The Netherlands, at least.

It would crash every fifteen minutes...

Ah, OpenDoc. It was a good start, back in the 90s, and now is seen as an impossible pipedream. Ah well.

I'll second this. Only podcast I actually subscribe to the ad-less version, to support it.

Someone mistyped 'morals'? Ysk.

Just care for your team.

Realise you need to spend most of your time working with your more junior developers, making sure that they understand the problems they're solving, doing some whiteboard-design sessions, jumping in and pairing frequently to teach them as well as keep things going in the right direction. A lot of that is giving your team enough confidence that they're going in the right direction that they can make the decisions they need to make.

But you should not see yourself as someone that picks up tasks and gets things done by themselves. You need to work through your team. That can be difficult. And if the team gets larger, that gets even more difficult! You'll need to find some seniors you can trust, and use them to pick up some of that leadership/guiding work. You will run the risk of getting further removed from the practical technical work, and will have to find a balance. You'll probably be doing more work around the team than in the team. Maybe get involved with planning more.

But the most important thing is the above: make things clear for your team(s), don't leave them guessing about the direction, but don't prescribe the solution too much, teach as much as you can, but give people room to make their own decisions too.

There's a few different things, I think, that are wrapped up in this.

• Generated UI code is unmaintainable
• Finding (and using) a good cross-platform UI library is hard
• Setting up a new project and packaging for it is hard

To start with the first, yes, generated code can be useful to quickly get something started. After that, in general you'll need to adapt it and grow it be coding from there on. Round-trip (going back to the design tool from code) tends to not work that well.

There's good UI libraries, but cross platform tends to be difficult. Oddly enough, a lot more work has been done to create good cross-platform UI on mobile than for desktop. Interestingly enough, flutter seems to also be bridging that towards desktop. Another ecosystem, another language (dart), but much clearer about how you should build, and plenty of documentation on easily building, from code, user interfaces.

Taking a small step back, I'd like to say that one thing you might want to start with is to look at your current code and try to restructure it in such a way that you separate the core of the functionality from the user interface. This can be a tricky process, and reading up on refactoring techniques is going to be useful. It might also really help in this process of potentially moving to a different language, because it will be so much clearer what you are moving, and what is incidental and just related to the framework you are working in.

I'd say that is another one of those policies that center-right parties have been avoiding, certainly in the Netherlands. The lack of investment in affordable housing and policies around rent control have been a significant issue. Those are also public services.

Ah, you're right. It does work with dynamic addresses.

It works like this for me, currently:

I was also using b&bw, but it's been impossible to find locally (the Netherlands).

Thing is, none of the other shower gels I've tried foam up in the same way. Which means using a lot more than I would of the b&bw gel.

Anyone know if something that works comparably and is widely available in Europe?

We're more in a suburb type environment, but yeah, I don't see that happening in a busy city environment...

Of course, if one employee being away would cause a company to fall apart, us Dutch would conclude management is completely incompetent, and tell them that.

A 3 week vacation is pretty normal, here. But we do plan those ahead. That means you might not be able to take it on the specific dates you have in mind. But not that you won't be able to take it!