Sylwia Vargas

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I believe in kindness and empathy 🥰 DevRel strategist, React developer

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Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· 13d

"Sure I can do UX writing"

blue supply cart with six drawers, each labeled from top to bottom: First Drawer, Second Drawer, Third Drawer, Fourth Drawer, Fifth Drawer, and Sixth Drawer. The cart has a stainless steel top with some paper documents on it, a white metal frame, and caster wheels at the base.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· 16d

Something endearing about the times when you’d still say World Wide Web

A metal sign that says: a notice to the visitors. A camera in the ice well broadcasts live images to the world wide web

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jul 8

First harvest of the year from my balcony garden 😻

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jun 30

Ah yes. The famous 2in1: at-home blood test now comes with an IQ test.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jun 28

I think so.

The closest celebrity in the political compass is Zohrqn Mamdani

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jun 9

And another example of why user research is increasingly crucial. Had any dogs been consulted here, we’d learn that it’s awfully difficult to choose „1:30” on the controls using your nose. Height is not everything!!! As you see, no dogs are using this microwave 😭

A microwave placed at a knee-level in a cafe

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jun 8

I mean, this book alone must have been super-offensive

Cover of Mikhail Bulgakov’s „the heart of a dog”

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jun 8

And that’s why user research is so important. Had any dogs been consulted, we’d have learned that they don’t se the color red and therefore can’t know that it’s forbidden to pee on the Russian embassy fence.

A small sign attached to a stone wall shows a black dog lifting its leg to urinate, crossed out with a large red X. Dark wet stains run down the wall beneath the sign, suggesting dogs have repeatedly ignored the warning. The wall appears to be part of a fenced fence property beside a sidewalk.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 29

p h o n e t i c a l l y

Screenshot of a Google search for "how many 1 in sylwia vargas" showing an AI Overview result. The AI correctly states there are zero instances of the number "1" in the name "Sylwia Vargas," but then incorrectly adds that the letter "i" appears 3 times, misspelling her name as "Sylwia Vargis" in the process. In reality, "Sylwia Vargas" contains only one "i."

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 29

tldr yes but also no

Screenshot of a Google search for "how many 8 in sylwia vargas" showing an AI Overview result. The AI incorrectly states there is 1 number 8 in the name "Sylwia Vargas," providing a letter-by-letter breakdown listing 12 letters and claiming the only number is 8 (1 digit). A note at the bottom acknowledges that if searching for Sylwia Vargas the tech writer and Developer Relations professional, the "8" doesn't actually appear in her name but is occasionally associated with her 2023-2024 work, conference dates, or GitHub repositories.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 26

And then there's this wonderful park pond 🥹 I had a morning swim with @jevakallio.dev. Feeling so lucky to live nearby.

a beautiful green park pond with people swimming and lifeguards watching from the pier

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 25

London summer 🥰

Beautiful sun, people swimming in the public open air swimming pool, some folks sunbathe around it

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 17

That’s one of the things I love about the UK: Sunday roasts 😍 most pubs and offer their take on this tradition and it’s just a lovely communal time. Oh and the sauce? Yeah, it’s @ag-grid.bsky.social special. We are bringing it to Beyond the Prompt on Tuesday 🥰

Typical vegetarian Sunday roast consisting of portobello mushrooms, Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, carrots, greens, gravy.

It’s a restaurant setting. In the background you can see another person cutting their dish.

The camera is focused on a bottle of hot sauce called AG Grill Secret Sauce

It’s a restaurant setting. In the background you can see another person, blurred.

The camera is focused on a bottle of hot sauce called AG Grill Secret Sauce. The label shows a hot chilli pepper with mustaches grilling a laptop

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 15

Just having a totally casual stroll in Camden ☀️ Oh, the bag? Yes, you can get it at Beyond the Prompt on Tuesday 🥰 Link in the thread

A woman with a bag that says Prompt Responsibly

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 9

Gluten morgen ☀️

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 4

Quite surprisingly, I'm organizing my first-ever conference and I'm super happy to see that we are reaching very senior and experienced crowd. I've already been excited about the speakers. Now I'm excited about learning from the attendees too 🥹

Beyond the Prompt 2026 — Attendee seniority breakdown. A highly experienced crowd: more than half are senior-level engineers, with a strong showing of principal, staff, and lead engineers (23.7%) and C-suite, directors, and founders (15.3%).

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Apr 28

Cooking something fun at work 👀

A hot sauce tasting display on a dark countertop. Three bottles of hot chilli sauce from Lazy Scientist Sauces stand on a light wooden board, each behind a small white bowl filled with sauce: a deep red sauce on the left (chipotle), a bright yellow-orange sauce in the middle (pineapple and turmeric), and an orange-red sauce on the right (scotch bonnet). In front of the board, a handwritten sign in blue marker reads "TRY US," flanked by two white bowls of tortilla chips.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Oct 1

Oh no, where did the Mux search modal go? 💔 It was amazing because it gave the users more agency on how they want to learn about a specific topic. @davekiss.com 👀

A documentation website is displayed with a search bar showing results for a query. The page lists references and descriptions of different resources related to videos, with navigation options on the left and search filters on the right. A large label on the right side says "BEFORE" in bold text inside a bordered box.

The image shows a documentation website with a search bar open and results displayed for a query. Several guides related to videos are listed in the search results, with one highlighted in yellow at the top. A large label on the right side says "AFTER" in bold text inside a bordered box.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Aug 27

H A I R C O L O U R I N G 😳 Who spends hours at a local gym’s bathroom to dye their hair?

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jul 20

Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” is a dystopian novel that begins on 21 July 2024 (today). The US faces total social chaos and institutional crisis amidst climate change that displaces entire communities. The main character is an empath who feels others’ pain as her own.

Book Cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

First page of the book featuring today’s date

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Jul 18

Help! Drizzle is trying to flirt with me

Terminal output showing untracked, autogenerated files: "migrations/0033_yummy_vargas.sql" and "migrations/meta/0033_snapshot.json". Suggests using "git add file" to include these files in the commit.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 27

I just gave my first long tech talk - it was 45 mins! And.. I actually really enjoyed the experience🥹💕 I found it easy to explain how WebContainers work - I leaned on my knowledge but also kept in mind the stuff I struggled with when building my mental model of WebContainers.

I’m standing in front of the screen with the first slide from my talk - “Running Node.js inside your browser”, near a JSDay Canarias banner. I am half-smiling.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· May 16

I was looking for some picture yesterday and found this historic screenshot from 2019:

A screenshot from Gatsby swag store featuring sweatpants (or pajama pants?) with the description: “Freelance Pants.
For the work-from-home professional,
Gatsby's Freelance Pants take
"business casual" to a..”

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Apr 29

Being too busy to be kind lands you in the Bad Place.

Janet (informational assistant in the show The Good Place) is smiling while delivering one of her lines. Despite kind smile, she's squeezing her hands which suggests effort or distress. In the background, there's something that looks like a retrofuturist computer.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Apr 26

In such situations, I always think about this post from Hyperbole and a Half: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

An illustration of a brown monster who looks confused with a sign that reads “ALOT”

The monster is being hugged by a human and there’s a sign “I CARE ABOUT THIS ALOT”

The monster now is in flames and has possessed face expression - the sign reads “ALOT OF FIRE”

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia· Apr 26

Or texting from an excel sheet vibes