A fusion of development and business
When it comes to WordPress security, I employ numerous defense-in-depth techniques. From a WAF to locking down WordPress core and keeping up to date with patches (and others I won’t disclose), my goal is to ensure that an attacker has… continue reading The post Your partner as an attack surface first appeared on Sarah Savage .
I’ve been a commercial pilot (certificate holder) for the last ten years. I’m used to running and validating checklists. So when it came to my business, I thought checklists were the answer: I could use them to remind myself of… continue reading The post Checklists are for verifying, not remembering first appeared on Sarah Savage .
I shared that I was heading to treatment for PTSD starting May 1. I’m happy to share that I was discharged home on May 20th. I am not entirely better. I am not worse. But I am hopeful about the… continue reading The post The complexity of mental health first appeared on Sarah Savage .
Warning: this post references violence. Ten years ago, during a mental health crisis, I was harmed in a hospital by the people who were supposed to help me. Doctors said the pain would fade with time. It didn’t. Ten years… continue reading The post Why I’m stepping into treatment May 1 first appeared on Sarah Savage .
This week I attended Microconf Portland, where I heard exceptional talks by exceptional speakers and enjoyed a tremendous hallway track with other SaaS and software founders. I wanted to capture my thoughts on the experience. Microconf is a conference series… continue reading The post Experiencing Microconf for the first time first appeared on Sarah Savage .
I’m a firm believer in the idea that you have to use a tool to fully critique it. With that in mind I committed to using Claude Code for an entire week, putting it through its paces to see what… continue reading The post My week with Claude Code – hard work and gotchas first appeared on Sarah Savage .
A few years ago, I had an opportunity to serve on a jury. Twelve ordinary citizens were called to hear a case, where we heard from five supremely confident but deeply conflicting witnesses. Our job was to sort out who… continue reading The post Juries and AI as critical infrastructure first appeared on Sarah Savage .
I’m a big believer in the notion that you can’t really critique something until you’ve tried it. With that in mind, I spent some time over the holiday break with AI, working on a couple projects. Here are the results… continue reading The post My experience coding with AI tooling first appeared on Sarah Savage .
Last week, Zend by Perforce wrote a blog post about when and how to migrate from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture. For those that haven’t read the post, the TL;DR is that as your application grows, it makes… continue reading The post Microservices may be dangerous for your team first appeared on Sarah Savage .
Recently I had an opportunity to interview with a company that I really respected. Normally I wouldn’t consider taking any kind of role or gig (as I run a small business), but the problem space was particularly interesting and the… continue reading The post Coding tests as an interview smell first appeared on Sarah Savage .