Sarah Drasner
@sarahedo
Opinions my own. Sr Director of Engineering @ Google: Core Web, Android, iOS Infrastructure Formerly Vue Core Frontend Masters teacher O'Reilly Author
We (Chrome) published a big paper about security work that's important to share. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that open source software is getting hammered by AI, and people are looking for bugs: for bounties, for hacking purposes, and to help, more than ever before. blog.google/security/chr...
🎉 After 2 years of building it off and on, my side project app is done: Habik: Life Manager! The premise is that you can do hard things. Break them down, and take them one day at a time. Habik takes the guesswork (and the self-negotiation) out of what to do today. apps.apple.com/us/app/habik...
Some of you who know me from the OG days know I was pretty into SVG Animations… Well, @joshwcomeau.com who is a MASTER of all things animating made a new course! Whimsical animations! ✨ This isn’t an ad, I’m just a huge fan of his work. If you want to play and learn something new, check it out!
🛠️ Ultimately, WebMCP is about making a more secure agent pathway instead of scraping DOM and a11y trees. I made a small site to demo how it works, how agents use it, what the spec looks like, and some important links. It's interactive! You can use the extension to actuate the page:
Hey look at this premium human I got to hang out with at IO 🤩 @marktechson.com
💥 Game changer for Web Development announced at GoogleIO- Modern Web Guidance! It’s expert-vetted skills for web development based on best practices of latest specs and APIs. It ensures your agent/coding harness doesn’t default to older and out of date patterns to build sites.
My dogs affection for me is never higher than when I’m trying to do yoga
🎉 Very excited to speak at @RenderATL this year! I'll be talking about AI and the web, new features and what the future holds. I get to speak with awesome folks like @kelseyhightower and @techgirl1908. See you there!
I’m playing Valheim and watching YouTube videos about people’s builds. It’s incredible to me that people are so freaking talented! And then they’re probably Marty from Accounting come Monday.
Context is pretty crucial in understanding what AI is doing and doing for you. I drew an explainer that breaks down what the research says:
📣 After nearly 5 fulfilling years leading Core infrastructure organizations for Google, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve taken on a new role! I’m going back to IC work as a Distinguished Engineer- my new role is in Chrome as Area Tech Lead, AI Web Ecosystem! 💥
My dad sent me this old card from my gramma. I miss her very much. I can hear it in her voice. And it was a fun day!
💥 I made a new drawing in my AI series, this time about Vector Databases, ANN, and HNSW. I hope it's useful! It might be good to look at the Transformers one in the series before this one, for additional background.
✍️ Just finished another code drawing in my AI series, this one's about MCP in practice. Enjoy!
💥 I did a drawing that breaks down Transformers in AI Spent a good amount of time on this one, breaking down concepts in a way that someone new to the subject could come away with basic high-level understanding. I hope it's useful!
I just found out that Contact (the movie and book by Carl Sagan) was about a real life person- Jodie Foster was playing Dr. Jill Tarter, former Director of the actual Center for SETI Research. She coined "brown dwarf" while researching small-mass objects that fail to stably fuse hydrogen. Neat.
✍️ Over break I finally added my code drawings to my site! I have series on Android, WASM, Rendering on each platform, and the beginning of JS Fundamentals. Enjoy! sarah.dev/projects
We decided to go for “ugly Christmas sweater” rendition of cookie decorations this year
💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.
Needed to update my headshots, my old ones were… old. The lovely Julie Harris Photography did a great job! ❤️
We got a box of ripe summmertime fresh from the farm peaches from a fundraiser. Dear lord. I have eaten 3 today so far. I’m probably not done! 🍑