ceding AI to the right is a generational poltical mistake and bullying LLM researchers off bluesky to cook their brains in twitter racism is a self defeating and foolish act from well meaning people deluding themselves into thinking intentional ignorance is a valid form of critique and resistance

I write my posts myself, not with AI. I had to take all the em dashes out because I was too worried people would think it AI generated 😔

I just found out that Contact (the movie and book by Carl Sagan) was about a real life person- Jodie Foster was playing Dr. Jill Tarter, former Director of the actual Center for SETI Research. She coined "brown dwarf" while researching small-mass objects that fail to stably fuse hydrogen. Neat.

✍️ Over break I finally added my code drawings to my site! I have series on Android, WASM, Rendering on each platform, and the beginning of JS Fundamentals. Enjoy! sarah.dev/projects

100% this! 🙌 “There is a certain intellectual laziness that settles at either extreme of the hype/skepticism spectrum. By failing to acknowledge both the utility and the dangers, we allow some to run untethered into mayhem while others wear blinders, convincing themselves it isn't happening.”

"[...] I’m not talking about healthy debate- we need conflict to sharpen ideas. I’m referring to the intangible politicking that prioritizes ego over outcomes." Greatly put as usual when @sarahedo.bsky.social writes. Precious words that sadly resonate a lot with some of my past experience.

🎊 Just wrapped up my 2025 reflections, and well, it was a wild year! I reflected on how the AI shift has changed my role at Google, and the way teams build. At the same time, I worked on keeping balance for family, friends, and the hobbies that keep me sane. sarah.dev/blog/reflect...

I'm a calendar scientist. Can confirm

In case it’s not clear. the start of eating less sugar and cheese starts TOMORROW. The new years hasn’t really begun until Monday. Just so we’re clear.

Cleaning up to host a New Year’s party tonight, otherwise known as shove all my shit in a closet and hope no one opens it. Happy New Years! 🎊

For the holiday week, I’m going to take the opportunity to take things slow. First, I need to make a list of all the things I need to do while taking things slow and…

Who else is utterly puzzled why their stomach hurts (while consuming cookies and pastry all day)? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Palate cleanser: Just watching an episode of Pasta Grannies to get ready to make pasta for my relatives today www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7C...

Never waste a crisis

It begins…

I was given the role of Incident Commander for all of Google’s Core Developer infra/ecosystem. Right before the holidays. Congratudolences are in order

“I’m descended from wolves”

“I’m descended from wolves”

So, Pluribus is pretty damn good huh

Folks! Apparently leftover turkey on English muffin with some white cheddar cheese is theeeee best. (I had roasted chicken actually, point still stands)

We just got done with grocery shopping for Thanksgiving and, while standing in the checkout line, Dizzy whispers in my ear “the work is mysterious…”

Best holiday cocktail in your opinion? (Very open to unique but tasty ones)

I don’t mind the idea of AI doing my dishes because that’s the stuff I want to be disrupted. But it doesn’t have to look human to do this! Look at our little roombas. They do a good little job, and should they turn evil, and it would be hard for them to punch us in the face.

Newest issue of "Top 5 in React and AI" newsletter is out. → Using React 19.2's Activity component to fix Netflix trailers → 25 CSS tricks by @nerdy.dev → @sarahedo.bsky.social's deep dive into rendering pipelines → @tdesseyn.bsky.social joins us this week to review resumes.

🛠️ If your team has issues to work through: We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers. - Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to - Tigers are things threatening the team, risks - Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t

a decades long campaign by the ruling class to stigmatize kindness and empathy has been depressingly successful

The only positive of traveling a lot for work is that you’re always half packed anyways

Things that not every product needs: - push notifications - chat - a perky AI assistant Jus’ sayin

Happy 75th Dr. Ronald McNair. An entire generation of Black STEM scholars are because you were. Shout out to Aggieland.

My stomach doesn’t take well to wheat but I ordered a French toast because I’m a gluten for punishment

Had a smashing time at @smashingconf.com last week, meeting people & nerding about #CSS value resolution. Now back to the video course. Aiming to launch a first module in Jan/Feb! From grids/alignment to guaranteed invalid values – sign up for updates & discounts: oddbird.dev/courses/desi...

Thank you @jsconf.bsky.social and @openjsf.org for a great time! ✨

As always, awesome talk by @sarahedo.bsky.social at #jsconf!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Sarah is such a great speaker, teacher, and her illustrations are amazing!

I’m in love with @sarahedo.bsky.social’s hand-drawn illustrations in her #jsconf slides 😍 Great talk too, I dig the high-level overview of how different platforms do UI, that’s exactly the kind of cross-pollination we need to design better APIs for the Web.

Super helpful graphics from @sarahedo.bsky.social that helps me with my GPU talk on Thursday. She awakened the nerd in all of us. What a great way to start #jsconf

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

Get inspired at #btconf Berlin 2025. Join leading voices in design and development for two days of talks, workshops, and conversations that ignite new ideas. beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...

Reporting from vacation: Vintage Story is the greatest game ever

The Angular + AI Developer Event is happening tomorrow, September 16! Don't miss your chance to see AI demos, get key updates from the Angular team, and have your questions answered live. Tune in to see what's next: 🔗 youtube.com/live/uFdxw4S...

Reliability is sort of like a stomachache. It’s hard for people to really appreciate not having issues until you have issues.

i once tried “strong opinions, weekly held” as a joke but half the readers didn’t notice the spelling and the other half must’ve thought i can’t spell

@angular.dev summer update: blog.angular.dev/angular-summ... I couldn't believe how many new things the team released since v20 in May! Thanks @marktechson.com for writing this amazing update with me! The whole team did such an amazing job in delivering big and small things!

Getting flowers from friends makes my day ❤️

One of the biggest adjustments I see new leaders going through is the amount of context shifting. It’s very frustrating! Where your work used to allow for flow state, you need to stay interrupt driven so your staff can stay focused. Leaders should be helpers.

Needed to update my headshots, my old ones were… old. The lovely Julie Harris Photography did a great job! ❤️

The book Upstream by Dan Heath is worth a read (author of Switch and Made to Stick) The premise is thinking upstream to solve systemic issues to avoid “problem blindness” (when you can’t see something right in front of you because you’re so used to the problem) I love systems thinking.

One tangible problem with AI hype is that there is a degree of provocative hypothesis that is necessary in order for people to think a little differently about old problems. But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.

I always have to remind myself that I’m a better leader when I exercise. I think more clearly, have more cycles to care for others. For me, exercise is even more about mental health than physical.