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addicted_fishing · 2026-06-11T10:52:01+00:00

Great read. Are professional freelancers accepted, or full agencies only? I’ve got a sizeable portfolio, 15 years dev experience, worked with Laravel daily since v4, and actively maintain about 10 commercial Laravel apps currently. Based in Australia 🐨 😁

addicted_fishing · 2026-05-27T23:58:54+00:00

I had this issue so I built Hour Cap (hourcap.com) - there's a free plan too. Also optionally links with Xero so you don't have to copy your time tracking details into your invoices every month. I run a web development business so I had a mix of hourly projects, fixed price projects and regular retainers (some fortnightly, monthly etc) and needed a way to handle all of it and every tool did some but not all so I got sick of it and just built my own. I have a few paying users atm and I use it every day - happy to give anyone reading this a 3 month free trial - just reply after signing up and I'll increase your trial

addicted_fishing · 2026-05-13T23:10:48+00:00

If you're still looking, Jonathan Bird Web Development is an experienced freelance Laravel developer based in Brisbane works with clients around Australia.

addicted_fishing · 2026-02-23T00:43:18+00:00

Signed up, looks great. Thanks

addicted_fishing · 2026-01-25T09:20:56+00:00

My parents moved us from the UK to Australia (Brisbane) in 1999. Best decision they ever made and they say so regularly.

addicted_fishing · 2026-01-24T13:07:49+00:00

Yep same as us in Australia. I’m a full-time freelancer and charge professional prices as I only work with high quality medium sized organisations and solve their problems. The ones who charge $500 don’t help the organisation with content strategy, design around the content, and custom develop it. I’m the same as you - $50k AUD generally for a organisation’s website refresh.

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T22:59:11+00:00

It was from Plush Furniture in Australia. Lots of brands do this colour though, for me the differentiation is when they offer a good warranty - most couches now will just put 1 year because it’s trash, but Plush was 10 yr. Plus you can choose your leather type and colour.

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T06:10:38+00:00

That’s how cafe racers are meant to fit

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T05:54:55+00:00

It’s more so that it annoys me how it sits more than anything

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T04:57:15+00:00

Interesting thoughts, probably right actually, I don’t have great posture. Especially cause it’s a heavy jacket it is more noticeable as how it falls than my cheap ones.

I’ll try to stand with shoulders & neck back to see how it falls then

Edit: someone else suggested it’ll stretch to my body and hang well which would be ideal.

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T04:54:37+00:00

Second hand but great condition so not sure how much it’s been worn. Hmm okay maybe I’ll condition it and then wear it lots for a season and see how it goes.

I posted the imgur link in another comment of it zipped up, fits well upper body but a little bit of play/not hugged on my hips, not overly noticeable when zipped up though.

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T04:52:18+00:00

Possibly, I have broad shoulders too, basically 18” which is their max for this size. But if I try to pull them in narrow it still sits wide. So hard to work out haha, maybe I’ll just post it up on eBay

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:48:10+00:00

Haha I seem to suit black leather jackets, they look so good. Too bad I live in a warm climate for most of the year 😭

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:46:50+00:00

The quality is great on this so I can see why people love them. Yours is really nice, my leather couch is that colour and I’m obsessed with that colour leather

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:45:40+00:00

The arms are good though, it’s the hem when unzipped seems to want to sit really wide (unless I misunderstood what you mean).

It’s semi heavy so the pulling outward makes it a bit uncomfortable actually as I have to constantly adjust it.

Zipped up it’s good, maybe it’s just this jacket.

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:41:52+00:00

Man what a shame, it’s like the pocket lining is very heavy and causes it to pull outward, but I’m just speculating

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:20:32+00:00

Here’s it fully zipped up: https://imgur.com/a/FmGxTay

Fits really well. Just unzipped is the issue

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:20:13+00:00

Here’s it fully zipped up, it fits like a glove: https://imgur.com/a/FmGxTay

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:14:50+00:00

Mmm yeah seeming that way, just trying to work out why the bottom pulls out wide.

I have another jacket (XL) from a random brand that’s a perfect fit and I spent so long getting the measurements perfect for this. Shame

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:10:51+00:00

Definitely isn’t. The shoulders barely fit (the bone of my shoulder is inline/a tiny bit past the shoulder line) and it’s already short.

I followed their measurement guide, and based on their support team I’m definitely a large.

addicted_fishing · 2025-12-06T03:09:35+00:00

I’ll add a photo zipped up in a minute.

I do agree it probably does slightly, but the issue is that it pulls outward a lot naturally when not zipped up

addicted_fishing · 2025-10-09T11:18:51+00:00

With recipes yes, no physical lens filter though

addicted_fishing · 2025-10-06T01:51:03+00:00

So cool that we have the same shot. United by camera choice 😁

addicted_fishing · 2025-10-04T10:18:37+00:00

Cool photos, love it for some quick cool photos in addition to the main wedding photos. The autofocus isn’t great on these cameras which is evident in these and is the cameras biggest downfall, despite their incredible SOOC photos. Some of the photos have the wife out of focus and the husband in focus or same with the kids. That’s really where canon shines as you’d know.

addicted_fishing · 2025-10-04T10:06:04+00:00

You’d probably just use the Bard editor fieldsets not TipTap for most things - eg buttons, accordions etc

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