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I can't take this article seriously when it refers to Next but then calls it Nest 15 times.

The frontend tooling debacle has got to the point where I'm not only leaving frontend development, but tech entirely. To not have to think about this endless nonsense anymore is su…

If you open the image modals, and then click next, I see a blurred screen and cannot progress forward/back. react-dom.production.min.js:209 TypeError: Cannot read properties of und…

There is no risk if you're genuinely running a small business. If you're a permalancer, coining a freelance rate whilst paying very little tax (no PAYE), then you _should_ be caugh…

Probably. The people who use professional quality studio microphones to send heavily compressed audio over Microsoft Teams also confuse me greatly.

I think it can only help. Employability aside, you might even enjoy doing them! The AWS certs aren't to be sniffed at, even if your experience after completing it is only theoretic…

I would say the skills are largely transferrable as the product offerings are analogous in many cases.

The idea that Fortune 500 CEO's are cold-emailing companies to ask about assistance in re-platforming VM's is plainly ridiculous. Leadership taking a strategic decision to shop aro…

I must be stupid because I understood very little of this. The cynic in me says it sounds a lot like pseudo-intellectual-babble, but maybe I'm wrong. I can pick out so many parts t…

£500 per year, Bupa, "comprehensive" cover (basically everything paid for)

Contracted for a few years. Almost zero expenses (a new laptop, an accountant, some PL insurance).

Most (all) the contractors I know can bill £500 per day outside IR35 pretty much indefinitely.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's easy to say money isn't everything when you're already earning £120k/$140k pa.

This isn't true. Many successful, profitable businesses were started by just surveying the landscape and being better/different to something pre-existing.

At least I know within 3 seconds that I can't afford to apply, rather than investing hours to realise I've wasted my time.

Surprisingly low salaries for a major bank. £35k for a London-based SRE?

> So we share your jobs on our site. A candidate applies. You interview them and decide to hire them. You notify us you hired them. We send you an invoice. You pay us a fee. I'm ab…

Would be great to have a single table that shows supported services vs. tiers. At the moment I have to scroll through 8,000 services AND their features to try and decipher if I'll …

> it means that everyone puts in ideas and the person or persons in charge only (gently) nix the ideas that don’t fit with their vision This. Architects have to have a really quite…

> "To stay relevant in today’s fast-moving world, architects must focus less on making the most important architectural decisions, and instead focus on building an environment wher…

I was actually going for the opposite - but that's my fault. What I meant was wishy-washy "guidelines" are often ignored or considered optional. Put in place tooling (rulesets) and…

> And to be enforced you need to actually be hands on in the code base. I think this might be a difference in opinion on whether we're referring to the architecture of a codebase o…

The utopia described isn't real in the enterprise, and my experience of 15 years working as a Software Engineer is that 90% of engineers are really good at coding, but pretty terri…

Too much emphasis is put on organised exercise. I think it's an American thing, where nobody seems to walk anywhere. Better advice is to build more functional "exercise" into your …