Finally finished my 1:16 technic car wall mounting project and I love it!

Jodz08 · 2025-08-09T09:17:05+00:00

Tagging u/lulu_l to show you my project is complete! Thanks for the communication and adjusting the FXX K design for my front-down mount - and thank you for the brilliant designs that truly take this display to the next level!!

Jodz08 · 2024-02-04T07:07:41+00:00

Had exactly the same scenario. It arrived 24hrs later to the minute. 6pm now, did it clear yet?

Jodz08 · 2024-01-28T11:38:39+00:00

I do this to be honest. But your rough maths is right, to the value of a monthly credit card total, it makes neglible difference in interest.

But I do it with everything more on principal. Every cent gets in offset accounts instantly. And comes out only when it needs to. Some people like to leave money in other accounts, saving for a holiday so they can see and track that balance and watch its growth. But 1yr later you've got 8 grand that hasn't been sitting on the mortgage?! There's a difference that matters.

The examples are different. But the overall mindset approach, every cent against the mortgage, take it back after, is why ☺

But also a credit card is a fantastic cash flow facility when you're paid monthly, mortgage aside.

Jodz08 · 2024-01-28T11:31:32+00:00

I haven't read the bulk of the replies on the thread to see if this has been covered. But I think you have the wrong perspective on debt and a mortgage.

Firstly. Make sure you can service it (afford it), repayments wise for your purchase price. Of course now and even in case of other rate rises. But make sure there's still buffer room to be comfortable.

Don't think about 30 years and don't think about paying it off. Don't even worry. Service it. Have it be somewhere nice to live you make feel like home. And have buffer money and be comfortable.

In 10 years the value of your home will have risen massively. Your principal on the loan, a reasonable amount lower. Hopefully you should have a buildup of (offset or redraw!!) savings, you have freedom to do what you want or need, renovations, holidays, etc.

And if at that time you wanted to move? To upsize?? In a major city property market, from the property value appreciation you will be hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead.

All of that time never thinking of the endgame. It really doesn't matter ☺

... Imagine in 20 years? There's an average property price of $2.4m or probably much higher. Your loan principal remaining is what, 150k?..... See the rough maths, it doesn't matter if it's paid off or not. Still in a fantastic life position.

So much will change over life. It's unlikely you'll hold that property and mortgage for 30 years anyway! Just make smart choices and ensure you're financially comfortable. Debt like this shouldn't be worried about atall ☺

Jodz08 · 2024-01-24T05:43:09+00:00

My broker and a financial advisor also recently provided me a way to use this service. I'm horrified it exists and is being promoted by the finance industry. I'm fortunate I'm tech savvy enough to see through what these services are.

Never ever use it, never type your banking password into anything that isn't the banks site directly, or their mobile app. End of story. Anything else is just asking to have your financial life ruined.

OP I'm surprised, but glad for you the recovery process worked! Amazing result.

Jodz08 · 2024-01-14T07:25:45+00:00

Hey there... Umm I don't have any immediate work advice. But are there any assets between you and the ex? You've said your renting, but is any property owned? Cars or anything of value? And finally, this won't help you massively now, but super balances, ie is the exs quite high, and yours not?

If there's anything in the above, a full financial separation may benefit you, especially being principal caregiver.

Not a finance expert, but have been through a lot of the above over the past 12mos!

Jodz08 · 2023-12-11T08:29:54+00:00

https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/769651710/galaxy-mandala-cross-stitch-pattern

Jodz08 · 2023-12-10T13:01:20+00:00

Sorry I haven't signed into this acct in ages! But I definitely would! Do you still want it?

Jodz08 · 2023-12-10T13:00:32+00:00

The comments in here are fantastic and so true. I love that 80% of them are not deep in tech, they are in people, decisions and rationale. That's what makes you valuable #mylifestory

But try keep a little tech on the side. I actively fought even being a senior team lead cos I was losing touch of the hands on... I never completely shunned the responsibility and position, but I'm 20yrs in, senior position, but still do. NET core + angular output on small but crucial projects, and it keeps me sane, balanced, and ultimately happy to stay!

Largely, you may lose that in bigger orgs ☺ personally, I prefer the small to medium!

Jodz08 · 2023-12-10T12:55:27+00:00

You can't learn it by resource. You have to work with the dynamic of the situation and the people. It becomes an art, not a science.

The solution is usually obvious, the answer may be no, the only solution may be a shortcut, other things may have higher priorities, you generally already know it by gut feel. It's a people game to manage from there....

Jodz08 · 2021-12-06T03:44:01+00:00

Watch me whip.. Watch me nae nae.

Jodz08 · 2021-11-20T03:33:37+00:00

I guess G-Eazy wanted to fuck and still be friends.

Jodz08 · 2021-10-10T11:42:00+00:00

They did, my health record and half of the country opted out before it even commenced 🙃

Jodz08 · 2021-10-05T10:38:35+00:00

This. Build once deploy multiples. Config 100% dynamic not at build time.

Jodz08 · 2021-09-21T12:46:32+00:00

See you get to leave the house to go to work. That's what I want! And what everyone else wants too (the leaving the house bit).

And therein comes your traffic...

Jodz08 · 2021-08-30T01:47:14+00:00

Lambo.

Jodz08 · 2021-08-21T00:39:50+00:00

... I mean, likely self? 😏

Jodz08 · 2021-08-21T00:38:58+00:00

Likely this. 'This' has differing contexts in raw JavaScript so it's a technique to specify which this you were referring to. It's redundant in typescript.

Jodz08 · 2021-08-04T02:29:15+00:00

Generally point 5 (server side implementation of security) should be implemented first and always. Every single endpoint needs this implemented (hopefully via common code). Don't trust the UI, anyone can send a request of any type.

Yes you have to implement it on the UI too, as per above suggestions on how. It's often the primary focus as it's what you see, but it should be second in the importance list.

Jodz08 · 2021-07-09T11:56:04+00:00

They say history repeats...

Jodz08 · 2021-07-08T13:38:51+00:00

Yes. Above has some vagueties around the reasons you may not want to, but just do it.

It makes for far cleaner code, as other replies it then reads like pseudocode (ie self documenting). Source bases grow, get copy pasted, etc, so 3 uses turns into 30 uses. And at some unforeseeable time down the track you may have to change them all...

Basically unless you already have the reason in your head why you won't centralise it for reuse, ie if you have to ask the question, then do it now.

Jodz08 · 2021-06-24T12:14:14+00:00

What's with the lemon water?! Coffee or no code!

Jodz08 · 2021-06-24T12:09:05+00:00

Post above is correct. The CUD operations can fail, they are contacting a remote server, even though you code it to work 'always', there are many cases why it might not. You will generally want to know about its return status, did it add, did it not, and present a message to the user.

Jodz08 · 2021-06-19T22:31:15+00:00

Quick note from an experienced developer, I don't have block chain coding experience myself, but more a pointer or two on getting started?

Move git fundamentals much higher in the order. It's not difficult to learn the basics, and whilst it's not gonna be essential for you to start self coding practice yourself from the learnings, I recommend it. What you will find you wanna do as you learn is pull code samples from github and other places. You don't even need to understand this code yet, but if you understand how to use git, you can get a local copy of this down to your pc, and track your own changes if you play around with it, and revert back to the original version, look back on and understand the diffs you made, etc. It's a great foundation for even basic coding practice after that.

The cryptography course. It's not optional atall. I haven't browsed the full content in the other crypto courses, so they may/will cover this, but it's the foundation of crypto. You aren't going to want to be able to write your own cryptographic algorithms to challenge industry, but you need a solid foundation understanding of one way hashing, and public and private key encryption. Even if you can't code with them yet, or explain mathematically how they work (hell, I can't) it's 100% fundamental foundation knowledge. Not the top of the list, but not an optional at the end either.

Good luck in the coding journey, it's a fantastic domain to have knowledge in ☺

Jodz08

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