Thanesh Rajandran ThaneshR

My Stripe Tax Story

I've been debating for weeks whether or not I was going to write any of this down. I'm a dad with two kids and a house to take care of and a business to run. Adding story-telling like this to my plate is exhausting.

Until yesterday, I had decided to forget about the whole thing, until I received the email that broke the camels back, as it were.

The best way I can describe why I'm writing this email is for the same reason why you might spend two hours dealing with an uncooperative mobile phone carrier to get them to remove that $5 charge on your bill that shouldn't be there. Some combination of the feeling of frustration and injustice that really pushes my proverbial buttons.

In this particular case, the "$5 charge on my phone bill" turned out to be literally hundreds of recurring subscription invoices that Stripe disabled collection for because, apparently, those subscriptions required "location inputs".

Generally speaking, I don't blog much anymore, and the last thing I wa

Deploy Fathom on Heroku

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heroku cli (logged in)
git
curl
wget
tar are required
~ openssl is required to generate the secret_key, but you're free to use what you want

https://twitter.com/snookca/status/1073299331262889984?s=21

‪“‬In what way is JS any more maintainable than CSS? How does writing CSS in JS make it any more maintainable?”

‪Happy to chat about this. There’s an obvious disclaimer that there’s a cost to css-in-js solutions, but that cost is paid specifically for the benefits it brings; as such it’s useful for some usecases, and not meant as a replacement for all workflows. ‬

‪(These conversations always get heated on twitter, so please believe that I’m here to converse, not to convince. In return, I promise to listen to you too and change my opinions; I’ve had mad respect for you for years and would consider your feedback a gift. Also, some of the stuff I’m writing might seem obvious to you; I’m not trying to tell you if all people of some of the details, but it might be useful to someone else who bumps into this who doesn’t have context)‬

So the big deal about css-in-js (cij) is selectors.

	/* Bill Ticehurst, 2020

	Emits a minimal 16 x 16 gif suitable for use as an inline favicon

	GIF spec at https://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt for the structure
	Favicon formats supported at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

	For a transparent GIF (color_table = false, depend_on_background = true) this emits:

	<link rel="icon" href="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAAAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACASgAOw==">

	class Spiderman {
	lookOut() {
	alert('My Spider-Sense is tingling.');
	}
	}

	let miles = new Spiderman();
	miles.lookOut();

	/*
	Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn't
	do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches of
	audio.

	I have found this interesting for debugging, but also fun to hear web pages
	render like UIs do in movies.
	*/

	const audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext \|\| window.webkitAudioContext)()

	Use this or https://github.com/overdodactyl/ShadowFox

	How to make firefoxes white flashes in new tab loading screens black
	Working as of firefox version 69 and 8th september 2019

	Enable legacy css customisations
	* Go to about:config
	* Enable this flag:
	`toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets`

	@Component({
	selector: 'hello',
	template: `<h1>Hello {{name}}!</h1>`
	})
	export class HelloComponent {
	_name;

	@Input() set name(name: string) {
	this._name = name;
	}

	<application>
	<component name="RainbowSettings">
	<option name="rainbowifyHTMLInsideJS" value="true" />
	<option name="version" value="5.1" />
	<option name="lightRoundBracketsColors">
	<array>
	<option value="0x263238" />
	<option value="0x455a64" />
	<option value="0x607d8b" />
	<option value="0x90a4ae" />

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<configuration>

	<system.webServer>
	<rewrite>
	<rules>
	<rule name="Angular Routes" stopProcessing="true">
	<match url=".*" />
	<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
	<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />