Sarah Hale
@sarahhale.bsky.social
Words about stuff. VP Engineering.
📍 Scotland, UK
📍 Scotland, UK
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Can you believe I wrote about manager READMEs again? medium.com/@skamille/re...
If you hate medium, you can also look at my ancient blogger where the formatting is a bit wonky: www.elidedbranches.com/2025/11/revi...
If you hate medium, you can also look at my ancient blogger where the formatting is a bit wonky: www.elidedbranches.com/2025/11/revi...
Revisiting Manager READMEs
Several years ago, I published a critique of manager READMEs that succeeded in stirring up a lot of feelings, pro and con. I’d like to…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Can you believe I wrote about manager READMEs again? medium.com/@skamille/re...
If you hate medium, you can also look at my ancient blogger where the formatting is a bit wonky: www.elidedbranches.com/2025/11/revi...
If you hate medium, you can also look at my ancient blogger where the formatting is a bit wonky: www.elidedbranches.com/2025/11/revi...
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Should vs. Can
Day 7/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 7/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
August 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Should vs. Can
Day 7/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 7/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
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Do This. Not This. Or ...
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
August 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Do This. Not This. Or ...
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
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Every day my joints are shocked and disgusted that I would use them for their intended purpose.
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Every day my joints are shocked and disgusted that I would use them for their intended purpose.
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The illusion of competence – by making it look easy, you fool them into thinking it's not hard.
August 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The illusion of competence – by making it look easy, you fool them into thinking it's not hard.
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I am organising another CTOs Walk and Talk in London the 1st September.
If you are a CTO (or VP, Head of, or Director of...) and would like to join us then you can find out more and sign up here
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monkeysthumb/1803535
If you are a CTO (or VP, Head of, or Director of...) and would like to join us then you can find out more and sign up here
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monkeysthumb/1803535
August 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I am organising another CTOs Walk and Talk in London the 1st September.
If you are a CTO (or VP, Head of, or Director of...) and would like to join us then you can find out more and sign up here
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monkeysthumb/1803535
If you are a CTO (or VP, Head of, or Director of...) and would like to join us then you can find out more and sign up here
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monkeysthumb/1803535
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I want to see this trend happen, so sharing this post from @ericwbailey.website
Which newsletters are hitting your inbox these days? 👀
ericwbailey.website/published/ne...
Which newsletters are hitting your inbox these days? 👀
ericwbailey.website/published/ne...
Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
Here’s a sampling of some of the newsletters I look forward to.
ericwbailey.website
July 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I want to see this trend happen, so sharing this post from @ericwbailey.website
Which newsletters are hitting your inbox these days? 👀
ericwbailey.website/published/ne...
Which newsletters are hitting your inbox these days? 👀
ericwbailey.website/published/ne...
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classic rule of thumb for writing alt text when you're lost, lands every time. i guess we just need the familiar social context, rather than thinking of it as an academic writing assignment
say what you'd say about it over the phone
July 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
classic rule of thumb for writing alt text when you're lost, lands every time. i guess we just need the familiar social context, rather than thinking of it as an academic writing assignment
I scored 12/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
jsdate.wtf
July 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I scored 12/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
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As an O2 customer, why am I learning this from the FT rather than my network provider? www.ft.com/content/2fc4...
Virgin Media O2 network flaw allowed customer phones to be tracked
Company has reported issue to watchdogs and fixed the problem
www.ft.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
As an O2 customer, why am I learning this from the FT rather than my network provider? www.ft.com/content/2fc4...
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There should be a little badge you can wear to let people know that your hair is 'doing a thing' today. I'm not trying to look like this. This isn't who I am. I invite you to accept it as I have and join me in hoping for better tomorrows.
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There should be a little badge you can wear to let people know that your hair is 'doing a thing' today. I'm not trying to look like this. This isn't who I am. I invite you to accept it as I have and join me in hoping for better tomorrows.
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How @KentBeck thinks about AI coding tools and agents:
"They're like a genie. They grant your wishes... but not quite how you expect it. Then you tell it that it's not what you wanted.
'Oh, I'm sorry...'
The genie is good at apologizing. But it's not good at meaning it."
"They're like a genie. They grant your wishes... but not quite how you expect it. Then you tell it that it's not what you wanted.
'Oh, I'm sorry...'
The genie is good at apologizing. But it's not good at meaning it."
May 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How @KentBeck thinks about AI coding tools and agents:
"They're like a genie. They grant your wishes... but not quite how you expect it. Then you tell it that it's not what you wanted.
'Oh, I'm sorry...'
The genie is good at apologizing. But it's not good at meaning it."
"They're like a genie. They grant your wishes... but not quite how you expect it. Then you tell it that it's not what you wanted.
'Oh, I'm sorry...'
The genie is good at apologizing. But it's not good at meaning it."
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I love the word "mark" here, as if the weather has done this deliberately to honour our national tradition of disappointing bank holidays
May 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I love the word "mark" here, as if the weather has done this deliberately to honour our national tradition of disappointing bank holidays
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“Performing” teams aren’t teams without conflict. They are teams that have so much practice with conflict they make navigating it look easy.
April 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Performing” teams aren’t teams without conflict. They are teams that have so much practice with conflict they make navigating it look easy.
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I have an answer for this now!
I've come to think of MCP as a presentation layer, more like HTML than JSON. Both MCP tools and the results returned should be useful when shoved into an LLM's context window.
You're kind of making a weird website specifically for LLMs.
I've come to think of MCP as a presentation layer, more like HTML than JSON. Both MCP tools and the results returned should be useful when shoved into an LLM's context window.
You're kind of making a weird website specifically for LLMs.
MCP looks nifty, but it also kinda just looks like RPC? What does this standard solve for that, say, GRPC doesn't? What am I missing here?
April 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I have an answer for this now!
I've come to think of MCP as a presentation layer, more like HTML than JSON. Both MCP tools and the results returned should be useful when shoved into an LLM's context window.
You're kind of making a weird website specifically for LLMs.
I've come to think of MCP as a presentation layer, more like HTML than JSON. Both MCP tools and the results returned should be useful when shoved into an LLM's context window.
You're kind of making a weird website specifically for LLMs.
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It's been a year since my book came out! If you've read and liked it, I would so appreciate it if you could leave a review.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CW...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CW...
The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself
The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself - Kindle edition by Huston, Cate. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself.
www.amazon.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's been a year since my book came out! If you've read and liked it, I would so appreciate it if you could leave a review.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CW...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CW...
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Devs: draw your line remysharp.com/2025/03/08/d... "Facebook and TikTok had been given access to read what medication I'm on by the development team responsible for the Pharmacy2U web site."
Devs: draw your line
This post is for my developers out there, web and otherwise. We have super powers. We can make something functional from practically nothing. And you know what…
remysharp.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Devs: draw your line remysharp.com/2025/03/08/d... "Facebook and TikTok had been given access to read what medication I'm on by the development team responsible for the Pharmacy2U web site."
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I'm going to lower the tone now, and share this clip from Colbert's interview with Gary Oldman, who loses it completely when 'Jackson Lamb's noises are added to his other roles...
March 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I'm going to lower the tone now, and share this clip from Colbert's interview with Gary Oldman, who loses it completely when 'Jackson Lamb's noises are added to his other roles...
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Reminder that Bluesky has a setting to remind you to include alt text, so you don't forget
Alt text isn't just helpful for screen readers, it's also generally helpful for understanding the image
Alt text isn't just helpful for screen readers, it's also generally helpful for understanding the image
Remember you alt-text, people! I've seen at least three things I wanted to repost this morning, but didn't because they didn't have alt-text!
March 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reminder that Bluesky has a setting to remind you to include alt text, so you don't forget
Alt text isn't just helpful for screen readers, it's also generally helpful for understanding the image
Alt text isn't just helpful for screen readers, it's also generally helpful for understanding the image
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Added alt text because lol (horrified)
January 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Added alt text because lol (horrified)
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Tip if you work somewhere where you have to do performance reviews -
If there's work you've done that you are particularly proud of, or if someone thanked you for it, you should immediately make a note of it
Then whenever it's time for your review, you have a collection of highlights already
If there's work you've done that you are particularly proud of, or if someone thanked you for it, you should immediately make a note of it
Then whenever it's time for your review, you have a collection of highlights already
January 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Tip if you work somewhere where you have to do performance reviews -
If there's work you've done that you are particularly proud of, or if someone thanked you for it, you should immediately make a note of it
Then whenever it's time for your review, you have a collection of highlights already
If there's work you've done that you are particularly proud of, or if someone thanked you for it, you should immediately make a note of it
Then whenever it's time for your review, you have a collection of highlights already
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Now that's a headline.
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Now that's a headline.
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We should bring back devices that just do one thing, my phone should be a phone, my music should be on an MP3 player, I love my Kobo reader because it’s really good at that one single thing. Short form content should be just removed from existence, YouTube should go back to being fun.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We should bring back devices that just do one thing, my phone should be a phone, my music should be on an MP3 player, I love my Kobo reader because it’s really good at that one single thing. Short form content should be just removed from existence, YouTube should go back to being fun.