While looking at newsletter provider, I realized that for the price, I could buy a Ghost sub instead and have newsletter, paid subscriptions, POSSE integration, and a lot of other stuff.

Is 2026 the year I'm moving away from jekyll? BTW, this is not motivated by a technical bikeshedding but by the fact I want to focus on my business, not on developping custom tools that already exist elsewhere.

Freelancers, solopreneurs, how do you do it?

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All Content from Business Insider | I felt frustrated by my job search, so I decided to build my own business by Tim Paradis

Chris Fong gave up on his job search after not finding any luck. Posting online about his experience pushed him to focus on a new business.Courtesy of Chris Fong

Chris Fong, 25, got laid off from his job at a tech startup in early 2025.He started posting videos to document his frustration with his job-search process.Fong advises building something independently rather than waiting for job offers.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chris Fong, 25, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In March 2025, he was laid off from a tech startup. After about nine months of searching for a job, he started a content-creation business. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.

I worked at a tech startup for a little over a year. I was doing revenue operations, which is the intersection of acquiring customers and keeping them happy.

I've found a new pathStart something and see where it goesRead the original article on Business Insider

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/applying-for-jobs-not-working-started-own-business-2026-4

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New job requesting my participation on upwork - once off payment of US$111 - seeking PhDs and Masters in specialists fields with extensive experience in machine learning and computer science, to align their AI tools and algorithms (to make automated tagging on those fields better).

With a warning that they are blanket inviting so many that if you don’t hear anything (after adding your details and a sample review to their Google sheet), it’s because they don’t have the capacity to respond to everyone.

I guess it’s a little more suited than repeatedly asking to harvest my and friends’ voices as *native German speakers* simulating conversations to train a German audio AI (for US$15, fixed price).

*sigh*

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Someone finally tested AI on real freelance jobs. Not benchmarks. Real paid work from Upwork.

240 projects. Graphic design, video, architecture, game dev. The best AI model completed 2.5% of them. Gemini managed 0.8%.

AI delivered an 8-second video when asked for 8 minutes. A house that changed shape per viewing angle. Corrupted files.

The benchmarks were never the real world.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26787

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Where Have All the Real #FrontEnd #Developers Gone?

As I’ve been transitioning back to #freelancing after working for a single agency for seven years, I’ve noticed a drastic change in our industry. While I’ve always been somewhat aware of all the Javascript frameworks trying to take over, I didn’t realize how bad it’s gotten. The term “front-end development” used to mean #HTML, #CSS, and maybe some animation-based #JS, but after reading hundreds (thousands?) of job...

https://amberweinberg.com/where-have-all-the-real-front-end-developers-gone/

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