@StephenCookDev

founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/6qfkG1wTIB | prev software @amazon @onfido @letsdothis

 London, England
stephencook.dev
Joined August 2014
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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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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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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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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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I regularly wasted time managing my tmux workspace, so I made a plugin to make it easier to make "groupings" github.com/stephencookdev/tm…

GitHub - stephencookdev/tmux-workspace-groupings: Easily create workspace-groupings in tmux

Easily create workspace-groupings in tmux. Contribute to stephencookdev/tmux-workspace-groupings development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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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...if I give the obvious answer, will it be like in films when the cop says he retires next week?
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home stretch... we can do it
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please enjoy this entirely fictional comic which is definitely not based on my own personal experiences in any way stephencook.dev/comics/how-i…

DIY Did I Think This Was a Good Idea?

I could call for help. But, then someone would know.

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I like it when podcasts give me easy questions in the morning: no.
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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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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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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"
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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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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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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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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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/quest…
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Today's a `git commit -m "fix typoe"` kind of day
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