Katie Sylor-Miller's Avatar

Katie Sylor-Miller

@ksylor

Principal Frontend Engineer. Fairy Gitmother at ohshitgit.com. Thoughts are mine not my employer’s #GNUTerryPratchett

3,025
Followers
521
Following
475
Posts
10.06.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor

:nod-crying-bufo:

10.03.2026 15:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The paralympics have been so fun to watch, just amazing athleticism on display

09.03.2026 10:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Video thumbnail

holy shit

09.03.2026 01:20 👍 14090 🔁 3074 💬 236 📌 600

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

07.03.2026 03:00 👍 585 🔁 63 💬 30 📌 13
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do

So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

04.03.2026 18:19 👍 172 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 6

Ugh I hate interviewing in tech so much, it’s so exhausting and I’m not looking forward to it at all

03.03.2026 20:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Uh hello have you forgotten Kix?!? Perfectly round balls! big cereal was sending a message

03.03.2026 20:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Now I know how I’ll be spending my funemployment!

03.03.2026 11:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ahhhhhh the FOMO!

01.03.2026 15:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was so amazing to work with you, Brian! Hopefully we both land somewhere great

27.02.2026 12:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff.

If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❤️

27.02.2026 00:04 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 0

Getting laid off sucks, but I just realized that I have never taken more than 2 weeks off between jobs before, and I’ve always juggled interviews with actually working. So, silver lining, I’ll get a nice long break for the first time ever, and I’ll be able to focus on studying for interviews

27.02.2026 04:38 👍 64 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

That’s the biggest bummer for me, I truly loved working at Square! I loved the amazing people, I was doing really good work, getting great perf reviews. Sadly I guess that isn’t enough these days. Time to join you in retirement maybe

27.02.2026 03:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I lucked out that I was able to scavenge amongst my son’s collection for the whole thing, so there are some wacky colors under the surface

27.02.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

Some of them are from before I added the clouds

27.02.2026 03:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Happy to share more pictures if that’s helpful!

27.02.2026 01:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

26.02.2026 22:46 👍 131 🔁 48 💬 20 📌 3

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. not just in communities, but companies too. I have never in my long career worked with anyone who deliberately *made the choice* to be a “low performer” without curiosity/discipline/agency, it’s always been beaten out of them

25.02.2026 13:16 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI | Communications of the ACM

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech.

AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

25.02.2026 05:19 👍 209 🔁 43 💬 8 📌 4

Oooh this is super exciting to see Container Timing come to life! This will be so helpful for measuring user-triggered page updates!

25.02.2026 12:01 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk.
But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices.
stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

#Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

25.02.2026 09:20 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2

I say it with the American “k”, but when spell it, I hear Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice in my head so that I remember the ch sound

23.02.2026 15:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kash Patel drinking beer on your dime, drunk and in the Olympic Hockey man's locker room, wearing USA shirt

Kash Patel drinking beer on your dime, drunk and in the Olympic Hockey man's locker room, wearing USA shirt

The FBI hard at work investigating the Epstein Network; this picture cost $400,000 U.S. tax dollars to produce.

23.02.2026 11:06 👍 972 🔁 354 💬 58 📌 23
Video thumbnail

BOMBOGENESIS
BOMBOGENESIS
BOMBOGENESIS
BOMBOGENESIS

23.02.2026 01:06 👍 100 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 11
SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND
SNOWTOTES MAP
SUNDAYNITE
MONNITE
ISSUED 20260221 1808

MAP SHOWS MOST OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS & CONNECTICUT & ALL OF RHODE ISLAND IN A PINK 18-24" ZONE

A RED STRIPE 2 THE WEST IS A 10-20" ZONE

THEN IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS A ORANGE 6-12" ZONE

REPENT
REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS
SUMTHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

OH NO

SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SNOWTOTES MAP SUNDAYNITE MONNITE ISSUED 20260221 1808 MAP SHOWS MOST OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS & CONNECTICUT & ALL OF RHODE ISLAND IN A PINK 18-24" ZONE A RED STRIPE 2 THE WEST IS A 10-20" ZONE THEN IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS A ORANGE 6-12" ZONE REPENT REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS SUMTHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES OH NO

/ FOLKS
/ THIS IS IT
/ THE BLIZZARD OF 2026
/ READY 2 BLOB U UP
/ READY 2 BLOB U DOWN
/ UR GONNA GET ALL BLOBBED UP
/ STARTING SUMTIME AFTER 6 PM SUNEVE
/ & LASTING IN2 MONNITE
/ THIS WILL BE THICC HEAVY WET SNOWBLOBS
/ CHARGE UR BATTERIES AS POWER OUTAGES R LIKELY

21.02.2026 23:17 👍 176 🔁 73 💬 5 📌 35
Preview
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Study proves what we’ve already know, Elon has turned Twitter into a right wing propaganda fire hose.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.02.2026 01:04 👍 94 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 3

A sad day for rectangles

20.02.2026 02:02 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
The Era of the Software Factory 🏭 A reflection based on the latest State of Software Delivery report

Really interesting - lately I've been wondering what it looks like to retrofit the software factory model onto an existing engineering team and this starts to answer that question - The Era of the Software Factory 🏭 refactoring.fm/p/the-era-of...

19.02.2026 20:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
testing, one two - Chris Dickinson testing

Arguing about unit tests vs. integration tests sucks. It's dogma and I feel like a heretic.

This post discusses a different way to think about a test’s scope. I love it.

19.02.2026 12:58 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

Oooh this is a good article

19.02.2026 13:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0