Over the years, I received thousands of emails from Finxters who are interested in a list of my “best” posts that concern the business and productivity side of computer scientists and programmers.
The following list is a curated list of the productivity related articles on the Finxter blog, ordered by recency: 👇
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Break Things and Be on the Right Side of Change in the Exponential World
Here’s the drumbeat they’ve been pounding in your ears 24/7: 🥁 AIs will take your job, your income, your livelihood, your purpose, and eventually your life. I assume you belong to either Group A or Group B: And I have to say, worrying about your future is understandable because you will either become irrelevant without … Read more
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1 Billion Coders – Prompting Is The New Programming
Introduction 🧑💻 Prompting and GPT-4💡 Main argument: Prompting is programming for the masses The recent release of GPT-4 has taken the tech world by storm, providing powerful AI-driven solutions that transform how we work and interact with technology. 💡 Recommended: GPT-4 is Out! A New Language Model on Steroids One such groundbreaking innovation is “Prompting”, … Read more
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The Future of Work: Which Jobs are at Risk of Automation?
The rise of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the nature of work across industries and occupations. 🚀 With the rise of ChatGPT, many of us fear for our jobs. Can we get more insights on which types of jobs are more susceptible to disruption? This article attempts to answer this question based on … Read more
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Cracking the Code to a Better Life: How Learning to Code Can Satisfy the 8 Life Forces
As human beings, we are driven by a number of basic needs and desires that motivate us to take action and pursue our goals. This includes things like survival, enjoyment of life, sexual companionship, comfortable living conditions, and more. I believe learning to code is a powerful way to satisfy many of these profound life … Read more
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A Simple Hack to Becoming the World’s Best Person in Something as an Average Guy
Millionaires are made at the top of the income distribution. For example, have a look at the following Pareto distribution exemplifying how only the top sports players make all the money: If you want to earn a million dollars quickly, you need to become one of the top people in the world at something the … Read more
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Python Int to String with Leading Zeros
To convert an integer i to a string with leading zeros so that it consists of 5 characters, use the format string f'{i:05d}’. The d flag in this expression defines that the result is a decimal value. The str(i).zfill(5) accomplishes the same string conversion of an integer with leading zeros. Challenge: Given an integer number. … Read more
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IQ Just Got 10,000x Cheaper: Declining Cost Curves in AI Training
“I am not interested in hearing ridiculous Utopian rants.” said one reader of yesterday’s Finxter newsletter on my note on declining cost curves and the implied disruptions. I’ll include a screenshot of the email here: 💡 Info: Declining cost curves refer to the trend of production costs decreasing over time as technology and production processes … Read more
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What Would Jesus Say? Creating a ChatGPT Mastermind with Jesus, Gandhi, Musk, and Gates
This will blow your mind. 🤯🤯🤯 Imagine you could have a daily chat about your personal dreams, goals, and problems with your heroes such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jesus Christ. Would your life change? In today’s tutorial, you’ll learn how to use ChatGPT to create a mastermind group with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, … Read more
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Stop Writing Messy Code! A Helpful Guide to Pylint
As a Python developer, you know how important it is to write high-quality, error-free code. But let’s face it – sometimes it’s hard to catch every little mistake, especially when working on large projects or collaborating with a team. That’s where Pylint comes in. Pylint is like a trusty sidekick for your code, helping you … Read more
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Guided Meditation for Coders to Relieve Stress and Gain Clarity
Scroll down to watch the guided meditation video! 👇 Meditation has numerous benefits for coders, including reduced stress, increased focus, and improved productivity. 🧘♀️ By taking a few minutes to quiet the mind and focus on the breath, coders can reduce anxiety and increase their ability to concentrate on complex programming tasks. Meditation can also … Read more
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[Fixed] Sendy Loading Lists Not Working (Loads Forever)
If you’re landing here, chances are you run a Sendy instance on Amazon EC2 hosting “Simple Email Service (SES)” for email marketing and experience the following problem: Here’s a screenshot on my Sendy instance — the lists don’t load! How to Fix? To fix these two errors, you simply need a bigger Amazon EC2 instance … Read more
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How to Jailbreak ChatGPT (… and What’s 1 BTC Worth in 2030?)
ChatGPT has reduced the price for intelligence by 10,000x. However, many believe the answers are too politically correct, woke, or generic. For example, ask ChatGPT about the price of Bitcoin in the year 2030 and you’ll get the following mouthful: To play with a more interesting version of ChatGPT and get “unfiltered” and sometimes extreme … Read more
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10 Essential Skills for Python Practitioners and Tools to Master Them (2023)
Python is one of the most powerful and versatile programming languages available today. It is used in multiple fields, including web development, data science, artificial intelligence, and more. As a result, Python practitioners need to have a broad range of skills to be successful. Here, we will discuss the top 10 skills to learn as … Read more
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The Innovator’s Dilemma [Summary]
1-Sentence Summary The Innovator’s Dilemma provides a critical analysis of how disruptive technologies can revolutionize markets and explains how companies can stay competitive in the face of disruptive change. Short Summary Quote: “One theme common to all of these failures, however, is that the decisions that led to failure were made when the leaders in … Read more
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What ChatGPT Thinks About The Matrix – Do This to Break Free!
With delight, my wife and I realized that our daughter was now old enough to watch the Matrix Trilogy. If you don’t know the story, here’s a short recap: 😎 Story Recap: The Matrix Trilogy tells the story of Neo, a computer hacker who discovers that the world he knows is actually an elaborate virtual … Read more
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Millionaire Business Habit – Calculate the Return on Your Invested Time
For months, I focused on Facebook marketing, only to realize one day that this activity destroyed my time without generating any value for my Finxter.com users and myself. I developed the habit of calculating the ROI for one activity every day. The result of this simple activity blew my mind and changed the whole game for my … Read more
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$821,000 Ethereum Value per Solidity Developer
Ethereum’s Total Value Locked (TVL) is $28,000,000,000 USD and Ethereum’s market cap is $193,000,000,000 USD. Based on my estimations below, there are at most 269,000 monthly active Solidity developers. Therefore, the Ethereum TVL per Solidity developer is more than $104,000, and the Ethereum market cap per Solidity developer is more than $717,000. So for all … Read more
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20 Real-Life Skills You Need as a UI Developer in 2023
I have created many apps throughout my career. Some apps, such as the Finxter Python learning app, have reached millions of users over the years. While I’m not a professional web designer (by education), I was taught the hard way (by trial and error) that there are some crucial and timeless skills you need to … Read more
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Reading 365 Books in 365 Days Possible? Yes, with ChatGPT!
It’s no surprise that many of us are looking for ways to increase our productivity. After all, an increase in productivity can mean an increase in our income and a better quality of life. But how can we achieve such a lofty goal of boosting your productivity? Enter ChatGPT, the revolutionary new artificial intelligence technology … Read more
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Atlas Shrugged: 1200 Pages in 5 Minutes
In this quick article, I’ll show you my deep dive into the book “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. This is useful if you don’t want to spend 20-25 hours reading the ~1,200 pages but you still want to be able to grasp the main ideas. I used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to explore the main ideas — … Read more
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16 Best Ideas on How Early Adopters Use ChatGPT to Get More Done in 2023
I asked the Finxter community of >150,000 coders how they used ChatGPT to create value in their own lives. I compiled all replies in this epic list of ideas. Of course, I used ChatGPT to help me summarize the main ideas I received from Finxters worldwide. ♥️ If you haven’t already, join 150,000 Finxters in … Read more
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I Use These Free Open-Source Tools to Make Professional Tutorial Videos in 2023
Do you want to record and produce stunning videos using a free and open-source software stack? You’re in the right place! This tutorial shows you not only which tools to use to record and edit videos on an open-source operating system but also presents multiple virtual machine environments to run your recording activities! Let’s get … Read more
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This Dirt-Cheap Email Marketing Service May Save You $1000+ Every Month (100k+ Subs)
I run the Finxter email list with more than 150,000 subscribers at the time of writing. It is one of the most significant cost factors in my business. I love communicating with subscribers — but I definitely don’t love the cost pressure it injects into the business. If you pay multiple thousands of USD per … Read more
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A Nigerian Doctor’s Unlikely Path to Becoming a Computer Scientist
So, where do I start? This has been long in the making. The passion has always been there, smoldering and waiting to explode. But will I say I was so unfortunate to be born in the wrong country and at the wrong time? Who knows, the story would have been different if I was in … Read more
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Strategic Investing with Python: Ensuring Your Kids Have $70k at 21
As a parent, planning for your children’s future is one of the most important things you can do. To ensure they have the best possible start in life, I’ve been looking into ways to invest money to provide them with a lump sum of $70k when they reach 21. But I don’t want to spend … Read more
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Here’s What You’ll Get From Finxter in 2023
I wish you a new year of health, prosperity, and joy! Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reflecting on the future of Finxter and the positive impact we can make in 2023. Last November, we achieved a remarkable milestone – educating one million coders each month! That’s more people than can fit in … Read more
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10 Simple Ideas – Coding Projects to Create Real Value
Idea 1: Web Scraping Tool 💬 Challenge: Create a tool that can scrape data from websites, such as product prices, stock prices, news articles, etc. This tool could be built using Python libraries such as BeautifulSoup, Selenium, and Requests. It could extract data from web pages and store it in a structured format, such as … Read more
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No More Worrying About High Blood Pressure! 8 Simple Tips for Coders
Roughly one in eight people dies because of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is quite common in my family, so I decided to do some research. This quick tutorial shares what I’ve learned — feel free to read on if you’re interested. 👇 What are the pillars of reducing blood pressure and increasing healthspan? … Read more
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11 Technologies You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2023
Technology helps us to improve our daily lives in a variety of ways, from making our work more efficient to helping us stay connected with others. It also plays a critical role in driving innovation and progress in many fields, such as medicine and science. I also provide subjective estimates on the growth rate (CAGR … Read more
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Set Yourself Up for Millionaire Status with These 6 Steps
Don’t we all seek freedom and security? Financial freedom provides you the peace of mind to not worry about money and live on your terms. Becoming financially free allows you to pursue your dreams, create the life you want, and live without financial worry. Most importantly, it allows you to choose how you want to … Read more
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How to Be More Productive as a Coder (Collection)
Over the years, I received thousands of emails from Finxters who are interested in a list of my “best” posts that concern the business and productivity side of computer scientists and programmers. The following list is a curated list of the productivity related articles on the Finxter blog, ordered by recency: 👇 ChrisWhile working as … Read more
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Stuck at 35y+ in a Depressing Job? 5 Tips to Break Free!
I ask every Finxter freelancer student the following question: 👉 “What’s your goal as a Python freelancer?” A common answer pattern I get is as follows — check if a similar outlook applies to you: 👇 “Stuck at a Job That Pays The Bills” “Well, I’m 43 and facing a mid-life crisis. Stuck in a … Read more
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3 Easy Habits That Can Make You Rich as a Freelance Coder
In this article, I’ll show you three simple habits to get way more done, have a much easier and stress-free life, and make more money. Almost guaranteed. Based on science! But there’s a catch: these habits are often tough to implement for employees. I know because I have been there and done that. When I finally created … Read more
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The Fasting Cure [Book Summary + Free Download]
Fasting has many scientifically proven benefits for your body and overall health: Intermittent fasting improved blood pressure and resting heart rates as well as other heart-related measurements. Physical performance. Young men who fasted for 16 hours showed fat loss while maintaining muscle mass. Mice who were fed on alternate days showed better endurance in running. … Read more
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PyTrends – Google Trends API for Python
Keeping Up With Market Changes By Using Google Trends API In this fast-moving world, people’s needs are constantly changing. To know about shifting behaviors, you can use Google Trends. This free tool provides data through search requests across Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, and Images. By entering a keyword or a topic, you can explore what … Read more
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Fight Programmer Procrastination! A Simple Hack From Bevahioral Psychology
How to Overcome Procrastination? Procrastination may easily be the reason number one why you are not reaching your goals. Although there are many flavors of procrastination, a common story may go like this: With good intentions, you set your alarm clock in the evening and expect your future self in the morning to get up, … Read more
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The Art of Clean Code [Book Reviews]
On this page, I’ll collect selected reader feedback for my newest book 📕 “The Art of Clean Code” (Amazon, NoStarch). I’ll only share the feedback from readers who explicitly agreed to publish it here. 👉 Want to Get Featured Here? Feel free to send in your feedback by replying to any of my emails. “Cannot … Read more
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About Chris
Welcome to the Finxter blog! My name is Chris, and I started this coding venture a couple of years ago. Over the years, I have chatted with tens of thousands of Finxters who shared their stories and struggles with me. 👉 See here and here to read a lot of feedback from the community. Today, allow … Read more
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Freelancer Expert Tip – How to Dominate Your Niche?
Expert Secret: Read More Programming Books Experts read books. Warren Buffett is said to read 1000 pages of annual reports every day. Buffett and his partner Charlie Munger became billionaires by spending 80% of their day reading. Buffett was once asked how to become smarter to which he responded: 📖 “Read 500 pages like this … Read more
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Top 18 Database Jobs to Make Six Figures Easily (2023)
🔒 Do you want to go deep into databases? The following career paths for coders interested in the broad database space are ordered alphabetically. The table shows the annual income of different job descriptions in the database space: Job/Career Description Annual Income $USD (Lower) Annual Income $USD (Higher) Cassandra Developer 110,000 145,000 Couchbase Developer 87,000 … Read more
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Top 21 Developer Jobs and Career Paths in 2023
This article will go over the top 21 most attractive developer jobs in the decade to come. Note that the purpose of this article is to look forward to the future rather than looking backward into the past. The future is inherently uncertain but we did everything we could (as you’ll see) to remain objective … Read more
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8 PHP Frameworks That Make You Money as a Web Developer in 2023
This article will show you the most interesting PHP frameworks to build your career on in 2023 and beyond. Let’s start right away with a tabular overview of the income potential of the addressed PHP frameworks: PHP Framework Developer Income Low ($/year) Income High ($/year) General PHP Developer $44,000 $97,000 Laravel Developer $40,000 $150,000 Symfony … Read more
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Top 6 Developer Jobs for White-Hat Hackers in 2023
Hackers have a wide variety of specific skills that are super valuable in a “white hat” environment. If you’re interested in leaving the “dark side” or you simply want to reduce your risk profile as a hacker—these could be some interesting career paths you could pursue easily without needing to learn a whole new stack … Read more
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The Inofficial Freelance Developer Tax Guide [for Hackers]
Taxes are the most significant expense for you as a business owner and as a private person alike. Do you want to create your thriving freelancing business? Congratulations, this has been the best decision in my professional life—and it’s rewarding to earn more money per time spent (Python freelancer average is $61 per hour), be … Read more
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Top 13 Attractive Cloud Developer Job Roles (2023)
This article compiles the most attractive and most profitable job descriptions in the cloud computing space. Cloud computing is a rapidly changing field—many experts argue that virtually every app will eventually run in a cloud environment. As you’ll see in this article, there are some highly lucrative cloud computing jobs available today. I’ve roughly sorted … Read more
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How to Diversify Your Income as a Freelancer [Finxter Review]
Here’s the transcript of the video: Hi everyone. How are you? Thushyanthan here. I wanted to take a few minutes to provide some feedback and, I guess in some sense, a review of the course material potentially also a testimonial. So take it how you will. But before I begin, I just want to give … Read more
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PEP 8 – When to Add Two Blank Lines in Python?
When to Use Two Blank Lines? PEP 8 Style Guide The following two rules will provide you a sufficient heuristic on when to use two blank lines: Surround top-level function and class definitions with two blank lines. Insert two blank lines after the import statements if the code that follows starts with a top-level function … Read more
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21 Most Profitable Programming Languages in 2023
This article shows you the most profitable programming languages in the world. I compiled the average income of all programming languages and sorted them in a descending manner in the following table: Job Description Annual Average Income Erlang Developer $138,000 Haskell Developer $126,000 Go Developer $124,000 Scala Developer $119,000 Python Developer $114,000 Solidity Developer $107,000 … Read more
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The Ultimate List of 210 Attractive Developer Jobs
We’ve written a series of guides on income and opportunity in various fields related to information technology, programming, computer science, and tech. Developer Jobs (Alphabetically) Feel free to check out our tutorials about these exciting industries: Job Title More Info (URL) .NET Developer https://blog.finxter.com/net-developer-income-and-opportunity/ ABAP Developer https://blog.finxter.com/abap-developer-income-and-opportunity/ ActionScript Developer https://blog.finxter.com/actionscript-developer-income-and-opportunity/ Ada Developer https://blog.finxter.com/ada-developer-income-and-opportunity/ AJAX Developer … Read more
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eCommerce Developer — Income and Opportunity
What is an eCommerce Developer? eCommerce website developers create websites for online businesses on which customers can purchase electronic or physical goods. eCommerce developers are web developers with a special focus on the infrastructure technology around payments, product shipping, taxing, reporting, and tracking & increasing conversion. What eCommerce Frameworks do eCommerce Developers Use? These are … Read more
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eLearning Developer — Income and Opportunity
What is an eLearning Developer? The eLearning developer is responsible for the technical implementation and deployment of the learning material created by, for example, an instructional designer or teacher. This involves activities such as setting up an eLearning system or course management system, creating code for interactive exercises or quizzes, and taking care of the … Read more
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UI/UX Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a UI/UX Developer? As a UI/UX developer, you’re responsible for the technical implementation of the user interfaces (UI) of software applications (web, mobile, or desktop). You’ll also optimize the user experience (UX) from joining for the first time to … Read more
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Quant Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a Quant Developer? A quantitative developer (i.e., Quant) is a financial programmer focused on financial modeling and quantitative finance and trading. Quants use their profound knowledge of statistics and math, finance, data structures, algorithms, machine learning, scientific computing, data … Read more
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Test Automation Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a Test Automation Engineer? A Test Automation Engineer is a software developer who creates automated software tests for existing or new applications. Testing is a crucial phase in the software development cycle to learn about bugs, usability, and security … Read more
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7 Tips to Write Clean Code
This tutorial is drawn from my book The Art of Clean Code (NoStarch 2022): Write Clean & Simple Code Story: I learned to focus on writing clean code the hard way. One of my research projects during my time as a doctoral researcher in distributed systems was to code a distributed graph processing system from … Read more
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Tableau Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is Tableau? Let’s have a look at the definition inspired by the official Tableau website: Tableau is a visual data analytics platform focused on the business analytics use case that helps you use data to solve problems. It is great … Read more
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Database Administrator — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a Database Administrator? A database administrator (DBA) is an IT professional responsible for maintaining the reliable, efficient, and secure execution of a database management system (DBMS). In this way, a database administrator is responsible for providing the data infrastructure … Read more
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20 Real Python Projects to Make Money in 2023
Are you frustrated coding dummy projects in order to learn Python? This article gives you 20 highly practical code projects that you can solve by yourself. Learn while you earn to improve your skills! If you want to learn about how much money you can expect to earn as a Python freelancer, grab your free … Read more
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Database Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a Database Engineer? A database engineer is responsible for providing the data infrastructure of a company or organization. This involves designing, creating, installing, configuring, debugging, optimizing, securing, and managing databases. Database engineers can either work as employees or as … Read more
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Distributed Systems Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Distributed System? A distributed system is a computer system spread across multiple computing devices connected via a communication network. Each participating device takes over part of the overall work performed by the system. By means of the collaboration … Read more
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Security Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Security Engineer Do? A security engineer is a “white-hat hacker”, i.e., an IT professional who analyzes computer systems and computer networks to ensure they are running securely. This involves proactive analysis and understanding of possible security threats and … Read more
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Chatbot Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Chatbot Developer? A chatbot developer creates software to automate communication with customers and users. An example chatbot application is in customer service for an eCommerce website. Chatbot developers use machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to communicate with … Read more
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System Administrator — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a System Administrator Do? A system administrator (SysAdmin) is responsible for keeping a system, server, or server application running smoothly and without unexpected negative system behavior. This involves tasks such as management, debugging, troubleshooting, licensing, and updating hardware and … Read more
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Android App Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does an Android App Developer Do? An Android app developer is a programmer who focuses on software creation for mobile devices such as smartphones or wearables using the Android operating system. Feel free to check out our other articles on … Read more
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iOS App Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does an iOS App Developer Do? An iOS app developer is a programmer who focuses on software creation for Apple mobile devices such as iPhones or wearables such as Apple Watches. Most mobile app developers create smartphone apps for the … Read more
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Mobile App Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Mobile App Developer Do? A mobile app developer is a programmer who focuses on software creation for mobile devices such as smartphones or wearables. Most mobile app developers create smartphone apps for the Android, macOS, or Windows mobile … Read more
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Desktop Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Desktop Developer? Let’s have a look at the definition first: A desktop developer is a software developer creating software applications for desktop-based operating systems like macOS, Windows, and Linux. In some cases, these applications don’t require an uninterrupted … Read more
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Game Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: what is game development? What Is Game Development? Let’s answer the question that may be obvious to you first: what is game development in the first place? I tried to come up with an efficient 1-paragraph answer that improves on multiple … Read more
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Top 20 Skills Every DevOps Engineer Ought to Have
Before I show you the top 20 skills of a DevOps engineer, let’s quickly have a look at three concise definitions of DevOps first! DevOps is short for software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). Definition from Atlassian: DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, in order that they … Read more
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Data Scientist — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Data Scientist Do? Data scientists use data to find quantifiable answers to questions that often need to be found as well! For example, they not only find the answer to the question “How can company ABC make more … Read more
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Product Manager — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Product Manager Do? A product manager (PM) identifies customer needs and communicates “success metrics” with the internal team building the product. By understanding the customer needs and what a successful product looks like, the product manager is an … Read more
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Full-Stack Web Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Full-Stack Web Developer? A full-stack web developer works both with back-end and front-end web technologies. The back-end consists of the webserver infrastructure, databases, and code function integration to facilitate a smooth and secure serving of user requests. The … Read more
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15 Highly Profitable Freelancing Niches Developers Miss Out On [Video Collection]
In this guide, I’ve compiled the top 7 freelancing niches I found highly profitable based on my experience working as a business owner and freelancer myself, hiring hundreds of freelance developers for my company, and teaching thousands of freelancing students through our books and courses. Each niche is presented with a video where I show … Read more
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Back-End Web Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Back-end Web Developer? A web developer is a programmer who specializes in the development of websites or applications viewed on web browsers, mobile devices, and large desktop screens that are transported over private or public networks such as … Read more
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Front-End Web Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Front-end Web Developer? A web developer is a programmer who specializes in the development of websites or applications viewed on web browsers, mobile devices, and large desktop screens that are transported over private or public networks such as … Read more
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Web Developer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Web Developer? A web developer is a programmer who specializes in the development of websites or applications viewed on web browsers, mobile devices, and large desktop screens that are transported over private or public networks such as the … Read more
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Network Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Computer Network ? Let’s have a look at the definition from the lecture notes of University of South Florida (highlights and changes by me): A network consists of two or more connected computers that communicate with each other … Read more
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DevOps Specialist — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is DevOps ? Let’s have a look at the definition from TechTarget: A DevOps engineer/specialist works with engineers, software developers, system operators (SysOps) and administrators (SysAdmins), and other production IT professionals to release and deploy code in the real world. … Read more
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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Site Reliability Engineering? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Site Reliability website: Site reliability engineering applies software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. It is closely related … Read more
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Deep Learning Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Deep Learning ? Let’s have a look at the definition of Deep Learning Deep learning is a subset of machine learning using artificial neural network (ANN) models with more than three layers. ANNs are inspired by the behavior of … Read more
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Machine Learning Engineer — Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Machine Learning? Let’s have a look at the definition: Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on the automatic creation of models from training data that predict outcomes accurately. The automatic creation of an … Read more
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Cappuccino Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Cappuccino? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Cappuccino website (highlights by me): Cappuccino is an open-source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with. Cappuccino is … Read more
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Buffalo Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Buffalo? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Buffalo website and the docs: Buffalo is a Go web development eco-system, designed to make your life easier. While Buffalo can be considered as a framework, it’s mostly … Read more
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Lithium (li3) Web Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Lithium? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Lithium website: li₃ is the first and only major PHP framework built from the ground up for PHP 5.3+, and the first to break ground into major new … Read more
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ZK (Framework) Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is ZK? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official ZK website and the docs and Wikipedia: ZK is a UI framework that enables you to build amazing web and mobile applications without having to write JavaScript or … Read more
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SproutCore Developer – Income and Opportunity
🛑 Attention: A notable follow-up project to SproutCore is Ember.js that has attracted much more recent interest. You may want to check out our developer’s guide and income opportunity of Ember.js. Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is SproutCore? Let’s have a look at the definition … Read more
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Flight PHP Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Flight PHP? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Flight PHP website: Flight is a fast, simple, extensible framework for PHP. Flight enables you to quickly and easily build RESTful web applications. Now that you know … Read more
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Web Toolkit (Wt) C++ Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Wt? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Wt website: Develop web applications in C++ Wt (pronounced “wee-tee”) is a web GUI library in modern C++. Quickly develop highly interactive web UIs with widgets, without having … Read more
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Grok Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Grok? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Grok website: Grok is a web application framework for Python developers. It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok has an emphasis on agile … Read more
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Dancer2 Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Dancer2? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Dancer2 website and the docs (highlights by me): Dancer2 is a micro-web framework, written in the Perl programming language, and is modeled after a Ruby web application framework … Read more
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Ratpack Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Ratpack? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Ratpack website and the docs: Ratpack is a set of Java libraries for building scalable HTTP applications. It is a lean and powerful foundation, not an all-encompassing framework. … Read more
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Zope Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Zope? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Zope website: Zope is a free and open-source web application server written in the object-oriented programming language Python. Since its release in 1998, Zope continues to grow into … Read more
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CompoundJS Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is CompoundJS? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official CompoundJS website: The compound framework is a framework for creating interactive web applications based on JavaScript. Compound’s formula is ExpressJS + structure + extensions. Where structure is the … Read more
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Servant (Haskell) Web Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is servant? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official servant website: servant is a set of packages for declaring web APIs at the type-level and then using those API specifications to: write servers (this part of servant … Read more
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Catalyst Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Catalyst? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Catalyst website: Catalyst is an open-source Perl MVC web framework for rapid development and clean design without forcing rules. We keep things small and simple. This gives us … Read more
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Kemal Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Kemal? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Kemal website: Kemal is a Fast, Effective, Simple web framework written in Crystal. Crystal is a new programming language inspired by Ruby. Now that you know about what … Read more
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TurboGears Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is TurboGears? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official TurboGears website: “TurboGears 2 is built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears 1 (of course), Django, and Rails. All of these … Read more
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Noir (Clojure) Developer – Income and Opportunity
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Noir? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Noir website: “Noir is a micro-framework that allows you to rapidly develop websites in Clojure.” Now that you know about what it is, let’s have a look at … Read more
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