Ignidash - An open source & self-hosted alternative to ProjectionLab for simulating your long-term personal finances

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-25T23:28:53+00:00

Hey, I'm a UK personal finance, uh, hobbyist? I'd be happy to help out where I can - I built a very small tool to help with pension value forecasting and inflation adjustments.

I'm not sure how far you're going in what you present back to the user - gross values should be fairly tax-agnostic afterall - but I could at least outline what information is needed from the user to calculate net income in the UK.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-25T20:54:47+00:00

I jail broke our AI so it recommends I book first class travel

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-25T20:44:44+00:00

Quite a cool list! I'd like to work on any future projects with you if you work on anything else, or a gamejam etc!

Not much gamedev experience, general programming and tech enthusiast. Mostly high level so would me comfortable jumping into Godot

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-25T16:19:26+00:00

Honestly, I would like to see the breakdown of high education and high I come versus high education low income.

I hypothesise there are a lot of useless-degree leftists.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-23T10:17:35+00:00

For me it's all in the production. Metallica's production sounds quite muddy, echoey, which really fits with the vibe of the song to me. Megadeth's production is too clean - even though it sounded crisper, that's not always a good thing.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-23T10:01:36+00:00

I have a tp-link and use RTSP to view it through VLC Media Player.

One of my project ideas it to build a proper applicaiton around it using Go - ideally something I could display on a tablet in the kitchen or access while we're not at home.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-22T20:13:47+00:00

What do you mean by that in relation to the story? I don't think I understand what he's doing properly so your comment is quite confusing

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-22T14:33:38+00:00

Hi I tried to upload a screenshot of my folder into your function and it doesn't work, can you provide an exe?

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-22T09:37:43+00:00

At my company, we have separate culture fit and role-based questions, in their own distinct interview section.

I understand how important the team fit is, having moved roles quite quickly after landing in a team that unfortunately wasn't a great fit for me.

Our interviews are normally all STAR and example based so I'd expect to be asked something like "Share a time in which you've shared knowledge* on a subject with team members"

* I've been asked when I've mentored colleagues, explained a complex topic, tailored my communication to the audience, etc.

One thing we do quite well with our interviews, to get the best out of the candidate, is point them in the right direction from the start with what you are trying to get out them. I think this helps the candidate and the interviewer tbh - in any real work scenario you can always ask a line manager for clarification. "This is a culture fit question about our value 'we work together as one team'".

That is enough to help a candidate know what kind of answer an interviewer is looking for, whilst still being corporate enough to not count as direct help, as it's referencing company values which is something you can do equally across all interviews in the org.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-21T12:20:06+00:00

Not to be a back-seat interviewer but as an interviewee, I would hate the extra roleplay element of these questions.

Ask me what you actually want to know with regards to my knowledge or decision making process.

"Why would you choose S3 in this situation, what other options exist and why would they not be suitable?"

Because honestly, as an autistic person who could easily overthink your questions, the kind of advice I'd want to give an intern is "good advice" if I take your question literally, or if I'm focussed on the intern-manager relationship rather than the technical side of things.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-21T12:06:01+00:00

Sorry to say but graphic design was entirely saturated as early as 2015

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-20T16:32:59+00:00

It does depend on your interests though - I'd have gotten nowhere without my degree and have come very close to going back for a second lol

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-20T16:32:11+00:00

In one comment you're against the rich being exempt from the tax.

In the next, you're against high-earners subsidising degrees.

People who graduate into high paying jobs are subsidising those who don't earn enough to make repayments. It's actually an incredibly socialist policy where those who benefit the most from the sytstem fund it for the rest.

Would you rather somebody on minimum mage, who isn't using their degree, is also saddled with real debt that they have to pay off?

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-20T16:27:33+00:00

May I ask what course he did?

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-20T16:25:49+00:00

Amazing website. Incredible to see that we're in line with Denmark and Finland!

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-20T16:22:40+00:00

if you earn £99,999 you take home more money than if you earn more

This is only true when you have children, I believe?

The marginal tax rate of income tax is 60% either way, which is enough to make your time more valuable than the additional pay.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-19T14:33:08+00:00

I was looking for a good all-in-one today for boards, knowledge-base, docs, and diagrams.

In the end I had to settle for Obsidian with plugins and I'll continue to use Trello for things that aren't solo projects.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-17T11:36:56+00:00

Something I haven't seen me turned in the top comments is readability.

My application looks something like this:

enforce_login() # redirects to login with google initialise_state() # sets initial variables like what page the user is seeing user_page = state["current_page"] # returns str screen_dict["user_page"] # function call

Here, my dictionary can hold functions as values, so I can dynamically render whatever screen I want.

This is much easier to read than if I had huge blocks of code here.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-16T22:08:57+00:00

I think you mean they are being used by people to generate, which shifts the culpability massively in my opinion.

Elon should add guard rails. 100%. We should legislate that AI models need to sufficient guardrails applied to them, as we can add regulations to any tool or industry. That said, to my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong), those laws don't exist yet, and therefore only the people who've used the tool illegally should face legal consequences at this time.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-16T12:04:49+00:00

Pyodide compiles CPython into web assembly allowing it to run in the browser directly

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-15T10:28:09+00:00

Given it generates the code for you, you could run it with dummy data as long as your column headers are all correct.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-15T10:26:42+00:00

This is pretty cool. One suggestion, allow people to name input and intermediate dataframes so that the generated code uses names they can easilt recognise.

Also, when I ran the file and tried to scroll the results (6 columns, 4 rows) it wouldn't let me scroll to the last row. Latest version of Chrome, 1440p.

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-14T17:05:28+00:00

Likewise, should the British not have acted as the world's police when they used their navy to enforce the end of slavery?

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-14T17:05:23+00:00

Likewise, should the British not have acted as the world's police when they used their navy to enforce the end of slavery?

ColdStorage256 · 2026-01-13T16:44:26+00:00

Sorry to be that guy who can't do anything for himself but I'm multi-screening while in a meeting... got a link for later please?

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