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Cake day: December 7th, 2024

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  • In my campaign I used to have a cursed scroll of reading. Which provided such provoking and interesting content based on one’s feelings and desires, it trapped the person into reading it for a very very long time unless saving throw.

    I can imagine how much more effective it would be if one could reply to that reading, and enter another level of entrapment.

    And here we have cursed scrolls in real life. Me 30 years ago would never have guessed .

    Unrelated, but this is where I stop doomscrolling for the day. So long until tomorrow, unless I make my daily saving roll


  • This, what you said, is so important. In my years doing my own business, I have had literally hundreds of scammers, some smarter than me. Its best to just not even try to talk to people trying to contact you first in these platforms.

    And many many scammers will post jobs, and one cannot tell by seeing if this is a new account. Some of my multi year assignments have been initiated by sketchy new accounts. At the same time existing accounts of clients usually have their own preferred coders. If you get to talk to an existing account with a history, check out the reviews and be wary. There may be a reason they are seeking out new blood.

    I think its ok to go off site to talk to the new job candidates. Often, cannot have decent conversations in platform. And an in depth talk is free for all, and will often give clues in the first few minutes of talk.


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    Things I learned the hard way:

    • Never agree on anything until can see the existing code and talk about everything.
    • Milestone payments only. Stay away from any lump sum payments or percentage cuts.
    • Full payments in escrow first.
    • Never reply to people you don’t know who seek you out, only seek out jobs.
    • In first contacts ask questions first, don’t talk about qualifications. If questions good then customer knows you know the tech well.
    • Learn to walk away if instincts kick in