Freelance news digest
Headlines for freelancers from other sites, with a short teaser and a link to the original. We do not copy articles: every item opens on its publisher's site. For our own guides, see the AutoBidPilot blog.
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Freelancers Union blog ·
Freelancer to Business Owner: What Is My Work Worth?
You spent years getting good at your craft. Nobody spent five minutes teaching you what it's worth.
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Smashing Magazine ·
Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what…
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Freelancers Union blog ·
What Freelancers Need to Know About Trump Accounts: New 2026 Eligibility, Contributions, and IRS Rules
Can freelancers contribute to Trump Accounts the same way employers can?
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Smashing Magazine ·
Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.
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Smashing Magazine ·
New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.
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Smashing Magazine ·
Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and…
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Freelancers Union blog ·
IRS Removes Penalty-Relief Guidance for Delinquent FBAR Filings: Tips for Freelancers with Foreign Financial Accounts
The IRS has recently removed its published penalty-relief guidance for certain delinquent FBAR filings, eliminating a long-standing assurance that late filings could be submitted without penalty under specific circumstances.
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Smashing Magazine ·
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
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Freelancers Union blog ·
3 Ways to Deliver an A+ Client Experience
If you want to take your creative career or business to the next level, focusing on your client experience is one of the best investments of time and energy you can make.
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Freelancers Union blog ·
The Importance of Setting Good Boundaries in Professional Relationships
Establishing good boundaries is actually crucial for both personal well-being and professional success.
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Smashing Magazine ·
Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might bring? Well, we’ve got…
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Smashing Magazine ·
The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act.
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Freelancers Union blog ·
Summer 2026 Picks from the Freelancers Union Staff
Get into our recs for summer 2026 below! Some timely, some timeless.
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Smashing Magazine ·
Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how…
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Freelancers Union blog ·
Make the Most of New Mileage Rates and Other Freelance Travel Deductions this Summer
The IRS has released its updated standard mileage rates for 2026, and the timing couldn’t be better for freelancers.
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Freelancers Union blog ·
How to Connect with Your Audience — Beyond Social Media
Social media is an option for marketing your practice, but it’s just one way of earning visibility and building trust.
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Smashing Magazine ·
Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that attackers can exploit. Durgesh Pawar breaks down the mechanics behind the CVSS 10.0 “React2Shell” vulnerability to show how…
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Smashing Magazine ·
When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered involving a screenshot extension where he made an exception…
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Smashing Magazine ·
No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces,…
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Smashing Magazine ·
From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context, uncover hidden assumptions with stakeholders, and turn shared direction into a visual foundation…
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