Christopher Orr 🦋

@orrc

Some Scottish guy. Knows a bunch of stuff about computers. Sometimes applies this knowledge at @Stripe. Award-winning baker of shortbread. 🥉

Berlin, Germany

Christopher Orr 🦋
@orrc
Jun 17, 2025
Finally! 🥳
Brendan Irvine-Broque
@irvinebroque
Jun 17, 2025
You can now grant people on your Cloudflare account *read-only* access to the Workers Platform. Enables a common pattern: 👀 Grant read-only access to every engineer 🔒 Only allow changes via pull requests. Give your CI system an access token with admin (deploy & edit)
Christopher Orr 🦋
@orrc
Feb 19, 2025
Thanks to the person at @webflow who added the trigger type and collection ID in all the new v2 CMS webhook payloads! 🥳 Zero thanks to the person at @webflow who omitted the collection ID when retrieving a CMS collection item, meaning I can't re-use the data model… 😩
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Christopher Orr 🦋
@orrc
Dec 18, 2024
I think @DuckDB is starting to rival `jq` as my handiest command-line utility… cat payments.jsonld | duckdb -c "copy (from read_json('/dev/stdin')) to '/dev/stdout' (format csv)" (in fact, I should maybe just make this a shell alias)
Christopher Orr 🦋
@orrc
Dec 5, 2024
I just ran into this non-intuitive case with @Kotlin JSON serialisation… A `data class` field with default property value won't appear in the JSON output — even if you explicitly provide it in your constructor call! 🤔 You need `encodeDefaults = true`: play.kotlinlang.org/#eyJ2ZXJzaW9uI…
Christopher Orr 🦋
@orrc
Nov 11, 2024
Good news: you can now read your colleagues' messages with the gravitas they deserve! The @SlackHQ desktop client has added support for Comic Sans…