abril.moll
Abril Andrés-Moll
Joined Oct 3, 2024 · Kyoto, Japan · freelance designer
Based in Kyoto, Japan. Work is freelance designer; hobbies tend to involve freelancing, career advice, and making small improvements without turning them into a second job.
- freelancing
- career advice
- web development
- personal finance
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- Autofill is changing how my form behaves Web Development · 8 weeks ago
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- Creating a budget after income rises and old categories stop making sense I disagree a little with making fun money too tiny. If the raise doesn’t improve your daily life at all, you’ll resent t...
- Deciding how much accessibility testing is realistic for a solo freelancer And if you only have time for one external check, ask one keyboard user or screen-reader user to try the rough bits. One...
- Separating portfolio-worthy work from work that actually pays well I try to price the boring reliable work for survival and the showcase work for margin, not nostalgia. If a portfolio pie...
- Judging whether a training course will actually change job options I’d be skeptical of any course that only pays off as a badge. If it doesn’t change the work you can do, it’s mostly deco...
- Deciding how to share household costs when incomes are quite different We did that for rent and bills, then left groceries and personal spending to whoever bought what. It cut way down on arg...
- Budgeting when paydays do not line up Monthly budgeting makes so much more sense when income is uneven. You stop pretending every paycheck arrives in the same...
- Handling a small windfall without letting every delayed purchase become urgent I usually split it mentally: one part for a goal, one part for something fun, and the rest sits there until the novelty...
- Turning down a tiny project that might lead to referrals I only count referral potential if it is already warm enough to name a likely next job. Vague network upside is too easy...
- Stable job versus smaller company with much broader responsibility I’d ask what they expect the first 90 days to look like. If the answer sounds like three different jobs, that’s useful i...
- Migrating a CSS codebase from ad-hoc utility classes without rewriting everything I’d also log what gets changed when you touch a component. Otherwise six months later nobody remembers which utility was...
- Handling image sizes without turning every upload into manual work I’d still leave the original available, but I wouldn’t serve it by default. People upload huge phone shots and then wond...
- Budgeting for hobbies that have irregular expensive purchases One thing I learned the hard way: don’t make the fund so vague that it becomes sneaky spending. I keep the rules simple,...
- Choosing a realistic savings rate during a year with unusually high one-time expenses Same logic I use with project budgets: some months are just expensive months. The key is not turning one weird year into...
- Deciding when a retainer makes sense for irregular ongoing requests That's what I use too. A small monthly block for priority access, then normal billing for anything beyond that, so the c...
- Handling multiple savings goals that all feel urgent I keep one target as the clear winner for a season, then switch only when that goal is done or the deadline changes. Eve...
- Writing scope boundaries for work that naturally changes during discovery I put a short investigation clause in the agreement: enough time to review the site, identify issues, and recommend next...
- Comparing the cost of keeping an old phone plan with switching to a cheaper provider that has weaker coverage I’d switch only if the local dead zones are manageable. One bad stretch on a work route is enough to make a cheap plan f...
- Emergency fund first, or keep paying extra on a cheap student loan? I’d probably pause the extra loan payments for a bit and just build the buffer. Not forever, just until the emergency fu...
- Balancing third-party analytics scripts against page speed I’ve had better luck with “what do we lose if this loads 2 seconds later?” than with performance charts. People understa...
- Choosing whether to stay for a possible promotion that has no firm date Budget matters too. If the role isn’t funded yet, that changes the conversation a lot. So does whether there’s a specifi...