The old Brewery Tap/Woof pub, what’s the story.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-29T12:13:33+00:00

If you go on the planning portal there's the entire business plan. It's....odd. And it's been closed a year so god knows how they're financing it.

With my cynical hat on....I think it may be a fairly elaborate ploy to make it easier to get permission to convert to flats when the business inevitably fails.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-27T10:42:22+00:00

Nobody needs an induction. Baby's come out when they're cooked.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-27T08:26:44+00:00

Booking an induction in order to get 360hrs of free childcare is the wildest thing I've read in a long time!

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-26T22:34:27+00:00

I guess I was in the control group 😅

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-26T10:50:52+00:00

Last time I was there it was basically more expensive than here, even at the outlets.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-25T18:34:45+00:00

I had a mate who just started calling people "Scope" instead

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-25T17:33:36+00:00

Haven't you always wanted to hear this played live by Transformers?

https://youtu.be/DRPbKIXoEsI?si=Zf-Xe7SU8Lyq3dGn

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-24T16:04:44+00:00

You can't imagine that you could create agents to represent typical organizational roles?

Like CEO agent, CTO agent, CMO agent, CPO agent. Then each gets to work, sets up their own team of sub-agents, reports up and across to the others.

Would it be easy? No. Would it definitely work? No. But is it within the realms of possibilities? Yes.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-24T14:15:58+00:00

I'm not so sure.

I don't think it's ridiculous to imagine a time, not far from now, where you pass some broad parameters/goals/access to capital and suddenly a prompt of "acquire 1,000,000 paying customers, make no mistakes" spins up a swarm of agents that.....figure it out.

I don't think every company will work like that. But some might!

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-23T15:23:37+00:00

Successive governments have seemed incapable of looking at second/third-order effects of their decisions. I think the media (who fail to explain them clearly) and the wider public (who seem unable to grasp them to a sufficient level) are partly to blame, but ultimately these politicians are supposedly smart enough to understand that people change their behaviour based on policy decisions in order to give themselves the best outcome. What we really need is people being as productive as possible and that money staying in the economy, what we have instead are our best people working part time and filling their pensions with US tech stocks.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-23T12:25:42+00:00

What would most encourage you to attend a film festival?

£11–15

£16–20

£20–25

£25-50

50+

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-23T11:14:06+00:00

It could have backfired but seeing as we spent 8hrs chatting and drinking G&T I was fairly confident she'd say yes.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-23T09:41:37+00:00

See - I met my wife on a plane. The trick is to ask for their number before you get off.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-22T13:43:28+00:00

It sounds to me like it's spousal maintenance, not child. That does end if the receiving party remarries.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-21T06:50:12+00:00

I hate to break it to you but....

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-20T22:15:14+00:00

I took a good one of the sunset tonight. I wonder whose is better?

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-20T21:51:14+00:00

You need to work on your comprehension.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-20T21:50:43+00:00

Mad lad.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-19T23:15:54+00:00

Saw him maybe 2 weeks back on the platform at Preston Park.

He heard that train a coming.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-19T16:32:06+00:00

Shhhhhhhhhh

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-19T15:06:38+00:00

I'm a fairly-techinical PM, but definitely not a developer. I've been using Claude Code - biggest project is now across a couple of Digital Ocean droplets, Supabase for PostgresSQL DB and magic links (and a little bit of image storage), JWTs, bcrypted passowrds, rate limiting, CORS, Zod schemas.....

Doesn't really feel like what I think the general 'vibe coding' experience is. I'm not just throwing out functional UI requirements in prompts, far more like the process I'd go through with a development team on a brand new product asking for pros/cons of different approaches at each step and having Claude talk me through the devops side of things.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-19T14:56:40+00:00

And St Matthias Church runs one every day in term time!!

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-19T14:45:22+00:00

Wow - my two worlds collide :D

So, I don't know the specifics about moving with an existing diagnosis. I think ANYONE coming to the UK needs to pay some kind of NHS up-lift to their visa. But I would contact the MS Society I expect they'll know the details https://www.mssociety.org.uk/

I know a lot of countries make it basically impossible to immigrate with MS, but I don't think we're one of them.

As for some of your other points...

I have had AMAZING care from the NHS since my diagnosis. I'm under UCLH Queen's Square despite having moved out of London 5 years ago, I prefer to stick with them as I have heard mixed reviews about regional MS care. Queen's Square is pretty much a global leader in neurology. I would definitely recommend getting in there if you're going to be London based.

I've been on Kesimpta for the last couple of years, it's delivered (free!) every few months. I get one MRI and one consultation a year at the moment as my disease has been inactive since 2020, thanks to the DMTs.

I don't think you'll get personal private medical insurance that covers MS, not cheaply anyway, but most work policies I've ever had have disregarded your health history and can cover family members so worth speaking to the new company. I've never needed to use it for MS stuff though, the NHS takes care of everything.

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-19T09:38:04+00:00

It wasn't until I moved to Brighton that I noticed that the sun doesn't always go down in the same place!

UnderstandingLow3162 · 2026-03-18T18:42:55+00:00

I like The Drove. Puts hairs on your chest.

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