kristina

My closet is full of teeshirts from now-defunct startups. It occurred to me: I'm wearing the skin of dead startups

More Saturday/Sunday commits than I'd like long-term, but here's the visual of being a technical founder. ~2.5k commits in the last year. You can see where we pivoted last December and then figured out what the heck to build.

I was feeling guilty that we haven't invested more in how our site looks on mobile. AWS docs on mobile:

My husband and I are in a battle of attrition to see who will replace the bathtub soap

@WeaponOutfitter @QuickBooks I was on shitty Internet and so it was lagging more and more as I tried to reconcile expenses. I think it just doesn't handle iffy internet well.

@kchodorow @QuickBooks I think it's related to cookies: switching incognito mode fixed it for me

Really loving @QuickBooks new UI!

I've been installing Java for 25 years now and I'm still pretty sure I'm installing the wrong flavor/version every time.

Oh yeah, also Java, Bazelisk, upgrading the Linux kernel a couple of times, and created a GitHub app for oauth.

"Fun" weekend project installing Gerrit -> installing gerrit-oauth-provider -> installing bazel -> installing go...

Tell us how you really feel, Gerrit.

I'm like a teenage girl staring at her selfies when I'm looking at my PRs. I wrote the unit test, I don't need to keep staring at it thinking about how nicely I named the variables. Programmer narcissism, I guess.

My friend's mom said my friend wasn't a "real engineer" because she "doesn't drive a train." This has been living rent-free in my head for years.

Using timezones other than UTC is like playing a game of telephone where every player adds or subtracts a random amount from the number they heard and the last person has to guess the original number.

I love steam heat. It's like always having a weird neighbor making sounds where you're like "wtf are they doing?"

New blog post: how to sync @stripe transactions to @QuickBooks for free: kchodorow.com/2025/02/03/how…

Sauron gets a bad rap, but you can't scam an honest man. If everyone in Middle Earth had been Tom Bombadil, he would have just given out some rings.

Working on unpaid invoice escalation path.

wtf, why is "finance" a reserved system label in gmail?

Tried Fitness Boxing on the Switch and #1: it's terrible and #2: weirdly, it doesn't support southpaws. Why?! Just mirror the video.

Old-fashioned revolving doors with chains between the sections are really cool. The chains have zero resistance to compression, but because all the sections are linked in a circle, they are held in place.