Author name: nik pick

The project started as a simple “MVP” app for $30,000. Six months and 400 emails later, the client was demanding […]

I landed a $50,000 contract to build a secure customer portal and, to save time, hired a “Senior Developer” on

I built a custom checkout flow. I thought I handled the tokens correctly using Stripe Elements. But the client’s QSA

I used a library licensed under GPL v3 in a client’s closed-source SaaS product. The client was audited during an

I left my agency job to freelance. Three of my old clients followed me. My former boss slapped me with

My laptop was grabbed from a coffee shop table. It was encrypted… I think. But it contained the uncompiled source

We promised the e-commerce app launch for November 1st. Scope creep and bugs pushed it to December 15th. The client

I wrote a Lambda script that was supposed to trigger once a day. Instead, I created an infinite loop. I

The server crashed. “No problem,” I told the client, “I have nightly backups.”I was wrong. The cron job had been

I set up a new server for a client and, in a rush to get remote access working, I left