Stephen Cook

founder | prev software @amazon @onfido @letsdothis

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

Translation keys are a hack that got normalised

They destroy context, which is the entire point of language

We can do better: https://t.co/7t3Y0AtPMw

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

@CSS__Cafe @FronteersConf I was taking a little pause at the moment 💆 but would definitely be interested for the future!

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

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 🙏

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

Writer's block? Pro tip — sink countless hours into coding your own homebrew writing software, that you will inevitably also abandon

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

I remember when I had normal dreams, instead of ones where I explain to people "you can't merge package.json files like that"

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

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.

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

I regularly wasted time managing my tmux workspace, so I made a plugin to make it easier to make "groupings"

https://t.co/SBdYftNaDz

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

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

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

@alvaroflara Oh yeah, part of me is fully expecting to wake up to December 32nd 😂 I'm currently drowning that voice out with Step Into Christmas by Elton John

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

home stretch... we can do it

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@MattCooper_ Lord.

This adds 40 years to you. I'm in shock.

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please enjoy this entirely fictional comic which is definitely not based on my own personal experiences in any way

https://t.co/JTXugHHsEy

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

@StivenSkyrah That way lies Skynet

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

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

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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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"

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

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

[Stephen Cook @StephenCookDev]

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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@type__error "Oh great, this package decided to minify their source before pushing to npm"

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@Jack_Franklin In hilarious irony, as of literally today, your blog post is out of date again, as React 17 was released