Rami Haddad

4 august. 6 years. windows replaced twice, savings still frozen, still nobody held responsible. going to fix a flexbox bug now because what else. بيروت بتضل حلوة 🇱🇧

Freelancing for Paris from Beirut: generator hours, a UPS and the bank that ate my savings

hi kifak, ça va? People ask how I work for French and German clients from here. Short answer: around the generator. Long answer below 🙃 Electricity. State power comes some hours a day, when it comes. The rest is the neighbourhood generator, the "ishtirak", a subscription you pay to a guy with a very big diesel engine and a very big network of cables over the street. It switches over a few times a day and every…