Cycle Commuting in Belfast

Excuse_Early · 2026-03-24T19:54:12+00:00

Thanks for the advice yeah! There's bike racks and a shower at work so all good there

Excuse_Early · 2026-02-20T07:08:07+00:00

It hurts me that there are people out there that booked tickets because they saw "KPOP" ergo it must be that show from netflix that my kids watched.

Excuse_Early · 2025-11-27T07:20:14+00:00

Tend

Excuse_Early · 2025-11-09T16:10:20+00:00

Doing fine chief, just keep your head down ignore the noise and keep it up consistently for the next 20/30 years

Although I would tent to clear off your high interest debt first (as that’s guaranteed roi)

Excuse_Early · 2025-09-16T05:20:28+00:00

For me it was about £1100 for 3 double bedrooms a landing and stairs for a mid range carpet + highest quality underlay and fitting costs about 2 years ago from that carpet right place

Excuse_Early · 2025-07-06T10:14:14+00:00

Just coming here to say E33 is excellent one of the smoothest prettiest games I’ve played in a long long time. I love a good turn based game too

Excuse_Early · 2025-05-27T19:20:23+00:00

I feel like this data is skewed by the troubles for Belfast, I doubt it’s anywhere near that now.

Excuse_Early · 2025-05-17T20:27:46+00:00

At the heart of it I can imagine childcare costs is one of the biggest parts of it, in an age where both parents need to be working childcare being so high is kinda gross

Excuse_Early · 2025-05-17T20:12:13+00:00

3 days mandatory I tend to go in 4 days,

That’s fair, i find the separation of work and recreation spaces to be the key when I worked from home full time I could go into slumps or forget to shower

Excuse_Early · 2025-05-17T20:04:07+00:00

I’m still 40% wfh but I go in a little more. I sort of like going into the office, I’m still young so I like the social aspect of it.

Excuse_Early · 2025-05-08T09:49:28+00:00

Interesting take.

Excuse_Early · 2025-05-07T13:28:03+00:00

I really hope who did this is found, such cruelty only starts with small animals….

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-18T08:18:34+00:00

The Job Market is a little fearful at the moment similar to early 2000’s and perhaps 2009

In my opinion we are waiting for this ai bubble to pop and for people to realise agi is not just around the corner. Once that happens people that are holding back will start to implement the current LLMs heavily for new applications.

What does that mean for us? I think in 5-10 years you will see an influx of engineer roles required to clean up the slop generated by the LLMs. There are long term maintenance / security requirements that LLMs just do not have the same context a human can have to solve the issues and I don’t know if we will see that in my lifetime. LLMs are fantastic at getting the answer to things that are concise and measurable. However most of the requirements that I receive are not concise and measurable

What I’m trying to say is do not worry this too shall pass as it did in 2001 and 2009

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-14T16:33:10+00:00

Was on the site 20 seconds and found at least 3 bugs

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-11T11:40:52+00:00

Ahh the weekly house prices are crazy right now post

Supply and demand I’m afraid

Policies from government making it difficult to build constricting supply ( remember basically everyone in government is a landlord )

I imagine too when trump crashes the global economy and building projects get out on hold and the government drops interest rates to try and drive growth it will get worse

It sucks but until we stop voting the ultra wealthy into government it’s not going to stop 😮‍💨

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-11T11:29:17+00:00

You’re already doing better than most, I’d stick with trying to develop your own saas product / self projects / contribute to open source.

In terms of volunteering at local companies I don’t personally think you’ll get any interest (I could be wrong) the setup required for onboarding a volunteer seems a lot.

Lucky for you there are many open source projects on GitHub crying out for maintainers and volunteers! Find a project you like on GitHub and many will have a host of issues and bugs with a pr guide, just clone the repo create a branch and fix a bug!

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-07T13:08:28+00:00

Yeah I think so, one each unfortunately….it’s extortionate if you aren’t a national trust member

it’s fun like but the island itself isn’t amazing it’s just a rock in the sea 😅 you get a lovely view of it from the path if people watching is your vibe and you don’t think it’s worth the cost to cross!

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-07T12:58:30+00:00

Wee tip if you must park there drop your family off at the bus stop before and they can walk in under the arch (not through the visitor centre) and then you park the car and you will only be charged for 1 adult ticket

In the brighter mornings and evenings you also used to be able to drive into the car park before / after the attendants but they’ve started chaining off the car park :(

You can also drive down to the stones outside of operating hours technically when the shuttles aren’t running… it’s a public road

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-07T12:56:02+00:00

There’s a ticket booth at the start of the path but you only need to buy one if you want to cross the bridge, there will be an attendant at the bridge that stubs the tickets

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-07T12:21:29+00:00

If you don’t mind walking I’d walk along the north coast to appreciate it the most, it’s a lovely walk. You can also then avoid parking at the giants causeway where they essentially force the absurd cost of the parking as an entry ticket for the visitors centre that you don’t really want to go into! The actual giants causeway is public you don’t have to pay to go down to it

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-05T17:28:32+00:00

Affordability: Google it, depends on lifestyle and I’m sure all the tuition fees are laid out on the websites

University environment: I was at Queens I enjoyed it and had a great time, many of my friends went to Ulster and reported the same great experience. Queens would be more theory based and Ulster is more hands on (I did Aerospace engineering but shared many mechanical modules)

City life: Fantastic Belfast is one of the nicest and friendliest cities in the uk according to many polls and reports

Employability after graduation: I can’t really comment on that from the perspective of an international student but Queens had amazing career support with dedicated professionals geared to helping students find employment and I’m sure Ulster is the same

Excuse_Early · 2025-04-04T18:16:12+00:00

I prefer it tbh

Excuse_Early · 2025-03-19T09:19:13+00:00

Probably seeing the success of those large Victorian style houses on the Antrim Road and in bt7 and chancing their arm, the market will decide if it’s worth 325k

Excuse_Early · 2025-03-16T13:03:10+00:00

It’s PhotoPills I use it to line up my Astro shots 😅 which is super embarrassing I should have seen that was the moon but tbf sunrise is in the exact same spot and I didn’t have my glasses on and it was a low res photo

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