized with me, but I know radblr is more reasonable than the outside world.
I'm really afraid of moids going into the sewer and eating my shit and drinking my urine. Everyone makes fun of me for this and tells me why I should care when it's bodily waste anyways, but it's my bodily waste and I don't want moids putting it in their mouth.
We can all agree that's perfectly reasonable right? Right? We all know how moids can be about women and we all know that they actually do this. So what is the problem if I do it first?
I've been reading articles about it and unless you have parasites it's actually not that bad for you and can actually help you absorb nutrients you may have missed before. The only problem is if you ONLY eat and drink your own piss and shit and you get nutrient defeciencies.
Everyone I've told about this seems completely disgusted by it and I'm at my wits end. I just want my FEMALE piss and shit to stay pure of moid saliva. Why are women treated like this for protecting ourselves?
Why is it so wrong when I do it but not when MEN do it?
Sisters, I need your counsel.
I haven't flushed in four days and I need advice.
I know this sounds extreme but I have my reasons. There's been documentation—studies, personal accounts, patterns—that moids and TRA activists have established colonies in the sewer systems. They subsist on what we discard. Every time you flush, you're feeding them. You're giving them sustenance, allowing them to maintain their presence in the infrastructure that connects us all.
My toilet is reaching a critical point. I can smell it. I know I need to do something but I can't bring myself to push that lever. It feels like... surrender. Like contamination.
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can i be a political lesbian if im super straight? i have never experienced any attraction to women and i find the thought of the female body disgusting. in fact i hate my own body and wish i could be a man. but then id be gay. i have dated men for like 15+ years and after spending so long dating men and being mistreated i feel like i want to claim political lesbianism. maybe i could be a man and force myself to be straight and claim political lesbianism. could this maybe work for me? what kinds of activism should i get involved in to become a political lesbian?
heres a thing that happened to some friends of mine. was walking down the street talking about the bears game and a bus pulled up and a bunch of white women with short hair and bad plastic surgery came out with baseball bats. they all had shirts that sayed 'down with trans'. i(22 afab wombynly wombyn) was able to hold them off while my friend(19 amab mynly myn) ran away. bareley escaped
aita for accidentally harrassing an afab?
was at the grocery store and had to used the restroom. damn urinary leash amirite? i was
so terrified of seeing an transexual but had no choice becuz i(35 wombynly afab) had to pee.as i was washing
mine hands a person came in. i could tell by their jawline and cheekbones that they were
obviously an amab. so i stood in the door and made them pull down their pandts. and they
said no so they started walking away but i kept following them demanding to see what was
in his pants. by the time we reached the checkout it was really statring to cause quite a
scene which was very triggering to my sex based oppression. i followed him out to his car
and he turned and looked at me and said "dude im a butch stop being wierd" in a perfect
femininely wombynly afab voice. aita?
hi yall. i was amab and transitioned 5 years ago. just a normal straight girl, right? couple of months ago i figured i would try reclaiming my masculinity. puicked up some boxers and cargo shorts. instand raging boaner. now i cant ger off without thinking of hot bear for bear frotting. am i still trurrans?
How do you feel about male exclusive radical misandrists? yeah i was born a man and i hate it this cock tortures me evry minute of my existence if i even think about being a man i break down. And due to my unfortunate attraction to men, i experience sex based oppression due to being a bottom. i sometimes wish i could transision and be a political lesbian but then i would just be a male invading women's spaces. so i coined a term to describe me: male exclusive radical misandrist. because if i am going to be oppressed for being a male i want to be the one opressing me. its basic bodily autonomy. only we can oppress ourselves. #moids dni #foids dni #kill all men #kill all women #oppress yourself responsibly #liberate the noone #righttooppress
harrassing random trans women will not brign the downfall of gender. indiviual action will never bring any revolution. what we need is collective action. so stop trying to do anything about gender until the vanguard party has established a positon for the overthrow of gender. if you disagree your just a lifestylist reactionary.
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and to my immune system: if you want to drown yourself in snot and mucuous that's your right but would you kindly do me a favor and LEAVE ME THE FUCK OUT OF IT.
and to my subconscious mind: need i remind you that your job responsibilities cover automated systems like breathing and circulation, not fucking keeping me awake all fucking night? kindly focus on attending to your job description instead of insane extracuriculars? I need you to remember that we are a team here and your actions affect everyone.
dear James in engineering,
I cant believe you still haven't solved the problems with the power couplings. I know this may be hard to understand but you need to turn the set screws to the OFF position to turn OFF the flow restrictors and you need to turn the set screws to the ON position to ENABLE the flow restrictors. Kindly, learn to do your damn job.
dear administration,
I appreciate all of your hard work in finding staff in these difficult times but I need clarification on one thing: where do you find all of these morons? You have sent us five new employees in the last two weeks and only one of them knew what a philips head was. We cannot be spending what little time we are given to train new employees in basic skills. Might i recommend hiring people who demonstrate technical proficiency instead of your fuckup nephew?
heres something i actually sent my local news station:
Hello Andrea,
I apologize if this is not your department but I cannot find a contact for the meteorology department. My complaint is quite simple: I ask that weather forecasters please refrain from inserting their personal judgements and opinions into the broadcasting. I get that some people might appreciate warmer weather but this opinion is not universal and many of us find it quite shocking to see 80 degree highs in late october described as "nice", "mild", or "fair". If you would like to hear my opinion on the matter, personally I find this heat oppressive as I am someone who spends a good deal of time outside engaged in hard physical activity. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you enjoy this weather you might consider relocating to an environment with a more suitable climate, such as the fucking sahara desert. And frankly, the Sahara might be an improvement: at least I could manage the heat in a dry climate.
Thank you for listening to my rant and have a blessed day,
Foob
P.S. Anything you could do to keep the temperatures in the mid 50s would be greatly appreciated on my end.
dear Administration,
While I appreciate that finding competent staff is difficult sometimes and that you have been able to find teaching staff with high levels of technical proficiency, several of your staff have been lacking in professionalism and pedagogy. I have actually had teachers cancel class with 5 minutes notice, on multiple occassions, so much so that it in fact became a recurring pattern with them. As if that wasnt bad enough, these are often the same teachers who's prefered teaching style seems to be blindly reading off their powerpoint without so much as looking at the class, much less checking for understanding. I ask that in the future you please hire teachers who actually show up to class and actually know how to teach.
Best regards,
A concerned student
ps. and dont even get me started with your online offerings. in a live classroom setting, a student can at least raise their hand and steer an incompetent teacher. but your online classes are just underpaid staff reading off thier lecture notes with no furter explanation beyond basic concepts. I might as well watch a youtube video, that would be a better value. For $1000 dollars a class, this is a total ripoff and perhaps even a full on scam. fuck you.
Whoever is in charge of hiring at this place is a real piece of work. I get that there are others who may have better qualifications but to interview a candidate and not even send a rejection email, much less useful feedback, demostrates a level of profesionalism that would embarrass a tavern wench. These institutions, and society as a whole, would benefit greatly from giving people a fighting fucking chance.
Dear hiring manager,
I have an important formal inquiry(injury): on your website you have multiple listings for so called entry level positions with a minimum qualification of 5 years of experience. This leaves me wondering how one is supposed to get 5 years of experience if all of the so called entry level positions require 5 years of experience. This is so prevasive accross your job listings that I suspect I might have a decent case with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, considering that these requirements absolutely have a discriminatory impact against people who are new to the job market. So I guess my question is this: do you actually hire human beings or only bots?
Also, what the fuck are you smoking? This is a job which entails mostly filing sales reports, which is not exactly a rare or difficult skill. Stop acting like corporate bureaucracy is a skilled trade: it isn't.
Dear hr,
It has come to my attention that the tone of my recent emails is "problematic and unprofessional". While I can appreciate that others may have trouble with the self awareness necessary to address issues raised in good faith, I must suggest that my coworkers stop being such a bunch of little bitches.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
hello hr representative,
I am writing to inform you of several concerns i have with this companies hr department. While I do appreciate the structure whereby advancement depends on undying loyalty to the establishment and whereby power is exercised both for its own sake and to keep underlings in check, I must say that you lack the ability to be gangsta unless you have the full backing of the entire institution. Kindly, if you have a beef with me, settle it like grown men instead of hiding behind your lackeys. Also, you claim to have meaningful power over me but we both know that you would be nothing without the backing of your institution. Once again, lets drop the bullshit and settle this.
Best regards,
Mr. Dick Head
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Have
you owned a month-end close and an annual audit relationship for a fund
or investment vehicle, without a supervisor above you?
I ride a bicycle everywhere and if i cant get there on a bike i simply ride there anyway. i ride in the middle of the road, often dodging traffic in the oncoming lane. Its like dancing its all about your footwork, timing and spacing. I know this sounds dangerous but you need to know something about me: dick does not fuck up. If there is a collision it is your fucking fault for being in my fucking way. Dont you know pedestrians have the right of way?
Do
you have five or more years of accounting experience, including fund or
investment-vehicle accounting (private credit, debt fund, or real
estate fund)?
Yeah ive been riding my bike for like 8 years now at this point and let me tell you i have put a lot of work into it. every goddamned time i go out to ride it something needs adjusting, be it the brake cables, shifter cable, tire pressure, or seat position. and thats just the tip of the iceberg. i have replaced the drivetrain 5 seperate times including completely reengineering it at least twice. and if theres even a bit of rain in the forecast i have to be prepared to replace everything cuz nothing is designed to handle a bit of moisture much less the kind of loamy mud i subject it to.
This is an independent contractor (1099) engagement on a fixed monthly retainer, roughly 30 hours in a typical month. Does that structure work for you?
the only structure that works for me is completely egalitarian horizontal structures. anything else concentrates power that will eventually be abused. and the structure of most corporations, including yours, more closely resembles monarchal fuedalism than any form of democracy, much less free association. and to be frank monarchal fuedalism would be a fucking improvement., at least under monarchal feudalism i have the dignity of providing for my own and my community's survival by contributing to the grain store instead of relying on opaque and inhuman institutions for the "privilege" of keeping a roof over my head. fuck you.
What monthly retainer would you propose for the scope described in the posting?
i aint paying you no goddamn monthly fee for the "privilege" of selling you my labor. fuck you.
Short answer: find people through work you can already click on, judge them by five specific pages instead of the homepage, and use the first call to ask what is not included. Those three habits filter out most of the bad options before money comes up.
Where to look
Start with sites you already use in your own industry. Scroll to the footer and look for a "site by" credit. If there isn't one, ask the owner who built it. A referral from someone whose site you can open and poke at is worth more than any directory listing.
Other places that work:
What not to use as a filter: the lowest price, the longest list of services, and any promise about search rankings.
The five pages to open on every portfolio site
Their homepage is the page they spent the most time on. It is the least informative page they have.
1. The busiest page. Find the page with the most repeated elements — a product listing, a services index, a team page. Ask yourself: does the layout hold with three items? With thirty? Does a long paragraph still read, or does the text run into the next block? This is the page that resembles your actual site.
2. The contact or enquiry page. Submit a test enquiry with your real email address. Did you get a confirmation? Did the form tell you clearly when you submitted it empty? A broken form on a developer's own site is the single most useful signal you will get, and it costs you two minutes.
3. The mobile version, on your phone, on mobile data. Not on their office wifi and not in a device simulator. Time how long until you can read the headline, tap the menu open, and try to fill the form with one thumb.
4. The second language, if you need one. Do not check whether the words are translated — check whether the pages are. Click three links from the translated homepage. Do they stay in that language, or dump you back into the default one? Does the product list show the same products?
5. The footer pages. Privacy policy, terms, cookie notice. If they build for customers in Europe or the United States and their own site has none of these, that tells you what will be missing from yours.
Two more checks, thirty seconds each:
One more thing worth doing: portfolios often include sites the person only partly worked on, or maintained rather than built. That is not dishonest, but it is worth asking directly — "what was your part on this one?" A straight answer is a good sign.
The first call: eleven questions
Ask these before you talk about price. The point is not to catch anyone out; it is to find out whether they have done this enough times to have opinions.
1. Who actually does the work? A good answer names the person and says whether any part is subcontracted. A warning sign is "our team" with no names, or a salesperson who will not be involved after signing.
2. What do you need from me, and what happens if it arrives late? A good answer is a written list — logo files, company text, product photos, product data, hosting login — plus an explicit statement that the clock starts when the materials arrive, not when you pay. A warning sign is "just send whatever you have."
3. What will I see first, and when? A good answer is a live preview address with a date attached. A warning sign is "we'll send you screenshots."
4. How many rounds of changes are included, and what counts as a change? A good answer gives a number and a definition: text swaps and colour changes are one thing, a new page or a new feature is another. A warning sign is "unlimited changes" — that is not a policy, it is the absence of one.
5. What is not included? A good answer is a list: domain, hosting, business email, copywriting, photography, translation, ongoing updates. A warning sign is silence, or "everything is included."
6. Whose name is the domain and hosting in? A good answer is yours, from day one, and you get the login. A warning sign is theirs, "for management purposes." This is the most expensive mistake on the list — recovering a domain from someone who stops answering is slow and sometimes impossible.
7. Will I have admin access to the site when it's finished, and can I export the content? A good answer is yes, plus a plain explanation of what you will be able to change yourself. A warning sign is "you don't need access, we handle updates."
8. What happens after launch — what's covered, for how long, and what's billed extra? A good answer defines a window for fixing defects and a rate for everything after it. A warning sign is "free support forever", or no answer at all.
9. What is the timeline measured from? A good answer is a number of working days counted from the date your materials are complete. A warning sign is a confident "two weeks" said before they have seen your content.
10. What would make you turn this project down? A good answer names something real — a deadline they cannot hit, a platform that does not fit, a budget that does not match the scope. A warning sign is "nothing, we can do anything." Anyone who has done this for a while has walked away from something.
11. Can I speak to the client whose site you just showed me? A good answer is "I'll ask them" or "they've agreed to be a reference." A warning sign is every single project being off-limits.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags, in roughly the order they should worry you:
Green flags:
Payment and paperwork
Two rules that solve most disputes before they start.
Do not pay the full amount up front. Split it against things you can see: a deposit to start, a payment when the preview is up, the rest at launch. Milestones tied to deliverables beat milestones tied to calendar dates.
Get the scope in writing, including the number of pages, who writes the text, who supplies the photos, and what happens if you add a page later. If the document does not mention something, assume it is not included.
Before you contact anyone: thirty minutes of prep
Write these down and the conversation becomes much shorter:
The quotes you get will only be as good as the brief you send. And a developer who asks you good questions is telling you they have been burned before — that is usually the one worth a second call.#career #freelance #webdev #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
How to vet a web developer before you pay: which pages to open, which questions to ask
