David James

I share what I learned bootstrapping my company from 0 to 5m+ users. I blog at

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I’ve read 20+ books on creativity. I love the topic.

One thing that barely get mentioned is being ready to record your thoughts in detail when inspiration strikes.

Creativity is often fleeting, but if you can trap the essence of the idea when it hits you with the strongest waves, you can revisit it later and refine your thoughts.

Here’s my 5 shortcuts: 🧵

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152cm, easy.

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@aochsner If luck is a thing, I think it will be the reason we don’t stay up, we’ve had some stinkers this season. Thank you though!

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Found in the wild, euro 2000 terrestra, greatest football of all time

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@shangoman It’s actually one of my friends from Uni’s, I’m going to make him an offer 😆

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@thesamparr @rachcorrine Half-zip from Sunspel, I have two, very comfortable too: https://t.co/L3wLO6SgIs

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@FootballCliches sacrilegious

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@FootballCliches dear, oh dear

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@iamdevloper The rapper?

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I’m not saying marketing claims are getting out of control but I just read that a WiFi password is being changed as part of a brand refresh.

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@ShaanVP DM. I wrote a blog post on a similar subject: https://t.co/5bWkkaLoT2

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@luke_madden The true Christmas spirit, cash is king! 🤣

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I wanted to give the people who pick up our bins a bonus for Christmas so I put some money in an envelope and then I thought what do I write on the front of it?
I started with ‘dear bin men’ and I thought what if there are women? So I changed to ‘bin people’ and immediately realised this was insane so I finished with ‘recycling guys’. This is my life now.

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@davidfowl Sadly not, same issues with old version of code. We had to role the whole site back to .net core 8 and it works fine.

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@davidfowl Hi David, were there any significant changes in database connection pooling/simple connection plumbing. We upgraded from .net 8 to .net 10 and seem to get lots of :
"The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached."

The "code" is the same, only the version of .net is different

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@davidfowl Fair point, no we didn't, we actually moved from https://t.co/0BOfexQ7KG.SqlClient to https://t.co/YS1pi8Bfiz.SqlClient, but will roll back and see if it helps. Much obliged David.

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@davidfowl sql azure

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@sivers just arrived in London 😀

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Thanks, that makes sense. Hacked, ah, what a pain.

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@MotorclaimGuru Hey Tim, I wondered if this link ever worked?
Or were there reasons you had to remove the service?

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@AatifNawaz Can these be purchased?