Hello, it’s me again! James! You’re probably wondering what i’ve been working on the last two weeks. Well take my hand and we will delve into a world of imagination! But just before we dive in – here are the articles covering the journey so far! Precursor Sprint 1 – The Foundations Sprint 2 –...

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Thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes after my last update. Thankfully I feel much better now, I’m sleeping and the headaches have gone 🙂 which means I managed to get a fair amount done this sprint! 🥳 If you’re reading this, I’d love to hear from you! Let me know how you’re...

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Ok… so I should preface this with a few caveats… I wasn’t expecting a global pandemic to completely change the way we have to work overnight I haven’t slept very well at all for the last 2 weeks leaving me only just enough brain power to do my day job properly I definitely underestimated how...

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This sprint hasn’t really been a sprint, more of a really long refinement and retrospective. When I came back from Prague, Corona was starting to get more media attention with speculation of a recession so I decided it was time to start looking for work. I spent some time getting my CV together and tying...

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First things first! We’re in the Alpha stores! 🥳🥳 Exciting right? But what does that actually mean? So right now, the original Council team can install the app on their phones and break it to their heart’s content. The app is like the first iteration, what will happen now is every sprint I will upload...

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Well well well, look who we have here! I’ve been thinking about you… yes you… don’t be coy! I want to tell you about my last two weeks, would that be ok? Great! Previously on my descent into madness: Precursor Sprint 1 – The Foundations Sprint 2 – The ummm Foundations? Sprint 2 – Nerd...

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This sprint has been a little… fucky. The winter has hit my mood hard and I struggled for the first week to focus. Stepping away, sleeping, working out – none of it worked. So it’s been a bit of a struggle. I almost booked a trip to the canaries just to get some of that...

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This is a technical post going into depth about the work i’ve done in the last sprint, if you’re looking for my general update you can check it out: here If you’re not up to date and you’ve stumbled on this post through my shit posting everywhere You can see the previous posts: Precursor Sprint...

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Oh hey! Quick recap Hi I’m James! I’m a 34, slightly belligerent and from the UK. Between January 2020 – April 2020, I’m building a social network! Why? Because it’s fucking hard to make new friends and socialise as you get older and I think the world needs a platform that helps with those things....

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Sprint 1 If you’re an entrepreneur you’ll probably be in a similar boat to me. Trying to do a million jobs on a tiny budget. Great for your startup, not so much for fortnightly updates! So I’ll try to keep these posts structured and a little ridiculous. There will be a combination of tech stuff,...

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Hi! If you’re reading this, you probably already know – I’m James AKA TheBritishAreComing. There’s a few things you need to know about me: I’m a tech agnostic developer, with about 15 years commercially. Although British, I’m awful at English! (poor grammar get out of free card) I love food and caffeine. I talk a...

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Ever since I began SoSa back in 2014, I wanted to find a way to make it open source! Lack of time, resources and a bunch of clone sites popping up meant I didn’t ever get around to making the source code available on Github. Well, that’s about to change! With the relaunch of SoSa...

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