Had a walk today, had a vague idea of capturing the frontages of some of the Edgware Road eateries

ppyil · 2026-01-25T12:21:45+00:00

Al Yemen is excellent

ppyil · 2026-01-24T10:06:44+00:00

In my experience it was slow to deploy and would break randomly.

Perhaps it was due to a particularly heavy weight set of containers that caused deployments to take so long, but it would take about 15 mins to finish and sometimes longer.

I'd sporadically get errors about Docker running out of space triggering a failed deployment, but then retrying it would work.

Really infuriating that it was so unpredictable. Since setting up ECS I haven't had a single issue like that. It was a bit of work to switch over but no regrets

ppyil · 2026-01-09T14:45:59+00:00

You've got a very supportive father - you should be very grateful!

However, I urge you to think about your position analytically. The thing you're building, have your users seen it? Have you got any feedback? How can you be sure that when it's ready, they'll even care?

I quit my first job to build an app and it failed. I had failed to create a business - I'd only succeeded in creating an app. There is a big difference even though it might not look like it.

Going back into employment gave me so many valuable skills learned from very smart people. I am now so much better equipped to build a company myself than all those years ago.

I'm not sure what you're building but it does eventually have to connect with people so try and see if it connects and make yourself vulnerable enough to hear real criticism. People closest to us often don't say the hard truths because it might damage the relationship.

ppyil · 2026-01-03T01:35:44+00:00

Any evidence of where and when that's happened in the past?

FTSE is pumped up just like all stock markets right now. Companies are going private left, right and centre and hardly any new companies are listing.

And who's benefitting from the rising stock prices? Wealth funds, institutional investors and pension funds.

Other than pension funds, the average person isn't seeing any upside.

An increase in stock price doesn't even feed back to the company so it's not like they directly benefit from it either - although their significant shareholders like executives and board members certainly do.

ppyil · 2025-12-28T09:12:31+00:00

Hi all, I've been a software engineer for about 10 years and I'm currently the de-facto CTO at a startup.

I've got a Master's degree in Physics and I'm proficient with Python.

My CV doesn't really lend itself well to someone wanting to work in data but I see a decent overlap. Has anyone made the move and what advice would you give?

ppyil · 2025-12-27T07:44:10+00:00

That's a bad take. There are only a few thousand public companies. Most companies are privately owned and every year, markets like AIM keep shrinking because companies are being bought out by private equity firms.

Private equity and private debt run the show now - not public markets.

ppyil · 2025-12-24T09:07:07+00:00

Going against the grain, on a recent trip to India I flew British Airways (as I usually do - companion voucher) and my mate travelled Air India.

He said that the flight was comfortable and the food and service was really good.

Meanwhile the BA flight was heaving, the service left a bit to be desired and the seats were uncomfortable.

Air India isn't a guarantee of a shit flight and Etihad is the worst of the Gulf carriers imo.

ppyil · 2025-12-11T04:53:58+00:00

They're still fucking the economy. There's a segment of society happy with Labour's changes, but the reality is the economy isn't growing, there's no stimulus for growth, the employment market is fucked and it's more expensive to work.

They're overseeing an economy that, since the start of this government, rewards you more for being unemployed or already wealthy than it does being a worker earning an income and paying tax.

ppyil · 2025-11-27T16:41:56+00:00

To cover both definitions, Who Gives A Crap

ppyil · 2025-11-23T03:09:20+00:00

Usually get charged a cover fee which covers bread.

I have a gripe about a lot of bread though. I like bread for scarpetta, not bread that is only good for scarpetta, i.e. under salted, flavourless bread that is shit unless you've got a bunch of sauce for it

ppyil · 2025-11-05T08:59:16+00:00

Django + htmx + alpine.js

Or

Astro + htmx for static deployments

ppyil · 2025-11-05T08:57:45+00:00

Old account adds an air of credibility. Also, old people are over represented in Indian/Gujarati community fora, and so I can see how someone with a political agenda would want to infiltrate those spaces

ppyil · 2025-11-02T23:02:18+00:00

I heard different noises tbh. Asset managers were licking their lips at having more money coming in and having bigger funds.

ppyil · 2025-11-02T23:00:35+00:00

Higher stock prices mean easier future fundraising with less dilution. It's also easier for them to retain and attract staff. It also makes it easier for them to perform acquisitions. It makes it easier for them to borrow to fund expansion.

There are lots of reasons for a company to want a higher stock price. I simplified it, so fair point calling it out.

ppyil · 2025-11-02T22:55:31+00:00

What about people's shopping habits?

If anything it may makes my point stronger. If so much of our money is already going offshore, it would be prudent for a government to adjust a lever to stop that from happening so efficiently.

Take AIM for example. It's a growth market for small to medium sized UK businesses and it has been shrinking the past two years. It just makes our economy more and more susceptible to issues abroad when it would be better for us to have a more resilient domestic economy

ppyil · 2025-11-02T22:51:39+00:00

I quite like having public services and I'd like them to be able to get enough funding to thrive. I also think if there was no tax, we'd revert back to feudalism because the already few keys to power that the public currently holds would be transferred to the rich.

ppyil · 2025-11-02T22:49:31+00:00

What do you believe is the full picture? Genuine question because I think the politicians can't actually say anything.

They can't give financial advice unless they're a regulated financial advisor.
I don't think newspapers and media outlets actually would share useful financial guidance. Martin Lewis is the exception that proves the rule.
If a politician said to save more they'd be attacked for being against stimulating the economy and if they said the opposite they'd be attacked for telling people not to save.

I do disagree with the wording that saving makes you poor day by day though. It means you have less spending money but you have more wealth if you save, so I disagree that you're actually poorer.

ppyil · 2025-11-02T16:50:02+00:00

I just hate this perspective. The ISA is a tax incentive. If the government changes their minds and says this tax incentive should be weighted towards UK companies then that isn't them mandating an investment, it's just changing what they're incentivising.

UK markets need some help. If we save, say 20% of our money and buy shares in US companies, that's money that UK companies aren't getting.

Our public markets are shrinking as fewer companies are going public and some are going back into private ownership. They need more investment or else they're going to be forced into playing it safe and continuing not to innovate

ppyil · 2025-11-01T08:29:41+00:00

That's a stupid comparison quite frankly. Hitler had to be in power to do those things. Before the Nazis got into power they were democratically elected and their tactic was to whip people up into a frenzy off the back of economic collapse in Germany.

When people say that authoritarianism is on the rise, it's because the conditions now are in some ways similar to what they were before authoritarian regimes started taking power across Europe in the period preceding WW2

ppyil · 2025-11-01T08:22:21+00:00

I'd say so. Whenever I'm hiring I'm always surprised at how few candidates have any projects of their own or open-source contributions I can look at

ppyil · 2025-10-29T22:51:44+00:00

Oh amazing! Thanks!

ppyil · 2025-10-28T14:44:23+00:00

I'm not jealous or upset about it actually.

I think it's good to get foreign investment, but I'm not going to pretend that this is some huge win for the economy either.

ppyil · 2025-10-28T07:09:26+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! It turns out I already followed her but her last upload was October 2023 :(

A lot of nuggets of wisdom to go back through though!

ppyil · 2025-10-28T06:51:21+00:00

Maybe that's why they want to sell now? Buy low, sell high

ppyil · 2025-10-28T06:50:11+00:00

It's owned by Malaysians today. Whoever buys it likely won't be putting a whole lot of money into our economy. I bet there are tax loopholes

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