kristina

CTO at - get your invoices paid! formerly @gvteam, @google and @mongodb.

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My closet is full of teeshirts from now-defunct startups. It occurred to me: I'm wearing the skin of dead startups

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More Saturday/Sunday commits than I'd like long-term, but here's the visual of being a technical founder. ~2.5k commits in the last year.

You can see where we pivoted last December and then figured out what the heck to build.

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I was feeling guilty that we haven't invested more in how our site looks on mobile. AWS docs on mobile:

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My husband and I are in a battle of attrition to see who will replace the bathtub soap

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@WeaponOutfitter @QuickBooks I was on shitty Internet and so it was lagging more and more as I tried to reconcile expenses. I think it just doesn't handle iffy internet well.

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Really loving @QuickBooks new UI!

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I've been installing Java for 25 years now and I'm still pretty sure I'm installing the wrong flavor/version every time.

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Oh yeah, also Java, Bazelisk, upgrading the Linux kernel a couple of times, and created a GitHub app for oauth.

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"Fun" weekend project installing Gerrit -> installing gerrit-oauth-provider -> installing bazel -> installing go...

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Tell us how you really feel, Gerrit.

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I'm like a teenage girl staring at her selfies when I'm looking at my PRs. I wrote the unit test, I don't need to keep staring at it thinking about how nicely I named the variables. Programmer narcissism, I guess.

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My friend's mom said my friend wasn't a "real engineer" because she "doesn't drive a train." This has been living rent-free in my head for years.

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Using timezones other than UTC is like playing a game of telephone where every player adds or subtracts a random amount from the number they heard and the last person has to guess the original number.

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I love steam heat. It's like always having a weird neighbor making sounds where you're like "wtf are they doing?"

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New blog post: how to sync @stripe transactions to @QuickBooks for free: https://t.co/aS34TzIGAs

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Sauron gets a bad rap, but you can't scam an honest man. If everyone in Middle Earth had been Tom Bombadil, he would have just given out some rings.

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Working on unpaid invoice escalation path.

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wtf, why is "finance" a reserved system label in gmail?

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Tried Fitness Boxing on the Switch and #1: it's terrible and #2: weirdly, it doesn't support southpaws. Why?! Just mirror the video.

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Old-fashioned revolving doors with chains between the sections are really cool. The chains have zero resistance to compression, but because all the sections are linked in a circle, they are held in place.