Rob Simpson

👨🏻‍💻 Freelance Jamstack developer & UI designer 🎉 Sharing my freelance journey

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I’ve finally done it! 🎊

Come 7th September, I’ll be a full-time freelancer.

Want to know more? I wrote a post about it: https://t.co/gzXmRtkOxz

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I rolled out the green to my entire office... now I need suggestions for a new lamp – this one shines in my eyes too much whilst I’m working

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@krisbogdanov Cool to see others in the same boat 😊 it took some time to feel okay about not spending all my time on client work though.

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@dan_spratling You’re right 😅 I started with prices I was happy charging making good profits but then never really got around to upping my prices

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@moynihan That’s a kentia palm, had it for a few years now. They’re relatively inexpensive compared to other larger plants (at least it was when we bought it).

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Valentine’s plant 🪴

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I made some updates to my personal sites newsletter page, inc. the addition of past newsletter issues https://t.co/u8QD468Pow

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User feedback hits differently than client feedback.

A project I helped on went live yesterday, here’s a comment from one of the users:

“Whoever the dev is for the web needs a pat on the back, that looks so f*cking nice”

We were a small team, but everyone made it happen 😊

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@sofia_baezzato Coded it myself, built on NextJS and Prismic. I’ve more functionality I plan to add once I’ve got some more content on the site 🙂

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Got 2 of my websites on to https://t.co/fDghgXPkJw 🙃

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Wild to think how many variations of the same thing I’ve built over the years...

I’m building a nav today... fortunately, I’ve not had to build a mega-nav in a good number of years (and today doesn’t break that streek either) 🤣

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@patrickdoesweb Haha, I’ve know that feeling 🤣 depends on what kind of books you’re into.

Productivity books > Hyperfocus & Deep work
Finance > I will teach you to be rich
Psychology > Influence

These are some books I listened to a couple of years ago that I plan to revisit again this year.

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I got through 2.5 books last month...

walking + audiobooks are such a great combo 👟🧠

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Over a year after doing a project for a client, they’ve come back asking for some updates (paid).

Guess it pays to do a good job the first time around.

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@davidfoxio react-swiper seems to be the one most of the teams I’ve worked with reach for. I’m eagerly waiting for radix ui’s to release 😅

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@davidfoxio I think I managed about a year of being solidly booked before I started to slow down a bit.

But you’ll have different challenges working part-time.

I think at some point I started to introduce “easier” weeks between projects to try and recharge a bit.

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@georgedoescode @sara_brunettini Thanks 😊

I designed and built it how I wish other recipes sites would be – putting the focus on the recipe instead of loading it with ads and other content I don’t care about 🤣

Mobile has a cooking mode (WIP) which I’ll bring to desktop sometime soon too.

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@EcoPingHQ @Climeworks I saw something similar last year (might’ve been @Climeworks), don’t think they had the flexible plan thought 🤯