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Dr Claire

@krider2010.bsky.social
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Engineering leadership (VP Engineering), startups, tech addict, Evertonian, powerlifter, cats. Co-founder & CTO of Sailhouse. Berkshire 🇬🇧.

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Netlify @netlify.com · 06/11/2025
Join Dana Lawson (Netlify), @danielleleong.com (FireHydrant), and @krider2010.bsky.social (Sailhouse) as they unpack what AI really means for developers today. Learn how to stay creative, productive, and in control of your code in the AI-augmented era. 🗓️ Nov 19 🔗 www.netlify.com/webinars/ai-...
Promotional banner for the “AX Discovery Series – Builders Track” session titled “AI, code quality & your dev role: Insights from CTOs.” The event is scheduled for November 19th, 2025, at 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm UTC. The banner features photos of three speakers: one wearing a black hat, one with long hair in a colorful shirt and a dark cap, and one with short blond hair in a black jacket, all against a dark background with teal design accents.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Very much looking forward to this! Sign up link in the thread.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A couple of Negronis and some goldfish crackers. How’s your Sunday afternoon going? (For the tech hustlers, I already used some AI tooling this morning - the afternoon is for relaxing 😉)
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
LLMs aren’t APIs. You call, you get 200 and vibes. With GPT-5, prompts that worked yesterday may fail today; without you touching code. Models drift. Users blame you. Build for it.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Everyone’s trying to build the optimal AI workflow. Agent infra, eval loops, prompt specs, all wired up before anything works. Using coding assistants is either wild west or over-specced. Try things first. Optimise later.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 03/08/2025
Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Everyone thinks AI means fewer engineers. But building secure, resilient systems is still hard. AI gives you leverage. Got a 10% output boost? Use it to build better, ship faster, explore more. Replace waste; not talent!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"You're absolutely right". I mean it's nice to hear that. But I kinda wish I wasn't so right and didn't need to make these corrections 🤣 Thanks Claude Code!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Debugging async systems feels like ghost hunting. Logs say it ran. Retries say it didn’t. The agent? Forgot the plan halfway through. You’re stuck piecing together timelines like a true crime board. And half the time, you still don’t know what happened. What’s your move when async goes sideways?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“Your agent doesn’t need memory.” Cool. Why is it fixing and breaking the same file 3 times in a row? What’s the weirdest state bug you’ve hit in an AI system?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Glue code is never on the roadmap. But it always shows up. And if you ignore it long enough… it ends up running your system. What’s the glue you forgot was critical?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
No standups. No tickets for tickets. No “please justify this $12 tool.” Just two people building the thing they wish already existed. What would you nuke from your team’s process if you could?
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Sailhouse @sailhouse.dev · 11/06/2025
Most event systems were designed for a time when “real-time” meant “sometime this hour.” Now your agents are spinning off retries, branches, fallback calls, and memory loops. We wrote about why that’s breaking things, and how to fix it without crying: sailhouse.dev/blog/event-i...
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Event Infrastructure for Modern Systems
AI-native apps generate 50x more events — but most teams are still relying on brittle, legacy infra. Here’s how to modernize your event backbone without breaking everything.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Not every event-based system needs a streaming platform. Kafka’s great if you’ve got a team. Most of us? We just want something that works, retries, and doesn’t explode in prod. What do you use?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Leading teams teaches you new pain: - Tech debt as strategy - COGS lurking behind every infra choice - Simplicity beats perfect What’s the leadership lesson you wish you’d learned sooner?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Bank holiday Monday. Drinking a very nice Marzen while working on marketing things for @sailhouse.dev . I know how to have a good time 🤣
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Retries aren’t free. Naive retries = failure cascades, duplicated requests, hidden bugs. Retries baked into infra = graceful failure, predictable outcomes. Been bitten by retries in production? Tell me your story.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Distributed monoliths: shiny microservices outside, shared DB and deploy pain inside. Infra should be leverage. Been there? Tell me your best "this was totally decoupled, I swear" story.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I am reminded once again how easily even cursor code can get distracted and just want to complete tasks and stub random things out rather than doing a great job. Perhaps we are closer to the average programmer AGI than we realise 😂
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I had a clear out today. Here are two lots of books. I'm giving them away for free, cos I want to. The first pic to a primary school. The second pic to a secondary school. If you'd like them for your school get in touch. I'll choose the schools tomorrow UK only PLEASE SHARE
32 primary aged new books. 36 secondary school aged books. All new.
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Fly.io @fly.io · 11/04/2025
"It would be [safe], if I was running flyctl in an isolated environment and not on my local machine." Our MCP experiment shows both the power and security considerations of connecting AI to infrastructure tools 🌐 🔗 ➡️ fly.io/blog/30-minu...
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
America finally broke me. Home after ten days there and at a meal out this evening at a UK food pub. Service? What what feckin service?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
People watching is so fascinating!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Any suggestions as to what I should vibe code on this trans atlantic flight?
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What I love most is how this demonstrates the power of composable, open tools. @sailhouse.dev + @netlify.com + @resend.com = a solution that would've taken weeks to build from scratch just a few years ago. Fun fact: I broke our own event system while building this :disappear:
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I've just told claude code "that's bullshit". How is your day going?!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I wanted to share this for those of you who don't yet know about @codetv.dev (where have you been?!) Jason produces fun, engaging, and educational content. With added 🌶️ (quite literally). I'm a big fan and would love more of you to know about and watch this content.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Pretty good Friday night. Wrangling things for @sailhouse.dev using @anthropic.com cursor code. Despite generally preferring a GUI editor, I'm really getting on with this in the terminal and making rapid progress. Oh yes. And a nice glass of Jura. Well it is Friday!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Claude Code is amazing. So good! Still a huge fan of Cursor but just wow @anthropic.com !
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The power of a good haircut! I feel so much better.
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Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
💼 Hiring Update👩‍💼 One of my amazing engineers is transitioning to being an Engineering Manager! This leaves an opening for a Senior Backend Java Engineer on my team. The role isn't open quite yet, but I want to get the ball rolling. Descriptions below, please drop your LinkedIn links 🙌
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 31/01/2025
and that also means: devs! if you want to be in an episode of Web Dev Challenge, sign up for my newsletter and I’ll send out a casting call soon 👀 codetv.dev/newsletter
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sysengineer @sysengineer.dev · 02/02/2025
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Kin Lane @kinlane.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Why AI Agents Will Still Use Apps Instead of Directly Working With APIs | Kin Lane
The ramblings, thoughts, and channeling of Kin Lane.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
How am I supposed to get on this DeepSeek hype when I keep getting server busy messages in the chat interface? Sigh.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
More @bolt.new explorations this weekend. It wrote a @netlify.com function correct first time with a dependency to call an external service! 🤯 Messing around with ideas feels fun again. OK, so it didn't run correctly when first deployed as I'd not set up the third party quite right but that was me🤣
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Baby steps. Now let's get on to fixing these things!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Had some amazingly helpful service from @betterstack.com this morning. Very surprised given the state of help@ emails these days. Huge kudos to the team. Definitely a differentiator.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
When you push @anthropic.com Claude hard!
A screenshot from the Claude interface, with the words "Thinking deeply, stand by..."
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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 13/01/2025
Continuing on my path to making the web better, I’m now looking for an organization who needs help operationalizing excellence in frontend and product design so we can ship world-class experiences together 🚀
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Love how easy it is to deploy an @astro.build site @netlify.com via @bolt.new 🚀 Yes, I could (and have) crafted by hand but for fun little toys or experiments this is brilliant. And also a great starting point for more complex things. Click a deploy button, hit a claim URL and 💥
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Playing with AI code generators this morning. Took me several prompts but lovable.dev finally told me the truth about why it ignored my "use Astro" prompt. Bit disappointed TBH. @bolt.new doesn't have this issue. Though it has rate limited me 🤣
A screenshot of a reply from Lovable AI code generator saying "While we could technically start from scratch with Astro, Lovable is specifically designed to work with this React-based tech stack. It's not currently possible to use Astro within Lovable projects because Lovable is built to:
1. Provide real-time previews of React components
2. Use Vite for development
3. Leverage shadn/ui components
4. Use Tailwind CSS for styling
Would you like me to show you how we can achieve your goals (dark mode, gradients, blog, etc.) using the current React setup? Or would you prefer to explore building your site with Astro outside of Lovable?"
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Marry Christmas 🎄
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Not new news to the @monzo.com and Wises of this world but I am blown away by how in the 19th century banking generally is.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Disappointing experience tonight at @brewdogofficial.bsky.social Waterloo for a special occasion. BUT Danni - absolutely fricking amazing human! Thank you. Please pass this on BrewDog.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Well that’s a new one… Just got a LinkedIn message complaining to me about Notion bugs. Somewhere I’ve never worked. Nor do I talk about on LinkedIn 😵‍💫 From a security person trying to sell to me. Clearly not good at using their hax0r skills to figure out who to contact 🤣
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Everton Football Club @evertonfc.com · 07/12/2024
More information on the postponement of today's Merseyside derby. www.evertonfc.com/news/2024/de...
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 01/12/2024
so relieved to finally stop posting on Twitter completely, I just didn’t post our black friday sale on Twitter this year and I was a little worried but it went totally fine.
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John Murphy @johnthemurph.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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