Not exactly how we think. We're frustrated that our private railway is worse than DB in terms of lateness and cancellations but also hugely, massively more expensive for us to use.
We'd be happy if it was publicly owned because then at least the insane profit from ticket sales might possibly just maybe make it into investment in the railway instead of someone's bonus.
2% discount on ticket prices is hardly going to make a difference to people views, yet thanks to competition I can travel to London cheaper today than I could in 1990.
And your laughable claim about British railways being later than DB, shows that yes, you are an idiot Brit.
Of course it’s been moot for 5 years since Boris started the nationalisation at scale during Covid, simply moving to a standard outsourced operation.
It's time for a new challenge. I've been working on https://timetastic.co.uk full time since 2017 and have worn many hats from setting up an API, to setting up blogs and websites, to building features, to design, debugging, vuln scanning, DNS, Email setup and everything in between.
I've been in software for 16+ years and have worked in SaaS, B2B, internal tools and all sorts. I thrive in small, productive teams where I can get deeply involved and get things done.
This is why we have a flat "we won't fill in your forms" rule and only take card payments. We've lost some clients because of it sure, but we're a small team so it's fine.
I think being up front about what you will and won't do really helps. They still ask for procurement forms and stuff but we can at least deny it and set an expectation.
Our parent company are having issues in UKSouth but we're spread across UKSouth and UKWest and not seeing any issues. Apparently Functionapps also having issues, but we're seeing nothing at the moment.
Technologies: C#, .NET, React, JS, some Typescript, MSSQL, Gatsby
Résumé/CV: on request - I don't have linkedin since the breach
Email: garethterrace at gmail
I'm a full stack dev, I work best in C#/.NET with React and really like smaller companies. Starting to look for my next opportunity after 10 years working on Timetastic. Only decided to start looking today, so still writing up the CV!
I don’t understand. Doesn’t your balance equal the sum of your transactions on your statement? I understand there is no outgoing transaction, but unless some “money in” lines were removed then how does it add up?
Might not be very obscure but it was new to me. Ended up being really useful for finding out whether dates intersect a particular period and ended up using it quite a bit at work.
You give it a range of dates and it'll tell you if any intersect so if you're looking for "how many people are absent in this time period" you can really quickly find out by using a range tree.
We send a "weekly summary" email of who is absent in your company in the next week.
At 9am on a Monday we send roughly 100k emails via Sendgrid and have very very low spam report rates. Transactional email for even relatively small SaaS companies can get high very quickly.
As much as us in the dev world rely on Slack and try to avoid notification overload, my experience is most people want things as an email.
My feelings as well! The way it put your queue front and center and gave you so much control over how things were added worked really well for me. Spotify leaves a lot to be desired in its UI.
I still remember opening the site one day and reading the weird appology letter. I think that was the first time I saw something I really cared about just dissappear off of the internet.
Not exactly how we think. We're frustrated that our private railway is worse than DB in terms of lateness and cancellations but also hugely, massively more expensive for us to use.
We'd be happy if it was publicly owned because then at least the insane profit from ticket sales might possibly just maybe make it into investment in the railway instead of someone's bonus.
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