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@sawyerh.bsky.social

Building things at Stripe. https://sawyer.soy

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New Lithe album and rainy weekend in California. Time to lock in.

15.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bring this to Mac πŸ₯Ί

15.11.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Timberwolves court is the worst

15.11.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heads up that this text seems to only visually have spacing but the machine read version is all one line.

27.09.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Occasional links

I've started a newsletter to stay in touch. If you'd like an occasional roundup with links on frontend, design, and software engineering that I think are worth your time, subscribe: sawyerh.kit.com/subscribe

22.09.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β‡§βŒ˜F tasks are a type of coding I hand off to AI assistants more and more.

β˜‘οΈ mostly involve finding references
β˜‘οΈ need little context
β˜‘οΈ can be described in a few sentences

The action to take is typically straightforward:

β€’ delete obsolete logic
β€’ change a type and all its references, etc

24.08.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

11.08.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoa! Didn’t realize an extension could modify the URL bar like that

14.06.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Big Instapaper fan.

14.06.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Added a quick Summarize feature for working my way through all the links shared in the newsletters piling up in my inbox

17.05.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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3.13 release | GSAP | Docs & Learning Thanks to Webflow, GSAP is now 100% FREE including ALL of the bonus plugins! Version 3.13 also brings a complete rewrite of SplitText

The full GSAP animation toolset is now free πŸ‘€ gsap.com/blog/3-13

10.05.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using an LLM to recommend similar tags to merge

01.04.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Pinboard subscription expired so I decided to build my own personal bookmarking tool. Some highlights:

- Web scraping the title and description
- Using an LLM (Claude Haiku) to suggest the tags
- CSS view transitions (spot the βŠ• icon transition?)
- Cloudflare Pages & Functions

30.03.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is fascinating. A self-hosted Notion/Gdocs-like service by the French and German governments: docs.numerique.gouv.fr

27.03.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!

04.02.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building a scrappy semantic search for my reading highlights | Sawyer Hollenshead How I built a semantic search feature for my reading highlights. It turns out you can go surprisingly far with just storing embeddings in a file in S3.

How I built a scrappy semantic search feature for my reading highlights: www.sawyer.soy/blog/semanti...

29.12.2024 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using a state machine to manage complex routing logic in form wizards is an idea I had while working on govt. projects. Being able to visualize the branching paths, using what's actually in code, is like having a superpower.

I wrote a bit about the approach: www.sawyer.soy/blog/routing...

07.12.2024 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unless a sleeper in the bed snores to the point that there might be a murder, you don't need the 5k version. I swear by the Pod 4 though. Don't need to run the AC/space heater as much. Don't need to argue with my partner about optimum room temp. Don't wake up in a puddle of sweat. Hard going back.

30.11.2024 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sender is on east coast: Are you available at //3pm//?
Reader is on west coast: Are you available at 12pm PT ?

Sender is on east coast: Are you available at //3pm//? Reader is on west coast: Are you available at 12pm PT ?

Still think we need a syntax for time-mentions, similar to @-mentions, for inserting smart times that change depending on the reader's timezone. Someone at Slack please build this.

30.11.2024 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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