Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

software engineer at @letsdothisrace 🧵 dream job petting dogs and playing mario kart 🧵 prev @amazon @onfido @thread stephencook.dev London, England Joined August 2014

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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

4 years ago

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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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

4 years ago

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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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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

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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

home stretch... we can do it

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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

please enjoy this entirely fictional comic which is definitely not based on my own personal experiences in any way stephencook.dev/comics/how-i-d…

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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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

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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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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Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev

5 years ago

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