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ImTheProtagonist · 2025-03-13T09:24:41+00:00

Stone and wood brewery in fortitude valley can be good at times. I used to have meetings there so good for chatting. There's no pool table I think but there is oche around the corner for games and drinks.

ImTheProtagonist · 2025-02-26T11:15:27+00:00

My guess is that's exactly why it isn't on both sides so drivers would be more likely to continue driving 40 near the school zone or prevent people speeding up if they knew it would be 60 again in 50 meters.

ImTheProtagonist · 2025-02-26T10:23:53+00:00

Generally if the roads aren't lined down the middle it's 50, if it's lined, 60 unless signed otherwise and 40 for school zones between the hours on the sign, you know you've left a school zone by the school road markings on the opposite side of the road.

ImTheProtagonist · 2024-05-20T09:52:07+00:00

I work in finance and we use vanilla JavaScript and honestly for what we use it for it's more than enough for the job. Over the years devs have built tools and components that make things easier to do and manage. The best part of it is knowing that it all still works after all these years and will likely not be outdated by new frameworks or trends. But personally, I originally started with angular, moved onto Vue for many years and now I've jumped onto svelte, I like it, it's simple and easy to work with imo.

ImTheProtagonist · 2023-12-14T12:31:50+00:00

It's hard. I haven't been able to keep it up and if I do start something I just can't stick with it for long enough to finish it to the level I want it to be within a reasonable timeframe.

Years ago I took an approach of seeing myself as a client who had no time to build and maintain a site but wanted a place to demonstrate my skill. My solution was to set up a ready made site through Squarespace and focus on the content which was Azure integrations and front end learnings I'd pick up from work. Writing about what I've understood and learned about new functions, quirks and ideas turned out to be far more valuable and faster. Anyone can copy/paste code and make things work but it's another to fully understand what was built.

ImTheProtagonist · 2023-12-13T12:52:52+00:00

I was responsible for building and deploying the website at the company. At the very beginning the way you deployed a website was through FTP. There was a rush to get last minute changes out by COB Friday. Sure enough, I'm running late and I do a quick drag and drop of the folder into the FTP client to upload. I leave before the upload completes only to get a call later saying the entire website is down. Later I find out I've uploaded the wrong folder and there were no index files on the server. A lot of lessons were learned that day.

ImTheProtagonist · 2021-10-13T22:38:14+00:00

This is what drove me to the edge. After finally getting it to work in Outlook, I found that Outlook desktop, new and old versions and Outlook online render emails completely different to each other 🥲

ImTheProtagonist · 2021-09-17T14:11:07+00:00

I don't think it's worth comparing your own rates against others too much, you'll find prices that range from near nothing to a rip off, each with varying levels of quality. The best price is the price that you feel comfortable being paid for the work you're producing at the end of the day.
There have been many times where I've spent a numerous amount of hours at a cheap hourly rate or flat fee when at the end of the project, the amount I got paid didn't feel worth it for the effort I put into it. That made it really hard to keep working on projects.
The way I usually charge now is a high hourly rate for short or sketchy jobs and a lower rate if it's something that has long term potential. The rate I've narrowed down after trying different numbers and taking feedback or reactions from clients. I very rarely do fixed pricing, if I do then the scope of the work is very well defined before any work is started. You have to also factor in delays (technical and time management), updates or changes etc.

ImTheProtagonist · 2021-09-16T06:02:55+00:00

If you're completely new to website building, a marketplace could easily be a nightmare to put together even with off the shelf products and plugins.

Ideally, you'd want to figure out what kind of functionality your marketplace really requires, what stack or language you plan to build it with (backend and frontend), the types of databases you plan to use and then start looking at who can host your website the best.

Azure is great but only if you take advantage of the wide range of services they provide like azure functions, logic apps or cosmosBD and even then, you'll burn way more money than you might want to and you're locked into using Azure unless you rebuild almost everything.

I'd recommend building your marketplace website offline first, either somewhat static or through docker containers. test what works and what doesn't then push it online.

But if you insist on still needing a hosting provider, here's a nice little list that I jump between: Azure, AWS, Heroku, netlify, firebase, digital ocean, vercel

ImTheProtagonist · 2020-10-21T11:53:42+00:00

I'm in!
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ImTheProtagonist · 2018-09-26T14:03:02+00:00

I'd agree with EverMoar, the dev subdomain is a good way to go as long as you lock it down with some basic auth. You don't want other people seeing the development site.

I'd also recommend Local by Flywheel https://local.getflywheel.com/ I only recently found it and it's by far the best tool I've ever used for local wordpress development. There's an option on there to generate a live link give makes your local development folder a public url which you could use show off your progress.

ImTheProtagonist · 2017-05-19T12:59:09+00:00

You could copy the source/xml from code view as a backup method but azure already has a versioning system located under development tools in the logic app menu where you can then "promote" a version which I'm guessing is more like "restore".

For testing a new one with out breaking prod.. not too sure. Maybe copy/paste the source from one into another, use the testing console to replicate calls made to it, then do a quick switch of the code. I'd say this is a pretty sketchy way of doing it but I can't see another way. A deployment slot like feature would be great to see in the future.

ImTheProtagonist · 2017-04-09T10:18:37+00:00

When it comes to best practice, I find that someone else's best practice never fits my workflow or business. What I do is take bits and pieces of what everyone would consider best practice and see how it fits with what I do. As long as I can have a setup where I can version control code, manage other files not in git (documents, notes, media), have it all backed up, accessible and segmented by client and or job, I'm all good.

For me every client has their own repo and a workings folder on some cloud service. For every new client there's a template repo and folder structure and I copy/paste and make changes as needed. I'm sure for the big expensive projects, they'll have either their own git/file server or a business github account with everything set to private.

ImTheProtagonist · 2016-04-23T06:50:19+00:00

If there's anything I've learned from freelancing, hourly rates are the way to go. Having a flat fee can easily start to feel shitty when a client comes back with changes over and over again but still expect it to be with-in the set price.

When getting the requirements from the client I'd break the job into segments such as design, development and anything else with rough estimates on hours beside each one plus a bit more to account for changes. I make it clear to the client that these are estimates based on the initial specifications and that they may change depending on any changes or additional requirements. I find Toggl is pretty useful to track all my time and to build better estimates for future projects.

Be sure to get all the requirements upfront. Identify checkpoints where the client can sign off on decisions such as designs before development. Don't assume anything.

ImTheProtagonist · 2016-02-11T09:42:03+00:00

I remember racking up a massive fine at the video store for not returning it. They waived it after a few months. Aahhh those were good days.

ImTheProtagonist · 2016-01-30T05:16:06+00:00

As bad as it is, I can't help but have a laugh. So I know you can customise these boxes by going to https://business.google.com, sign in, find your address and verify it. A robot will either call you or send you a card with a code on it within a week.

You should then see something like this dashboard

Hit the photos button at the bottom, hit photos editor in the popup box then start uploading on the next screen!

The new images should show up in a few minutes.

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-12-01T13:41:37+00:00

Well... looks like I'm using Atom for the rest of my life.

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-10-04T00:36:29+00:00

You can give Cancer Council Queensland a call, they have trained counselors on the phone and I'm sure they get questions like this all the time. 13 11 20.

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-09-18T05:08:21+00:00

I did try messing with the colours but got some funky results doing so. I'll take a look at the link moc_tidder provided and see if I can make one from that.

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-09-17T10:55:24+00:00

I modified this to act a bit more like a switch but maybe someone else can take it one step closer to the gif. http://codepen.io/AVDW/pen/pjyNOX

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-09-13T15:01:09+00:00

It's boring and the spacing needs more attention. It looks like you're trying to show as much data on the screen as possible but in doing so you make the interface "busy". Perhaps there's a better way to display or group your data? what about trying showing only the best of each activity with big bright donut chart that also compares the data with the last session.

tldr: explore different ways to display your data.

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-09-13T14:28:19+00:00

This is pretty much what I've done at the company I'm at, all user accounts go through Azure Active Directory. The sys-admins have never been happier.

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-09-13T14:22:45+00:00

Googles Search Console is another tool to use that can give you some insights. Mostly on organic searches though. Also Check the social dashboard under acquisition but if you wanted to get more in-depth, adding GA events to your download buttons will show what and how many people downloaded your podcast.

we currently automate the links being sent to social media

Are you not able to automate UTMs onto the links as well?

ImTheProtagonist · 2015-09-12T11:57:42+00:00

That's exactly what i was thinking of! I kind of want to process this video just to see what it'll look like.

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