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Read and learn how to optimize and evolve your remote working experience. Working from home blew up overnight due to the pandemic, and it’s here to stay.

You’ve Got Mail… Subject: Brain Science, Not Just Computer Science, is the Future of Work

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Published on June 30, 2024

Confessions of a Freelancer: 5 Mistakes I Won't Repeat

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Published on June 20, 2024

Adapting to AI: How Developers Can Future-Proof Their Careers

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Published on June 5, 2024

The Best and Worst States for Remote Work in the U.S

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Published on May 9, 2024

Secure remote access for local LLMs

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Freelancing

Want to stop getting paid in exposure? Check these articles out.

Hiring and Being a Freelancer Takes Talent: Here's Why

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Published on April 12, 2020

Upwork vs. Nebojsa Todorovic

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Published on August 24, 2020

My 3-Year Freelancing Journey: How I completed 1200 Projects and Earned the Big Bucks

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Published on July 11, 2024

Get More Clients as a Freelance Developer with these 8 Helpful Tips

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Published on June 19, 2017

18 Best Tools to Easily Manage Freelancers

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Published on May 22, 2017

Confessions of a Freelancer: 5 Mistakes I Won't Repeat

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Published on June 20, 2024

Unpacking Upwork’s S-1: Metrics & Lessons for Marketplaces

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Published on September 24, 2018

The Difference Between A Freelancer & A Founder

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Published on January 27, 2016

4 Ways to Deal with Clients Who Ghost You at Payment Time

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Published on February 3, 2022

Which Is Better For You? Working Full Time vs. Consulting?

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Published on January 5, 2018

How to Finally Start Earning What You Deserve

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Published on August 16, 2018

An Unusually Well-Disguised Malware Scam on Upwork: How I Almost Got Infected With a Keylogger

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Published on January 21, 2017

Remote Work

Welcome to working from home! The place where the hours you work are entirely made up and your pants don't matter.

My Terrible Experience Applying for a Job at Crossover for Work

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Published on December 19, 2020

The Best and Worst States for Remote Work in the U.S

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Published on May 9, 2024

4 Reasons Why Email Is Obsolete, and You Should Move On

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Published on September 23, 2020

The Importance of Developer Communities

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Published on July 1, 2020

JobSnap - How to Save 9hrs of Your Life While Searching For a Job in Tech

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Published on February 5, 2024

How to Create a Remote Work Policy For Your Accounting Team During the COVID-19 Crisis

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Published on June 12, 2020

6 Tips for Working Remotely

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Published on April 27, 2020

Lessons From GitLab—A $1 Billion Business With 700 Remote Employees

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Published on March 23, 2020

Google Employees Consider Other Jobs Following Company's Return-to-Office Plans

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Published on April 11, 2022

To Remote Work or Not to Remote Work: That is the Question

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Published on September 23, 2020

Work From Home

5 Home Office Setup Ideas for Productivity and Work-Life Balance

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Published on July 12, 2024

What COVID-19 Means for the Future of Work From Home

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Published on May 19, 2020

How Can I Be Productive When Working From Home?

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Published on May 13, 2020

Remote Working

Welcome to working from home! The place where the hours you work are entirely made up and your pants don't matter.

Google Employees Consider Other Jobs Following Company's Return-to-Office Plans

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Published on April 11, 2022

Remote Work is Over, get Back to the Office

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Published on September 18, 2021

Building a remote-friendly company: an interview with Webflow CEO Vlad Magdalin

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Published on November 21, 2018

10 Facebook Groups you can join for free to find your next remote job or project

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Published on August 4, 2018

The Stress of Remote Working

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Published on December 31, 2017

Remote Work Doesn’t Scale … or Does It?

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Published on September 13, 2017

10 free places to find your next remote web development freelance project

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Published on August 1, 2018

The Nine to Five: Is it Worth it?

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Published on December 9, 2019

Considering working remotely? Read this.

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Published on November 3, 2016

How to Build a Happy and Productive Remote Team

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Published on January 22, 2015

Distributed Teams: more people, more places, more problems

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Published on November 3, 2017

Work Life Balance

Balance Is Killing Your Ambition: How to Become World Class

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Published on July 24, 2024

Remote Jobs

Welcome to working from home! The place where the hours you work are entirely made up and your pants don't matter.

10 Common Mistakes That Can Prevent You from Landing a Remote Job

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Published on August 1, 2024

Best Ways to Hire Developers for Remote Jobs to Work from Home

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Published on March 27, 2020

Digital Nomads

Digital Nomads Listen Up: What You Need To Know About The New DTV Visa of Thailand

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Published on June 24, 2024

New Digital Nomad Visas Overview

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Published on May 2, 2024

I went full nomad and it (almost) broke me

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Published on December 16, 2017

Waking up in Thailand

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Published on May 4, 2017

Networking

Networking at VC Events: How to Gain More Value?

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Published on November 17, 2022

Networking is Not Working

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Published on November 30, 2020

Accessing Network Apps Running Inside WSL2 from Other Devices in Your LAN

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Published on December 6, 2021

Network Security Basics

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Published on June 2, 2020

Top Three Ways To Make Online Friends in the Digital Age of 2021

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Published on March 3, 2021

Networking & Kubernetes: Book Review and Interview with Author James Strong

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Published on October 7, 2021

8 Networking Practices You May be Passing Up

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Published on January 9, 2016

TCP Three-Way Handshake

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Published on July 31, 2018

Zoom

How to Record a Zoom Meeting without Permission on Phone, Windows, and Mac

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Published on August 27, 2023

Skype VS Zoom for Online Tutoring

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Published on May 16, 2022

How to Build a Full Stack Zoom Clone Using Node JS, Express, and Peer JS

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Published on November 26, 2021

Is Your Zoom Meeting Really End-to-End Encrypted?

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Published on June 5, 2020

Has Zoom Made Us "Embrace the Dark Side" of Humanity?

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Published on September 8, 2021

Zoom's Desktop Client Banned by Google

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Published on April 10, 2020

Upwork

Buying Upwork Reviews: Is Your Freelancer Really a 5-Star Freelancer?

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Published on July 28, 2021

World's Top 5 Freelance Platforms’ Fees - Explained, Busted, & Compared

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Published on September 22, 2019

The Aftermath of My Article About Upwork Fake Jobs

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Published on May 12, 2020

Is Upwork Posting Fake Jobs To Keep Freelancers Bidding? [A Deep Dive]

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Published on April 12, 2020

What Are Pros and Cons of the Top Five Freelance Websites for Clients and Freelancers?

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Published on February 17, 2022