@Fast-Nop don’t get me wrong, not shying away from the vision or the challenge. But having actually done international sales with some success for many years earlier in my career (people like to put a label on you, as you guys seem to have assumed) I know that the key to long lasting relationships, repeat sales is trust and selling the vision whilst elegantly handling the present realities and taking that journey together. Lazy sales is just lying, nothing sophisticated about it.

@BigBoo one can presume too much...

@BigBoo not lies like this. But if you do, then I’m ranting about you too, for the sake of those around you...

@BigBoo but do you lie your way through life?

@kaqqao I kind of blame the developer for exhibiting overly stereotypical behaviour

One of my simplest projects, but using an old PlayStation webcam and speaker to save £200 on buying an Amazon echo. Only thing can't really do is the music service, but I can stream from my phone to it...

@thaddeus ah yeah, anyone who can't find humour and work to resolve language misunderstanding has no business working with anyone outside their own family :)

This is my life :) drives my wife mad!

@cahva haha you know it, I did 10 minutes on CSS position property and realised I was losing the room... tough crowd

@OrangeClyde the school bought an ICT syllabus but had no idea how to deliver it. I had already been thinking about and mapping out my own "apprentice" syllabus, albeit for older children / students. We're starting with HTML, CSS this term, but I hope to cover a range of topics.

I combined the approved curriculum with my own style of delivery. The kids seem to love it, but interestingly I've had many requests from teachers and parents to do some grown ups classes in our little village.

All that said, I've talked tech at large conferences to thousands of people. I have never been more nervous than walking in to talk to a class of 7-8 year olds... but they are very sweet and massively enthusiastic, the time just flies by...

@OrangeClyde no, I'm not a teacher. I volunteer at my sons first school for a couple of hours a week, after I learned how poor the teaching of tech is due to lack of staff training and investment.

One of the fondest memories I have of my dad (RIP) was when he came into my school to talk about his profession and the process, he was a lithographer / printer and helped us print our school graphic design project. I kind of want my son to have a similarly fond memory :)

@Kimmax along with sass variables. Mind blown!

I personally love building content managed sites using Contentful or Cockpit as API-first CMS, integrated with a static site generator like Hammerformac(hammerformac.com)and continuous deployment to a build and hosting platform like Forge (getforge.com).

When I push template changes to GitHub, build and deploy automatically.

When content added or saved, build and deploy automatically.

For me, makes building websites fun again

I write iOS... ;) I don't write Android. Oh wait, I just wrote both.

@tisaconundrum worst profile I've seen. No effort whatsoever. No wonder AppStore times are so low right now.

Congratulations. I've got three. Enough to make you not want to commute, yet at the same time, jump at the chance for a week away at some conference...

Haha. What are you then? Voyeur?

I can't possibly be considered the guy to speak about the "business stuff" because I actually fucking know what's going on behind the smoke and mirrors (and it's not always smoke and mirrors - there's some awesome stuff going on)

Better than no class called HelperUtility and finding the same time formatting functions in multiple models/controllers...

And they decide not to continue "learning to code" since they cracked html and found it so easy... Learning complete.

And ending up with 8 cups on the desk, each half full of cold coffee... Yes, that's where all the mugs went - deal with it.

So many times....

Client statement: said by no-one, ever.

Our team normally brings out this graphic whenever I'm in danger of extending an application beyond its core raison d'etre

A sobering reminder.

After 5, reading the stack trace becomes both more difficult and more frequent...

And some built in lint highlighter just to make the examples pop

At, good old design fidelity level hear fuck, my favorite...