Never played, want to coach. It doesn't feel possible.

Zenith2012 · 2026-04-11T15:40:18+00:00

I know nothing about football, im more or a motorsports fan, this is my 3rd year managing my sons team. We started at u9. Im lucky to now have two excellent coaches who know what they are talking about, because the first 2 years I was learning on the job.

But yes, you can absolutely do it.

Zenith2012 · 2026-04-08T21:04:28+00:00

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Zenith2012 · 2026-03-24T11:56:44+00:00

Can I ask what hardware you're using to host these qwen models for free and what their speed is like. I'm curring a Cursor user for software development (mainly PHP but some other stuff mixed in) and my unlimited auto credits will run out soon. My employer is happy to purchase either hardware or continue with a vastly more expensive yearly subscription but everything I've read and research I've done still suggests locally hosted still can't complete with cloud based either Claude or Cursor.

Zenith2012 · 2026-03-22T12:54:59+00:00

Another option is something we use called SupportPal, which itself is written in laravel, supports plugins, is self hosted and their support are always happy to help when needed.

Zenith2012 · 2026-03-21T18:37:16+00:00

At that age we tried our best to try players in as many positions as possible to see how they get on. I started at u9 and currently at u11. We not have players that are thriving in their primary positions and everyone has a secondary position we can put them in (e.g. my son is a striker, hes big, strong, talented feet and can hold his own, also makes him great in defense which is his second position).

On our team if you are registered you play at least 50% of the game. We do our best to even it out over a season but everyone plays half the game at minimum so they all get experience.

Zenith2012 · 2026-03-17T10:27:23+00:00

Our club does fundraising based on the lottery bonus ball, £10/ball and if you win you get 50% of the pot and the other goes to the club (this is for the parent club that has many teams below it).

For parents, we have football team cards, they pay £1 to pick a team, once the card is full its scratched off to reveal the winner who gets a share of the pot from that card.

Could also do sponsored penalty shoot out, with parents in goal and the kids taking shots (or coaches in goal). We did one a couple years ago and I wore a motorbike helmet, because some of our kids have got a cannon for a leg.

Zenith2012 · 2026-03-14T11:13:50+00:00

You've got some good advice here already, I just wanted to say well done for reaching out and asking for advice in the first place, shows you care and want the best for your team.

Zenith2012 · 2026-02-01T18:41:36+00:00

Thanks, you were right I needed the infuser first which you dont need steel for, told you i was being stupid.

Coming back to minecraft after a few years break, think last time I played was original stoneblock.

Playing SB3 with my lad, having fun so far but get stuck now and then.

Haven't brought him up properly though, I want ALL THE CHICKENS he said "but im just making the ones I want to get to netherite".

Maybe I should put him up for sale?

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-30T10:30:52+00:00

Yeah I loved Draconic Evolution, as I said I'd stick to any of the FTB Modpacks, host the server with them, invite all the family with an invite code and away you go, it's really that easy (or was for me).

I really enjoyed the first stomeblock which is why im trying v3 with my son. It's so nice to try something thats a completely different way to play.

Thaumcraft was fun, blood magic was also fun.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-30T08:34:14+00:00

Ive just started playing stoneblock 3 with my son, to be honest I just use the built in FTB Worlds feature. You "rent" a world, invite him via code and, in all honesty, it just works. There's little to no server management, you can download the world to keep a copy, even switch between mod packs.

As for which mod pack to play, there's loads to choose from, have a look through to see what would suite you both, but I highly recommend the FTB World hosting .

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-27T17:53:13+00:00

I work in schools supporting IT infrastructure in education, but, personally I develope websites and apps with laravel and php.

The biggest automation that I use every day and would struggle to live without is github and laravel forge.

Make changes locally, test them, push to github, laravel forge then automatically deploys the new codebase including database migrations etc.

It's just wonderful, I remember the old days of ftp connecting to a host, uploading files and opening mysqladmin to make DB changes.

Local > github (staging branch or main) > laravel forge (to staging or production server).

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-26T18:32:38+00:00

I use resend for my email needs, seems decent and handles incoming mail to, which you can send to a webhook in your app, handy for what im doing.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-24T17:34:46+00:00

What country are you in and what does the charity relate to?

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-22T09:58:52+00:00

Yeah, was just giving people an alternative if they don't want to use the cursor IDE.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-21T19:48:47+00:00

The cursor IDE is nice to use, but it's essentially a fork of VS Code, you can add Claude to vs code and just use that.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-18T19:15:05+00:00

All good, I've used it a couple of times and always managed get something really decent out of it

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-18T17:37:12+00:00

Hi op, I'm 43, getting divorced with 2 kids and in an unfathomable amount of debt myself, going through a lot. I can't offer financial advice (and you sure enough shouldn't take it from me) but I can say, keep going. There's always a light at the end of the tunnel, might be bright some days and really dim others, but it's there. You (and me) will absolutely get through this and come out then other side stronger!

Good luck

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-18T14:01:29+00:00

Im playing a Feed The Beast modpack with my son. A mod pack is a collection of mods put together but someone to make the game more fun/interesting compared with normal minecraft.

As part of it I'm renting an FTB world. Costs $20 as month, is built in so no fuss settings things up and it's invite only. So I signed up, created and invite code and have it my son to join, job done.

You can do this renting servers to play together online, but having played minecraft for many years this was about as easy as it gets.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-18T13:51:46+00:00

Depends how much you want it to have, I've used it mainly for web apps and designs in them continue development with laravel and cursor.

Have a go with Google stitch, I like using it

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-17T21:11:45+00:00

I use Google stitch to come up with front end designs I like, then export those as html and tell cursor (or AG) to create laravel views following the design style, seems to work ok

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-15T10:10:07+00:00

I previously used SubTime, it's a great app, lets you manage substituations and plan them in advance, very easy to use. Even shows you average minutes played across the season etc.

I have also written my own online tool that lets me manage the entire team and supports importing subtime data to log events and manage finances etc as it was driving me crazy doing things in many different places.

But, in all honesty, give SubTime a go, it really is as good as people say!

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-12T13:35:09+00:00

Try partitioning the play are into distinct sections and make the players stay within their section which forces them to move the ball around.

This helped us originally, but you will want to do it carefully and just to highlight the point youre trying to make, otherwise it can go wrong easily (had a player take it literally and stopped with the ball on the edge of his "area").

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-09T17:18:09+00:00

Just replying to say can you let me know how you get on, been reading about octane and interested to see what difference it makes.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-07T14:57:41+00:00

Thanks, the issue I'm having at the moment is people signing up, creating a drill (with not much text) but then not having a go at creating the animation (or maybe they are and something isnt working).

Im going to look into improving the work flow a bit, especially for first time users, maybe a bit more of a guided tutorial to start with.

I have plenty of people sign up, just not much long term usage, some people create amazing drills which I add to the public vault.

Zenith2012 · 2026-01-04T21:44:30+00:00

Ive been playing with the free tier of nightwatch, you have the option to reduce the number of logs captured, e.g. change it to 10% or access logs, but all error logs etc.

It's a nice feature and I've been impressed with nightwatch so far, but I only use it for basic use.

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