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@crazyclipsonly The parents.

Who's at fault here?

@MartinSLewis I always buy the flagship phone of a few years ago used from CEX, which tend to last me 3 years. Current S10+ cost £160 so it's about £50 per year all in to own a decent device and just buy another one when I eventually break it.

Today's Twitter Poll: Do you have mobile phone insurance, if so how? Which of these is closest to your option.

@fasc1nate As I read this is my internal voice became Dwight Schrute.

In Iceland, kids worry about Gryla, a scary Christmas creature who might eat them if they're naughty. This is different from most places, where kids expect Santa Claus to bring them gifts for Christmas. The story goes that Gryla lives in a mountain cave and comes to nearby towns every December to collect naughty kids. She takes them home to cook and eat. In one old song, Gryla is said to come from the fields with "forty tails, a bag on her back, a sword in her hand, coming to cut open the kids who asked for meat during Lent." She is often described as having many tails and a scary face. Gryla is not the only worry for Icelandic kids around Christmas. She has 13 sons, called the Yule Lads, who also cause trouble. They go into homes to slam doors, eat leftovers, steal sausages, and make a mess. Then there's Jólakötturinn, Gryla's big cat, who waits in the snowy hills to eat anyone who didn't get new clothes for Christmas.

@NoContextBrits I very much enjoyed overhearing "you flipping twallop" during a road rage near miss in London recently.

What’s an insult that feels 100% British?

@github IBM Aptiva, 1998.

You never forget your first computer. What was yours?

@_frazor_ So many people's love of tech and code started with an Amiga! This one wasn't mine from BITD, @roninbob passed it all on to me a few years ago!

@mannion Still have my A1200 too, but the Phillips monitor I had (same one by the looks of it) failed... Which is when I finally bought a PC

Respect your elders 🙌 Mighty Amiga 1200

@SoVeryBritish Imagine starting a family with someone then finding out they treat cheese like this.

There are two types of people: 1. People who don’t wrap the cheese up properly when they put it back in the fridge 2. People who get really annoyed by that

@fireship_dev It's 40 years of dealing with the latest emerging standards for making translating data between a web request and a database complicated, then you retire.

What's your most controversial hot take about programming?

@MisterAddons I honestly feel sorry for my mistercade if it travelled from there to here.

Porkchop, why do you live in Idaho? Me:

@bagwaa @jeffrey_way I wish little cafes like the one they walk to in the evening for sausage, chips and ice cream were still a thing around here. I'd honestly love to do that with my little family from time to time.

What's the best book you've read in the last year or so?

@hnasr I recommended it to all of my colleagues and as a result we have started a BE fundamentals study group. You do a great job of making incredibly deep and complicated topics not only palatable, but honestly interesting and enjoyable for all engineers to explore and learn.

@mannion thank you! you know after wrapping the course I felt the same thing, I think a dedicated curl lecture is worth adding,

New course alert The performance of a backend application goes beyond its code and logic. Factors such as network latency, Kernel TCP/IP stack, security overhead and protocol serialization. All can impact the performance. In my new course I explore how to identify bottlenecks in applications whether it is in the frontend, the backend, the intermediary proxy or even the database. I use real-world examples that I personally ran into in my 19 year career as a software engineer. Check out Discovering Backend Bottlenecks: Unlocking Peak Performance , head performance.husseinnasser.com I hope you enjoy it.

@davefarley77 When introducing a change and I removed more lines than I added. (plus, same thing but for my overall contributions to a codebase - I check it regularly)

What is a strange thing that makes you feel satisfied with your work?

@jakub_zalas [adds book to my pile of unread shame]

It would significantly improve testability.

Hey @trupill, I enjoyed your "FP Ideas for the Curious Kotliner" book! I have a question if you don't mind.

"Sometimes these old dudes don't behave" - Arcade technician I met in Nagoya many years ago #sega #blastcity

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight Please take just two seconds to show you care

@MisterAddons Introduced myself to my new neighbour as James and he replied "nice to meet you, Rich". Didn't dare mention it, just responded to Richard for the 11 years I lived there. The British way.

How many emails do you allow someone to call you the wrong name before you correct them? Situations like these always make me smile :)

@JimmyBroadbent Tik Tok reduced attention spans to be measured in single digit seconds

It's at the point where I've been told people get notifications for shorts but NOT for regular content. Ah well, is what it is.

This graph is basically the same for views and sub growth on my YT Can you guess when I started trying out shorts? It's a little sad that short form content at any cost is what it takes to be seen on this platform now.

@GuileWinQuote When I was around 5 I had WW on SNES and thought I was decent, after years I could reliably DP etc. Then in an arcade I got absolutely bodied by someone's Guile, I mean destroyed repeatedly. That day learned how deep SF goes. Never got good at it but loved it ever since.

My Super Turbo is Broken video drops tomorrow