Giorgio Bonfiglio

Feature Request for Amazon: give me a "Only Genuine" filter. If I search for an Apple Charger, I'm not looking for a charger compatible with Apple. If I search Oral B Tootbrush Heads I'm not looking for compatible ones.

TIL: In the UK, the law against carrying knives includes religious exemptions. As if religious knives were less sharp. I'll sit here waiting for the religious exemption to carrying explosive on airplanes and then stop flying, I guess?

The flotilla events are a ‘Trump level’ masterclass on how to create a diplomatic crisis out of thin air just to make a point that you decide who lives and who dies. And the only way diapers, bandages and canned peas can be ‘a threat’ is if you don’t want the recipients to use them.

Is anyone else's life completely messed up while Trello is ko? We literally don't know what our grocery shopping or agenda look like without it. -> trello.status.atlassian.com/incidents/h1...

Complexities of having family spread over three countries: I just spent the morning comparing nappy brands and features because, turns out, Pampers Baby Dyr are not the same everywhere despite having the same name and packaging.

Has anyone else become *way* more conscious about travel destinations in the last 2/3 years? I went from literally only having China and North Corea on my "no fly" list to a list of 10+ countries where I wouldn't feel safe / wouldn't consider getting back home back a given.

It's probably time to rotate this password...

Trump and Netanyahu are going to nuke Teheran and there is nothing we can do to prevent it. An 80 and a 77 years old are defining the future we will live in, for reasons I can’t even begin to figure out.

Regardless of your political positions, if you are not disgusted by the US and Israel bombing a school you should prob do a morality check. (yes, yes, we know that based on Israeli intelligence there were terrorists and nuclear weapons in the basement...) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Selling baby boy, in perfect esthetical conditions and good working order. The standby function never worked. Comes with original box but without instructions (we didn't get them either). Offers in DM.

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

🧵 Thread on beautiful data centers: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona SCC): Often called "the most beautiful data center in the world," this facility is housed inside the Torre Girona Chapel, a deconsecrated 19th-century church. When fully installed, it will have a peak performance of 13.9 Petaflops.

One year of TV Licensing spam in a new build. They started 13 months before the flat found its first ever owner and 9 months before it even received a council tax band.

I'm sure most of you already know this, but aws-news.com is the absolute necessary companion of each #reInvent. I use it to quickly skim through every single launch, and use both the unread filter and mark all as read function to make sure I don't miss any.

Two weeks into parenting, honest review: each individual event is less intense than a sev2, the big difference is that you’re always on-call either as primary or secondary. You can’t take time off, ever. Some stats, for number nerds:

First day in one week not sleeping with the work phone next to my bed - counting this as a win!

The Post-Event Summary for this week's event in North Virginia (us-east-1) is now out at: aws.amazon.com/message/1019... Whether you were impacted or not, I believe it's a valuable read: there are a ton of lessons learned, for us and for the broader industry.

How do a sev1 and a baby rank in terms of difficulty for an engineer? Asking for a friend who just got out of a day log call and who has a baby on the way.

Been stuck in my mind for 4 days now: this picture was taken in London, UK. Do defibrillators really run at 110V (requiring a transformer I guess) or did they run out of the right 230V labels?

After about one year of detox, I feel it's time for a comeback!

PSA for US friends: would you please come collect your Trump? Someone let him out by mistake and he made it to the UK!

It's beyond me why/how most airlines don't allow you to save passenger information in your account, and require giant forms to be filled every time. Like, it's not that my birth date is gonna change anytime soon.

Our new report: local political parties are renting out office space to MPs — who claim the cost on expenses. But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses. We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵

I need an album "Fires in New Providence Wharf" at this point. Ps: can't we just ban any sort of smoking inside and outside blocks of flats?

Processing my todo list feels very much like trying to empty a bucket with a spoon. 😢

Impose tariffs on everything from everywhere Cancel such tariffs except for China Also cancel tariffs for China’s main export …but sure, they know what they are doing.

Liz Truss tried her best but, as with so many things, if you want something done properly, you need to get the Americans to do it.

Politics of the last few weeks are just unreal. - Trump: China is imposing 67% tariffs on us, we’ll respond with 34% - China: fine, we’ll do 34% too - Trump: if you do 34% we do 84% How does this even make sense? How do people not realise the 67% was totally made up?

International stamps in UK (for a letter / postcard) went from £1.60 in 2021 to 2.20, 2.50, 2.80 and finally 3.20 in 2025. 🤯

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

Today we’re onboard the special SAS Destination Unknown flight. As the name suggests, no one on board knows where we’re headed. Be sure to leave your guesses as we get going!

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

We live in a parallel universe.

The plot thickens - LHR did have redundant power (3N), just for some reason didn’t use it. Curious to see what comes out of the inquiry.

The surprising thing about the North Hyde / Hayes substation fire is that London Heathrow's operations immediately decided to close the airport for 24 hours, well before the recovery time was known. Does anyone know why? Any guess? Why pushing out recovery so far so early?

Global ceasefires are doing real well under Trump’s strong leadership 🤦‍♂️

The amount of payment methods available in Japanese shops is just incredible. You can pay with pretty much anything including public transport card.