1. The access collection black hole You need Figma access, Google Analytics, WordPress admin, GitHub, and the client's Slack. You ask. They forward a password email from two years ago. You ask again. Their developer says they'll get back to you. Three days pass. The fix: Send a single, complete access list on Day 1 — not "we'll need some access" but the exact list, with specifics for each tool,
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it