Readit Newsmikej1000 commented on Show HN: Simple apprenticeship vacancy site built with NextJS sheffieldapprenticeships.... · Posted by u/mikej1000
The UK gov has a database of all apprenticeship vacancies in England (think Wales & Scotland have something similar).
You can get the vacancies via an API. I built the site to get all the vacancies for Sheffield. Local branding matters because most young people live at home when they do an apprenticeship (unlike university).
Building the site was pretty easy once I'd understood SSG and incremental regeneration. I've kept the design as clean as possible.
Next job is a dynamic sitemap, then some improvements to the vacancy details page and maybe some kind of location based filter/search.
Got to keep it as simple as possible - I spend maybe a couple of hours a week on it.
Apprenticeships in the UK are in demand (young people looking for alternatives to university & debt), supply of good quality ones is limited though. Sheffield has about 60,000 uni students and only around 200 apprenticeship vacancies at any time.
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mikej1000 commented on The Radical Design of PizzaExpress vittles.substack.com/p/th... · Posted by u/savebykilling
Always thought the pizzas were a bit small.
Try learning Japanese at 55. It’s the same.
I was in an evening class with other students who were mostly in their 20s. The age thing was really obvious. All the older students struggled.
I kind of thought I could be super organised, come up with smart efficient ways to learn characters etc. But no, you need raw brain power - mostly memory I think. Wisdom doesn’t count for much.
I learnt more about the reality of growing old than I did about Japanese:-)
mikej1000 commented on A project with a single 11,000-line code file austinhenley.com/blog/110... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Reminds me of an article about the code that Neil Ferguson's Imperial College team used to model covid. Though I think the Imperial code sounded worse.
mikej1000 commented on The Great British Reading List longreads.com/2021/11/11/... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
What a miserable list. The ordinary Brits I know - friends and coworkers - are kind, hardworking and tolerant. That includes the people I know who voted for Brexit. And the British seaside is great - go to Scarborough for a day in the summer and watch families (plenty of Asian families now) playing cricket on the beach. Britain's doing ok.
The amount of incompetence is beyond reason.
My daughter(12)'s keyboard got broken, now she is afraid she wont be able to take her exam with an external keyboard because there is a spyware extension they use called 'safe exam browser' that might block her computer when she plugs the keyboard.
Most of the kids are just using it to snapchat during class.
I will honestly prefer to just ban all tech from schools.