Working as a Remote Dev in a Small Macedonian City
No coworking spaces. No tech meetups. No startup scene. Just a fast internet connection, a high-spec machine, and clients in three different time zones. Here's what it's actually like.
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Technical deep-dives, freelance strategy, and honest takes on building scalable frontend systems — written from Gevgelija, North Macedonia.
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No coworking spaces. No tech meetups. No startup scene. Just a fast internet connection, a high-spec machine, and clients in three different time zones. Here's what it's actually like.
A look into how I integrate Neon serverless Postgres into my projects branching, instant provisioning, and why it replaced every other database workflow I had.
Most freelance projects start small. Then they don't. Here's why I set up a Turborepo monorepo from day one — and why it's saved every client I've worked with.
Six hours per deployment. No caching. No parallelization. Developers who had stopped deploying on Fridays out of fear. Here's the exact audit and the fixes that changed everything.
Multi-tenancy is one of those problems that looks simple until you're debugging a data leak in production. Here's the architecture I use three isolation layers, zero compromises.
Most startups reach for the wrong abstraction at the wrong time. Here's the pattern I see on almost every engagement — and how to avoid it.
I haven't sent a cold application in over a year. Here's the exact inbound system I built from a small city in North Macedonia that brings clients to me.
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