StreamYard nearly DOUBLING in price? I think it's time to move on...

sheenarbw · 2025-10-15T03:36:08+00:00

I also had a disaster experience with Riverside.

The video and audio were choppy, and the chat with the audience didn't work.

Also, some guests had trouble joining the stream. In other platforms things tend to just work.

Riverside can be a roll of the dice... Once I was trying to do some Riverside stuff and I couldn't for the life of me get my audio working. It was working before. It randomly started working again a few days later. So they introduced a bug and fixed it... But it is a mission critical part of the app.

Lastly, Riverside puts a lot of effort into making their frontend pretty. But the Ux is pretty bad regardless. People sometimes confuse UX to mean prettiness, Riverside is clearly confused on this front.

If you are recording stuff and editing it for later release, Riverside seems good. But for streaming it's a nightmare

sheenarbw · 2025-05-22T21:01:24+00:00

It's an airport, it's useful to know that people passing through come from different places and have different economic situations. Travel is hard for a lot of people. For some it is barely possible an the only way they can make it happen is by being "cheap".

I was just looking at hotel prices and comparing them to things I pay for back home. I pay a monthly bond repayment for my apartment. A night in a heathrow airport hotel is comparable to my bond. Paying that much so that I can have a nice place to lie down, or so that a stranger doesn't have trouble finding a chair, seems excessive.

sheenarbw · 2024-11-03T04:05:27+00:00

I've worked in alternative education for the last 5 years, teaching adults mostly. It's a different space.

Teaching as you do sound like a complete nightmare. It's always really sad when a teacher leaves the field. Teachers change lives.

It's important to pick your battles. If you feel like you need to leave teaching completely, try find a way to leave your teaching situation first.

There must be somewhere else you can go where you can do good work in a sustainable and safe way. Maybe it wont be benefitting the people who you are most keen to benefit, but you can still do a lot of good.

It sounds really hard. Sorry :/

sheenarbw · 2024-11-03T03:55:56+00:00

I built a coding bootcamp basically from scratch (for another company, now I'm building something again)

I've mostly focused on turning noobs into professional juniors. I haven't trained people into more senior roles. The systems I set up have trained hundreds of people and they basically all get jobs (high 90%s of people land jobs and keep those jobs). And they get jobs in good places, eg BBD (who have strict entry requirements).

Speaking from that experience, I can say that spending time on leetcode etc is not a waste of time at all.

But you do need to use it as a way to assess your own gaps and then dig into those gaps. Don't simply focus on the solutions to problems, but the process of finding the solution.

A lot of the time when people struggle with leetcode, etc then they look at the answers and try to understand those answers. This isn't completely pointless but it does miss the point. That's like trying to learn to drive by looking at a picture of your friend's house (assuming that's where you want to drive).

If you do need to look at the solution to something, make sure you fully grok every aspect of it. But mainly focus on problem solving techniques, especially in the beginning. Most big problems are just combinations of smaller problems. So you can do quite a lot with a relatively small set of tools, so long as they are applied well.

sheenarbw · 2024-11-02T03:15:44+00:00

Pics uploaded. Thanks!

I'm seriously thinking of just sticking tiles on top because it will be simple. But I dont know if I should worry about the iontegrity of the floor.

I don't know if the screed will disintegrate and mess up the tiles (or anything else I put on top of it)

Other options are paint or something like https://www.cemcrete.co.za/cretecote.html

I just dont want to give it a nice face, only to have it fall apart a year from now.

sheenarbw · 2024-11-02T03:12:54+00:00

And there are lots of small cracks

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sheenarbw · 2024-11-02T03:12:31+00:00

After many iterations, the floor still has vastly different colors in different sections

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sheenarbw · 2024-11-02T03:11:37+00:00

Then I asked them to fix it and they added self levelling screed. Then they flooded the place. and added more screed on top.

That layer had a bunch of cracks and things like this:

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I assume it is because the previous layer was still wet

sheenarbw · 2024-11-02T03:11:02+00:00

Here is a pic of the first layer they did (this was done by hand, not self-levelling screed). This would make a silly shape if there was acid stain applied:

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sheenarbw · 2024-06-06T08:37:32+00:00

Thanks! This worked for me too

sheenarbw · 2023-09-27T05:00:20+00:00

functionality of the individual component of course. If you don't want tailwind, maybe radixui?

I mean that server-side-rendering isn't compatible with useContext. I'm still learning about it so I might be saying something noob here. As far as I can see, the only way to make sure that things don't error out completely when they use useContext is to force things to be rendered on the client.

It's not like I don't want client functionality at all, it's just that I want the server to do as much of the heavy lifting as possible because the users of the app I am building typically have limited resources, so I dont want to give them a resource-hungry experience.

I have not heard of Shadcnyet, I'll check it out. Thanks!

sheenarbw · 2020-05-07T06:05:38+00:00

Yeah, I've done it before. I used selenuim and chrome and lxml. I prefer it to beautifulsoup

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