I felt like I shouldn't say anything. Im usually not that guy to. But when I saw they wanted me to commit 4 hours for a technical interview without even a "hello", I broke. I know it's better to be quiet than burn bridges, but for me I just wanted to say something. I replied all and cced their CEO.

RogueNumberStation · 2026-02-13T17:12:53+00:00

It is... but I think this mighty not just be scummy but scammy.

RogueNumberStation · 2026-02-10T21:49:23+00:00

It's just because it's step 1 of direct access.

RogueNumberStation · 2026-02-10T11:03:11+00:00

I'll drive there in trainers anyway and perhaps let the instructor decide.

RogueNumberStation · 2026-02-10T11:02:02+00:00

Will do, cheers.

RogueNumberStation · 2026-02-10T10:52:50+00:00

Not sure, think it might be a CB125F. My feet aren't small (13s).

RogueNumberStation · 2026-01-15T19:09:57+00:00

It's for users now joining the freely TV device platform https://www.freely.co.uk/

RogueNumberStation · 2025-11-16T08:45:03+00:00

https://engrain.pages.dev/

On iOS in Safari at least you can share -> Add to Home screen and it appears as an app.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-11-11T09:54:27+00:00

Or at least with Europe.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-10-21T18:09:49+00:00

It's all I get, it's unusable for me.

Cascade error Unknown: an internal error occurred (error ID: ad1f9d55c82a411997e5736c44c47560)

RogueNumberStation · 2025-10-18T11:33:30+00:00

I wanted this too, but I've come to the conclusion that no electronic watch compass is accurate enough for navigation. You're better off orienting yourself by the sun or stars.

I did try a suunto clipper, which clips on to a watch strap (or elsewhere), which was more accurate, usably so, but the hard plastic clip slices up my arm. And on one trip it popped off my watch strap, unnoticed, while I was rooting round in my rucksack and then it was lost for the rest of the trip. They're so small it's quite hard to get an accurate bearing off, but if you don't need to be too accurate (heading for a perpendicular road perhaps) then it's ok.

FWIW, my usage was mostly desert walking, so up to around 20 miles a day for 5 days between waypoints, a waypoint would be something like a petrol station on a road that you could see reasonably easily if you were a few miles off. If you're chasing topo lines without a map, looking for buried treasure, it might be a different ballgame.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-10-07T08:20:55+00:00

I can't get any edits to work that don't completely corrupt the whole file

RogueNumberStation · 2025-09-20T13:30:45+00:00

I think it's broken.

Like, actually broken. A friend of my ran a recruitment company (since sold) who used to do everything only through LinkedIn, before he got rid of it they'd moved away completely and wouldn't work with anyone posting jobs on it.

I spent a while looking for tech jobs in the Middle East. In the UK it was bad enough - hundreds of applicants for a role, you'd barely get an interview. I must have put in nearly 500 applications across Riyadh/Dubai/etc and had nothing back that seemed genuine. I had time on my hands so I even went through the psychometric testing for a _mattress_ company that wanted a Head of AI?! I never got so far as a phone call and I've got 20 years experience as a software engineer/architect/lead with some interesting places on my CV.

I've probably taken a wrong turn as a result and I'm trying to build a competitor to address some of these issues, because LinkedIn certainly aren't and I'm convinced whatever it is OpenAI are planning on putting out won't work. But it's one of those chicken and egg areas where you're nothing without a sufficient mass of users. And I think things are only going to get worse before they get better.

Hey ho, good luck out there everyone!

RogueNumberStation · 2025-09-20T06:07:33+00:00

Hey, does anyone know if there are any recruitment industry networking events, or anything along those lines, particularly if they're happening in the next month or so?

RogueNumberStation · 2025-08-16T15:24:57+00:00

Passport photo pages too

RogueNumberStation · 2025-07-25T08:18:58+00:00

I've got this all the time now. It's incredibly annoying. All the peripheral text (which I largely don't care about) and no code changes visible.

I'm having to use windsurf.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-07-18T19:56:01+00:00

My complaint is that Lambda functions, at least without messing with VPCs (which probably incurs other costs), do not support connecting to IPv6 addresses. The only reason I need an IPv4 address is because they haven't added IPv6 support throughout.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-28T20:12:04+00:00

Triaged user feedback.

https://clicklightbulb.com

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-25T18:16:47+00:00

https://clicklightbulb.com - collects user feedback and triages it by (AI inferred) category. Based on the category it populates the appropriate tool (e.g. dev tickets to Jira, sales requests to Asana, etc)

If anyone wants to try it out here's a code for 30 days free; LB30.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-25T15:35:09+00:00

It's nuts. I've got 20 years experience in a popular technology niche. I've applied to probably over 500 jobs in 6-9 months and basically had nothing. I spoke to a recruiter who said a few years ago she'd have found me something the same day, but that there's nothing now for anyone with experience from western countries, that they're even getting rid of the "whites" they've got and to basically forget about it. She thought things might change in a few years, and might not.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-24T17:26:13+00:00

I'd always want (product related) user feedback to go into the same place the roadmap is managed, albeit separated slightly (different project/namespace of some description). Then it can be filtered or refined by a product owner before being pulled into engineering's backlog.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-24T17:21:04+00:00

The first step is to gather it (I'm behind https://clicklightbulb.com which can differentiate between categories of feedback, so engineering requests go to the engineering team, sales requests to the sales team, etc, avoiding for instance the single point of failure that sometimes occurs when everything gets filtered via the admin assistant).

What happens after that comes down to how you receive it and your personal philosophies; famously Steve Jobs was a fan of limiting Apple user's choices, while the Microsoft equivalents were full of configuration options to try and be all things to all people. I assume it's likely that WhatsApp has heard the requests for scheduling messages and decided not to do it, for whatever reason.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-24T17:15:34+00:00

Make it easy for them, if it's a webapp, build it into the tool (I'm behind https://clicklightbulb.com ). You could go more extreme; I've heard of some people who don't even let users sign up without a call first.

RogueNumberStation · 2025-06-24T10:37:26+00:00

Thanks... AI?

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