Chris Waters
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I do Rails at @shopify, walk the dog, and drive the kids to netball.
Woodbridge, England
Joined May 2008
When you think you're the lynchpin, you're probably just the bottleneck.
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@Readybrother Might need a follow to do that, though. 😬
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A order on @SaltandSundry just tipped Shopify over the 1 trillion(!) in cumulative GMV. Monumental milestone for us. A beautiful small business run by Amanda McClemens in DC. Couldn't have been a better example of what makes Shopify special:
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And since I work for Shopify … why not go all in? When they’re gone, they’re gone. 😆 https://t.co/6nZTemtr8M
shop.joyandfunction.com
Make The Change Easy Then Make The Easy Change – 500mm x 700mm lithographic print on 190gsm premium FSC certified paper. Strictly limited to 250 copies. Your copy will be numbered (lightly in pencil)...
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“Make the change easy then make the easy change” is still my favourite piece of advice. I really wanted a nice print of it. So I worked with a designer, got it printed, and now it hangs in the kitchen. It’s fun making things.
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Good news, although embarrassing it’s not already a thing. While the boys get extra football, my 11yo daughter gets to dance. She may as well wear a pink bomber jacket while the boys wear black leather ones.
Girls will be granted equal access to all school sport as part of a package of measures unveiled by the government to coincide with International Women's Day. #IWD2023 #EmbraceEquity
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My life is now Schrödinger’s HMRC bill. This is how it ends.
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No doubt that I’ll get fined for not paying the tax I did and yet didn’t have to pay. But on logging in to pay the fine, I’ll have paid the fine so have no fine to pay.
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I have a letter from HMRC saying I have underpaid my tax. I log in to HMRC to pay my tax, and it says I have paid the correct amount of tax so I have nothing to pay. 🙃
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I treated myself to the Bright Eyes Christmas album on vinyl. Perfect for the festive season. Ordered it 27th Nov. It arrived today. 🥴
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HNY! What’s the easiest way to deploy a hobby Rails app these days? I’m outta practice. 🥴
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Safety pins for costumes and matchsticks for my eyelids. Prop me up with coffee, and sing us one of those good songs that refills the enthusiasm in my soul.
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The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back is my new book about World Book Day.
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My YouTube-is-the-centre-of-everything 7yo daughter looks over my shoulder as I scroll through Twitter and asks, confused, “Why are you reading the comments?”
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Just finished Landscapers. A crime drama like no other. Full of wit and wonder. Recommended.
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Celebrated the end of my first week in a new job with a third dose. Such is the 2020s.
Team Pfizer. ✌🏼
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Not in a "I'm going to run a marathon" way. Just a "I want to go for a run" way. Like as a kid, Wimbledon made we want to go outside and play tennis, and the darts at Christmas would make we want a dartboard. It all felt, well ... fun. Rather than a burden to avoid a belly.
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So yesterday I went to cheer on my daughter as she ran the 1.5k at Framlingham and my sis-in-law in the 10k. Unexpectedly bumped into my cousin also doing the 10k. Didn't have him down as a runner, but he'd started in lockdown. Anyway. The whole event inspired me.
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To cook for friends as a way of celebrating an event of some kind is just one of the finest things in life.
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Cool upside to working for a transatlantic startup is I now have a bunch of US colleagues and some fantasy football of the gridiron variety. Draft is tomorrow. I have no idea how such a thing works. Tips please!
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