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I'd probably make your github profile private for a while as well. Or at least removing your real name from it.

Oh dude, we've all been there. 9 years ago I was working for a major broadcasting company in the arse end of London as a junior dev, building one of their Android apps. We'd roll f…

Tangentially related to your use case but check out https://moodeaudio.org/ Got it running on a Pi+DAC & use spotify connect mostly, but occasionally throw stuff from my NAS on to …

Not for long. A few services are moving away from scala to kotlin (ktor), probably more to follow.

Plus most of the UK despise him.

The latter: https://xkcd.com/323/

Bourbon.

If you set aside the slow erosion of human decency that is the Daily Mail, their tech stack is very impressive. From an engineering point of view they kill it, they're one of the m…

True. Got a friend who basically works as a contractor CTO. His day rate is around 2k. Which is insane.

Yeah, the serious money's in contracting in London. You can make anywhere from 400-600 per day. Get yourself a solid year long stint somewhere & the pay will be £100k - £150k

Yes, yes it is. Unless it's Edinburgh in August due to the Fringe festival, where rents go past London levels.

I do. As a guy contracting for a FTSE 100 company now who've just had a buyout offer from the states, I'm surrounded by a bunch of execs that are incredibly happy (assuming it come…

Note that all of this is UK based. Startups in London will offer shares for senior positions in much the same way as San Fran, normally with a vestment period, but it's not as comm…

I'd disagree with that. Leads I know at several major London companies are in the 70-90k range. Pre-brexit exchange rates put that salary not too far off SF, plus lower living cost…

Watch out for the hidden costs. As I found out today if you want the analytics data in CSV, or query it to any level that's useful beyond "We have 5 users in Stockholm on KitKat", …

upday?

I love their solution. They turned it off, then on again

I'm going to be in Sheffield in a few weeks. Have you guys got a physical store yet? I'm moving from hotel to hotel at the mo, so getting stuff delivered is a nightmare.

Jesus that's overpriced.

Then get down to the Coach & Horses and drink your sorrows away.

Ah Isleworth, how I hated thee.

I'd go a step further here. If you can, aim to save at least half. And never charge on a per-project basis. Bill a daily rate, 1-2 week sprints, demo, rinse & repeat. It's much eas…

I put out a job advert on JobServe Monday for an Android dev in London. In 24 hours I got 12 CV's (we're skipping recruiters), reduced down to 3 we actually want to see. I reckon w…

I read this and thought "I am not a true developer, I am merely a journalist-style hack". Disclaimer: Contractor, native app dev.