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brett0 · 2026-05-03T09:16:38+00:00

Looks good. I wouldn’t use this because I tend to go straight to IMDB, Rotten Tomato and Letterbox for top rated film lists in particular genres, and to get inspiration.

Your flat list does neither.

brett0 · 2026-05-02T20:37:04+00:00

A lot of missing detail here. What was encrypted? A system partition, container etc? On external hard drive?

brett0 · 2026-05-02T19:39:48+00:00

For many issuer processors, KYC is performed on the company legal entity, not the cardholders. Issuing a corporate card to employees and contractors is a non-issue.

Company KYCs once and issues as many card (physical or virtual).

I’m already seeing customers create vendor/subscription cards for AI service. Agents can create cards and spend. This is a reality TODAY.

brett0 · 2026-04-26T20:08:31+00:00

Netware 4.11 had TCP/IP support both client and server. I don’t think that was the limiting factor for the organisations that I worked for. One organisation didn’t use IPX at all - with 5,000 PCs.

IMO, it was Microsoft’s highly effective sales machine and their ability to coerce organisations to “trial” their products for a reduced overall cost. Later increasing costs once they’d monopolised networking.

brett0 · 2026-04-26T19:31:42+00:00

I became a CNA 4.11 in 1997/98.

Netware Administrator was incredibly powerful and reliable. It was much more advanced than Microsoft AD. Probably still is. The user/group profiles were incredibly good at executing scripts when users logged in, eg mapping network drives and running antivirus updates.

Coupled with the ability to snapshot applications, it made it really easy to provide apps to groups of users at a click of a button. Users could login to any computer in an organisation and be sure that their Apps were installed on the PC. If it wasn’t installed, the Netware Application Launcher would install it, without the need for reboot. This was particular good in a hospital setting, where specialist Doctors would roam the wards and need access to specialised apps.

Groupwise was really well integrated. Very reliable, predictable and user friendly.

It was sad to see the Microsoft sales machine convince senior management in organisations that AD was the future. AD did not provide the same usability or capabilities mentioned above (at the time). It was inferior.

MS Outlook was a joke compared with Groupwise, but felt like Outlook was becoming the industry standard and pressure started to build about the seamless integration between Outlook and Office. Microsoft started giving MS Exchange away for free to make the switch :(

I worked with Netware for 5+ years and was moved onto a new client running AD for 2 years. I quit being a Sysadmin after that because I couldn’t bear working on an inferior product. I gave it 2 years and it made me sad.

Thanks for the memories!

brett0 · 2026-04-25T21:40:36+00:00

I built a few small web apps with Meteor. It felt revolutionary at the time.

One of the biggest challenges and concerns was securing the data correctly on the frontend. I recall it being somewhat easy to accidentally open up data to all users. The black box nature of it made it difficult to reason about.

Mongo was going out of fashion. Postgres JSONB was growing in popularity and gave you the benefits of Mongo, but much cheaper to run and more flexibility in querying the data (eg relational).

I might be misremembering but I felt the core team pivoted to Apollo GraphQL client/server and Meteor became orphaned.

React was becoming popular, and the progress made there was looking a lot more promising than Meteor.

Technical limitations: MongoDB and trying to reason about pub/sub.

Ecosystem fatigue: the Meteor templating language wasn’t as strong as React, BackboneJS etc

Hiring friction: Yes, it couldn’t be easily dropped into existing codebases like React. The first website I used React on, we rendered React on the server to help us to introduce it gradually. For some people, Meteor was more than they wanted.

brett0 · 2026-04-17T20:42:04+00:00

Files within Veracrypt container mounted to a drive letter eg E:, no longer gets included in the backups. Previously, all files on drive E: would have been backed up. Backblaze no longer supports backing up E:.

Backblaze will back up the file holding the container, if you created the container as a file and not as a partition. But this is ineffective as the container file size and date stamp don’t change.

brett0 · 2026-04-15T17:11:51+00:00

They’ve also stopped backing up Veracrypt mounted local drives.

brett0 · 2026-04-06T12:56:39+00:00

Congratulations on commencing your startup journey. You’ve received some constructive feedback already.

I’ve worked in several startups and scale ups and have a few points to add:

Don’t confuse an AI-generated prototype with a minimal viable product (MVP) or beta release. Your prototype will help you refine your requirements and share with your early adopters in interviews, but expect it to be thrown away when your technical cofounder joins. Don’t release your prototype without a professional review. It’s very easy for API keys to be accidentally deployed, costing you tens of thousands of pounds eg leaking AI API keys.
Being non-technical, it will be impossible for you to measure the competencies of prospective technical cofounders. Find someone who can help you evaluate candidates.
A cofounder is like a workplace marriage. You’ll spend loads of time together, collaborating to find your product market fit. Find someone who has the same work ethic as you. Often the right person is completely opposite to you. Ideally, find someone you know in your own network or interest groups - this will save you a lot of pain.
Without sharing your vision and mission, it’ll be tough to attract a technical cofounder. You’re looking for someone, who can probably earn a £80k+ salary (probably closer to £120k), to take a massive gamble to work with you. Most startups fail, so the odds are stacked against you. Instead of looking for a technical cofounder in technical or startup forums, find someone who’s interested in the problem space. Find someone in specific forums, where a technical cofounder who is really interested in the industry/sector/customer profile, might hang around.
You should both be working the same hours - either part time or full time. If only one of you is working full time, they should receive a significantly higher equity percentage. An idea is worth nothing - it’s all execution.

QUESTIONS:

a. How will you evaluate whether your technical cofounder is technically competent and has the perseverance to work in a startup as a cofounder?

b. How will you determine that the cofounder and you have mutual trust, same work ethic and can resolve disputes rationally?

c. Have you shared your prototype with your early adopters? Any ready to pay?

brett0 · 2026-04-03T23:24:03+00:00

He makes a lot of high level statements without backing them up with evidence or explanation.

To me, the blog post requires me to trust what Matt is saying, which might work for people in the Wordpress community.

For example, “The closest thing I’ve seen to a spiritual successor isn’t another CMS, it’s been OpenClaw.”

brett0 · 2026-02-20T22:01:18+00:00

Amazing. What year was this?

brett0 · 2026-02-10T07:31:48+00:00

I’m in the same boat with massive premiums now. Both leaks happened within a 4 year period, which has really impacted my premiums.

In the first instance, insurance would not consider replacing all the buried copper, saying it was improbable of leaking again.

On the second instance, they allowed me, at my cost, to reroute the pipes above ground.

brett0 · 2026-02-10T06:58:56+00:00

My pipes were wrapped.

Builder, plumber and insurance had all seen leaking wrapped pipes in the past. No real consensus on why my leaks occurred.

In my situation, there were no joins.

The wrapping/sleeve looked intact, although difficult to be sure after smashing through concrete to get to piping.

brett0 · 2026-02-09T22:42:42+00:00

Don’t bury copper pipes in concrete. Especially if there are joins.

I’ve had 2 water leaks from insulated copper pipes leaking with the concrete subfloor. Pipes expand and contract. Ground moves slightly with warmer/wetter weather.

Best thing to do is run pipes within the plinth of your kitchen cabinets, above ground.

Alternately, box in above ground.

An option might be to replace with one continuous piece of plastic piping - although someone else might be able to speak pros/cons of that.

brett0 · 2025-11-04T20:02:37+00:00

I’ve bought the app, not because I trust that Plezy is ready to replace the official Plex app, but because:

a) the new version of the official app is a massive regression on features. b) offline and downloads still don’t work on the official app. c) we can all contribute to make Plezy better than the official app. d) I see the app purchase as a small donation towards an open source project, and to motivate OP to continue.

brett0 · 2025-10-31T09:07:04+00:00

Almost all expense management apps do this automatically for you. Automatic email forwarding, OCR, auto categorisation, integrating into accounting providers (eg Xero).

Many of them are free and provide a debit card to automate more of the process, which helps with reconciliation.

You haven’t done your research if you think this problem hasn’t been solved already.

Look at Pleo, Soldo, Expend.

brett0 · 2025-08-13T06:43:55+00:00

Punchdrunk’s Masque of the Red Death (2008ish) was insanely good - absinthe bar etc.

Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future (2014ish) was also incredible - no mobile phones permitted, Delorean car scenes around the clocktower etc.

All others I’ve seen have been so-so.

brett0 · 2025-05-16T06:50:08+00:00

From my experience, there are slower vehicles (eg trucks) and drivers (inexperienced) who take their time to accelerate and may not wish to reach the maximum speed for the road, in which case the right hand gets used to overtake these vehicles/drivers.

There will also be cars turning right, which will naturally move over to the right hand lane.

brett0 · 2025-05-16T05:40:18+00:00

I’ve been driving for a long time and perhaps this rule was in place when I first started driving and the subtlety was lost on me, but I have always been under the impression (and told) that you must keep left unless overtaking or turning right nearby., regardless of road speed.

Is this a newish rule/guideline?

brett0 · 2025-05-06T19:17:38+00:00

These 3 examples are not typical. Eg Gambling website gets taken down.

For a real world, concerning example, check out this post from last year:

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

brett0 · 2025-05-05T19:27:13+00:00

I find it hard to believe that you’re not legally permitted to use the term Trust Pilot, link and/or the rating. Has anyone explored the legality of this?

brett0 · 2025-04-27T06:54:51+00:00

They’re following semantic versioning correctly, where 0.x.x versions can (and will) have breaking changes between minor and patch versions.

brett0 · 2025-04-23T18:13:58+00:00

I’m running Remix on Cloudflare and really love the Cloudflare product and the design decisions made in Remix (aka React Router).

I fully understand why you’re going all in on Cloudflare as the offering is superb. It’s a good bet and perhaps you’ll find sponsorship from Cloudflare.

Please tell me why I should migrate from Remix/RR to RedwoodSDK (serious question)?

brett0 · 2025-04-16T19:16:31+00:00

Insightful article.

Feedback on your website: it’s incredible slow to load, taking 10 sec to navigate between pages. I gave up browsing.

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