A blog about running a web dev business and balancing life

How to make the leap from freelancer to business owner

I made the leap from freelancer to business owner in 2019 after I noticed I wasn’t quite operating as a typical freelancer but more as a mix between the two.…

dev, php

Setting up php xdebug with laravel vagrant and phpstorm

In case you find yourself banging your head against the wall trying to get XDebug setup for a Laravel project running on Vagrant + PHPStorm, here’s how I get it working.

freelancing, life

8 healthy habits for freelance developers

I've been freelancing for 5 years and in the past 2 years really began to notice how my body was starting to fail on me. Nagging pains I had in my 20s were getting...

freelancing

How to make the leap from employment to freelance developer

Before I started freelancing, I had been working full time as a full stack web developer for about 10 years. While there are lots of developers who start their careers as freelancers, I would...