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freelancing

Freelancing means the hours you bill are the hours you actually worked - no timesheet, no guessing. This tag covers tracking billable time automatically across projects and clients, and turning that data into something you can invoice with confidence.

Free Project Time Tracking for Students: JustClock Now Free for a Full Year
August 30, 2026

Free Project Time Tracking for Students: JustClock Now Free for a Full Year

JustClock is now free for verified students for a full year, renewable every year you're still enrolled. Here's how to get automatic project time tracking running in VS Code in a few minutes.
PhpStorm Time Tracking: Built for How PHP Freelancers Actually Work
August 26, 2026

PhpStorm Time Tracking: Built for How PHP Freelancers Actually Work

A large share of PHP developers work as freelancers, and most of them are still billing by the hour. Here's why PhpStorm - where that work actually happens - is the natural place to track it automatically.
Cursor Time Tracking: What Actually Counts as Coding Time?
August 24, 2026

Cursor Time Tracking: What Actually Counts as Coding Time?

Cursor blurs what counts as "working" - typing, reviewing AI output, babysitting an agent run. Here's what should actually count as billable time, and why a stopwatch can't keep up with it.
How to Bill Clients for Development Work Without Guessing Your Hours
August 18, 2026

How to Bill Clients for Development Work Without Guessing Your Hours

Estimating hours from memory doesn't just feel imprecise — it systematically undercounts the debugging, testing, and verification work that happens outside the editor. Here's how to fix that, and how a configurable idle timeout keeps automatic tracking honest in both directions.

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