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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 · 28/07/2025
Don’t forget all the nuances and human quirks! But also that makes it interesting. No one team or org is the same.
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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 · 26/06/2025
Vibe reply-guys
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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
A very good question! Did you get to go? I have FOMO.
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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 · 07/06/2025
Correctness is a nice to have at the moment 😳
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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 · 01/06/2025
Done well it can accelerate with aligned handoff. Back in the day, I left PRs for colleagues to review while I was offline. If something shipped product reviewed. Next day I picked up review fixes/merges. Jumped on prod feedback, reviewed things left for me. Rinse & repeat. We overlapped 4 hrs IIRC.
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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 · 07/05/2025
You know you love it! Also thank you. Or is it because you need me to ship a preview and not break prod? 😂
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
That was one I got today!
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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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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
But what does ChatGippity say?
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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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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Are you trying to start a food war?!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Everything had to become a (side)hustle :(
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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
LLMs are good but I think I need more personal understanding of dive logs to achieve that!
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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
media.tenor.com
a woman is sitting in a chair with the words `` love ya '' written on it .
ALT: a woman is sitting in a chair with the words `` love ya '' written on it .
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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 · 23/03/2025
Nev, these popping up in my feed are so good. Thank you for doing it! Never (virtually) meet your heros? I think you busted that myth for me 💙
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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 · 19/03/2025
Where I am currently a VP Eng at uses them with no real issues. @sailhouse.dev has more because it uses more features/lower level infra. But a Go monolith with a Next front-end (hosted elsewhere) using a DB in AWS runs just fine.
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Don't give in!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It's got the perfect combination of being helpful, not condescending, checking facts/APIs, and a little but of whimsy character. I caught it "Vibing..." this morning when processing!
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Last week IIRC 😂
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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Same! Even with other "fancy" chocolates.
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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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Dr Claire @krider2010.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ohhh yes! So had I!
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