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Welcome to the sixth edition of my year in review. (See 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 and 2019 for previous editions.) 2024 was a year of two beautiful babies born to two of my best friends: congratulations to their proud, wonderful parents, Robin and Mark and Véro and Geoff ♥️ It was also the year I became an American citizen, my two younger siblings graduated from law school, I rounded out the first…
Welcome to the fifth edition of my year in review! (See 2022 , 2021 , 2020 and 2019 for previous editions.) This year was both intense and utterly wonderful. A bigger walking and talking Baby O turned 2! I had the opportunity to speak at six conferences on two continents. Our family traveled to new places including Newfoundland, Idaho and (new to the little one) London and Paris. We also spent a…
I wrote a post over on Apollo's blog! It's about some features in Apollo Client's upcoming 3.8 release I'm excited about (currently in beta, npm i @apollo/client@beta ): our new @nonreactive client-only directive and useFragment hook. If React and GraphQL are your thing, check it out and let me know what you think!
This post is about the steps I took to automate @apollo/client 's release process with a tool called Changesets . Hopefully it will save someone else implementing a similar workflow a few minutes in the future :) Changesets After comparing several options, Changesets stood out as the library that would allow our team to adapt our existing manual workflow seamlessly. Some of its features…
Slow comes the hour, its passing speed how great! Hello again! I can hardly believe I'm back at my laptop typing up another Year in Review post! Let's go 🏃♀️ 2022 was a year of: two sweet babies born to friends and family (Adriano and Vivian 💛💜) one lemon-and-soccer-themed 1st birthday for Baby O ⚽️ one 60th birthday celebration ft. pizza, sushi and my amazing mom, Erica one 60th…
I'm happy to share that I'm joining Apollo GraphQL as a Senior Open Source Engineer working on the Apollo Client team, beginning today 🎉 @apollo/client is the most widely used GraphQL client library on the web: thousands of engineers building high performance web apps rely on it to cache and manage data fetched from GraphQL APIs. The team is incredibly talented and kind. This will be my…
2021 was a year of seven beautiful babies born to friends and family, including the first addition to the Sandersario family (portmanteau for IRL/URL friends, not legal documents), Baby O, and one outdoor wedding (congrats Monica & Mike!) The year began with much less fanfare than 2020, but with an undercurrent of anticipation for the newest family member already well on their way. Ghost, our…
2020 was a year of three weddings (including my own, to Carla - congrats Dana & Jon and Lauren & Sean!), two funerals, one apartment fire and a global pandemic. It was also the last year of my twenties: looking at pictures from January, it's almost hard to recognize the person who began the year waltzing around in my clothing. January After a trip to Warehouse Wines & Spirits at 8th and…
Getting Started with Web Workers in a TS Project
Rust + Wasm + Node.js = 🦀🕸💚
2019 was a year of 4 weddings (the fourth and final thanks to an elopement we unwittingly crashed, congrats John & Sara!), 2 gifted wedding eggs (congrats Robin & Mark!), 2 new baby cousins (congrats Jess & Anth and Christina & Zach!), 1 adopted cat and 9 states visited (excluding home state NY that's RI, MA, HI, VA, MD, PA, CA, CT and NJ). A friend inspired me to write up a few things that…
Building a Resume with LaTeX + GitHub Actions
Learn to Solder
Rust and Other Things
And a Programmer to Teach
A QuickStart™ Guide to Making Things on the Internet
The Case for Programming as a Liberal Art