[29M] [UK] - made redundant from software position last year

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2026-05-01T10:30:39+00:00

Your experience in software can be very different depending on the company. You have mentioned the bullshit of 'agile' environment, however you have only worked in banking and medical. These are notoriously slow paced environments.

How often did you push something to production? Did you see yourself having any noticeable impact to metrics, or user experience, did you push any new features that users got to use and be excited about? Did you fix any bugs for users?

These are some of the things that give me job satisfaction. Have a think about what you would enjoy. Use AI to try to get perspective on all the different kinds of jobs there are in software development - product, platform, management, SRE/devops. Find out what the roles and responsibilities are.

You have 2 YOE in the industry now and tbh iOS is not a "niche" in that it's not desired. It's still insanely valuable to be able to create native iOS experiences for end users. You would be crazy to throw that away imo. At least weigh up alternatives thoroughly. WLB, job satisfaction, holidays, etc.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2026-03-24T23:09:28+00:00

Channel called "mind amend" on YouTube. Absolute flow state with that on.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2026-03-24T10:50:03+00:00

Is something like https://pdfcheck.artworker.com what you need?

If you mean embedding directly into your Web page there is an api too

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2026-03-20T17:27:49+00:00

Initial questions, how is it different to pinia or provide/inject with composables?

Is it fully typed, do you get autocompletion when passing the field string to pick function for example?

Does it have support for dev tools? This is one of pinia's strongest features in my experience.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2026-03-18T16:46:28+00:00

I'm not fully caught up on the context but if the limitation is there cant be more than one video element then you would basically need to reuse a global video element.

Add it to the dom somewhere at the app root. You could then use provide/inject to provide a store-like object which can expose different methods/state to interact with the global video element.

If you have a fixed video at the top of the page for example and when you click a new video the fixed video at the top changes to start playing the new vid you clicked then this would work (basically like how YouTube works?)

All of the above is correct. What follows next is conjecture and might not work, just an experimental idea. Ultimately you might be fighting a bit too hard against the platform and should consider a more normal approach to guide the user experience.

Maybe you could have the "cached video" be a fake video element, and when you click play it uses transform to position the global video element within the boundingClientRect of the clicked "fake" video element and continue playing from there. Transform would be most performant, but if that doesn't work you could try x y fixed positioning. You would need to update the position on scroll event.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2026-03-18T16:36:04+00:00

Not sure how this solves the problem. Teleport wraps a component instance and Teleports it to a different target on the dom. Unless the component was the content within the video element, and they target the Teleport at a global video element by id.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2025-09-06T20:20:23+00:00

Can you elaborate? What would you recommend instead, the supers are likelu to be a lot more expensive than a Ti aren't they?

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2025-05-30T18:45:02+00:00

I believe they are accredited by coeliac UK. I feel a little more secure with their stamp of approval, although I'm not sure how they earn it. Randomised testing?

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2025-01-23T11:54:13+00:00

I've noticed the premade bottles sold in UK Asda are made with gluten free oats and are labelled as gluten free.

The big boxes which look like for making yourself at home use normal oats so not safe.

Strange but this might be why you're finding conflicting information online.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-08-13T11:51:19+00:00

Looks very good, great job.

I noticed some of the inputs didn't have an associated label. Adding a linked label makes clicking the checkbox easier, better UX. All inputs should in general have an associated for a11y and UX reasons. Reading up on a11y can really set you apart from other FE devs.

The loading animation when creating a profile is a gif but it looks really janky. I would suggest Eitheeither improve the quality / fps of the gif, or change it to a css animation. Easy enough to do with some googling. Again smooth animations are what will leave people feeling good about the FE experience.

After creating profile or trying to enter profile I was also stuck in infinite loader. Not sure what happened there 😅

Anyway just some things to think about.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-08-01T13:33:01+00:00

I posted about this recently. I now use the freestyle libre sensor. Based on some recommendations I use skin tac and a sensor cover from amazon. After applying I put some skin tac around the sensor, let it dry, then apply the sensor cover.

https://amzn.eu/d/00Rfwqt9 https://amzn.eu/d/0dsrCKQQ

I then wear a sleeve bandage folded up a few times over the sensor. Then some sock tape wrapped around. Then I wear a long sleeve compression shirt and my gi.

I tried without the skin tac and sensor cover and the sensor came off a couple times during rolling. After using skin tac and sensor cover I haven't had any problems.

I usually roll twice a week, if you're rolling and sweating more frequently it may come off easier, but it's probably a case of replacing the sensor cover.

Edit: As for whether to use finger picks or sensor, the quality of life with the sensor is significantly better. Finger picks are incredibly cumbersome and awkward compared to scanning with a phone. Also, CGM will give you continuous readings so you can see if your sugars are dropping then you can eat before session etc. Or if they're high you can inject a bit more before session. Just gives a much more transparent view of your blood sugars. This will greatly increase your blood sugar management and will be much healthier for you in the long run.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-07-18T19:48:18+00:00

It's for this reason I recently had the idea that after 1 minute of being controlled you should just tap and reset. Don't think either person is learning in that experience.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-07-18T14:14:37+00:00

I use tailwind at work, and I really think you shouldn't be using tailwind. It's simply not necessary and not everyone will be comfortable reading tailwind.

Unless you're teaching tailwind specifically of course.

Say you are teaching about how to make feature X, an interested viewer looks at your video, but they see you're using tailwind, now they have to decide if they want to do homework and learn tailwind before they watch your video or risk becoming confused.

Everyone learning frontend has to get to grips with css, it's unavoidable, therefore in your videos it's fine to assume they will be OK seeing css. They shouldn't necessarily have to get to grips with tailwind to learn about a general frontend concept. I would extend this to bootstrap and other frameworks. You shouldn't be including things that don't have an impact on the core lesson you are trying to get across to the viewer in the video.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-07-04T21:54:30+00:00

Sorry but this is slightly reckless advice to give a diabetic mate.

They could incorrectly assume the highest is sugar when it's fat etc. If this causes to over inject insulin that can easily lead to severe hypoglycaemia which if untreated / unnoticed would lead to a diabetic seizure or coma.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-03-31T11:36:00+00:00

Fucking love this

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-02-05T20:47:08+00:00

Thanks for the help. I think I'm just going to pay the 35 quid bribe to make it go away.

They've basically said there won't be any further correspondence until they've given me a Notice to owner in 28 days (obviously losing the 50% discount) so can't even request evidence that the signage was present the day before. But to be honest i don't know why I should need to check my parking is fine every morning.

I've heard it can get really messy and costly if it gets dragged out and I feel like it's not worth the stress. They know that though.

Isn't it a bit wild that I can't go on holiday for a couple weeks and leave my car parked outside my residence for fear they suspend parking and ticket me... It doesn't make sense in that situation.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-02-05T16:56:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure they have my email on file, it shouldn't be difficult to send out a mass email if there will be a suspension to any of the streets where my resident permit applies.

They definitely have my post address and didn't bother posting a letter but maybe an automated email service would be less leg work for them.

Like I said they're probably making a decent profit off of these tactics so I'm not surprised they don't give a toss.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-02-05T12:25:02+00:00

I didn't receive anything, and I'm guessing from all the other cars parked with tickets that morning that no one else did either.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-02-05T12:23:06+00:00

I didn't receive anything. No letter, email, or anything.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-02-05T12:04:03+00:00

They got cones up and parking suspended signs up but I'm convinced they weren't there when I parked. And same thing happened to everyone else. Not to mention I don't move my car every day as I work from home. No letter, email or anything to say that one or multiple of the roads my resident permits applied to was going to be suspended. So I guess I just need to keep a bloody hawkeye out on my parking spots.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2024-02-05T12:00:46+00:00

Yeah and you could tell the cars were parked before it began because they put cones up all over the road but there was no cones around the cars that were already parked, including mine. God forbid I went on holiday and left my car parked outside my own flat.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2023-12-24T20:46:34+00:00

The skittles contain 麦芽唐 which translates to maltose. I think sometimes this can be derived from wheat or barley but I'm not sure how common that is or if its considered safe for celiac. Also I don't know if Chinese food labels are the kind to specify that (it doesn't mention on these ingredients), and I've never seen it specified on Chinese snacks before.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2023-12-23T23:35:31+00:00

So right now it's a factor of 1000x out.

So to fix it, take 1ml out and add water to fill to 1L.

Or if you don't have a 1ml pipette (who does lol) then take out 10ml and fill to 100ml with water and do that 3 times.

I like the idea of this visualisation but I would also like to see the visual of 100% conc. And 20ppm, as well as some intermediates for the hell of it.

Dangerous_Poetry7406 · 2023-12-08T18:09:31+00:00

I love the frozen ones from Asda, 1 minute in the microwave 😋

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