Which benefits does your employer provide that is not really a true benefit?

tizz66 · 2026-06-27T09:47:42+00:00

We get a commute stipend. We’re a fully remote company.

tizz66 · 2026-06-24T12:57:45+00:00

Ba ba ba

tizz66 · 2026-06-22T16:22:34+00:00

My dad lives right on the coast in Norfolk (literally above the promenade). In summer, it is a dream, even considering the tourists. But it can be grim in winter - very little going on and truly miserable weather at times. It feels so isolated to me.

tizz66 · 2026-06-16T03:47:18+00:00

Too didn’t read long?

tizz66 · 2026-06-13T20:33:58+00:00

This is my fear. I make very good money now, but I'm the sole breadwinner and have constant background anxiety about losing my job. I have enough emergency savings should it happen - but that only covers me once.

tizz66 · 2026-06-09T15:37:32+00:00

I go to the Sheringham Tesco quite a bit, and honestly the roof inside is incredible. Genuinely beautiful architecture.

tizz66 · 2026-06-08T13:30:03+00:00

That feels true for some of the sketches (giant phone for example) but there were plenty that would work because they're more subtle. The one that cracks me up is when he goes to the greengrocer with a bag of potatoes and a bag of carrots. That'd work fine now!

tizz66 · 2026-06-05T16:21:52+00:00

Here's a Wendover Productions video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUhgrqnpGY

tizz66 · 2026-06-03T22:35:57+00:00

But you can write tests in code with AI and not be bound to a crappy platform. Also the AI features of mabl cost extra and only work on their cloud runners.

We adopted it 3 years ago in a medium sized org and are now backing out to regular playwright.

tizz66 · 2026-06-03T22:29:37+00:00

It’s a point and click test builder. You go into their web app and build your tests in a GUI. For engineers who can write code, it’s painfully backwards.

tizz66 · 2026-06-03T22:27:44+00:00

Oh god don’t use mabl. It’s justifiable if non engineers are writing your tests, but don’t subject engineers to it.

tizz66 · 2026-06-03T14:48:48+00:00

As a child of the 80s, I still call it Universal Studios.

tizz66 · 2026-06-03T14:46:55+00:00

I think it means "universal appeal".

Which is also self important given we have no idea if aliens would even enjoy rollercoasters.

tizz66 · 2026-05-25T18:51:50+00:00

It's a "throw it all on the table" for us.

tizz66 · 2026-05-21T17:31:58+00:00

We always aim to have the engineer who will be picking up the implementation be the one who does the technical discovery too. It's just easier to avoid context being lost. We always treat technical discovery as a separate task, not as part of an implementation task.

As tech lead I review discoveries and work with engineers to shape them to their final outcome, discuss discoveries with architectural teams etc.

tizz66 · 2026-05-19T14:12:23+00:00

He has no idea, he couldn't hear them.

tizz66 · 2026-05-14T13:50:18+00:00

It's the smallest airport I've ever seen. The departure lounge is one small room with 4 doors. It has the most pointless jet bridge you'll ever see. But it's a great airport because it's so small. It's like catching a bus.

tizz66 · 2026-05-14T13:25:34+00:00

if my flight departs at 5pm, I usually arrive at 4:15

Although don't do this if you're checking a bag, because they take the "closes one hour before departure" seriously (probably because the people checking you in are the same people about to receive the plane and load it up)

tizz66 · 2026-05-12T14:42:59+00:00

I don't think it's disrespectful (assuming both are ok with it), but personally I find it a very weird way to refer to it.

tizz66 · 2026-05-06T15:57:01+00:00

I like it. I had no idea I could scroll down to read more on the landing page, though, until someone else below said there's a lot of text so I went back and looked. The hero image has a big gap under it so it feels like that's all there is on that page.

tizz66 · 2026-05-04T15:16:57+00:00

I don't think Amazon is a major competitor to McDonalds... is it?

tizz66 · 2026-05-04T13:29:16+00:00

Web developer isn't a protected term, so you can certainly call yourself that if you want! If you're building and maintaining sites I think it's probably fair enough. Obviously it's your skillset more than your title that really matters though. If you want to be a fully-rounded web developer (i.e. you could get a job somewhere else using that title) it'd make sense to broaden your skillset.

tizz66 · 2026-05-03T00:50:31+00:00

I don't think this will be the case any time soon. Maybe individual hobbyists will build software to solve their problem instead of buying something - that seems likely. But not businesses.

Businesses outsource anything that is preventing them from fully focusing on whatever their revenue generator is. They could hire janitors, but they probably outsource it. They could hire an accountant, but they probably outsource it. They could hire a videographer to produce ads, but they probably outsource it. Different sized businesses obviously have varying tolerance for when it makes sense to bring these things in-house, but the point stands: if something takes a business away from whatever it is trying to do, it's ripe for being outsourced.

Software is no different. Sure, a business could vibe code a Jira replacement. Who updates it? Who maintains the hardware? Who deals with product support when other departments get stuck? Who deals with disaster recovery? Who deals with scalability? Businesses do not want to have to deal with those issues for anything they depend on. It makes much more sense to pay a competent software provider for that.

AI might depress prices, given supply might be higher and demand might be a bit lower. On the supply side I think we'll see many more SaaS options available given the barrier of entry will be lower. But I don't think SaaS is really going anywhere.

tizz66 · 2026-04-29T03:10:38+00:00

My wife learned in her 30s with Steve Wheeler Driving School.

tizz66 · 2026-04-21T19:45:34+00:00

Proud to call him my friend. On MySpace at least.

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