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We track a lot of iCal feeds at Timetastic[0] and I thought it'd be interesting to see if we could identify when Google or Outlook's iCal feed fetchers were down or slow because th…

Love your stuff Robin. The graphs and wind turbine model are particular favourites How can we fix the curtailment problem? Storage nearer the turbines or just more transmission cap…

Idiotic Brit here. Not exactly how we think. We're frustrated that our private railway is worse than DB in terms of lateness and cancellations but also hugely, massively more expen…

Location: Manchester, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: c# .NET, React, Javascript, Typescript, SQL (Full stack .net dev) Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: …

This is why we have a flat "we won't fill in your forms" rule and only take card payments. We've lost some clients because of it sure, but we're a small team so it's fine. I think …

Our parent company are having issues in UKSouth but we're spread across UKSouth and UKWest and not seeing any issues. Apparently Functionapps also having issues, but we're seeing n…

Location: Manchester, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, .NET, React, JS, some Typescript, MSSQL, Gatsby Résumé/CV: on request - I don't have linkedin since t…

Raise it with the ombudsman!

Might not be very obscure but it was new to me. Ended up being really useful for finding out whether dates intersect a particular period and ended up using it quite a bit at work. …

We send a "weekly summary" email of who is absent in your company in the next week. At 9am on a Monday we send roughly 100k emails via Sendgrid and have very very low spam report r…

We've been having consistent issues with swapping slots on Azure App service lately and support can't help us pinpoint the issue. Wondering if it's a general issue throughout the p…

That's how most of Europe do decimal places, using commas instead of full stops.

I miss Grooveshark so much - Licensing issues aside it was one of the best UIs for music ever. I'd love to hear more stories about the backend

All the business knowledge is in Basecamp as that's where all the "work planning" is done. If you want to find out how a specific feature works, or how the decisions were made for …

They've been having lots of issues lately. Broke our entire login flow by setting multiple set cookie headers. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/30ptcb3b0s2w Support takin…

Hello from a fellow UK HR (ish) company. This looks like a strong start - payroll is hard! Good luck, we all need to band together to get rid of these insane portals of horrible UX…

Spinning up a new employee so they get all the knowledge of your systems and processes is difficult. Especially with remote teams. If you've got a small dev team who hold all the e…

> •users feel that their experience is diminished as a result of the decisions we make with respect to the frequency, prominence, format, size and quality of ads that we display; T…

If anyone's in the sauce shipping game, try and get the Huy Fong one distributed in the UK. The market here is dominated by "flying goose" sriracha which is good, but not the same …

ohh that option thing is well hidden, thanks for that. Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?

> Like the first time after a boot/login? More often than that - I knew it'd ask on fresh boot, but this is after switching users or just a night where it pretends to sleep. I'm st…

In our use it was perfectly fine, it'll run fine with 4gb of ram and a Celeron. I wouldn't want to do hardcore software dev on one because they're usually low end screens and CPUs,…

Recent M1 user here - I had a PowerPC mac back in the Leopard/Tiger days. I thought OSx would have come on leaps and bounds since then. It's....more or less unchanged. As well as t…