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 draw.io which gets wildly out of date within weeks (which is fine for what I do / scale we work).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look at this over the coming days and recreate one of our smaller, simpler systems (with which the "HLD" is already out of date).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)
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.
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.
> I have a feeling C19 has well and truly punched the nail in the high street coffin.
'Cxx' usually means the 'Xth century', by the way. (Even this year, with context, that briefly confused me as I wondered what the 1800s did to the high street and how bustling it was before!)
Not that I'm aware of, but mostly I encounter it as a shorthand for recent centuries, in news or whatever, I'm not a historian or otherwise encountering much discussion of BC centuries, so I wouldn't like to say for sure.
I've seen it used somewhat often in the UK (almost entirely in academia as far as I can recall), at least frequently enough that I've used it in my own writings despite not studying history.
At a quick search, I can find a couple of sources that suggest it for notetaking at least:
FWIW I'm from the UK and was taught this notation in high school history classes (though the C encircled the 19 when hand-written).
That said I had trouble parsing the "C19" too so I don't think I've seen it used in print much. I tried to read it as a UK postcode zone first :) (I used to live in SW19)
UK. Wikipedia doesn't have an explicit explanation/history of it that I can find, but it does feature on disambiguation pages, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C17
I didn't know they were owned by Sainsbury's. That explains the recent Argos "pick up points" that have begun to pop up usually attached to a Sainsbury's store.
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.
This is no good when you want to use the fastmail domain for the aliases. Ever since the twitter @N theft[1], I've learned to never use a custom domain email when signing up for anything. It just increases your attack surface. I prefer to leave it to fastmail to protect their own domain from hijacking.
You could forward all mail from a Gmail address to Fastmail, and then use username+service@gmail.com for each service you use. Might be considered security through obscurity, but if nobody knows your actual email domain except for the Gmail address, less likely to have it attacked. Goes without saying to protect that Gmail account at all costs though.
If you only want to receive mail at aliases it's easy: just setup an email catch-all on your domain ;-) To send is another matter; and unfortunately, I haven't found a way to easily do this with fastmail.
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.
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.