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I'm working on https://GovWeave.com/ . It's like a BuiltWith for Government. I am tracking all UK government spend and building a picture of software and rising/falling trends of v…

I feel the same. Investments are shooting up and wages stink. UK has very high taxation now so working full time doesn’t bring in as much as a decent portfolio.

Thing is, if you are a good developer/architect, you have lots of options to make this elsewhere. £100k is not a very high salary in London. Most of the GDS crowd (who were good), …

Understood that this is a pitch for his own platform (which is fair enough), there is a mixture of a few things here which are common tech tropes. - Enterprise buyers are risk aver…

I am building something similar in the UK. As a contractor, I have to manage tax, invoices, reconciliation, payroll, accountant emails. I think software in the future will be gener…

GDS went from an internal distruptor, breaking the consultancy oligopoly to being another entry gate. The companies who capitalised on this (Kainos/Equal Experts/ScrumConnect) are …

LLM's are like accountants looking at the past. The numbers are bad therefore it will collapse.

How about NFC? App with a QR code displayed? Could be a force of habit for UK but that's mostly how we do tickets. Printing is usually still an option.

Maybe i booked through a shadow site. The ticket office printed out something else. The ticket office did have impressive throughput and lines building up.

German trains are absolute chaos. Tickets are sent via PDF for trains running 3 hours late. I was in Frankfurt last year getting to Cologne and back a few times. Coming from someon…

Yeap. I worked in the UK public sector and I watched the UK gov briefly back their own cloud company (Skyscape) then ditch them when they had some minor issues. Completely captured…

Europe has just been catastrophically slow in developing anything related to it's own tech infrastructure. Its doesn't back itself. Given how poor it's responding to things like th…

Yeap, getting this for the last 20 minutes. Everything green on their status pages.

I've started buying clothes from China. Quality and style is starting to really improve. Makes you wonder how much we've been ripped off for years.

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The EU outsourced manufacturing without any Mag 7. I'm sure it'll work out well for us...

Tech giants have no competition in Europe and no capital to do so. In some ways, what Trump is doing is a call to arms for the EU to kick their economies into shape. We've been stu…

While I agree we're not all implementing physics engines, there is a spectrum of complexity that is both business and technical between a todo app and a banking system. Developer b…

My view is that Ai companies saw there was a huge volume of code online and decided coding was a text generation problem and easy to replace. I don't buy it. I also don't think it'…

We need very big changes to capitalism at its core. There are warning signs flashing across all economies without any coherent solutions.

Germany is in serious trouble. The US and China are in protectionist markets. EU is starting to realise their labour and manufacturing are expensive and not unique anymore. The bus…

Too much to build. UK government has shown it can build styling templates, payment and notification wrappers well. These are useful and achievable services. Full on ERP would be a …

I use notion and like using it. But it’s high contrast Jira. Yes it’s decluttered but it’s not a very sticky product.

Have Indian relatives and can confirm that lots of the home cooked stuff is greasy too. Fried sugar jalebis anyone.

While Ireland has some cash these days, it was a poor place until joining the EU. If you wanted to do well, you emigrated. This is still the case pretty much.