Fractional work

What a part-time tech lead can and cannot do for a project, and how to work that way.

  1. Why I am going all in on the one-day-a-week developer

    In a few weeks, five near-identical profiles asked me for the same thing: a developer who watches their back, but not full-time. I am making it my job.

  2. The developer market is shifting

    Large dev teams are shrinking because of AI. Meanwhile, small businesses are starting to build their own internal tools and will need experts a few days a month.

  3. Experience-based daily rates no longer measure anything

    Daily rate grids were built on years of experience because the keyboard capped the gap between good and bad developers. With AI, that bottleneck is gone.

  4. Building a product is easy. Distribution is the hard part.

    Developers often forget that building a product depends on them. Selling, onboarding and keeping customers does not. A simple plan for technical founders.

  5. The part-time senior developer: a new freelancing model

    In companies where the product only supports the business, vibe-coding hits a wall fast. A senior developer a few days a month is often enough to lift it.