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Empire World An amazing read that really opened my eye to the legacy of empire

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empireworld-British-Imperialism-Sha...

I've always enjoyed going to the MLops meetup (https://www.meetup.com/mlops-community-bristol), always very good talks on a wide range of subjects.

There is also PyData Bristol (https://www.meetup.com/pydata-bristol/)

During the early part of my career I decided to just not write bugs. Was the best decision I made, I've saved myself countless hours

Sounds like you've got a bit of burnout. I felt like this a while back, I got though it by working for a company I really felt I had an impact and enjoyed the work culture.

I'd counter argue that leaving London doesn't have to mean the end of a career. Have you tried looking at other places in the UK to live/work? I'm a bit bias but Bristol is a fantastic city to live in and the tech scene is really well developed. Lots of start ups, mid sized and large companies. Plenty of banks/fin tech companies are based here too.

One of the things that have helped me get though burnout was to do other things outside of work. Be that go for food, cinema or even visiting tourist sites.

I always use Cookpad, Waitrose has a good site too

https://cookpad.com

https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes.html

Same from the UK

Down for me as well, Bristol UK

I worked at a company building something similar. I do think this kinda product is a bit niche. Certainly when we tried to roll something out similar it was a hard sell as most companies are trying to standardise on one type of cloud storage solution.

That being said they do support searching across slack, email and other things. That was something we didn't support and I think that makes this product much more appealing.

Password manager!

:D

Well why do you want to do that, if you are finding the tests are too slow it maybe worth writing some tests with jasmine that can be run in node without a browser.

That's what we currently do, karma and browser testing are useful but sometimes you can get away with not using them.

One thing we are trying is using JSDom to run browser based tests in node

Well currently we run the karma tests on CI with chrome headless so this allows us to do the same with firefox

For all of you old fogies working on angular 1 apps and are running browser tests with karma you can run your tests in firefox with headless mode with a customer launcher. Add the snippet below to your karma conf

``` browsers: ['FirefoxHeadless'], customLaunchers: { FirefoxHeadless: { base: 'Firefox', flags: [ '-headless', ], }, }, ```

Note you need to be running the beta version of firefox, I needed to download it from here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

Looks good, I'd like to try this though https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-devel...

Yeah like the look of this, makes me wonder if one day I can code on a chromebook

Me too! Just to keep it good humored. If you put a smiley in an issue or a slack message it helps keep the recipient happy

Just this morning my team migrated from phantomJS to chrome headless for our Karma plus Jasmine tests. Did a bit of researching before the move and we found tests ran faster plus chrome used less memory than phantomJS. ~ 2000 specs compiling html and stuff

sure but the types of jobs on offer in London may not be on offer elsewhere.

No, London will still be London. Why do people think that suddenly you might have to apply for a visa people will stop wanting to come and live in London?

Is it technically feasible to have a back door and still be `end to end` encrypted ?

I've lived in a few places but was born and bred in the south west everywhere else I've lived never seems as good (or as laid back)

Bristol UK, in the house!

Wages are good and rent and stuff is not too unaffordable just yet! that being said houses prices are going up and up

I live and work in Bristol in the UK, would really recommend it. Such a vibrant tech scene here plus lots of established companies as well as newer larger ones opening offices (JustEat for example).

The city itself has a-lot going on (not all tech focused too) and is surrounded by countryside. Loads of nearby places to visit too such as Bath or Frome

Also has great transport links to the rest of the UK plus has its own airport

Some tech focused events/groups - Bristol JS -> www.meetup.com/BristolJS/ - techspark -> techspark.co

Nah this is just about having a robust backup system

I like it!!

Been working on a down detector type app, its like half baked at the mo, hopefully I can build up a data set that allows people to fairly compare the reliability of different SASS products such as github and bitbucket

https://young-forest-39406.herokuapp.com/sites

Just feels like a rant tbh. I've developed spa's as well as django and rails app. I've seen bad spa's been written as well as bad server side routing apps. Shit code is shit code wherever/whatever language it's written in. To say you don't need some sort of FE framework is prob a bit much. You get so much for free and websites are getting more and more dynamic not less. Sure don't use flavour of the month frameworks. But I'd argue ng1, ng2, react, Vue etc are not flavour of the months.

He did it his way can't fault the man on that!

yeah defo, learning my second language was big step in my development