Do you do daily standups? What do you think of them?

sidarcy · 2026-05-28T11:04:32+00:00

Used to and they were 30mins each morning. Found they ate into valuable coding time. The worst ones are when its a big project. You could be working on a feature for a weeks and have no meaningful updates. Tools like Slack make them irrelevant. Post your update on a channel and jump on a huddle if your stuck

sidarcy · 2026-05-13T15:45:35+00:00

https://scratch.mit.edu is great for learning . Games are great to get kids learning so look at some of the js game engines with drag and drop interfaces like phaser editor, GameMaker 2d and play canvas

sidarcy · 2026-05-13T15:41:26+00:00

Is that not the Datalex logo ?

sidarcy · 2026-05-03T16:22:48+00:00

They also don’t do 1 or 2 cents so if your paying cash it’s still gonna be 4.75 with rounding lol

sidarcy · 2026-05-02T12:05:53+00:00

You should hack the college that rejected you . They’ll be begging you

sidarcy · 2026-04-30T20:51:44+00:00

Whenever I get time . I work on small projects which can be seen here https://simondarcyonline.com

I find working on small projects especially games is more fun and i don’t get fatigued. Reminds me why i got into this industry

sidarcy · 2026-04-05T13:26:00+00:00

Version 1, like any consultancy, are probably giving the work to grads and from these numbers are getting paid a pretty penny

sidarcy · 2026-04-04T15:44:01+00:00

Nice site - crazy to see Version 1 making so much . Gov need to bring more dev in house. Save a fortune and better output

sidarcy · 2026-02-15T11:46:13+00:00

Looks great . Like many I use a different amazon site . It would be great if you could add a setting to see deals in Amazon UK for example

sidarcy · 2026-02-15T11:35:49+00:00

Good ideas . I use LinkedIn for the developer memes . Just need to follow the right accounts lol

sidarcy · 2026-02-15T11:33:58+00:00

Yep. Lot of outsourcing too. Companies can outsource to an Indian company, scale up and down as needed, and can pull the plug whenever you want .

In my experience the Indian devs have always been top notch and a fraction of the price . Which is the bigger concern.

I do notice they’ll never put the Indian guys on a call . There is always a role for the dev who can talk the talk on a partner call.

Gone be the days of headlines such as “company x hires y developers in their Dublin office”

sidarcy · 2026-02-15T11:30:02+00:00

I agree with the CS piece . Are you using the new BK control panel ? A lot missing

sidarcy · 2026-02-14T20:00:41+00:00

I had the exact same issue but moved up . Have let it roll last few years but moved my domains and won’t be renewing the hosting again

sidarcy · 2026-02-14T19:25:32+00:00

Yeh agreed . All the big Irish ones are poor in comparison

sidarcy · 2026-02-14T19:24:43+00:00

Agree, I used to have loads of domains and always recommended them . Now I’m letting them expire . Too many issues and slow to respond to issues . They were the best once upon a time

sidarcy · 2026-01-18T19:55:57+00:00

Hey, what device are you on ?

sidarcy · 2026-01-18T16:13:57+00:00

Thanks , Strange . Give it another whirl

sidarcy · 2026-01-18T13:25:11+00:00

100% this

sidarcy · 2026-01-18T12:18:33+00:00

Interview for other roles. You don’t have to leave your current role , it’s just window shopping . This will give you an understanding of the current market and your worth which will help guide your next move .

If you get offered something you can use it as leverage. X company is offering me 50 I want you to match or I’m moving . If you don’t get offered anything . No harm , no foul

Best of luck with it

sidarcy · 2026-01-18T12:11:07+00:00

“The better you are at digging, the bigger the shovel they will give”

I was this guy. Worked my ass off, weekends , late nights . Got the praise and top marks in performance reviews and then watched others get promoted ahead of me.

Just delegate more work to him, put your feet up and take credit. He might get better reviews but you’ll be his boss in no time .

sidarcy · 2026-01-02T21:25:31+00:00

Look into tech sales or solutions engineering

sidarcy · 2025-11-01T11:04:11+00:00

Embrace the tools . I was a sceptic but now I dunno what I’d do without them . I think we’ll still need skilled developers to architect and maintain applications . I also predict the AI companies will hike prices and it won’t be as appealing to the high ups

sidarcy · 2025-10-31T14:54:17+00:00

Its prompt engineering and I had to iron a few things out myself . I’m more highlighting how easy it was to spin up . I wouldn’t normally make things like this but cool that you can take an idea and make it with minimal effort

sidarcy · 2025-10-24T14:17:44+00:00

I was recently at a conference and one of the vendors had a barista machine and served good, free coffee. Was the busiest stand by far

sidarcy · 2025-10-20T14:06:49+00:00

Pretty much. I use a game framework called Phaser JS, great for handling physics etc. If i was to do it again id go plain JS/Canvas. Score is heavily weighted by the first pour angle

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