At today’s French class, I struck up a conversation with a classmate. He is a certified yoga instructor from India and wanted to start teaching in Montréal. He told me that he had a contact that could help him get into teaching yoga in a downtown office. After talking about how yoga was in high demand for IT folks, I asked if he was interested in providing personal instruction. Then I asked if he had ever posted flyers with tear-off tabs at cafés, bakeries or anywhere there w

Note: This post has been edited for clarity. If you'd like to see the previous version of this post, let me know. I chose to go freelance for various reasons, and one of them was to force myself to get out of my comfort zone. It's easy to revert to familiar patterns, but if the last month has taught me anything, it's that staying comfortable isn't great in the long run if it means that there's no chance to grow. That being said I've always been ambivalent about hustling, but

If you’re a Jane-of-all-trades like me, then you might have some trouble explaining what it is exactly that you do. I’ve written and drawn since I was a kid, but I started working professionally in game development and technical writing, before transitioning to graphic, print and web design, until my most recent role in front-end web development and client support. So how do I identify myself? On LinkedIn, I am a Freelance Designer and Developer at LYMN. On Twitter, I am an A

While I’m starting to really, really like Wix, emails are extra and you have to get GSuite for an extra 6USD per month. For setting up emails with Mailgun, I found these instructions at DevAnswers.co to be much clearer. The screenshots for the Domain Verification steps may be out of date, so here’s a link to Mailgun’s documentation. TBH, I haven’t had the best time with PlanetHoster’s World Panel interface while trying to update my DNS records. A few questions that popped int

While waiting for my DNS records to update, I turned to Google to remind myself that the internet is not a forgiving place. There at the bottom of the first results was a link to my Blogger profile along with a picture of me at 28. I take a moment to reflect on how thin I was in 2004 before clicking through to find links to all the abortive blogs I had started. I’m pretty sure I changed the privacy settings a long time ago so search engines would never find them, but my Blogg

Thursday If you can get the domain you want, Wix offers a free domain name with their premium plan. But since they don’t do .ca domains, I was out of luck - so I had to buy and connect my lymn.ca domain to my Wix site. It took about half a day but it works and I’m happy. So far I’ve signed up for the combo plan at Wix for 120.00 USD per year and have purchased my domain for 32.72 CAD for 3 years. I’ve spent more than $150 so far and I still need to get my cards printed. Next

Here's some back story. I gave my notice 2 weeks ago and because I am not a Brexiteer, I stuck with my original departure date of March 29. Then I went and gave myself 3 crazy deadlines: First week: hang out my shingle Second week: enrol in a French course and get up to speed with front-end development Third week: find work/sign a contract in one month. Here's how the first week is going so far: Monday Instead of designing a logo and some business cards to hand out, I procras