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Sarah Drasner
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Opinions my own.

https://sarah.dev
Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
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! 🎊
December 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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…
December 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Who else is utterly puzzled why their stomach hurts (while consuming cookies and pastry all day)? 🙋🏻‍♀️
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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...
103 year old Irma makes tagliatelle, our oldest grandmother! | Pasta Grannies
YouTube video by Pasta Grannies
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December 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Never waste a crisis
December 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It begins…
December 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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“I’m descended from wolves”
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“I’m descended from wolves”
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So, Pluribus is pretty damn good huh
December 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Folks! Apparently leftover turkey on English muffin with some white cheddar cheese is theeeee best.

(I had roasted chicken actually, point still stands)
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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…”
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Best holiday cocktail in your opinion?
(Very open to unique but tasty ones)
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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.
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reposted by Sarah Drasner
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.
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🛠️ 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
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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a decades long campaign by the ruling class to stigmatize kindness and empathy has been depressingly successful
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The only positive of traveling a lot for work is that you’re always half packed anyways
October 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Things that not every product needs:

- push notifications
- chat
- a perky AI assistant

Jus’ sayin
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Happy 75th Dr. Ronald McNair. An entire generation of Black STEM scholars are because you were. Shout out to Aggieland.
October 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My stomach doesn’t take well to wheat but I ordered a French toast because I’m a gluten for punishment
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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:

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October 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thank you @jsconf.bsky.social and @openjsf.org for a great time! ✨
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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As always, awesome talk by @sarahedo.bsky.social at #jsconf!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Sarah is such a great speaker, teacher, and her illustrations are amazing!
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM