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@StephenCookDev

software engineer at @letsdothisrace 🧵 dream job petting dogs and playing mario kart 🧵 prev @amazon @onfido @thread

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In case anyone confused me for a productive member of society - I present exhibit A...


Anyone using Stripe SetupIntents to charge users 30+ days after setup has occurred, in the EU (subject to SCA)? E.g. a crowdfunding platform Would love to pick someone's brain about estimated `authentication_required` failure rates that I might expect Please RT for reach 🙏


Writer's block? Pro tip — sink countless hours into coding your own homebrew writing software, that you will inevitably also abandon


I remember when I had normal dreams, instead of ones where I explain to people "you can't merge package.json files like that"


...if I give the obvious answer, will it be like in films when the cop says he retires next week?


home stretch... we can do it

StephenCookDev's tweet image. home stretch... we can do it

I like it when podcasts give me easy questions in the morning: no.

StephenCookDev's tweet image. I like it when podcasts give me easy questions in the morning: no.

I like that in Gmail if you accidentally type the subject in the "to" field, it punishes you by wrapping it in a little box and forcing you to delete the whole thing and start again The "we will _make_ them learn" school of UX


The thing that worries me most about "lockdown 2.0" is how often versions end up as "2.0.13-sillyfix--final-FINAL"


My hobby is to ride a wave of social energy, and message ten people And then realise in horror what fresh hell I've sown, as they all reply at once


Just had to debug what I thought initially was me just not understanding CSS's `object-fit`... but turned out to be a Chromium bug being actively discussed, where `object-fit` is broken for JPEG images with an EXIF rotation Engineering is the worst


Sometimes when my code breaks and I get sad, I like to remind myself of the greatest build failure of all time unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4057…


Today's a `git commit -m "fix typoe"` kind of day


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