i've been reflecting a lot lately on how so much of getting better as a developer doesn't show up in your commit history. it takes months and has no real PR/ artifact to show for it until one day you just... notice you got better at something.
wrote a post on it: sarahgerrard.me/posts/slow-p...
i trust nothing and no one today
Getting deep into Solid 2.0 Beta in 30 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnrr...
7.5K star
6M download week
1.2B year
$0 have
grug want big number keep?
grug help small number go up
🙏 thank
Rebasing will, without fail, be the death of me.
And with that, so ends my last day w Astro Docs. So proud of the docs our community made, & honoured I had the chance to lead them.
Open to new adventures in docs/community. If you liked learning, using, or contributing to Astro...maybe some of that was me! Maybe I can bring that to your project!
Closest thing it looks like to "stable" is being a founder or something, I guess.
The <Suspense> is over.
Solid 2.0 Beta is now released (next tag on npm). 🎉
github.com/solidjs/soli...
text saying “you’re right, no need to be defensive about it”
when did the agents start getting so sassy
if you’re curious about how I approach work, collaboration, and the kinds of problems I gravitate toward, I wrote about it here: sarahgerrard.me/posts/how-i-...
👋 my recent contracts have ended (and my buffer’s running a bit thin) so I’m looking for what’s next
spent the last year focused on OSS work, which I’ve loved, and now open to new opportunities!
if you’re looking for a dev, pls to reach out!
I've shared more about how I work below 🫡
absolutely! let me know when you get in :)
oh damn its in my neck of the woods👀
Thank you for saying this. I'm not sure why people think that docs should be *just* optimized for agents when people still need to consume the info too...
Introducing TanStack Hotkeys!
Setting up keyboard shortcuts is supposed to be easy and only take a few lines of code, right? Well, there are enough small "gotchas" that can eventually add up to an annoying amount of complexity.
TanStack Hotkeys aims to simplify the edge cases and bring type-safety
Makes life significantly easier once you get to the IDE, too :’)
I wrote about the process I try to answer before I start coding (mostly as a reminder to myself) but if you're interested: sarahgerrard.me/posts/before...
Lately I’ve been more aware of how much of engineering is decided before the code exists.
It's shaped by things like the questions we ask or any assumptions we make. Even the tradeoffs that we don't really write down...
so i have over 1.7 million domains on my block list on pihole and I'm thrilled
the luge slow-mo clips are certainly a choice
Very excited to announce that I have joined @powersync.com as a Developer Relations Engineer!
Sync Engines are the future of app development on every platform, not just the web, and provide a necessary abstraction for AI applications and agentic engineers.
do i understand curling? no.
will i still watch it to support my country? absolutely.
my favourite are the relationship ones who portray “perfect” relationships then break up and say “it’s been a long time coming” lol
that’s a good trade-off at least. I’m starting with a mini-pc that i got for a killer deal then going to migrate once my PC needs updating lol
hopefully you got the RAM before the costs soared 🥲
Have you started working towards your own yet?
I've always been aware that regex is slower than for loops but seeing just how much slower it is with a benchmark is kind of crazy.
Regex -> 13 mill ops/s
For loop -> over 33 mill ops/s
I wrote about why I’m building my own home server.
It’s less about self-hosting everything and more about being intentional about where my data lives—especially as more services integrate AI into every corner of their platforms.
If you'd like to read it: sarahgerrard.me/posts/why-a-...
i really appreciate those companies that send me a random email that remind me to unsubscribe from their mailing list
curious if this is going to end up like that biggest loser doc