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Mar 17
Translation keys are a hack that got normalised
They destroy context, which is the entire point of language
We can do better: 18ways.com/en-GB/blog/i18n-i…
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29 Oct 2021
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 🙏
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14 Apr 2021
Writer's block? Pro tip — sink countless hours into coding your own homebrew writing software, that you will inevitably also abandon
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7 Feb 2021
I remember when I had normal dreams, instead of ones where I explain to people "you can't merge package.json files like that"
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31 Jan 2021
I regularly wasted time managing my tmux workspace, so I made a plugin to make it easier to make "groupings"
github.com/stephencookdev/tm…
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31 Jan 2021
Was a week of dev time a good investment for a problem that took only seconds of my time? Who knows. Lockdown 3.0 has much to answer for.
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7 Dec 2020
...if I give the obvious answer, will it be like in films when the cop says he retires next week?
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29 Nov 2020
please enjoy this entirely fictional comic which is definitely not based on my own personal experiences in any way
stephencook.dev/comics/how-i…
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27 Nov 2020
I like it when podcasts give me easy questions in the morning: no.
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19 Nov 2020
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
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18 Nov 2020
Just listened to the first @pathintech episode and... it's mad how nearly every engineer I know has at least one story about a time they SSH'd into a production box, only for HILARITY TO ENSUE
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18 Nov 2020
I feel like maybe it's bad that our industry as a whole can personally relate to the horror of "so it turns out there were no backups"
2 Nov 2020
The thing that worries me most about "lockdown 2.0" is how often versions end up as "2.0.13-sillyfix--final-FINAL"
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16 Sep 2020
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
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10 Sep 2020
Thanks GitHub. I WAS considering taking that gulp script from 10 years ago that does literally nothing except lint files locally, and putting it on a public web API accessing credit card data
But now you warned me that there's a vulnerability in the yarn.lock, I'll hold off
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10 Sep 2020
Seriously though, I think it's amazing that GitHub/dependabot have started doing this stuff. Real game-changer for security
But I wish SO HARD there was a way to make it clear "these dependencies might touch customers" and "these dependencies are just local, please BE CHILL"
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7 Sep 2020
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
26 Aug 2020
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/quest…
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