Back when I was pursuing my Computer Science degree, one of the big questions that kept me busy was: what am I going to do after I graduate? I felt like I could work on pretty much anything, thanks to the solid foundations I received at the university and to my real-world experience contributing to Rust. So… what to choose? Lured into full-stack development After reading Never Eat Alone I decided to start meeting people in order to answer my question.| Adolfo Ochagavía
Recently I spent two weeks collaborating with Prefix.dev to further develop resolvo, their SAT-based dependency solver. The main goal was to fix a nasty bug, where the solver unexpectedly panicked upon hitting code that was supposed to be unreachable. “That will make for a good war story!”, I thought, so I kept notes of my debugging process to serve as a basis for this article. I was being overly pessimistic, though, thinking it would take days to find the source of the bug… In reality ...| Adolfo Ochagavía
Since starting out as an independent contractor, I’ve always felt a tension between being a generalist software engineer, yet having to market myself as a specialist. I’ve been wanting to write about it for years and even have kept some notes for that purpose. Recently I came across an article by Ben Collins-Sussman, which gave me the last bit of inspiration I needed, even though his article only indirectly touches on the topic.| Adolfo Ochagavía
How many roads must a programmer walk down before you call them a contractor? It’s been about three years since I went down this (bumpy) path, and I finally have the feeling that my contracting business is “bootstrapped”1. Here’s an account of my journey so far, hoping you find it inspiring! 0. Contents Articles about contracting and freelancing usually take the form of abstract advice: how to find clients, how much you should charge, etc.| Adolfo Ochagavía
