UK Pubs always have a style, they stick out when abroad. I've not noticed the same consistency of style in US bars/pubs.

The story of of nissan.com is quite interesting too -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput... (one of the related links on the MikeRoweSoft page).

> Nissan Motors v. Nissan Computer was a lengthy court case between the two parties over use of the name Nissan and the domain name nissan.com.[2] The case has received national attention in the U.S.

Wikipedia is light on detail about the case (eg. outcome and rationale / jurisprudence), and some of the linked references (eg. Wired article) are dead. Would love to hear another paragraph or two from you on it.

Edit: This is one-sided but provides some more detail: https://web.archive.org/web/20220306225900/https://www.diges...

My experience and tips for being a software developer contractor, in the UK

You mention you get to learn new skills and technologies; but if they only want to hire people who can immediately do what they need, how does that happen?

Does it involve a bit of stretching your experience?

Clients often just ask if you can do X in Y time and Y is often more than large enough to learn X because often the estimates are set by full timers who really want to make sure they are not burdened by it.

I have said yes to being able to deliver projects in languages I'd never even seen before, because the timeline was long enough that I was (rightfully) confident I could figure it out within the estimated time.

Often they just want to outsource uncertainty. Of course you then do need to take on the risk and make sure you deliver, or you won't get hired back and if it's a referral it can get ugly, but in the years I did contracting that was never an issue.

Knowing your limits is important, of course.

I'm a UK contractor and I'd say I've learnt lots of new skills and tech in my periphery while on Ruby on Rails and database contracts.

In the last few years I've been exposed to enough Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Azure, Google Cloud, Dataform and BigQuery to feel comfortable putting them on CV.

Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint too but I don't think I could face any more.

Freelancer here. Yes, you have to sell yourself.

If you’re smart, you’ll pick it up on the job or read a little about it before the interview.

Looks interesting, but surely image maps (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...) would be more suitable? no need for `onclick` handlers either then.

(They are mentioned at the start as an option so maybe there was a reason they were disregarded)

chargebee is good for easy to set up recurring billing.

Fastspring is a bit expensive, but another good one for recurring billing.

(And as others have mentioned: Stripe)

Fastsprings api docs looked really bad compared to stripe for me especially for subscription . Lack of examples are another problem . How did you integrate it ?

This is really impressive & interesting write up

Nice animations as you scroll