Doing the weekly food shop over the last 12 months has felt reasonably nuts. For the most part, we usually get the same stuff each week (fruit/veg/meat/dried food etc...) and it's gone from being about £100 to almost £170. Fruit and veg prices in particular seem really crazy.
Do a post-mortem, work out root causes, work as a unit to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Obviously if there are levels of gross negligence or misconduct discovered during post-mortem, that will need to be dealt with accordingly, but coming into this with an attitude of "we must find someone to blame and incur repercussions" isn't healthy at all.
That's something similar to what I've been doing lately where I've been trying to use colour palettes I like from other sites in my own designs but it's so hard to get the feel right... This is probably why design is its own full-time job!
> - Signal and Whatsapp, as others have pointed out, are far from being comfortable as being private (they already know too much, phone number, etc.), and don't have the convenience of a browser based app.
Whatsapp does have a browser based app. web.whatsapp.com
This is pretty sweet. Very simple and the code base looks pretty easy to follow. I should get some time this evening to submit a PR to add a couple of small things :)
This is super awesome work. Well done - you should be proud!
I have to admit, I remember stumbling across your comment when you accepted the challenge and in my mind I scoffed, thinking you were never going to do it. Boy was I wrong! Once again, this is super cool.
That classic "well, nobody else has had a problem, so you must be the problem" response.
I remember at one of my first jobs, myself and another programmer were working on a side project (outside of work hours, not using company resources in any way) that were considering monetising. Our contracts stated that the company we worked for owned all of our code produced in and out of working hours.
We got to the business end of the project and decided to consult our workplace to find out how strict they were on this. The conversation with HR went something like this:
> Us: Oh hey there, can you clarify clauses X/Y/Z in our contracts regarding ownership of code. We are working on a project we are planning on monetising at some stage and we need to know if the company is going to do anything about this. Our project has no conflicts of interest and we haven't stolen any IP of the company.
> HR: Oh... We've never had a question like this before... We can't say exactly. We'd have to consult our lawyers.
> Us: Cool - can you consult them and let us know what they say, please?
> HR: Sorry, we can't consult them as they charge by the minute and it's too expensive to warrant a conversation with them.
> Us: So... you're not going to answer our question.
> HR: Exactly. You'll have to do it at your own risk.