Launching something big tomorrow...

The Coinbase commercial lulled everyone in my bar into a false sense of security so we started singing…then we all booed when we realized it was a crypto ad and that’s how I know I picked the right watering hole. 😆

My first little change has landed in @warpdotdev! Warp's got a nice footer that integrates with terminal-based agents to give you quick access to a rich diff viewer, voice input, and more. I added the agent footer support to Copilot! 🤖 😇

I measure my productivity as a dev with the only metric that truly matters: bugs introduced per hour.

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the team at @warp.dev. I’ve long loved the terminal and I appreciate the power of AI-enabled software development. Warp brings those together in a way I’m excited to learn from and help build with a super product-focused team. 💻️ 🐚 ❤️ 🤖 🚀

After about 6 years of mostly having some sort of fitness tracker attached to me, I traded in both of my Apple Watches today. I'm experimenting with different ways of tracking progress and measuring myself this year...we'll see how it goes 😅

The more software you write the more intuition you develop for the kinds of things that go around it. Letting AI speedrun through the drudgery lets you develop that big picture intuition sooo much faster.

using one of my side projects in another side project

OMG AND IT STILL RUNS SEQUOIA I AM SHAKING

Unboxing a new Macbook is such a heavenly experience.

What happened after this? I made progress updating things but had an epiphany along the way: a lot of nteract’s APIs existed because the JS ecosystem lacked the right primitives. Building this in something like Rust would likely yield clearer abstractions so I’m excited about github.com/runtimed.

I told Codex how to patch packages via the `pnpm patch` command and I can literally feel it drunk with power.

I think I just had my "Codex moment." I’m using it to do a package upgrade across the nteract monorepo, a ~5-year catch-up with the JS ecosystem. It does a better job managing the context window and seems to "understand" the bigger goal of a large upgrade better than Claude or Copilot.

Ugh, the bad thing about the point I'm at right now is that I find it really hard to use languages that don't have a built-in concept of pattern matching. Once you discover that capability, it's just impossible to go back.

bored...why not?

Maybe I've got rose-colored glasses but I love open source too much to believe it will not survive this AI wave. There's just something too profound about putting an idea out there and having people instantly build on top of it. I refuse to believe that will lose value or go away.

Just a girl, standing in front of an LLM, asking it to please return JSON and nothing fucking else else. 😭

I'm raw-coding (no AI) my next side project and this feels like the mental equivalent of a heavy set of squats. But still good for you!

Every time I touch an nteract package it's like walking through a JS ecosystem time capsule. Case in point: remember Enzyme for testing React components? lol

@blowdart.me thank you for the gift. Angelic Pilchuck sleeping photo as a symbol of my gratitude.

After 7 years, my time at Microsoft has come to a close. I grew from a green dev into a bonafide engineer, shipped work I’m proud of, and learned what it takes to build software that lasts from amazing people. Taking a short breather then on to the next adventure! 🚀

I am using git worktree for years, and used only 3 till now 🤔 2 for development, and 1 for the reviews. I liked the idea of @captainsafia.com to use worktree in place of branches. So, I had a look into her grove tool, very nice 🤩 and started to port it to .NET 10 AOT going from 108 MB to 5.73 MB 😍

It's amazing how fast you can act on your little creative impulses now. Thought of this while making dinner and got it done with some prompts while eating. It's a changelog based on my commits for the week that updates on a cron. cl.safia.dev p.s. hover over the weeks for a little easter egg

I’m kinda bummed the aurora viewing window didn’t end up materializing tonight Here’s a photo I took from my backyard the last time it was out

I know it’s bad for the environment and we’ll probably pay for it with wildfires in the summer but I’ve been loving these dry and sunny winter days in the PNW for running.

The tech industry has a credentialism problem and you can see this most clearly in how people react when certain key figures, like Linus, adopt AI tools. Try things out yourself and don’t rely on epistemic outsourcing.

Cooked up a homepage for Hone on one of the domains I bought. No matter how hard I prompt, LLM-generated UIs always drift toward the mean. This isn’t quite the visual style I want but I need to think it through and articulate it better. I like what I did with the footer tho 😇 hone.safia.dev

Tired of slow .NET setup in GitHub Actions? I built a fast, performant alternative to actions/setup-dotnet with parallel downloads, caching & smart version resolving. github.com/fast-actions... We‘re using this Action @scalar.com and reduced the execution time from 24s to 2s!

It's so nice to see the Hone LSP come to life in Vim! Still some polishing to do and I need to figure out how to get semantic highlighting working but I got giddy seeing the completion dropdowns appear 🥳

Started prototyping a VS Code test explorer for Hone. Got far enough to realize I probably didn't need to focus on a good IDE experience. Pro: discovered the Common Test Report Format. Standardized, machine-readable test output feels like good thing these days.

This is my "it's time to go to the gym" notification these days 😆

I do not understand people who fly on airplanes but do not want to look out the window the whole time. You! Are! In! The! Sky!

An old lady just walked up to me and said “ok I’m just a grandma but I have to say you’re very pretty” so absolutely nothing will stop me today

My first little contribution to the Rust ecosystem is a port of my JS package for checking for new GitHub releases associated with a repo. Useful for adding built-in update checks to the Rust-based CLIs that I've been building. 🦀 : crates.io/crates/relno...

I donated some microplates to my gym a few months back and I’ve blessed the egos of so many men with 2LB PRs 😆 I’m the PR fairy 🧚🏾 💪🏽

It's alliiiiiveeeeee 🎉🚀

I don’t get how people *aren’t* excited to build with AI. I wanted syntax highlighting for Hone, learned just enough about TextMate grammars to review an agent’s work, and...tada! Can't imagine handwriting a TextMate grammar, even for a trivial DSL like this.

Once you get past the learning curve, Rust is a goated language. Amazing type system, "docs as tests" philosophy is great, and everyone who uses it gives off hot girl energy (now including me!) I'm enjoying the honeymoon phase! 😅 🦀 ❤️ 🦀 ❤️🦀

On a domain spree I snagged safia.sh, so I aliased my installer-script service to it (much shorter than captainsafia.sh). Also added `Accept: text/markdown` support and PowerShell support thanks to @seankilleen.com! 🔗 : i.safia.sh

It took me a while to get there but I think I’ve finally become a domain name hoarder. We’ll see how I feel about it when all the renewals hit 😆

Another @aspire.dev + Azure Functions question came up and it was a good excuse to write up how Azure resource references work in Functions. The major key: opinionated APIs are great but you have to be prepared to adapt when opinions clash. 🔗 : blog.safia.rocks/2026/01/14/a...

JavaScript & TypeScript join first class in Aspire 13 ✈️ Run Vite, Node.js, and full-stack JS apps with service discovery, built-in telemetry, and production-ready containers. Read more 👉 devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #Aspire #JavaScript #TypeScript #DevTools

More side-project shenanigans: I'm working on hone, an integration test runner for CLI apps with a custom DSL. I'm really interested in explicit and readable DSLs like this for testing and verification, especially in the era of agentic software dev. 🧪 : github.com/captainsafia...

I brought a beefy Linux box a few months ago and now my standard workflow is to use my underspecced Macbook Air as a thin client for my Linux machine. This means that I know judge every dev tool based on how good their remote host story is. Many have disappointed... :/

We're not starting 2026 with lingering ideas! I *think* this blog post covering the design and evolution of the activity reporter for @aspire.dev's CLI ties the ribbon on the interesting work around Aspire Pipelines from last year. I *think* 😅 🔗: blog.safia.rocks/2026/01/08/p...

Pilchuck helped me release a new version of grove that lets you check out PRs into a new worktree with a `grove pr` command. Everybody say "Good job, Pilchuck!" 🤗 🔗 : github.com/captainsafia...

I love me some click-ops and drift

9 min into our first @aspire.dev meeting of 2026 and @captainsafia.com has coined the term "dry january for code" SOMEONE MAKE THE STICKER

I deployed Sprig to a staging instance last week. Today is the first honest-to-good bug bash for it as I use it to catch up on all the issues I missed during winter break. Let's see how it goes! 🌱 I dunno why I've been shy about sharing it compared to other things 😅

Closing out the break with a binge of ST: Voyager. It’s my favorite Star Trek series and the origin story behind my “captainsafia” Internet handle 🥲