richblake.bsky.social
Agile, public service, facilitation. He/him.
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Feel I learned about myself:
For the second one, the stakes were high. I wanted to impress people I respect with something novel, and outside a comfort zone.
Pleased I'm able to deal with setbacks now. Need to keep challenging myself.
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Hey! Great question. We use Dropwizard and have no plans to move away from Java.
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We use NodeJS and Java to build our microservices and our code is visible on Github.
If you've worked with any other technology that’s not Java or NodeJS, do consider applying: we’re proud of our track record of developing people in their career as well as what we ship for our users!
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Mid level salary: £61,740 - £72,466 (London) / £56,070 - £64,040 (National)
Senior developer: £65,163 - £89,880 (London) / £58,063 - £79,094 (National)
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Perfect thank you Huw! 👀
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Oh my! This is excellent.
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Thanks Gavin, bookshops on the list! Hope you're well 😄
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Thanks for being really generous Philippa 😄
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Thank you for being so generous
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Thank you that's kind of you. And thanks to @pixlz.com too for the shout.
I'll share all of these when making plans
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I'll make sure to write you a detailed review.
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You really do dislike Bath don't you. Noted.
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I don't believe you can't recommend a single nice thing.
I need to pick Bath because it's the mid point between me in the north(er-not-the-actual-north) and friends in the south where I don't drive.
Don't scope creep, I can do Bristol next quarter 😜
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Thanks Frankie, I'm sure I'll end up there. happy new year.
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Thanks Steve!
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Who needs to see a Coca Cola lorry to start things, eh?
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I used to be a product manager of library services. it's not the most efficient, but yes each local authority enters into a consortium to share the costs and the stock.
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🙈
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I've never heard of whisper to speech to text before so at the very least TIL
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I definitely wasn't talking in Welsh (I'd like to, but can't) which is partly why I think this experience is hilarious 😂
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I know I was treating it like a conversation with a human.
this is my fault but my god. its just a tech demo and nothing useful.
So eager to please instead of listening. not my need.
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Used to live very close to there. Do they still do the big bonfire night event there? I used to like that.
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oh. I'm not the hero at all. It's all kept running by a lovely developer who's been on pay since (nearly) the start.
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No. We never got around to automating it.
Updating is a manual job that doesn't take long because our internal reporting stuff generates with a click of a button, but the product pages are a static website.
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a very dependable person keeps this up to date every Monday. 🫡