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Dutch dude in Canada | software eng @ Thatch, ex-Shopify Payments | Instant human, just add coffee | Opinions are my own
Montréal, Québec
Joined February 2010
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Bart de Water retweeted
Today, we're announcing @thatch_ai raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation from @thegp, @IndexVentures, @generalcatalyst, @a16z.
The idea we're betting on: healthcare serves whoever controls the dollar. For 80 years that's been the employer. We think it should be you.
Employers typically choose one health plan for everyone. We think there's a better model: give people a health budget and let them choose the insurance and care that fits their life. That is the idea behind Thatch.
ARR has grown nearly 7x in the last twelve months, and more than 5,000 employers now use Thatch. None of this happens without our team, or without the employers who believe that their people know what their families need better than they ever could.
We're building a healthcare system people love by changing how we fund it.
Bart de Water retweeted
This Week in Rails....was a big one, all thanks to 31 contributors.
Highlights include:
- `ActiveJob::Attribute`: persist typed data between job steps without overriding serialize/deserialize
- f.datalist and datalist_tag: native HTML datalist support in form builders
- Rails.cache.read("key", delete: true): atomic read-and-delete for Redis (great for OTPs)
- params.fetch_values(:a, :b): fetch multiple required params in one call
- AR Encryption keys now readable from ENV
Read all this and much more in this week's newsletter: rubyonrails.org/2026/5/8/thi…
Bart de Water retweeted
Fintech Biz Weekly just dropped: Y Combinator & Coinbase invested in a Venezuelan sanctions evasion app linked to the Maduro regime, including, rumors say, the son of Nícolas Maduro: @kontigo_app
The story is a LONG one. You know where to find it.
Bart de Water retweeted
i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem
they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur)
quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never been higher
Bart de Water retweeted
Well, it has happened. Ghostty on macOS now has search. This is now in tip releases, I'm certain there's a bunch of polish and bugs to work through over the next months, but more than enough time for it to be rock solid for 1.3 next year. GTK to follow soon. Gobble, gobble. 🦃🦃
Bart de Water retweeted
So excited about what the @cedarcode team has put together to help #Rails companies adopt #passkeys! Right in time for the @AuthenticateCon 🚀
If you have a RoR app and are thinking about adding passkeys as 1st or 2nd factor, checkout rubygems.org/gems/webauthn-r… and give us feedback
If you have a #ruby on #rails app and want to setup #passkeys in minutes and without diving deep into the internals and complexities, here's a blog post we did about how our new gem does it for you medium.com/cedarcode/passkey…
Bart de Water retweeted
The American healthcare system seems hopelessly broken. It is not.
Just as a small quirk in the tax code shifted retirement plans from pensions to 401(k)s, ICHRA can shift insurance from employee-sponsored to individual choice.
A Deep Dive on healthcare, ICHRA, & Thatch:
Bart de Water retweeted
Thrilled to announce our $38M Series A led by @generalcatalyst and @IndexVentures , with participation from @a16z , @AvidVc, and @thegp!
Bart de Water retweeted
Friction has become the status quo in the American healthcare system, but @thatch_ai is here to change that.
The company’s easy-to-use platform enables companies to offer employees the option to purchase their own plans with tax-free dollars, ultimately providing better flexibility and greater savings across the board.
We’re thrilled to co-lead its $38M Series A, announced today - learn more about the company’s mission and why we’re so excited to invest.
Bart de Water retweeted
“Nobody wants to live in a car free city, until they live in one.” @VelocitySeries
🎥Tristan Schachner
Bart de Water retweeted
Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/
What I've been up to the past year: make it dead simple for US companies to offer health benefits. Now it's even easier to see the potential cost savings (or better coverage at similar price) with ICHRA before signing up:
One of the most common questions that employers ask when evaluating Thatch is about the costs and availability of health benefits plans.
To make things easier for you, we've launched the first-ever individual health insurance cost calculator. 🎉 #HealthTech
Bart de Water retweeted
In this PSA, Richmond RCMP equates [nearly] killing someone with negligence while operating a multi-ton machine with *being* killed while following all requirements and having the right of way. Acceptance of this framing requires that we become moral imbeciles.
Pedestrian safety is a two-way street. What pedestrians and drivers can do to make our roadways safer ow.ly/zRzo50PWEkq
Bart de Water retweeted
Amazing. After 27 days of continuous action blockading the A12 highway in the Hague, and 9.000 arrests, the Dutch Lower House has asked the cabinet for a pathway toward decreasing fossil fuel subsidies. Excellent work everyone for getting this on the agenda.
Wat een WIN!! Na 27 dagen A12-blokkade en meer dan 9.000 arrestaties vraagt de TK het kabinet om een afbouwpad. Burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid werkt! Wij houden het vervolg scherp in de gaten en staan klaar voor nieuwe acties. #StopFossieleSubsidies
extinctionrebellion.nl/a12-b…
Bart de Water retweeted
Police showed up at Porsha Woodruff’s door in Detroit to arrest her for carjacking. She was 8 months pregnant. The suspect in the crime, committed 2 weeks earlier, was not. Police still charged her in another case of facial recognition tech gone awry. 🧵nytimes.com/2023/08/06/techn…
Bart de Water retweeted
Moving past passwords is 🔑 for better account security. Today we’re launching passkey support on GitHub.com - you can enable passkeys today and ditch that password. github.blog/2023-07-12-intro…
Bart de Water retweeted
Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had no choice -- they had the data so had to hand it over.
End-to-end encryption keeps people safe. jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-ple…