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Everyone seems to bang on about how good @OctopusEnergy customer service is but it's been over a month since I requested to join the Intelligent Go tariff and it's still not happened. 😕

@EOEboh Either /orders?uid=123 /user/123/orders /orders/my (if we’re only talking current user)

You're reviewing a teammate's PR and you see this endpoint: GET /api/getUserOrdersByUserId?userId=123 Do you approve it? What would you change?

@GJMarshy My only concern with pedestrianising that part of king street is that it is used by cars and taxis a lot to cut across to the piazza car park and further up to Portland street and beyond. Where would that traffic go? Totally agree it’d be lovely though.

Top end of King Street, Manchester 🚶‍♂️Pedestrianised Beautiful part of town. Remove the cars, give the buildings a good clean. True European-style gateway.

God I’d love to go on Heat Eaters @firstwefeast

I can’t get my head around why Apple haven’t made “Studio Pods” - really good wired speakers. 🤷‍♂️

@allrockmusic Layla

Which rock song has the best riff of all time?

@luiscalleo Freddie Mercury, Chris Cornell.

What rock singer has the most unforgettable voice?

@ThatEricAlper Faceless, Joe Satriani. The melody is simple but it is played beautifully.

What is the prettiest song you have ever heard in your life?

@Its_Nova1012 Well I’ve been doing this 28 years… remind me how long Claude has been around..?

In an interview today, the recruiter asked me: Convince me that you can code without using Claude. How would you respond to it?

@SakshiSugandhi @SidJain_80 I came here to say exactly this!

@SidJain_80 unclear requirements… everything else comes from that 😭

Devs who’ve worked in teams What’s more painful? - Debugging legacy code - Reading bad documentation - Handling unclear requirements - Fixing production bugs at 2AM Pick your struggle

@1000kilobytes We need to bring this back!

🥲from the OS X human interface guidelines

@ThatEricAlper Colour the Atlas

What band or artist do you love that almost nobody in your life has ever heard of?

@allenholub Agreed. I’ve been in this game a long time and I almost never encounter a client who will work in increments, instead always wanting a fixed price - whilst the scope is almost never fixed!

The iron triangle (time, cost, scope) has been around for at least 40 years. The basic idea is that only two of the points can be fixed. Fix all three, and you have a death march. It's not like we don't know that. Nonetheless, you have clients demanding a death march by specifying both a deadline (which in software, is both time and cost—they track one another) and a fixed scope. They do not do this out of ignorance. They know as a fact that the project will run over if the scope can't vary. They demand the impossible because it's a way to squeeze free work out of you. (They are never penalized in the contract for providing an incorrect scope; rather, you are penalized for being "late.") This is a scam, plain and simple. It's a way for the client to move 100% of the risk onto your shoulders and to squeeze more work out of you than they're paying for. Why anybody would fall for this particular bit of grift is beyond me, but whole segments of the industry seem willing to volunteer for the gallows. In software, there are only two arrangements that make sense: (1) Time and materials, and (2) Fix the increment and let (collaborative) scope vary. Everything else is just lambs (that's you) to the slaughter. I'll add that a fixed scope almost always leads to building something nobody wants. We learn as we work, and if we don't incorporate those lessons into the work, we will fail.

@ParkerOrtolani @usemonologue Remind me of the skeuomorphic iOS apps from pre-ios7

best new watchOS app design I’ve seen in ages @usemonologue

This is a really good take. I just hope he's wrong. youtube.com/watch?v=p9YahT…

@AnaArsonist You know what, I hated this on every Pro I had for years. On my Air it’s perfect.

how tf are people using their macbooks without More Space?

@Bosslogic @Street_Fighter @Legendary So good!

FIGHT! I'm so ready for this movie, and I can't wait for you to see what I have seen! Here is my homage to the throwback

Momoa should’ve been Akuma imho

Why is every fight in the new @Street_Fighter movie taking place in the same place? One of the most iconic things about SF2 was the different stages around the world.

@LowCarbonD61778 I applied for it 2 weeks ago… still not done

I eventually fixed my intelligent octopus go and actually ended on a cheaper deal than my original variable rate…., so glad I did now