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I said some things about programming, career development, and building commercial open source. Give it a listen if you're interested :D
Check out the latest interview with Fable Tales, Staff Engineer at Stripe!
If you're a strong technical IC with dreams of having an impact at a leadership level, this one's for you.
podcast.tuple.app/episodes/f…
Important to note! Stripe is building something like this for the entire internets, it's called Link and it lets you save and re-use your payment information across the entire Stripe network: link.com/
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📣 attention internet: it's wildly suboptimal to build your own checkout.
in 2022, 65,000 businesses upgraded to @stripe's new fancy optimized payment UIs and saw a, on avg, 7% increase in revenue!
try 'em:
- Checkout: checkout.stripe.dev
- Elements: stripe.com/docs/payments/pay…
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Frontier is buying more carbon removal!
We’ve whittled 150+ applications down to seven companies burying, injecting, and mineralizing CO₂ from the air and ocean.
@stripe and @shopify are committing $11M and will be the first customers for five of them.
frontierclimate.com/writing/…
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ICYMI: we've rebuilt our Slack integration.
Now `/tuple` will spin up a call that anyone can join asynchronously.
tuple.app/slack
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Last year, a group of geeks convened on Discord in response to a Twitter thread about California’s woes with the vaccine rollout. They very quickly found themselves running a critical piece of national public health infrastructure.
Here is our story:
worksinprogress.co/issue/the…
An interesting result of GPT style models is that they are better at Google interview questions than I am.
this is part of Stripe's scalability secret sauce: we routinely load test to much higher levels than we expect to see from users, which lets us identify problems before our user traffic is at risk.
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Black Friday/Cyber Monday [BFCM] is a big deal for our users. So it’s a big deal for @stripe too.
We handled billions of $s in sales each day of BFCM. A 5 minute downtime = tens of millions in lost revenue for our users.
Here's how we achieved >99.9999% uptime. 👇
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Other context: the Black Friday and Cyber Monday peaks of years past are now just regular Fridays and Mondays (go internet!).
Lesson: If you build for 3-5x of this year's expected capacity peak, you'll be naturally better prepared for next year's day in and day out growth needs.
Stripe has upstreamed our internal changes to Rubyfmt: github.com/penelopezone/ruby…. I haven't cut a release yet but please clone and check out the branch down and try it out. This is the first daily drivable build of Rubyfmt.
Talk about a huge benefit. Stripe atlas will now template you out common legal documents that startups need. 💪🏻
Don’t overpay for basic legal templates. @atlas now comes with 15+ templates for hiring, selling, and fundraising.
There’s even a button to “Request a template” and we’ll draft it with top startup law firms for you (and the internet).
In your dashboard today (next open source?)
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Almost 1% of the world's humans live in Thailand! We're very optimistic about the Thai digital economy and look forward to supporting the burgeoning community of local entrepreneurs with global ambition.
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Today, we're launching the Chrome extension on @ProductHunt 🐱
If you're a fan of SavvyCal, we'd really appreciate support! Every little bit counts ♥️
producthunt.com/posts/savvyc…
🚀 @SavvyCal for Chrome is officially live!
→ One-click access to your links from any page
→ Propose times based on your availability natively in Gmail or anywhere you’re scheduling a meeting
savvycal.com/chrome-extensio…
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The fact that Stripe can move this quickly is really impressive. This first tweet from @defrag_fable when they were at 7% autoformatting was from September 1st of *this year*. 🤯
xitter.cf/defrag_fable/status/15…
