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Stripe's Postgres Sync Copies Rows. Your Entitlements Need More

· 5 min read
Victor Jimenez
Senior Product Engineer

Stripe's announcement for real-time Postgres sync gives two reasons fresh data matters: granting access to paid features and fulfilling an order. Both are actions, and the product, as announced, delivers rows. Before retiring a webhook integration, I would split it into the code that copies Stripe data and the code that acts on it, and delete only the copy code.

I built a Chrome extension so Jira would give my tickets back

· 8 min read
Victor Jimenez
Senior Product Engineer

I needed full Jira tickets in a form other scripts could read: the description, the comments and every attachment. The official API offers a token, a 5000-line JSON response and a separate authenticated call per attachment, and the SaaS alternative charges $20/month for what amounts to a curl command behind a dashboard. I built a Chrome extension that reads the ticket from the page I already have open.