I’ve been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it’s been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal. Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that’s not a complete race to the bottom? I find I’m close to having to […]

I’ve always defined myself as a Full-stack developer because I have experience with all components of a “computing stack”, from low level debugging, plumbing, systems administration, backend development, networking and frontend Javascript. Yet these days as I’m looking for work, all full-stack offers are about client-side web development with a little bit of backend Node.js. Is my definition completely wrong? […]