Episode description

Hold onto your keyboards, folks! In this episode of What A Lot Of Things, Ian and Ash embark on a wild ride through the treacherous waters of R&D tax credits and the murky depths of technical debt.

Watch as Ash dons his cape and mask as the Testing Avenger, attempting to save Ian's poor, test-less Ilkley Live website from certain doom. Marvel at Ian's creative excuses for avoiding automated tests, and cheer as he finally succumbs to the relentless pressure of good practices in context.

Along the way, our intrepid hosts navigate the choppy seas of database migrations, wrestle with the kraken of personal project maintenance, and attempt to decipher the ancient runes of government innovation incentives.

It's a rollicking adventure filled with British wit, playful banter, and enough tech talk to make your CPU overheat. Don't miss this episode - it's more entertaining than watching a Clanger try to use Twitter!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Links

• Sifted: UK startups warn they ‘won’t survive’ if HMRC claws back tax credits
• HMRC: Claiming Research and Development (R&D) tax reliefs
• Innovate UK
• AWS Amplify
• The most excellent Mark Steadman and his podcast health check service.
• Ilkley Live (this is significantly more interesting in the 3 months before the event) and the Ilkley Live Facebook group.
• Ilkley Live technologies: React, NextJS, NodeJS, Javascript, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, and Vercel. Zod and Yup. Oh, and Bun.
• …also, Notion and Notion Databases
• Testing frameworks, Playwright and Cypress.
• Ministry of Testing for learning about testing.
• Technical debt

..and you should email us, either at TechnologYeeyores@whatalotofthings.com or, for the more timid, IanAndAsh@whatalotofthings.com.