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Alex Sexton

8 years

What if instead of self-driving trucks we had direct lines between common shipping locations so traffic coulDAMMIT I invented trains again.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

I feel like we didn’t focus enough on the fact that someone in the Trump campaign meant to schedule the “four seasons hotel” but definitely accidentally scheduled this “four seasons landscaping” store and they had to follow through with it. Veep was not this good.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

WHAT DO YOU MEAN “ITS A HOTEL?!”

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

My favorite instagram feature is how every time I open the app, I see a photo/video that looks interesting and then the entire application refreshes and it’s gone forever.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

In case you didn’t see how normal it went:

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

A message about security from the CEO of Zoom 😉

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Alex Sexton

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4 years

@ArmandDoma @izs “Four Seasons gave me a really hard time about reserving for today but i talked them down to $15k for the whole thing.”

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

Today is my last day at Stripe. Made it just over 11 years! I memorized all your credit card numbers, you idiots. You just gave them right to me.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

After you turn 30 the “walk of shame” becomes showing up at Home Depot 30 minutes after you were just there.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

free startup idea: a date picker

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

Thanks for connecting your phone to your car! I went ahead and assumed that you'd like to listen to the alphabetically first song in itunes.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 months

Cleaning a bit and came across my @jeresig autographed copy of jQuery 1.4.2.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

@emmaloffhagen @claudcockerell Explain aluminum

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

I’m excited for the new to begin rolling out. A) because it’s beautiful and the team did a great job, but B) because I’ve been sitting on this video of @bdc trying to animate the wave background and hitting a snag for a few months now.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

You just have to appreciate that Workday never lets you know their next UI move. 🤌🏻

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

"I do not condone violent protest under any circumstances" "I have a right to own this gun in case I need to rise up against the government"

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

7 years

Unfortunately my redesign for the Stripe logo was not picked. Office politics as usual.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

I work on @stripe 's internal component library and I recently spent some time integrating axe (a11y audits) into our tests, and I love it. It's just *so nice* to have this run on every commit. puppeteer/axe-puppeteer are leaps above the previous generation of tools like this.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

The reason you have 3 different types of checkboxes in your design system is the same reason you have 3 different types of garlic salt in your pantry. At some point the cost of adding a new one is lower than figuring out if the old one is still there and is still good.

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Alex Sexton

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5 years

I'm not saying everyone who puts their chrome devtools on the left is a serial killer, but i'm also not not saying that.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

I call overly nested/indented code 'Tea-Party Code' because it's so far to the right and doesn't make any sense.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

Tesla buying bitcoin, and then causing a spike in bitcoin prices, and then making millionaires out of a group of cryptonerds who worship elon, who then turn around and buy his new cars with their winnings, is some next level money laundering.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

10 years

CSS Colorguard. Detect colors in your CSS that are visually very close (and should be merged). Please report bugs!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

Happy to celebrate 6 years at @stripe this month. Here’s to 6 more!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

Hello World! Parker Ray Sexton - 11/10/2016

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

I set up as a joke in 2010 and it has essentially gone unnoticed for 11 years. Now it’s popular on reddit and cools are tweeting it. Let this be a lesson to all of you: keep every domain. Never let them expire. You could be missing out on *dozens* of hits

My Black job is to get Kamala elected! 🖤

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4 years

I love dis!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

2 years

The L5 interview is an exploration into a difficult architecture problem, focusing on 7 key areas of product and application development. The L6 interview is just debugging when the grunt.js website started rendering the word 'grunt' as 'dorkq' on the motorola droid.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

ProTip: Add a w=1 query param to github diffs to ignore whitespace. Usually way easier to read. h/t @aaronforsander

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

@amatchneer From the man himself:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — 11:30am!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Supreme Court is just a regular court, but with sour cream and cheese on top.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

"10 random JavaScript Interview Questions that attempt to make the interviewer feel smarter than the interviewee."

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

MongoDB: snapchat for databases.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

*can't draw with pencil and paper* "i bet i would draw really good if i got an ipad" *can't draw on ipad* "who could have forseen this"

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

You’re more likely to have a good time if you build everything with the expectation that in 3 years someone will send a conpany-wide email titled: 🎉 Finally Removed <Thing I’m Building>!!!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

Developers using a UI: *turns off every notification, hovers no tooltips* Developers building a UI: *adds another notification, hides more info behind a tooltip*

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

6 years

Japanese is wild. “Daikon” is a radish. “Yama” is a mountain. But “Daikanyama” is apparent *not* a radish mountain, as I was led to believe.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

This tickled me.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

6 years

Someone create a startup where you pay $50 to ship your boxes of old vga cables/TI86 “link” cables/200 micro usb cables/the weird fat usb cables/etc and then later that year when you realize you actually need *one* thing from the box they agree to text you “dang u were right.”

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

My dad retired yesterday after working at the same place since after college for 41 years (!!). I texted him today to see what he was up to. Looking forward to texting more now.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

My dad just sent me an email saying that a recruiter reached out to him on LinkedIn to ask if I was receiving his messages.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

If you’re feeling bad about an accidental test email that you sent to production, the IT provider for my dog’s vet accidentally sent out the “pet passed away” email to some large number of users.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

10 years

My two most desired Maps features: "I know how to get out of my own damn neighborhood"™ and "I'm just stopping at a gas station calm down."®

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

If you build JS apps, I wrote an article for you on @smashingmag called "Front-End Ops." -- http://t.co/ig5EBiOoG1

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

Oh man. This is my little team at @stripe ! I’m so glad they finally wrote this. Perceptually uniform color spaces! (To be clear, I didn’t do any of this, but these folks have to deal with me daily. I’m still the team expert on X11 colors fwiw. Ask me anything about papayawhip.)

Stripe

@stripe

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How we made the Stripe Dashboard more accessible with a new color system:

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

Today’s Sesame Street is brought to you by the letters F, D, & T and the number 75 Million.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

I know everyone has written a testing library, but this one is actually awesome: http://t.co/g6C8OWCIKK -- switching now.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

Had all the info, but @Chase required my wife to call to replace her card. I just called back and used a 'lady-voice.' SECURITY ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

6 years

Well intentioned employee: “If we spend the extra money and get TVs to display the menu we won’t have to print new menus every time we change the prices.” 6mo later:

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

90% of people can't complete this simple 5 question quiz. Reply with your answers to prove you're in the top 10%!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

1 year

They don’t print any 10-year pins at @stripe yet, so @hugobaeta got me 10 1-year pins.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

A video game that’s entirely just trying to install it. Once it’s installed, you’ve won.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

I just don’t know who to believe: the people who counted the votes, or this older, yelling man who really *feels* as though he won. It’s impossible to know!

Donald J. Trump

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4 years

I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

Hey Siri, tell Google to tell Alexa to use HomeKit to tell Sonos to play The Beatles on Spotify in the Living Room.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

In a week or so I’m gonna join @fat @iano @mdo & @jcrosby on the @pierredotco team. They got me a laptop and everything. I’m excited to work with cools as well as smarts.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

When you consider the websites that professional web developers have, the haircuts that professional hair stylists have make way more sense.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

@jdan I've been pushing for this for a long time internally and would love some back up in my upcoming design crit.

Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

7 years

Unfortunately my redesign for the Stripe logo was not picked. Office politics as usual.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

It's free for Amazon to ship me a weight set in 2 days, but it costs $2.50 to print Ticketmaster tickets from my own printer.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

@jkup @schneems Nahh they can still afford a conference room, this is definitely the work of whoever trump’s jonah is.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

~12 years ago @dylans frustratingly asked the W3C CSS list where the silly X11 colors came from, so I found out: http://t.co/DhXa9nFwku

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

I'm looking through the npm docs and I can't find where it says that "if you use npm scripts instead of grunt/gulp, you must tell everyone."

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

When I joined Stripe as a remote engineer 6 years ago, I was excited to work with Avi, who lived on an island off the coast of western Canada, accessible only by boat or plane. He was even better at being *literally remote* than me. A solid foundation for testing :)

Avi Bryant

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I was, I believe, the first to be hired at Stripe as a remote engineer, and I've been doing what I can over the last 6 years to establish remote work as a core part of our eng culture. This year, we're doubling down on that, and will hire over 100 remotes:

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

4 years

The “walk of shame” in your 60s is the walk to remove all the unsuccessful political signs in your yard and hoping your neighbors don’t see you.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

12 years

I wrote a blog post on "Deploying JavaScript Applications." Caching, lazy loading, scout files. It has it all. - http://t.co/kZVVUqe2CT

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

3 years

One time at work I gave a 30min talk to a team as requested by their manager and after I was done I asked if anyone had any questions and there was one question and it was “why are you telling us this?” which pretty much serves as a shorter stand-in for all my other work stories.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

6 years

By the time you’re 35 you should have 3 months worth of bottles of garlic powder that have only been used once because you aren’t sure if there’s any at the house so might as well get it just in case, it’s only 3 dollars for the comfort of knowing you have everything to make th

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

10 years

"Modern desktop browsers only" is to web development what "ignore friction and air resistance" is to physics.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

sorry if you were interested in this topic, i have no idea. this is just a honeypot for jeff weinstein.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

In which @paul_irish designs a hoodie for @justinbieber #html5boilerplate #Modernizr http://t.co/NNSuVgtMBz

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

6 months

Everyone talking about how this page finally gives Stripe’s page a run for its money and it’s just Thomas making both lol.

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@thomasdegry

6 months

👨‍💻 We launched a brand new yesterday! This is just the beginning and I'm excited to keep building. The reference we used internally was moving our old furniture into a new house and we can't wait to add features, redo content, etc. More to come! 👀

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

Gonna start referring to planning meetings as "Pre-mortems"

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

This escape room is wild.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

i searched for 2009 in my phone and the only photo that came up that had me in it is this photo where im making @jeresig regret sitting next to me at a boat dinner

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

🚀 I helped scale @stripe from less than 50 people to over 7,000. Here’s 5 tips I learned about craft and quality along the way. 🧵

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

You know when you see this? <a href="javascript:void"> One of the cutest xss attacks is dressing that up to look like a url to pass regex.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

10 years

Miss Front-End Ops Conf and the live stream?! Catch all of it here:

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

@rauchg @shuding_ that ol 60mb trick

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

default exports were a mistake

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

ProTip: Apple tries to "help" identify supported resolutions, but hdmi extenders oft get in the way. *option-click*

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

10 years

If at first you don't succeed, run the tests again to see if maybe one of them is flaky and if that doesn't work maybe just delete them.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

No one hates autocorrect more than Johnny I've.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

"Well I hope our children don't grow up to be like either of them." Honestly I'd be super proud of my kid if he ran a private email server.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

The more successful you become with a set of tools, the more your inclination to learn new, better tools decreases, and you are left behind.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

10 years

I'll have 5+ years experience with JavaScript as of this June. I'll finally qualify for all these job listings!

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

I think the correct behavior is that if i place my finger on a post, and the feed refreshes, the jump shouldn’t occur and the new posts should load above the one I’m holding.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

8 years

*knock on my door* *creaks open* Man in tie: "Hello sir, do you have a moment to discuss using npm scripts instead of grunt or gulp?"

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

11 years

New killer app idea: when you open the app, you die.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

Let’s just say it starts with 42 and ends with 42…

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

(Note: this is a recycled joke format from @BrennanLM and @samreich and I always loved their CEO videos, so support them, they’d have done this far better)

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

@patrickc our company code style rules would require a semicolon, please modify before using

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

Mom: I'm coming over tomorrow Me: I'll clean Mom: No please don't! *clean for 26 hrs straight* *mom arrives* Mom: see, I can handle a mess

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 years

I’ve spent a significant amount of my time at @stripe making this a reality. Our goal is to increase the GDP of the internet and it’s easy to see how well localization and accessibility fit into that goal. So we often… prioritize them. 🤯 It’s great! (So much more to do!)

Stripe

@stripe

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Bonjour, hola, hallo, and 你好! The Stripe Dashboard now comes in French, Spanish, German, and Simplified Chinese, in addition to English, Japanese, and Italian. More languages on the way.

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7 years

My kid started reliably saying “dada” while I was away this past week. Now I just have to get him to say it to me instead of the dog.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

An npm module walks into a bar. It brings stool, grunt-stool, brtndr, bevera, phantomjs, 31 copies of rimraf, c bindings to tetris on NES, a

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

9 years

What I assume it's like to record the under-appreciated little parts in songs.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

1 year

that feeling when u mix up the types of property damage

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

7 years

I don't mean to brag, but I learned what 'autodidact' meant without help from anyone.

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Alex Sexton

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7 years

@anamariecox @darth This is my dog batman as a puppy.

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

5 months

what a ride

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Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

3 years

hey if you have "design systems engineering" experience (or similar) and think working on design systems at @stripe with me might be fun my dms are open let's work together for a time

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