LondonPilot

joined 1 year ago
[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I use an app called WeatherRadar - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/weather-radar-storm-alerts/id545993260

It shows cloud cover as well as rainfall, and also has a few other views I don’t use. But what I really like is the iOS home screen widget, which shows me my local weather even when I’m not actively looking at it.

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got my first programming job in 1996. I still have days like this.

Today, I had a conversation with my boss about an apprentice in our team. Our senior front-end dev left a few months ago, and the apprentice has had to take on a lot of work with little guidance. Our team is very full of back-end devs with no front-end experience. During this conversation, we described our apprentice as “extremely capable but lacking experience”, and discussed the best way of getting him more experience. The conclusion we came to is that there is no shortcut here, but having good guidance from senior devs can help somewhat.

What I’m trying say here is that what you’re describing is absolutely normal, and based on what you’ve said, you’re doing fine. You have a little imposter syndrome, which seems worse than it is because of your genuine lack of experience… that experience will come with time, and days like today are the days where you learn a load from your mistakes. You’ll probably not hard-code things like that in future, and today you gained a tiny bit of that experience that you need - well done!

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People see bitcoin/blockchain, don't know the difference between the two, and realise other people have made lots of money on it. Same people see a new thing which also uses (or in their eyes, "is") blockchain, and think this is going to be the new way to make money.

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Where can I get one? I never knew I needed this so much...

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. I'm watching /r/ModCoord and it seems quite a lot of subs are going dark indefinitely - but we need the biggest subs on board to make a difference.

Advertisers are taking note, though, which is promising - especially if we can get a bit of steam behind the campaign to bring subs down indefinitely.

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the linked discussion, the sub and the mod are both named - so I'm assuming I'm ok to re-post that here - it is r/tumblr and u/taytay_is_god

Please post this in as many places as you can, including /r/ModCoord, /r/RedditAlternatives and /r/Save3rdPartyApps (hate to say it, but it'll probably get more visibility there than on here). It would be great if we could find a way of getting this story into the press, too, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that.

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really hope so

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got a verbal offer of a new job last night. Hopefully today I'll receive the contract, then I can hand my notice in!

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I often found that on the bigger subs on Reddit. The smaller subs is where I liked to make myself heard. Lemmy, right now, looks to be a similar size to some of those subs, so hopefully it should be a great place!

PS - this is my first post here!