Translation keys are a hack that got normalised They destroy context, which is the entire point of language We can do better: 18ways.com/en-GB/blog/i18n-i…

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

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 🙏

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

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

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.

I regularly wasted time managing my tmux workspace, so I made a plugin to make it easier to make "groupings" github.com/stephencookdev/tm…

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

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

home stretch... we can do it

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

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

That way lies Skynet

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

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

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"

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

The thing that worries me most about "lockdown 2.0" is how often versions end up as "2.0.13-sillyfix--final-FINAL"

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

In hilarious irony, as of literally today, your blog post is out of date again, as React 17 was released