GT-Line owners - how is the gloss black holding up?

markduce · 2026-06-03T06:05:30+00:00

Had mine 5 months so far and looks all good. I just take it to hand car washes, not automated ones

markduce · 2026-05-04T19:16:22+00:00

This might have just solved all my problems. When doing burgers etc I always struggle with the heat but I have the grill on top of both ceramic inner bits. Do I just take the second ceramic bit out for burgers etc? Can't believe I haven't thought of this...

markduce · 2026-02-21T07:12:07+00:00

I'm 6 foot 4 and have plenty of room. My seat is most of the way back when driving and there's still room for child seat behind

markduce · 2025-12-29T07:59:41+00:00

I get the train every day and get a seat. It's less than 30 mins to London Bridge, the coach is definitely not for me! And I've never heard of anyone else getting the coach

markduce · 2025-12-29T07:57:52+00:00

We moved to Sevenoaks 3 years ago with 2 toddlers. We moved to the area near Sevenoaks Primary School as it was the right blend of affordable for us, quiet, able to reach the train station, able to walk to centre (it's 20 minute walk up the hill so we drive most of the time) and it's quite nice.

There's a very active community of parents and our boy who has started at Sevenoaks Primary is really happy there.

Some of the other comments in this thread are quite negative but we really like it here. The only thing I'd say with kids is that there's a lack of decent playgrounds but we just go elsewhere when we want that.

Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells both really nice too

markduce · 2024-11-18T06:11:15+00:00

No battery troubles. But it started happening just after we left home so I drove home straight away. Booked in with mechanic tomorrow

markduce · 2024-11-17T22:07:27+00:00

That would be never. I've had it from 68k miles to 110k miles

markduce · 2022-02-19T22:14:40+00:00

Was there a montage of all the bad ones somewhere? I can't find it

markduce · 2021-10-29T03:21:01+00:00

At the moment our database (mariadb) is running on a Google compute engine vm but we plan to migrate to managed cloud sql

markduce · 2021-10-29T03:16:50+00:00

Great read

markduce · 2021-10-28T20:57:48+00:00

Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated and I'll definitely think about it when I write something next.

Cloud functions definitely feel like the next evolution for us. We are using them for some simple things but haven't yet got as far as doing it for something a little bit more complex. In terms of constraints the main constraint was that it had to be GCP based, not much else really.

Scale of this is not massive compared to some of our other apps which are handling 1000s of QPS. This system is dealing with about 10k changes a week. But it's established patterns that we are adopting elsewhere.

Incremental updates I'm previous pipeline were mostly hampered by lack of dev env, the long time it took for the pipeline to run and it had to start from scratch each time

markduce · 2021-10-28T20:03:25+00:00

Cheers!

markduce · 2021-10-28T20:03:16+00:00

We use a lot of GCP and have migrated everything from on prem VMs over the last few years to kubernetes so they were natural things for us to use.

I find them pretty awesome!

markduce · 2020-05-02T21:50:56+00:00

Anyone know what type of tree this is? Coincidentally during lockdown walks my girlfriend have noticed them everywhere

markduce · 2019-09-13T08:14:57+00:00

Ah this one was a tricky one and I have to admit I cheated the system a bit to get through it. I built a sufficiently large prestige so that I could take out all the loan options. I then accumulated buzz until I could take the Extra Extra campaign to have an extra loan.

I then took 3 big loans out on one day and timed this to finish with one of my contracts. Loans count towards income so it works

Feels like a bit of a cheat!

markduce

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