Thank you for the breakdown, I appreciate your time on this! How do you find Drupal to work with? There was a time I was tempted to go into Drupal, and then Laravel or Symfony; I think they have generally decent salaries associated because of their relatively niche nature.

A mix of support and project work. At the moment, I'm building a custom Shopify theme for a client using Liquid, but I'm also helping to manage the scoping and planning for an upcoming WordPress rebuild for one of our other clients, which have some quite niche requirements that will necessitate some custom plugin development on top of custom theme development. That will land soon, and my time will be split between Shopify/WordPress development.

I'm only specifying "custom" here to differentiate the coding "from scratch" style work I'm doing from WYSIWYG/Site builder style work that I know comes with the WP/Shopify territory.

I'll take another look at in-house roles. Thank you!

When you say client side, what do you mean? I've worked in-house and for agencies, and the in-house pay was fine but not markedly more or less than agencies for similar roles (although it was less stressful).

I'm not, I'm in the UK -- I just gave the figure in $ cos I assumed it'd make more sense to people! It's a pretty decent wage for UK devs, for what I do. Would it make sense to work for a US company?

It's been tough. I nearly failed to pay rent, and had to borrow money from a friend to afford it. My finances have been an absolute bloodbath for nearly a decade, and I'm finally gearing up to go sober and really confront how much debt I have. It's going to be a tough year. But, on the whole, the week could have been worse! And, thankfully, a calm but enjoyable Sunday.

Oh for fucks sake

Oh sorry lol 😂 I've got them on the brain at the moment. I read HDC in the article when reading about the home detention curfew and must've just seen HMRC lol -- edited to remove 👍

It's 20 more days, and on top of the rest of the context here it is a bit egregious honestly! It does feel like she's been put through the ringer a bit unfairly; she was sentenced to 20 months in prison, then released as part of a curfew scheme, but then right around Christmas MoJ went back on that call and took her back to prison because they couldn't find a wrist tag that fitted her, and her ankle tag wouldn't fit properly because of a medical condition.

Now, they're adding a further 20 days, which they've figured out because there were 20 days between her being made aware that she would be taken back to prison and her actually being back in prison -- despite her being ready to go, waiting to be rearrested.

It seems like either malice or a massively clumsy MoJ bungle (which, when talking about somebody's liberty, isn't really an excuse)!

Benefit cheats like multi-millionaires who exploit loopholes and avoid paying their fare share?

Jobsworth in a flatcap, fuck off with your poncy beers, absolute wanker

Shouldn't have crashed the economy then

The Paedophile Prince just can't catch a break (from his own crimes)! Although, obviously, unfortunately, he has caught a massive break in as much as he's still minted, and not in prison.

Can we turn all the lights off and pretend nobody's home when they come knocking? We'll definitely hear them coming.

Can old Nige distance himself from the mortal coil while he's at it, the lecherous racist freak?

This dork should visit the titanic.

Imagine Nigel Farage calling absolutely anything or anyone else "disgraceful". The guy belongs head-first in a concrete mixer. Piece of shit.

God, it's just all so bleak.

Put this little fucking wart in the sea

God, Nigel Farage is such a cunt. He's only bloody 60 as well, so we might have to deal with this freak for another 20+ years.

Bowen deserves a medal.