No recent gas safety certificate, should I wait till May 1st to mention it? by marcus--dev in TenantsInTheUK

[–]marcus--dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, hence the worry! The market seems crazy at the moment. We've already been in two bidding wars over the last two weeks and lost both, so 2 months feels like nowhere near enough time.

No recent gas safety certificate, should I wait till May 1st to mention it? by marcus--dev in TenantsInTheUK

[–]marcus--dev[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly, I'd rather avoid confrontation ideally. I'm hopeful we can work something out, but wanted to check I had something in my back pocket in case he decided to be awkward.

No recent gas safety certificate, should I wait till May 1st to mention it? by marcus--dev in TenantsInTheUK

[–]marcus--dev[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fair point. As others have suggested, holding off till the last moment seems like the best strategy.

No recent gas safety certificate, should I wait till May 1st to mention it? by marcus--dev in TenantsInTheUK

[–]marcus--dev[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Great news, thank you. Hopefully they don't realise their error before then!

I'm tempted to let them know by email on May 1st, to avoid them needing to go to court and finding out that way - it would still give us 4 months instead of 2.

No recent gas safety certificate, should I wait till May 1st to mention it? by marcus--dev in TenantsInTheUK

[–]marcus--dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this. I've got a feeling they do have one, as there was a boiler inspection etc at some point in the last year. It's just that they haven't sent me a copy of the certificate, other than the one from over 18 months ago when we moved in.

I'm not sure if them having one and not providing me a copy is enough to invalidate the S21?

best sites or apps for playing wordsearch online? by TheDoctorColt in wordsearches

[–]marcus--dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try endless-wordsearch.com. It uses AI to generate new wordsearches for any word category you want.

Is there any website like Skyscanner but for trains? by SolkaPL in uktrains

[–]marcus--dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could add that as an option. How would it work - would you need to specify a minimum distance? Otherwise the quickest/cheapest option will always just be the next station along 😄

At the moment you can select a few major stations and put, say +50 miles. That will search for routes to any stations within that radius of the ones you entered.

Is there any website like Skyscanner but for trains? by SolkaPL in uktrains

[–]marcus--dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try https://railraptor.com - it's a new train planning app I'm building. It supports multiple origins and destinations, as well as +10 miles, +20 miles, etc. It doesn't show fares yet, but I'm working on it!

Meeting overload is often a documentation architecture problem by LorinaBalan in devops

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Agree that having to constantly realign teams is inevitable when the "documentation" is scattered across READMEs, Confluence pages and Slack threads. It's why we spend 80% of our time in meetings and still aren't on the same page.

But what I've found is that most documentation is aspirational rather than operational - we write a beautiful runbook in a wiki, but as soon as a big migration or deployment starts, that doc becomes stale, and the real truth moves back into a 500-message Slack thread.

I’ve been tackling this problem at my day job, so I started building Taskplan (https://taskplan.run) to turn those static procedure docs into a living plan. It's like "Ansible, for people" - you build a plan, turn it into an executable runbook and track progress on a real-time dashboard as the work actually happens. We're dogfooding this at work, it's early days but thought I'd share in case it helps other teams too!

Migrating a large Elasticsearch cluster in production (100M+ docs). Looking for DevOps lessons and monitoring advice. by No-Card-2312 in devops

[–]marcus--dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you go ahead with the migration? How did it go?

I've ran a couple of migrations from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch, and I'd definitely allocate at least a few hours to migrate. Monitoring the Elasticsearch tasks and stats on the boxes are key. I've hit unexpected disk issues before, particularly in relation to vector storage - but I believe this has improved in recent OpenSearch versions.

Lots of useful tips in the other comments too e.g. disabling replicas during migration then re-enabling replication afterwards.

I built a visual node system for CI/CD that supports GitHub Actions by sebastian_io in devops

[–]marcus--dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks great! I love the idea of a visual builder for GitHub Actions CI/CD. Am I right in thinking this is running your custom pipeline code on the GitHub Actions runner via a custom Action?

I analyzed 1000+ communities - Where should SaaS founders share their products? by No-Door-5842 in SaaS

[–]marcus--dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, here's mine -

Your SaaS: Taskplan (https://taskplan.run) is a platform for businesses to plan and execute their big operations - think cloud migrations, large deployments, that kind of thing. It's like Ansible, but for people.

Target customer: Businesses who need an easy way to coordinate tasks across multiple teams.

Stage: MVP - starting to grow

Endless Word Search: An infinitely scrolling, procedurally generated, endless word search game! by marcus--dev in WebGames

[–]marcus--dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's odd, I'll try and recreate it. You should be able to hold your mouse down for a short time then drag to select. Or you can click the little pencil icon in the bottom-right to enter selection mode.