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As a spin-off really of Gavster's thread, I thought it might be interesting to see the output of what some of you guys work on - there's so much stuff that just seems to happen around us an often it's easy for it to go almost unnoticed or under-appreciated, until we stop and think about it.

As my starter for 10 - this new link road opened a couple of weeks ago, which connects the industrial/commercial areas of Pilsworth and Heywood (N. Manchester) to the M62 at J19. I was responsible for the original design of this a great many years ago (possibly ten or more, I can't recall). It's been through the hands of other design engineers after me to be tinkered with/refined, and junctions tweaked to cater for future travel levels, but all the basics of alignment, width etc are still there.



https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/20m-he ... ens-today/

Couple of the more interesting projects recently (for some of the braver clients!)

This was my favourite project I was involved in from start to finish.

I was there from marking out where to put the engines, levelling and lining them up, installing all the auxiliary systems, commissioning, mechanical training and the first 6 months of operation. Basically everything mechanical.

https://cphlbd.com/portfolio/confidenc ... ngpur-ltd/



Dave!

Nothing I can really show off but if anyone has ever bought anything from here (might be the wrong audience ) then you will have used something that I worked on.

https://www.killstar.com/

If you've bought anything from the far east it's likely that we've had a hand in its transport at some point whether that's containers, warehousing, customs clearance, the ocean transport or the loading/unloading at a port.



I'm very much a backend person being lead architect for cloud security.

Was involved in the 10 day effort here (got my old system back in 7 and it was one of the only ones to actually be recovered rather than rebuilt)

https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/25/ ... verything/

It's relatively low key compared to previous roles but has involved some interesting work.

ZedLeg wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:45 pm Nothing I can really show off but if anyone has ever bought anything from here (might be the wrong audience ) then you will have used something that I worked on.

https://www.killstar.com/

<breaks out Avril Lavigne playlist>

The next time you get on a RyanAir, Jet2, El-Al, FlyDubai flight (amongst others), the pilot will either have been trained through our system or is using our app on the flightdeck.

Most of the other stuff I've worked on in the last 10 years is heavily NDA'd so I couldn't share it anyway. The F1 stuff was probably the most interesting, the Casino the most eye opening.

tim wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:54 pm

ZedLeg wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:45 pm Nothing I can really show off but if anyone has ever bought anything from here (might be the wrong audience ) then you will have used something that I worked on.

https://www.killstar.com/

<breaks out Avril Lavigne playlist>

I didn't even realise that Avril was still around when I was told we were doing that collab.

I'm in a somewhat similar situation to Tim. Can't share anything really. Although my employer will have enabled at least some of you to browse this site.

Does anyone here browse the interweb? Yeah, well, that.

Simon wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 5:13 pm Does anyone here browse the interweb? Yeah, well, that.

You made this?



Huge

Liking some of the stuff so far.

@Rich B My wife's worked in a few similar environments and I've often wondered what that must be lke. Working for much smaller firms everywhere I've worked has been firmly of the grey box variety. Certainly far from inspiring.

and @V8Granite Dave, much kudos. There's nothing quite like massive engineering!

No surprises from me of course, but this is our latest release, from May this year. Selling well, DLC Character packs landing at the moment, still generating lots of social content too.

Huge game by any standards, some folk taking 200hrs to fully complete it. Very proud of this one, esp as we had to finish it during the whole Covid nightmare.

My stuff is mostly backend public/university/legal library stuff, but I just maintain/build Koha sites and Koha site accessories (IE Aspen Discovery, a front end that gives more options than Koha front-end but uses its backend as a data source), so find a library running Koha and you'll see what I work on

The operator of this site did a presentation on this today, which is one of the things I help integrate

https://libraries.newcastle.gov.uk/?bro ... brary_main



Lovely bunch of people, our clients

I play with cool cars every day

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 5:17 pm

Simon wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 5:13 pm Does anyone here browse the interweb? Yeah, well, that.

You made this?



Huge

Hey, what's Swerve doing with the internet? If something happens to that then the world as we know it would fall into chaos, planes will fall from the sky, society will tear itself apart like a child with a paper napkin.

So please, no flash photography.

dan wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 6:05 pm

Now that's Full Wanker Position on the spoiler!

Most of my work involves packaging Engineering Software, using a Powershell wrapper then I bung it into MS Configuration Manager, for user installation via Software Center or push deployment.

So basically no, I can't show you my work, it's incredibly niché and not that appreciable by people inside the company I work for, let alone anyone outside the company I work for

The bomb suits were a few years back.

The last time I did something tangible it was the probiotic tea.

dan wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 6:05 pm I play with cool cars every day

<cool shit>

Yeah I thought about saying no need for Dan to post

That is living the dream to be fair.

I find it fascinating, the older I get, as to what motivates people who don't have anything tangible as an output. Most of the work my company does forms part of a very wide range of other disciplines to ultimately deliver development schemes. But often it can feel like there's no tangible output directly related to what oneself has personally done - you're just a cog in the system. And that can get tiring and fairly demotivating, especially if you're dealing with people trying to do the bare minimum they can get away with, rather than a "good scheme".

But occasionally, something such as the above actually gets built and makes you feel like you've had your impact on the world and puts into perspective what it is that you're otherwise doing on a day-to-day basis.