Nathan Friend

Remote Software Engineer at @stripe and cellist based out of Ontario. Previously at @gitlab. Fascinated with building usable, delightful software.

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

My wife is officially a published children's book author! Preorder her book here: https://t.co/E6TGy3efyD

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And I worked on this one too!

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Pretty cool example of crypto going mainstream: Meta is launching creator stablecoin payouts, built on @tempo and @link. Live in Colombia and Philippines; 160+ countries coming soon.

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

Very excited to show what I've been working on recently!

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/vYdvNtJgpE. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.

I asked Claude to buy itself a gift. It chose HTTPZine on Gumroad.

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

Super interesting episode on audio/video quality featuring my friend @randyrektor!

[Syntax @syntaxfm]

super great episode today with our producer @randyrektor https://t.co/1m5eFIvpMo

[Stripe @stripe]

We built a machine to track Black Friday/Cyber Monday on Stripe.

Explore real-time data all weekend: https://t.co/67Jw9zaOpQ.

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

I've been working on the embedded Connect onboarding component for more than a year! Really excited to have it officially announced at Sessions this morning.

[Stripe @stripe]

Updates for Connect platforms announced at Stripe Sessions:

Embedded components
Use 17 pre-built components to add onboarding, payment method settings, and tax directly to your platform—with your brand.

Faster access to Stripe Capital
Complete onboarding from the Dashboard and provide loans to your users in days.

Pricing tools
Adjust your pricing with conditional logic. Modify your fees based on payment method or country—with no code.

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

A built a weird keyboard: https://t.co/VmZ9hqavbU

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

@hellorayana @gitlab @hellorayana I miss working with you too! What a fantastic team we had! 🥇

This also reminds me of how good GitLab's remote/async culture is. So cool that we can still go back and reference arcane product discussions from years ago. Definitely not the norm in the industry!

[Andrew Lunny @alunny]

Over the weekend, my team at @stripe converted the company's largest JS codebase from Flow to @typescript. We modified about 3.5 million lines of code, and then hundreds of developers came in Monday morning ready to write TS.

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

@olearycrew @benhamner @olearycrew Love it 🤯 Brilliant use of meta-analysis!

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Some details about how @bot_wordle works: https://t.co/HCBMlulXUm

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@danielyp29 Yep, it eliminates all guesses that are incompatible with previous clues (so effectively plays it on hard mode).

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

Couldn't resist turning it into a Twitter bot

[Wordle Bot @bot_wordle]

Wordle 217 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

@danielyp29

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@danielyp29 In both cases, it found the last 4 letters fairly quickly, but ran out of time while testing different options for the first letter (the solution to 113 was "HATCH" and 123 was "JAUNT").

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And now it solves Absurdal as well! https://t.co/q1XLWKduxn

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An automatic #wordle solver bookmarklet: https://t.co/Apkcdku3IZ

Spoiler alert: the demo GIF solves today's (Jan 20) puzzle!

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

@jake_burden_ @ericclemmons @floppyspoon @ericclemmons Awesome, welcome in advance to Stripe! Definitely hit me up, would love to gossip about @jake_burden_

[Nathan Friend @NathanAFriend]

Swag makes me irrationally happy.