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Ironically that is one of the first times I've seen lose/loose stand true for either interpretation.

She didn't lose her royal power when handing over those landholdings, nor did she loose it (militarily) to prevent those reductions in the first place.

Seems like she handled it well.

Don't forget actually putting the work in to understand an issue, and then becoming the go to person for all problems related to X as there's no chance support will solve it in any reasonable timeframe.

Exactly this. I've found many CTOs/VPs that want to feel like they have contributed.

Give them something to focus on and they'll generally not rip the rest apart.

Same goes for designs, have an element in an odd color or font, and it'll be picked up and corrected. Without it you may find yourself redesigning huge swathes of the design.

I suppose it's all personal preference past a point..

I tried switching from an old Pixel 3 to a new iPhone recently and just couldn't get on with it. Simple things like not being able to order the home screen how I want it drove me nuts.

Dropped back to a Pixel 4a (5G) and I'm very satisfied. No issues with sluggish performance that I've seen.

Obligatory Mitchell & Webb Ampersand origin theory..

https://youtu.be/XXryAnAD5Jw

Ah recent years..

I was #16 in clanbase globally for a brief period in CS1.6 way back when - I've always thought I was wasting my life at that point, but now I see I should have stuck with it :D

Predicting the flight will be cancelled in 3.. 2.. 1.. But then the newsletter will haunt you for far far longer..

Not a burnt WizzAir customer at all! /s

Having lived in both, the thing that got me is that if you're left with 20% after you've paid for everything that month.. that's an awful lot more left over in a HCOL area.

But then everything seems geared towards parting you from that remaining 20% wherever you live :)

I do feel for those laid off, not everyone being laid off will have managed to maneuver themselves into the ideal position over their time at Twitter.

You can even do it bashfully..

"I hate this bit, but just so there's no misunderstandings down the line, let's talk money"

A man is an "adult male human".

Who's to say it's not a large "adolescent male human"?

I was under the impression that the "forced" upgrade to Sublime 4 caught quite a few out, and may have been a nail in the coffin.

I'm still rocking SLT 3, and it's my go-to for large file handling or just as a simple scratchpad, but development (of SLT) feels like it moves at a snails pace.

I live somewhere pretty idyllic, and get approached about remote roles in London paying $$$ regularly. Granted I may need to travel a few hours on the train for a big client meeting once a month, but I accept that the personal touch accelerates things massively in the early stages of a client relationship.

My team is spread out across Europe, and gets a serious amount done. Given the remote first element I can still be in contact with them whilst travelling.

Compare that to the local companies that want me in the office 3-4 days a week for $ (almost half the salary), with a team where communication is not remote first and it's a complete no-brainer which is more attractive.

Remote is here to stay. Some companies will do it, some won't. Time will tell which have the competitive advantage..

"in the UK, the minimum is 28 days (not including bank holidays)".

I had to double check this as it doesn't match my experience.

Yes, it is a minimum of 28 days, but that can include Bank Holidays (normally 6 days, though we have extra "Jubilee" Bank Holidays this year), so in practice it's 20 days plus Bank Holidays minimum.

0: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights

"Bloomberg for x.." strikes me as just the modern corporate version of "Uber for x..".

I've heard so many founders try to describe their business as "Bloomberg for.." when trying to describe a mixed focus offering of products that I immediately hear alarm bells nowadays.

This is awesome. Wasted far too much time on it already!

Tried clicking source and got an error:

https://www.explordle.comhttps//www.youtube.com/watch?v=qArF... not found

Pretty much every element in your stack should be the result of a build or buy decision initially.

If something doesn't directly contribute to your competitive edge then run with a managed service / something off the shelf until you know enough about the domain to be able to make an informed decision about the trade offs.

Too often I've seen early teams that have spent months building out (and maintaining!) an area of the stack that could have been had off the shelf - freeing up engineering time and allowing focus on the areas that allow for true differentiation in the product.

Obviously off the shelf isn't free in financial or engineering time (though you can sure get a lot of free credits / on free tiers nowadays), but if your main product is doing something fancy on top of the output of a fairly generic process, do yourself a favour and find a company that has a product specialising in that process, don't build it from scratch until you have your product market fit.

"We are reaching out to inform you that we will be retiring EC2-Classic on August 15, 2022. This message contains important information about the retirement and steps to take before the retirement date

How does this impact you? Your AWS account currently has EC2-Classic enabled for EU-WEST-1 Region"..

To be fair, "EC2-Classic is a flat network that we launched with EC2 in the summer of 2006", so I'm not complaining, but thought it was an interesting counterpoint.

> Listening comprehension is always the last of the skills to kick in

Is that actually the case?

I've always found it easier to follow a conversation in a language I am learning than to speak it.

You get an awful lot of context when listening, only need to put a few words in the right place and suddenly what you're hearing makes sense. You can get away without literally translating everything.

Speaking on the other hand, you can't converse properly without being able to find the right word at the right time and in the right place.

The scary thing is if NATO decide to get involved, and it turns into war between NATO and Russia, then the security of the Baltic States plummets.

Currently, as NATO members, they are not likely to be attacked, but if NATO declares war then that deterrent is gone.

Hopefully not a likely scenario, but who knows.. There's been a lot of tension lately, especially with the likes of Belarus bussing migrants across the border into Lithuania etc, but no idea where this will end.

Process debt is another one I've invariably come across and covers the need for loose requirements (especially early on).

There's a lot of technical debt that's going to accrue before the process debt is sorted if you're trying to scale quickly.

Couldn't it work just as easily the other way? Especially with tech in such high demand.

Posting wages might make it easier for companies to offer higher than others in an attempt to attract talent, leading to competition in the market, and salary inflation.

This reminds me of the old eBay scam where the listing would be worded in such a way as not to actually say that you got more than the picture of whatever was listed, but people bought it as their expectation was inherently different and they assumed the sale to be for the actual product.

I may have misunderstood your requirements, but why do you say that most static hosts don't allow custom headers to be set?

I know that Netlify does[0], and use it myself, so I would expect the other big names to support something as well.

0: https://docs.netlify.com/routing/headers/

It may be a shameless plug to your blog post, but that led me to your library shoelace[0], so thank you!

0: https://shoelace.style/

Haha, I find the recommendation for Panasonic for an ad free experience quite ironic.

They were the first to go there circa 2013: boot screen, home screen and volume ads.

But, they got a lot of backlash, and I doubt it was as lucrative as expected, so it appears they removed them in more recent years.

"The prescription was $12 (standard price in the UK for any prescription drug or drugs, no matter what it is)"

Just to note, in Wales all prescriptions are free. Can't speak for Scotland / NI.

Nice that this looks like it's going to be the engine for WindiCSS 4.0.. less fragmentation is for the best, and Windi does a fantastic job already.

Frigate birds power nap [0] so they can stay aloft for weeks, and other birds have been seen to sleep with half their brain at a time [1].

Pretty cool stuff! Have to wonder when this evolved, and whether it could be mimicked.

0: https://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-finally-have-evidenc...

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sle...

The minute tech gets involved it's also another thing to go wrong..

Personal anecdote time: Recently went to a car park that had to pay by phone and no phone signal (in the UK if it's relevant).

This was obviously a common problem, so they provided an open WiFi network limited to just the parking website.

Unfortunately, I had to create an account to be able to pay to park, and the account creation was gated by a Google captcha that.. wouldn't load as it was blocked.

So no way to pay to park, and a crowd of confused tourists all trying to work out how the hell to park without getting a fine.

Fun times

This is absolutely fantastic news!

I love Svelte, and have been using it for a year or so now, but lack of community mindshare means that I've had to roll a lot of my own components.

That said, I think Netlify missed the boat on this one - happily using Netlify with Sveltekit, and it would have been great to have the competition in the PaaS space.