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Sylwia Vargas
@sylwia.bsky.social
I believe in kindness and empathy 🥰
DevRel strategist, React developer
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30 years of craigslist: missed connections

Okay, pretty much everyone has met someone, and didn't share contact info.

Sometimes they post something on craigslist missed connections.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's just fun.

If you can remember some of yours...

youtu.be/uQwl70H1kFA?...
MISSED CONNECTIONS with intro
YouTube video by Craig Newmark
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Oh no, where did the Mux search modal go? 💔

It was amazing because it gave the users more agency on how they want to learn about a specific topic.

@davekiss.com 👀
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I'm snot-laughing at the new @posthog.com website 😂

Attention to details, sense of humor, branding, the hedgehogs -- oh, the hedgehogs 🥰 just wonderful.

posthog.com
PostHog is for product engineers
We’re building every tool for product engineers to build successful products.
posthog.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Strong agree. I love everything about their docs: the content, diversity of content types and styles, the IA (information architecture), the search results modal. A pure joy.
mk.gg Matt Kane @mk.gg · Sep 10
Side point, but Mux has one of the best dev-focused homepages I've seen: great design, lets you try the tools including advanced features, fun, and IT HAS PRICES right there on the front page.
September 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This calls for this banger of a talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdO...
June 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
H A I R C O L O U R I N G 😳

Who spends hours at a local gym’s bathroom to dye their hair?
August 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM
📚Question to avid readers: how do you organize your personal libraries?

Is there a system you follow? By author, genre, color, time when you got it, theme, feeling, …?

Do some books “feel” like they belong together?
August 13, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” is a dystopian novel that begins on 21 July 2024 (today).

The US faces total social chaos and institutional crisis amidst climate change that displaces entire communities. The main character is an empath who feels others’ pain as her own.
July 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Help! Drizzle is trying to flirt with me
July 18, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Reposted by Sylwia Vargas
react.dev is nominated for a Dev Portal Award:
devportalawards.org/nominees/202...

Thank you and congrats to everyone who helped us make it: @sylwia.bsky.social @danabra.mov @jaredpalmer.com and full list at react.dev/community/do...!
React.dev
Introduction React.dev was created from the ground up to teach the React.js community how to build apps with modern React. Considered the canonical React reference, its content was created by communit...
devportalawards.org
August 30, 2023 at 8:00 AM
What could be some alternative insults to “I hope you step on a LEGO”? 👀
June 5, 2023 at 11:19 AM
I just gave my first long tech talk - it was 45 mins!

And.. I actually really enjoyed the experience🥹💕 I found it easy to explain how WebContainers work - I leaned on my knowledge but also kept in mind the stuff I struggled with when building my mental model of WebContainers.
May 27, 2023 at 11:58 AM
My sister’s love language: making random playlists 🎶

This one is called "pov you're a main character who's going through life changes for the plot” so you have a soundtrack for tough situations 🕺
main character going through changes
main character going through changes · Playlist · 15 songs · 2 likes
open.spotify.com
May 24, 2023 at 9:27 AM
Reposted by Sylwia Vargas
There is so much power in embracing the cringe

Be the earnest loving joyful cringe you want to see in the world
May 15, 2023 at 6:34 AM
Today I’m giving my first live talk 😱 I’m strexcited.
May 12, 2023 at 4:28 AM
Happy birthday, @shaundai.com 💕 thank you for all your kindness. I hope you have a blast today - and all throughout this new year!
May 8, 2023 at 8:49 PM
I feel blessed to have found a community during my first year in London🥺

During my first year in NYC, I was surrounded by people but I felt very lonely. Everyone was so busy and folks I met didn’t get my cultural references. Or maybe I didn’t get theirs.

https://www.shauntan.net/arrival-book
Arrival book — shaun tan
www.shauntan.net
May 7, 2023 at 5:48 PM
I'd love to learn about the conferences that offer accommodations to speakers (or attendants).

1️⃣ Organizers: does your CFP mention any accommodations? If not, what help would you need to do so?

2️⃣ Disabled speakers/attendants: have you requested or been offered any accommodations? If not, why?
May 5, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Sylwia Vargas
🔴 LIVE

Collaborative, real-time apps with Partykit

The web is more fun with friends. @threepointone.bsky.social is teaching us how Partykit makes it fun and straightforward to add collaborative experiences to any app.

https://twitch.tv/jlengstorf
May 4, 2023 at 4:27 PM
What advice would you give to a person who wants to switch careers to tech but doesn’t know whether to choose data science or web development? 👀
May 3, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Reposted by Sylwia Vargas
"We're just asking for a bit of your time"

That's actually the most valuable, crucial, and limited part of my life.
May 1, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Being too busy to be kind lands you in the Bad Place.
April 29, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Reposted by Sylwia Vargas
If you'd like long-term growth for a project or protocol, avoid attacking others. Collaborate, raise bridges, learn from them, and focus on offering a better product for users. And if in the end, your efforts end up forcing competitors to improve, that counts as a big success story.
April 29, 2023 at 9:18 AM
Huge news - you can run StackBlitz on Safari, iOS, iPadOS 🔥

In the blog post I explain our architecture decisions, past and present, including parts that are often misunderstood about how browsers and WebContainers work 👀

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/webcontainers-are-now-supported-on-safari/
WebContainers now run on Safari, iOS, and iPadOS
blog.stackblitz.com
April 27, 2023 at 4:41 PM
“Everything’s better with friends”
- man, that’s such a good tagline 🥺❤️
Might wear these 🌈 shoes at all my talks now. Thanks for the super pics @beccalytics.bsky.social
April 27, 2023 at 10:15 AM