I currently work on projects where HLDs are nothing more than brain dump / thought organising experiments just prior to getting some PoC code bashed out.
I usually go as far as paper -> draw.io which gets wildly out of date within weeks (which is fine for what I do / scale we work).
Had a little play with this, I like it. My gut is that for my use case it could strike that perfect balance of quick "brain dump" while providing me an interface to think in "PoC code" (actions / sending data).
I'm going to have a deeper look at this over the coming days and recreate one of our smaller, simpler systems (with which the "HLD" is already out of date).
Thank you for sharing. And of course the work required would be insane but hooking this up to implementation routes/controllers/services/whatever.
I'm building a privacy-first fitness / health tracker.
I managed to lose a lot of weight during lockdown with the help of fitbit but using a Google service to handover my most personal of data doesn't sit right with me (it served a purpose).
So I've started to build what I need from a tracker.
Where I'm heading generally:
- Platform / API access (so you OWN your data)
- Client-side encryption - No tracking / knowledge
- Weight, Calories, Diet, Run
- Import GPS from Garmin etc.. graph/store/play
_cringe_ but what do I have to lose
(best viewed on mobiles for now - haven't considered a desktop yet)
As we all know our high streets are failing hard, I always pictured (given big enough tax breaks) old/traditional high street companies (Curry's / House of Fraser etc...) would literally just have shop fronts much like Argos for click and collect with a smallish warehouse (but only order online) - entice punters into towns for click and collect while boosting smaller/local businesses (restaurants/coffee shops / boutiques etc...)
I have a feeling C19 has well and truly punched the nail in the high street coffin.
Given the number of Argos stores I always thought Amazon would have swept in 3-5 years ago and bought them as a step closer to "last mile delivery" in the UK.
In the UK we have a magazine called The Week [1].
Crucially for me it pulls in excerpts and opinions from all matter of sources (regardless of political leanings) and allows me to easily digest the big events in a single 45 minute session on a Saturday morning.
It truly has changed my consumption of news to a wonderful experience.
[1] - http://www.theweek.co.uk/
Edit: Turns out there is a US equivalent. https://theweek.com/
A couple of months ago I stopped daily consumption of news content (except technical links on HN ;) and began a physical subscription to The Week [1].
Come Saturday I sit down with a coffee for 45 minutes, catch up on the most important national and global news events (crucially from all types of leaning sources) and then go about my weekend.
Highly recommended to those who enjoy keeping abreast but find themselves been dragged down psychologically on a daily basis.
[1] - http://www.theweek.co.uk/
Edit - turns out there is a US equivalent: https://theweek.com/
Long time fastmail user. Has anyone here managed to automate the creation of aliases? I create a random alias address for every service I sign up to and those steps of creating that alias add a little bit of tediousness.
I've never experienced this myself directly. However I used to work at a company who now does this.
I still have many silo'd friend groups at that company (who don't even know each other too well - designers/devs/sales) and the general consensus when I'm out with each group is that "it's a trap". There appears to be a negative vibe a kind of undertone where people will question others (to them selves not openly) and the hierarchy. Admittedly the trust was never great at this company but from my third party view point I would absolutely not like it. Culture would play a huge part though and unfortunately in this case the unlimited leave was a marketing/recruitment angle so was pretty much always set for failure.
I always remember when I first started surfing at the age of 10 in the North Sea. I was always sick and off from school with stomach bugs.
My anecdote is hardly scientific proof but this article certainly supports my thinking that I've now got a stronger stomach than most due to surfing at such a young age in terrible water conditions.
Over a period of a few years it just stopped and I was never ill again (after a surf)...apart from the dreaded and incredibly painful ear infections.
Anything between £600 - £1200 (so far). We have the process nailed. I'm sure most will agree that the clients with lower budgets are generally more 'work'.
So what we do is have initial 2 hour project discovery meeting where we literally go through every page they want, how many pictures/ paragraphs are suitable for each page. We log all of this and send them the full content list of what is needed.
Wonderfully, we schedule the 'Platform Training' meeting (where we sign it over) exactly one week later and send them a content deadline for half-way through that week. No surprises that not a single client has yet to send any content through on time!, so (and we make this absolutely clear) we populate with lorum ipsum and stock imagery proofs to the exact discussed paragraph/image count per page.
We do the platform training with the dummy content, show them how to do everything (2 hours) and send them on their way. Monthly hosting (£12.00/month) to cover weebly fees.
We've found that with this 'package' we make no-bones about what they are getting (a template driven site, chosen by us - no design 'sign-off' etc..). They know the quality of our 'other work' (it's usually why they come to us) except we crucially figure out their budget VERY early on and can 'channel' into a specific category accordingly. It's nice having that other option.
It's going well so far, 4 clients that we would have turned away, £3.5k income that we would have lost and gone to a bedroom dev or smaller agency. The hours quoted have (amazingly) worked out to the hour for each of these projects (£60/hr rate) - except the latest, which is 2 hours under ATM. I can't ever remember a time where a £6,000+ site was ever on budget (we actually get our hourly rate on these small sites!!).
We started using Weebly for projects where clients neither had the budget or the technical requirement for anything beyond basic. We've done four in as many weeks, it really is proving itself to be a resourceful little tool.
Even though I kind of hate dragging those component around, the reality is that the little tool has made the company I work for upwards of £3k this month at a time where the team are between more technical projects. Win, win....for now!
Just a thought and I've only glanced at your code but could some of the functionality in the Carbon library come in handy? especially for the logic in weekendDates()?
I'm incredibly interested in angling my career towards security and have no real experience.
Wouldn't it also be wise to keep people like him 'out of the loop', I imagine it's much harder to audit when they have access to internal code/architecture that would be difficult for an outsider to stumble-upon?
I currently work on projects where HLDs are nothing more than brain dump / thought organising experiments just prior to getting some PoC code bashed out.
I usually go as far as paper -> draw.io which gets wildly out of date within weeks (which is fine for what I do / scale we work).
Had a little play with this, I like it. My gut is that for my use case it could strike that perfect balance of quick "brain dump" while providing me an interface to think in "PoC code" (actions / sending data).
I'm going to have a deeper look at this over the coming days and recreate one of our smaller, simpler systems (with which the "HLD" is already out of date).
Thank you for sharing. And of course the work required would be insane but hooking this up to implementation routes/controllers/services/whatever.