benbristow

It's a lot easier with something like MJML - https://mjml.io/

I've been using Office 365 Business Standard. Works quite well, works with all my devices (Windows natively, web with a very good web interface and iOS with the Outlook app and with Exchange syncing). Works nicely with a standard Microsoft account and can switch between them depending on what I need (e.g. Xbox/Rewards on personal account). Had to migrate stuff manually (using Google Takeout) to a 'normal' Google account which was pain - especially as they let you go from personal to Gsuite in one click - but once it's done it's done - thankfully Office 365 keeps the subscription & standard Microsoft account separate. Lost a YouTube account in the transfer but had to suck it up.

Can get a subscription for around £90 a year, usually with cashback through various retailers via the likes of Topcashback/Quidco (renewed last time with the BT online store and got cashback through TCB).

Spam filtering is second to none, nothing seems to get through it and doesn't have many false-positives either.

Yes, it was about the time complexity. I have a very primitive understanding of big-O notation from back in sixth form but I never did logarithms in maths (never did maths to a high enough level really).

My fault for not dedicating a bunch of time to read loads of books to pass an interview and instead spending my time making a living at a full time software engineering job.

Definitely can't be helping.

I saw an ad on LinkedIn a few months ago for Coinbase and applied out of curiosity. Was very intimidating as a British 'commoner' who went to a very average university to be being grilled on Leetcode/Hackerrank questions by fresh male-Asian Stanford/MIT/top-US-university graduates (not being stereotypical - this was true!). Didn't stand a chance really as I don't do well with algorithmic questions although the interviewers were friendly enough and I did somehow manage to stumble to the last stage of 1 recruiter interview and 3 coding interviews. One answer I was expected to answer the complexity of my code to which the answer was something involving logarithms which I genuinely don't have a clue. I consider myself to be a pretty good developer and constantly get praise/compliments from my colleagues.

Dodged a bullet really after all the news I've seen recently about staff having their applications revoked due to hiring stoppages.

Not sure about Bitvise SSH server, thanks for the recommendation though, is that Zerotier works behind firewalls. Don't need to do any port forwarding etc. Very similar to Logmein's Hamachi.

Since their laptop is usually on WiFi behind an ISP-provided router/modem combo this is ideal. Also don't need to force a static IP on the network so the port forwarding rules align properly.

As I say, we're in different countries so this is very handy, it "just works".

Also is secure as nobody can jump onto the virtual network without explicit whitelisting on ZeroTier's Web UI. You have to login (with 2FA) and click a checkbox to allow access if anyone wants to join.

Not 100% open source, but a good solution for controlling my parent's laptop when they need a hand with something (they live in England, I live in Scotland) is to use ZeroTier to set up a VPN (installed it on their laptop when I had physical access to it, uses basically no system resources and just runs in the background automatically) and then use RDP built into Windows (I installed Windows 10 Enterprise on their laptop when I first set it up, have loads of MSDN keys from work).

https://www.zerotier.com/

Works really, really well and doesn't try to wrongfully block me for 'commercial usage' like Teamviewer does.

I wouldn't have thought so. Plenty forums I visit on a daily/weekly basis.

The football team I support have an unofficial fan forum which still runs on an antiquated (but maintained) Perl based e-Blah system and is very active.

A few others include RailForums (https://railforums.co.uk/) which runs on more modern forum software and the Monzo Community (https://community.monzo.com/)

Isn't Hacker News technically a forum too, just a bit more bespoke & for lack of better words, reddit-y?

From the server IP looks like you're on some managed WordPress hosting that only offers free SSL on the more 'premium' packages.

Easiest way for free SSL would be to just throw the domain on CloudFlare :)

For all this talk about climate change & global warming, green-washing companies sure do seem to be making a lot of dollar.

Wonder if this will also apply outside the EU (e.g. now Britain)

Wasn't really thinking of the NSA/government agencies. Of course they'll be able to do dodgy stuff. Was more thinking about public WiFi networks and bad actors!

And for a country that invented the railway too! (Although also meaning we have the world's oldest system, and a very expansive system at that - even after the Beeching cuts)

And most of that money (apart from the recently nationalised operators like Northern, ScotRail and LNER) goes back to the foreign-ran railways (Abellio/Netherlands, Amey/Keolis/France, Arriva/Germany).

It's ace!

They started doing that a few years ago. Can see it in action on the main bridge going towards Glasgow Central as there's lots of points (15 platforms), seemed to help.

Alternately, I've seen videos in the likes of Chicago where they've literally installed pretty much bunsen burners and set the rails on fire to deal with the winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76ywZDXyPw

It seems to only be the only website that ever seems to load on rubbish train WiFi, so it's definitely an advantage.

My real gripe with the site is the font size, it's way too small. I usually have it zoomed in 150% on desktop. But maybe I ought to get some glasses as my eyesight is awful anyhow.

> The old "pub pub" crowd are now well served by the Wetherspoons, who have the advantage of controlling their margins in ways Brewery landlords can't compete with (mass purchasing, pre-prepared food, all their pubs are "new" buildings that don't have the insane maintenance and insurance overheads of a 200+ year old pub building etcetc).

Bit untrue on your last statement. Wetherspoons have a habit of occupying traditional/landmark buildings. For all the negative they do against the independent pub trade by outpricing with their brewery deals they do a cracking job in preservation by using & maintaining old buildings that would otherwise go to ruin.

Just in Glasgow for example you've got The Counting House (George Square) which was an old premises of the Bank Of Scotland in the late 19th century and The Crystal Palace also built in the 19th century which houses one of the oldest lift/elevator installations in the UK.

Serving up unsecure HTTP pages isn't ideal though.

Not often I give props to the BBC, but impressive how they've managed to keep that page/article working for so long. Even most of the links on the page still take you to somewhere relevant and the search box still works.

Surprised they haven't bothered to try and migrate the old articles to their newer systems though!

Apparently open-source, but I need to login to use it still (at least going by the Windows version)?

Nice analysis.

For BBC though it's somewhat unfair - outside of the UK you get redirected to BBC.com rather than BBC.co.uk as the BBC in the UK is a public service and funded via the national TV licence so the UK version doesn't have ads (just like the TV channels & radio stations). Would be interesting seeing a comparison using a VPN/proxy of the UK version vs .com/commercial version.

You could just render a single component using ReactDOM if you wanted to use React libraries within a non-framework environment. You don't have to go full-SPA with React, you can use it piecemeal.

Manchester has some beautiful architecture, some very interesting places to visit and in the UK we compensate with culture, people and nightlife. And there are some very good restaurants & eateries if you actually put some research & effort in.

Maybe your £100k salary would go (a lot) further if you moved away from London and to somewhere like Manchester - everyone knows London is stupidly expensive ;) I'm on like £40kish around Glasgow in a nearby town and quite comfortable - I'd feel like Elon Musk on your salary.

I have to wonder why you're even here if you're just going to insult/dismiss all of our cities/towns and the tastes of our people as a whole without putting in any effort.

p.s. we know Wetherspoons is microwave crap, but it's cheap and comes with a free beer. :)

Edinburgh is very nice but Glasgow is the livelier of the two.

From your comments though, doesn't sound like the UK (other than London) is for you unfortunately. No hard feelings.

> Weather in the north is horrid, much worse than in London, food is appalling in ways that can’t be described, pubs are all the same replica of a Wetherspoon or of a Young’s

Perhaps you were going to a Spoons or whatever Young's is by accident. Brilliant food all around the North - maybe check OpenTable or Google Maps and find some proper restaurants/street food vendors. I live near Glasgow and there's some excellent food in the area.

Yes, the weather isn't as good as London/the South. You learn to love it unless you're spoiled with the sun all the time.

Take a trip to Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds or Sheffield (preferably after the train strikes at the moment are over) and get back to us. Might change your mind about 'Nowhereshire'.

It is if you're not making any money from your side-projects. Seems like everything's a subscription nowadays, all adds up.

10$ a month. Meh. Got enough subscriptions nowadays, that's way too expensive IMO as someone who can only use it as a hobbyist (doesn't work on my work machine due to policies).

Poor show Microsoft - should've just been free as goodwill and to help people build software that can be deployed to Azure for the real money.

'previous workplace' says otherwise, I made an escape ;)

Maybe that it only works on Mac?