Hello, I'm Sara. Design, code, infrastructure, AI
Most websites break for boring reasons
So do most habits, and most careers. I design and build things, keep them running, and lately spend a lot of time working out where AI actually helps and where it just sounds sure of itself. Notes on all of it are here.
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Updated August 2026
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Error budgets changed how I argue with clients. Perfect uptime is not the goal, agreeing on how much unreliability is acceptable is, and once that number exists the technical decisions stop being opinions.
Thinking in Systems
The slow feedback loop is always the dangerous one. A site that degrades over eighteen months never triggers an alarm, and nobody is thanked for fixing something that had not broken yet.