very cool story
Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
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#42so exeter co-op is a grocery store?
Yes. Exeter is a city in England. Co-op (short for “co-operative”) is a chain of grocery stores that was originally founded on principles of shared ownership [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_brand
Pronounced "coo-op" or "cwop", depending on your accent.
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#43Is this guy why every metal band logo looks like a bundle of twisted sticks? Or maybe he’s just particularly successful at it.
no, he's just part of a long evolution of metal logos from the 1980s, particularly Mayhem: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mayhem/67
this article kind of glances on Christophe's Emperor logo, which was 1994, but it was also just part of the chain of influences
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Wasn’t expecting to see Exeter on the homepage for sure.
Is there a tech scene in Exeter? I have long lived in San Francisco having moved from UK in 2006 but I spent a lot of time down in Devon where my parents now live.
Not really, there’s a bit of one in Bristol, but from what I see of job postings down there, salaries aren’t that high, comparable to much of the rest of the U.K. outside of London
The MetOffice has their software stuff down in Exeter but it’s <£45k for people with experience in scientific computing and HPC
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> Sad to hear that he's working at a supermarket. I wouldn't be too hasty to call someone's job sad, unless they actually hated it. From the article: > […] Christophe relies on the steady income of his job at the Co-op serving customers. He is contracted to do 12 to 20 hours a week, […]. He said: "The reason I will never be able to fulfil my dream to be living exclusively off my art is because of the competition ther…
I worked at a food co-op for the first three years of my career. After spending the next dozen or so years in tech, I'm now reapplying to co-op grocery jobs. Money isn't everything.
Although it's nominally and legitimately a "co-operative", the Co-Op in question is a large national supermarket chain in the UK.
Working there is like working any retail job, and a far cry from a small community co-op.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked at a food co-op for the first three years of my career. After spending the next dozen or so years in tech, I'm now reapplying to co-op grocery jobs. Money isn't everything.
Although it's nominally and legitimately a "co-operative", the Co-Op in question is a large national supermarket chain in the UK. Working there is like working any retail job, and a far cry from a small community co-op.
Traces its roots to the Rochdale pioneers. I'd say it's not just "a" co-op, it's likely the oldest in existence on Earth.
But yeah, working there is not going to be too much different to working at any other store.
Still, don't underplay that. Having something you can go to, walk away from without having to bring home any work, get your 30-40 hours/week (and they'll pay a decent living wage), so you can pay the bills and keep your creative energy for your art... it's not a bad way to be.
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#47yeah I tried to read the article, but somehow it's hard to see the content beyond a full screen ad inside a modal, a second modal asking me to allow notifications, an inline WhatsApp banner, a fixed ad in the footer,four display ads fencing the first paragraph and at this point I kind of gave up.
Reach - the publishing group that owns a lot of local papers as well as some national titles in the UK, such as the Daily Express and the Mirror - has run their online portfolio into the ground. All their paper websites are like this, and staff have been complaining for some time that their content is getting buried under adtech noise. Worse, the writers have page view targets - no wonder morale there is so poor.
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Good catch. My New Year's promise this year was to be more demonstrably accurate than last year and I seem to have screwed it up already. Bugger.
You can see here what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_Food Different groups of co-operatives sharing "The Co-Op" brand with different but similar branding. Co-op Food in Devon vs other parts of the UK will be run by a different group. I went down a Wikipedia hole on this the other day.
Indeed. Sometimes you’ll have two Co-ops from different groups right next to each other: Shipston-on-Stour has a Midcounties Co-op two doors down from a Co-operative Group Co-op. Both are externally branded Co-op, they sell many of the same Co-op branded products, and they don’t take each other’s loyalty/dividend card.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Exeter is a city in England. Co-op (short for “co-operative”) is a chain of grocery stores that was originally founded on principles of shared ownership [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_brand
Pronounced "coo-op" or "cwop", depending on your accent.
“Ko op” where I’m from, never heard it pronounced any other way
Rhymes with no-op
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Is there a tech scene in Exeter? I have long lived in San Francisco having moved from UK in 2006 but I spent a lot of time down in Devon where my parents now live.
Heh, not sure. I moved to the US in 2008. I think you and I talked about this when you were at WordCamp Boston when you were doing stuff with WPEngine. I think at least one of the W3C staff is in Devon.
wow you have a much better memory than I do, I don't even remember anything about the event (tbf for several years I used to attend a WordCamp somewhere practically every other week!)