Grant Bennett
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Grant Bennett
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Ex-Finance Professional turned Software Developer. Lover of PHP/SQL. Laravel & Vue fan. Likes writing tests 🤷🏻‍♂️. Also 📸 🎮
Protons’ security and spam detection are what initially drew me in but the extra faff around imap is a bit of a blocker for me. It also makes exporting your emails out of proton harder should you ever wish to leave. YMMV of course!
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I’m in the process of doing the same comparison, I was leaning towards proton for the extra frills (vpn etc) but have decided fastmail. FMs masked email is nice (as well as a nice subdomain/+alias feature). The main killer for me was proton isn’t standard imap so requires a bridge or their apps.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Love an oatcake 🤤
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hornpipe. Rule, Britannia!, and who doesn’t like a little Pomp and Circumstance?
September 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I didn’t recognise any music for the first few minutes, until it transitioned to something familiar.

So many parts you hear in tv ads, or films, or even mixed into other songs; you don’t realise they are up to hundreds of years old.

There’s always great energy on the last night.

September 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I didn’t need one.

I have one.

The end.
September 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looking at ebuyer.com it looks like Frasers Group has intentions to rescue the brand, and no doubt the stock, but a lot of good people were let go today.

I was working hard to a promotion, finding myself on the jobless developer pile wasn’t on my bingo card.

Nothing is forever. Sad times.
August 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We’d inherited.

These things happen, but what’s disappointing is breaking up a great team of people who got on well and genuinely enjoyed working together.

I’m still a little bit mad we only found out a few hours ago but the sad is kicking in that I won’t get to work with these people again.
August 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Amazing
August 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Galacticast! Think I saw every one! The trek themed were my favs 😎
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It seems to be the norm that people either get macs or at least a choice. I'm not against Linux, ran it for many years at home, but moved to mac for better software for my hobbies etc.

I just can't fathom the thinking behind making us run awful tech, what makes it worse is this is a tech retailer 😱
May 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Interesting points, thank you! Maybe I'll raise the BYOD and see if that gets any traction.
May 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM