jasoncartwright

Tangential! I bought a 210L water butt to collect rainwater to water plants a while back. It cost £110 to my door with the all installation parts. Out of interest I looked up that the cost to fill it with pristine London tap water would be ~52p. 211 uses and I'm at breakeven, money-wise.

Communities can 'adopt' them for £1. Other uses include libraries or food bank donation points.

https://business.bt.com/public-sector/street-hubs/adopt-a-ki...

Might want to consider upgrading that VPS for a couple of days

Ah man, Access. Got a website to over 1m users/month with a dead simple Access DB and ASPv3. Back when a million users was a million users.

The heavy Mac UX compliance is the reason why I enjoy using Postico for 99% of straightforward Postgres tasks

I made this to get around pages being cached at CDN level, but still needing to get live data...

https://github.com/jasoncartwright/clientsideinclude

If you've got some spare bandwidth & storage then seeding some of the torrents here is a cheap and fun way of helping Wikipedia out. I've served around 20TB of these dumps in the past year.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

Ecosia have been going a while, and I don't want to be that guy 'just asking questions', but...

Is there some sort of independent verification of the trees being planted and their impact? I wonder if there is a study into the effect of their interesting green reinvestment setup vs a traditional for-profit businesses (Google is the obvious example) and their environmental impacts.

Same here in London. I've ordered items from Amazon even if they are more expensive there, because I know it'll be delivered. Random storefronts relying on Royal Mail or who knows what delivery service just can't compete and waste my time.

The only national public database of UK food banks https://www.givefood.org.uk

HN. Never change!

Just watched one for the first time today! You are correct.

There is an increasing amount of UK TV uploaded to YouTube from whoever owns the rights. Have seen The Bill (26 seasons) and pretty much all of Gordon Ramsey's work recently (including a 8hr entire season video). ITV appears to have even created the brand "Our Stories" for their YouTube fly on the wall telly content.

Much of this not-fantastic-quality TV could probably be easily found on YouTube even without the rights holder being involved anyway - so better they get paid?

Musk's political views are pretty hard to miss nowadays

Fan of these PaaS-like tools on BYO servers. See also Coolify, Dokploy. Best of both worlds.

Hi! London.

I guess it's the zero-hassle managed service that's the improvement rather than the DBMS itself

Unfortunately they don't have anything in a region where my code runs. Interesting though!

After coming back to coding after ~10-15 years away, databases are IMHO the most improved element of the dev/devops experience.

Managed Postgres on Google Cloud is a fantastic product (I'm sure other cloud's offerings are also similarly good). Backups, replication, point-in-time recovery, managed updates, plus quick & easy system & query insight tooling. All for less than £1/day.

That ship sailed a while ago

After hearing about it for years, and it apparently being popular in the Django community, I tried htmx for the first time just this morning on a very simple task in an admin interface.

It's easy to put unobtrusively in place, fun to play with, and it worked. Reminded me of using jQuery for the first time. Would I use it for a complex and involved project? Initial impressions suggest probably not.

This situation sounds like Europe (& the UK) two or three years ago. Plentiful well maintained, fast and convenient chargers have sprung up since from a wide variety of operators (electricity companies, oil companies, startups, plus Tesla).

We standardised on CCS a while ago.

Many chargers are even faster than Tesla Superchargers whilst supporting the plug-and-charge standard ISO 15118. They are often surprisingly cheap too.

I saw myself doing this in realtime when visiting California for the first time. The initial shock of seeing signs that warned of cancer causing chemicals in buildings quickly faded when I realised they were on every building - soon becoming as blind to them as the locals.

Annoyingly, we've been reading various versions of this article for around twenty years, yet the problems it discusses still exist. Unsure why, and what the solution is.

There are some fun 'special' ones. Banks, governmental, BBC etc and... because UK... football teams. https://www.ukpostcode.net/special-postcodes-wiki-3.html

Off-topic, but gosh, isn't this dead simple nonsense-free content-rich website easy to navigate & quick to load

Amusing to read that I am "very upset"

Oh no, not this again.

I'm not sure I could muster the arrogance to write such a document about myself... and then expect people to read it. The suggested examples of what the document could contain are bizarre and yet also weirdly simple & obvious...

"I am a sponge. I’ll take more content earlier rather than a formal presentation"

"Please give me the bad news before I hear it from somewhere else"

"Be direct. Tell me what you need and when you need it."

Not enough interconnect capacity https://montelnews.com/news/1525872/france-to-miss-2030-inte...