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Brad Zacher

@brad.zacher.com.au

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Computer scientist. Cider drinker. Dungeon Master. Maintainer of @typescript-eslint.io Software Engineer @ Cursor (prev Canva, Meta). zacher.com.au

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 27/12/2025

If you look closely and squint you can just barely make out which week I landed several hundred PRs to migrate some of Canva's codebase to isolatedDeclarations

Screenshot of github's contribution dot visualisation where almost every square is muted green meaning "less contributions" except for one week which is bright green meaning "more contributions".

The visualisation is meant to work like a heat map, but because the number of contributions in that week was many hundreds of times greater than the other weeks, it's colours ruined the scale making everything else the same, indistinguishable colour.

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 13/11/2025

It's been a great few days in Atlanta for #BazelCon. Met lots of great people. Learned a bunch about bazel and the community around it. And (finally) gave my first conference talk!

Picture of my conference badge.
The badge reads:

BazelCon 2025
Brad Zacher
Canva
Speaker

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 11/11/2025

I am violating semver. Pray I don't violate it any further.

Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 24/07/2025

Been seeing an uptick in what are clearly vibe-coded PRs. On the surface this seems great -- more contributors! But in the reality it's often AI slop that the person hasn't reviewed and instead the burden of review is on us, the maintainers -- which is a horrible trade.

Panel 1: Bus driver saying "Don't make me tap the sign"
Panel 2: The bus driver tapping a sign that says "Engineers must review all AI generated code"

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 28/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025

This is the worst code I've written
This is the worst code you've written so far

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 12/12/2024

oh no the result changed over night and now I am sad for future generations

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 11/12/2024

Informal poll at work is semi-promising that the meme isn't dead yet.

A screenshot of a poll.
Question: do you know "zalgo is Tony the pony"
15 people answered yes
11 people answered no

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Brad Zacher @brad.zacher.com.au · 14/11/2024

It's good to know that AI is still a long way off taking my job

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