michelle  

@hazelcough

soft-bread engineer 🍞; public transit enthusiast 🚃

Oakland, CA
blog.michellebu.com
Joined October 2011
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  1. Retweeted
    Feb 6

    People don't want to learn your API, so think of it as a ladder: 1. Maximize the problems experts can solve. 2. Minimize how much a novice needs to learn when they take their first step. 3. Make a smooth ladder between their first and last step.

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  2. 13 Mar 2021

    Today, my sister got a message from 2017 me: "You should not use your secret key with Stripe.js. Please pass a publishable key instead."

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  3. 15 Dec 2020

    And a big thanks to , , , , , and for being amazing partners in making this blog post actually happen! 💖

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  4. 15 Dec 2020

    I’m proud of and thankful for all of the current and past Stripes who worked together over many years to see this through. In particular, , , , , , , Maddie, and . 🙏

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  5. 15 Dec 2020

    Writing this post was a year-long project of its own. I needed sufficient distance from the project to feel confident reflecting on it. It would be misleading to understate the emotional impact of a project of this scale and length.

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  6. 15 Dec 2020

    I'm excited to share the story of the big payments API redesign I led at over the last few years! 💸

    How Stripe’s payments APIs were designed: .
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  7. Retweeted
    22 Apr 2020

    My team at shipped a new thing today that we’re pretty excited about. This was largely the work of and 👏(with instigation from ). Try it on desktop.

    We just launched an experimental new tutorial for setting up . I personally think it's 🤯 but would love to hear thoughts from anyone currently integrating!
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  8. 22 Apr 2020

    as someone who's known for not being very *online*, i'm overwhelmed by the response to this. i loved the interview format, but it meant i didn't go deep on specific topics. if there's an area you want to hear more about, lmk! (maybe i'll finally publish a second blog post. 😬)

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  9. 21 Apr 2020

    i’m really excited to share my path to staff. thanks for interviewing me, !

    Excited to share 's path to the Payments Products Tech Lead role at . Michelle shares a bunch of tools she uses like her "top 3" doc of current priorities and using a decision log when she and her team designed Stripe Payment Intents.
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  10. 11 Apr 2020

    data is beautiful

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  11. 11 Apr 2020

    after eating 1 pack of milano cookies yesterday and 2 today, my sister is instituting social distancing of milano to flatten the curve of consumption.

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  12. 19 Mar 2020

    "we haven't met in person yet, and now we will likely not meet for a long, long time." ☹️

    i always struggle to end "We haven’t met yet, but..." sentences in intro emails. i think it's because of the "but." is there a "yes, and" version of this opening?
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  13. 14 Mar 2020

    the best part is that we live in 4 different cities, but have never done this before! remote friendship is stronger than ever :').

    truly appropriate for the times: using zoom to screenshare Pandemic ($10 on steam!) with friends. we decided the yellow disease is most covid-shaped.
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  14. 12 Mar 2020

    i bought tea with tasting notes of "bread." i am once again disappointed. ☹️

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  15. 9 Mar 2020

    i always struggle to end "We haven’t met yet, but..." sentences in intro emails. i think it's because of the "but." is there a "yes, and" version of this opening?

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  16. 4 Mar 2020

    this is a really good tree from the weekend. would’ve liked to spend more time with it. @ Green Gulch Farm

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  17. 2 Mar 2020

    since folks are sharing good skin care advice such as "do not touch your face," here are mine: - moisturize your hands after washing them - do not touch your face but also please wash your face (but also please do not wash your face as much as you wash your hands) - use sunscreen

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  18. 2 Mar 2020

    (why is this not possible on the english keyboard with predictive mode enabled?)

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  19. 2 Mar 2020

    the best part about knowing how to express your emotions in chinese is being able to use the chinese keyboard as an emoji keyboard.

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  20. 27 Feb 2020

    “this function is not allowed to have any mutatoes today”

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