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Thomas Degry

2 years

Started a new gig this week ✨ Super excited to join @OpenAI as a creative developer on the design team where I'll be working on 🥳

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 months

Big morning, very proud to officially become a citizen of the beautiful country I’ve been calling home for the last 10+ years 🇺🇸

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 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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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Had the pleasure of working on the front-end for Stripe's new billing page over the past two months. All of it with my former, and now current, partner-in-crime @tatsvc on the design side of things! Lots of interactive parts and animation! ✨

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

9 months

❤️

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9 months

i love the openai team so much

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

9 months

OpenAI is nothing without its people

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 months

Proud of the landing page we shipped for Sora with limited time & resources. Give the carousels a whirl using your trackpad or on mobile. Embrace scroll snap points and rip out those third party libraries. 🥳 P.S. Our team is hiring!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

📣 Our small but mighty team is hiring! We're looking for our second eng who can help us expand on the foundation of our site. If you are considering applying, don't hesitate to reach out!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

JOB ALERT! Want to work on the @stripe website with me? We're hiring for a developer who has an amazing 👁 for detail & is passionate about creating delightful experiences for our marketing site. ✨ DMs open, RTs appreciated, job post be found here:

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

Today we started rolling out a new @stripe website, we put so much love into it, both visible and invisible (it's fast 😎). This is by far the most meaningful & fun project I've ever worked on in my career and I'm so proud of what we made. Go check it out:

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Transitioning angled video players, fun flipping grid interactions, responsive masked stripe images, bouncy moving messages. You name it and we have it on our new @stripe jobs page! Lots of fun working on the pixels of this one with @tatsvc @narrowd .

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

Re-implemented @gopatrik 's ChatGPT● animation on the web with with @rubywchen 🎬

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

Another one in the books @stripe . This morning we announced Stripe Corporate Card at Sessions, quite pleased with the end result ✨ check it out: Couldn't have done it without @narrowd @destroytoday @micaelaballew @phlntn @amfeng and @foxtrottery 🙌

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

We launched Stripe Press today! Really enjoyed working on some of the front-end animations & interactions on the landing page: . All made possible thanks to @zebriez and @tyler_thompson ! cc// @stripe

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

🚢 After a few crazy weeks (months? what is time), I finally had some time to put a little love into today's ChatGPT plugins post ✨ including a fun little easter egg to take people to the waitlist 🥚

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Got the opportunity to work on a shiny new About page for @stripe and we launched it yesterday! ✨ Wouldn't be what it is today without @kimeejohnson on comms and Wes Mitchell on design! 🤩

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

Come join us!

Maddie Simens

@maddiesimens

1 year

We’re hiring our next product designer at OpenAI to help ChatGPT reach its full potential. I believe we're at an inflection point for human-computer interaction, and this is an opportunity to help shape the next chapter.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 months

Btw we're hiring, our full-stack role is live (JD needs a refresh to reflect our new infra), frontend role coming soon and we're also looking for designers who are passionate about storytelling, design systems, localization, etc! Don't hesitate to reach out.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

7 years

Car: 16min Public transportation : 19min Regular bike: 15min @jumpbikes : ~ 10min 🚲🚲🚲

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

@destroytoday Exercise is always the first one I give up on 🤭

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

How I keep track of watering 23 plants. 🌵🌱

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Loving the @halidecamera and @usedarkroom combination! 🙌🏽 #shotoniphone

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

9 months

❤️❤️❤️

OpenAI

@OpenAI

9 months

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

San Francisco looking absolutely stunning this morning 🥰🏃‍♂️

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Someone stop me 😯😍

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

I called a pizzeria in SF last night asking if they could make a Hawaiian pizza. They just said "no" 😶

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

3 years

New work for @arcinstitute ✨ fun fact, leveraged the pythagorean theorem to calculate animation delays for the RNA graphic! Design by the lovely @micaelaballew 🥰

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

7 years

End of an era, leaving DC after four incredible years! I'll cherish the beautiful memories and the many great friends. Very excited to start a new chapter out west! #byesnow

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

The scooters are back in San Francisco which means commuting is fun again 🛴😍

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

👇 They really outdid themselves: - TTFB saw a ~1900% improvement 🤯 - Native JavaScript modules with minimal transforms 😍 - Rebuilt from the ground up with caching in mind 🥳 - Inlining the critical path css 🤗

Nick Jones

@narrowd

4 years

The design and animation on are getting a lot of attention but special shout out to the infrastructure devs whose work is only noticed by real connoisseurs (unless things break). Your work has been rock solid and we are lucky to work alongside you. ❤️

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 months

@btibor91 @OpenAI @OpenAIDevs Fixed, that was a not intentional!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

Not only does today mark six years in the U.S., it's also my two year anniversary at @stripe ! Who would've guessed on that first day in the freezing cold in front of the Washington Monument. Lots to be grateful for. Cheers @tatsvc 🍻

Tatiana Van Campenhout🌲

@tatsvc

5 years

Exactly 6 years ago @thomasdegry and I jumped on a plane to the US for what we thought would be a 3 month internship in DC. We went from classmates to roommates to coworkers, but more importantly to really great friends! Cheers to the next 6 years 🍻🇺🇸

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Today's haul 😍

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

Found this screencast of a little debug tool I built for an animated chat component for @stripe a while back! This was used while prototyping the chat animation on.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Beautiful fall weekend in Yosemite. 🏞 My first time going in the fall and it was amazing how little other people were there. 🍂

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Ran my first half marathon ever this morning! Pretty beat right now but what a beautiful morning!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

2 years

NINE years! 🥳🤯 to many more ❤️🇺🇸

Tatiana Van Campenhout🌲

@tatsvc

2 years

I can’t believe today marks 9 years in this country 🇺🇸 From DC, to SF, to Seattle—where I finally feel at home 💙

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

📣 Exciting news! I'm still hiring for a Full-Stack Developer at OpenAI for our Communications Design team. Be the backbone of our engineering foundation as we serve a growing company. Apply now!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

3 years

JavaScript is hard.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

I built a little thing yesterday! 🤓 My friends started @drinktroop and asked to take 📸 at their first pop-up store. I thought it'd be fun if people could receive the pictures ~immediately. Here's what I built with in a few hours:

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

The city was looking fine last night 👌🏽

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

This city is quite the looker sometimes 😍

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

Got lucky this weekend! 🐻

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

2 years

Morning Colorado! 🛬

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

9 months

📈✅

95 Percent of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door

Nearly all of OpenAI’s 770 employees have now joined a letter threatening to quit in protest over the board’s decision to fire CEO Sam Altman. They’re demanding he be reinstated.

www.wired.com

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

8 months

@jdan 🥇

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

I truly had forgotten about Microsoft Encarta. Those were the days. 📖

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Home in a bottle ❤️

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

Did a speed-run animation yesterday for our ChatGPT data controls blog post. 🎬

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Proud 🇧🇪

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

@tatsvc @mirshko @ThunderNixon @rafahari @brian_lovin @HaikuForTeams @bdc Header animation took about ~ 2 days to build fully. Found this screencast of early on, when we only had 4 out of the final 7 steps build out. The buttons helped by allowing me to click 10 times to make sure the transition was exactly as we wanted.

Screen Recording 2018-03-12 at 06.13 pm

Shared with Zight

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

My new Type-S is such a pleasure to type on. Every key stroke is pure joy 😍

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 months

@abrahamvphilip 👋 it was just begging for it 🤓 glad someone noticed and appreciated it!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

@ryanflorence Appreciate the feedback! We tried to be conservative, ~all animations are paused completely when not in view, when hardware acceleration is disabled we don't run most animations etc. Hoping we can iterate & improve over the next few weeks.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

Lots of love for the neighborhood 🥰

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

@narrowd Add control and it adds the contents to your clipboard instead of your desktop!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

@JoshWComeau @tatsvc We're considering writing a blog post soon for the Stripe blog!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Picked up some home area goodies today 🍺❤️🇧🇪

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

When you manage to fuck up your first-ever perfect month on day 27 because of a missed standing goal 😫😫😫

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

@zachklein I took it back today!!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

Bummed to hear about @istrategylabs closing. Not only was it filled with amazing people, it was the company that took a leap of faith on me by offering me an internship and only a few months later, by pursuing a more long-term visa (multiple times).

Maggie Winters

@maggiewinters_

5 years

Let me tell you a story about my favorite agency, @istrategylabs . It’s closing next week. I'm not really ready to talk about it but it seems like everyone else is, so I guess I have to, too.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

2 years

This was one of my favorite components I worked for on when we did the redesign. I’ve been meaning to write about it because it was a very interesting challenge. @pacocoursey broke it down below:

Paco

@pacocoursey

2 years

The implementation for this is really clever: duplicate and overlay the tabs with active styling, then animate `clip-path` to the active tab position.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

I hope we can shed some light on some of the technical details soon. If you're interested in working on @stripe with us, come join our team . We have a lot more exciting stuff in the pipeline.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

We're a small team that works closely with the design, marketing and PR team to help narrate the Stripe story with our code and story-telling skills 📖. Our next human can be either in San Francisco or remote! DM me with any additional questions 💌

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

HTML, CSS & the WebAnimation API

Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

Did a speed-run animation yesterday for our ChatGPT data controls blog post. 🎬

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

Our team is responsible for communicating the company's work and vision for the future. We value craft, speed, attention to detail and a willingness to do things the right way. Our audience is huge and global with millions of people coming to every day!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

11 years

Gelukkig nieuwjaar tweeps! Ja vandaag pas want gisteren was ik niet veel soeps !

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

My team is looking for an engineering manager! Come work with me on all things stripe[.]com! ✨

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 months

@Harry_Aldian I took an odd route, multiple J1s, two failed H1B lotteries to employment based green card and then after 5+ years citizenship. Patience is the name of the game

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

@dan_abramov I’ve noticed this too! You have to click play again before doing so to prevent it 🧐

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Found all of these beauties throughout the city 😍

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

❤️

Ben Cline

@yocline

1 year

Stripe fam! Past and present @Kim_____B @narrowd @lil_dill @thomasdegry

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Oh California.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

This, so much of this. SF is congested with cars during rush hour, but when some environment friendly scooters block a side walk, they draw the line. Hard to believe, electric bikes and scooters can change how we get around in urban areas.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

I love @flightradar24 but I'd _love_ to build a better app with the data myself. A more native design and experience on the iPhone/iPad in combination with some gorgeous @Mapbox maps could make it a true delight to use.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

@edwinwee @maddiesimens Iykyk

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 months

@SlexAxton Haha we still have a ways to go but that’s too kind! ❤️

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

Crazy idea now that we have widgets that show today’s date: let apps like Google Calendar update their app icon so I know what day it is 🙃📆

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 months

My kingdom for @united planes that have WiFi that works. How are one year old 787-10s still not able to load GitHub or stream audio. Most impactful improvement they can make for PaxEx.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

11 years

Online ingecheckt! Nog 17 uren en ik hang al in de lucht ! #oneWeekChina

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

@vasanthramu @ow @stripe We’re rolling out in more locales in the coming days! You can see it by going to

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

Had a lovely day sailing on the bay yesterday ⛵️ it's crazy how beautiful this area is! 😍 thank you for the opportunity @christianvuerings • • • #sanfrancisco #sailing #bayarea #waterplane #sausalito

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

4 years

Credits to all the people in this tweet, so lucky to work with such people that are so detail-oriented and care deeply.

Tatiana Van Campenhout🌲

@tatsvc

4 years

Major props to my lovely teammates: @thomasdegry , @destroytoday , @micaelaballew , @narrowd , @billlabus @quackingduck , @alex_norcliffe , and @jkosoy ! (and former teammate @bdc ) 🥰

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

6 years

I'm really starting to question the decision I made to move to the US... What an embarrassment to the world this president is.

CNN Breaking News

@cnnbrk

6 years

US announces it is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, calling it "a protector of human rights abusers"

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

5 years

Also, we're hiring! Come work with us on the site team or somewhere else at Stripe:

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

11 years

De enige constante in mijn leven is officieel weg gevallen.. Fuck this fluo shit Apple.

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

1 year

You'll get to work with me, two designers @justinjaywang and @rubywchen and our producer Kendra! Some projects that we're hoping to tackle this year: solidify the site's release pipeline and rendering approach, localization + internationalization and performance improvements!

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

11 years

It's incredible how fast you learn to know people when you live together. These 3 months are going to be incredible #twcspring14 #ttdc

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

3 years

2 launches in 2 days! 🤠 Lots of love went into both and and both with an amazing team! ✨

Micaela Ballew Patel

@micaelaballew

3 years

Thrilled to be a part of this launch, and excited that our customers can now automatically collect sales taxes on their Stripe transactions! See the new page that @thomasdegry , @TimRoussilhe , @deGrootPatricia and I designed and built:

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Thomas Degry

@thomasdegry

11 years

Ik zit op dit eigenste moment al 10min met mijn volle 1m95 onder een tafel geplooid voor een verrassing ! #verjaardag

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