A personal retrospective covering joining Sentry's Design Engineering team, shipping their redesign and S.C.R.A.P.S design system, improving codebase quality with type-aware linting and dead code removal, and contributing to performance optimizations. Discusses TanStack Query maintenance reaching v5.90, upcoming challenges with Async React features, giving workshops and talks, blogging regularly despite declining traffic from AI, training for a half marathon (1007km run), and upcoming 2026 conference appearances across Europe.
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Sentry 👨💻Open Source 🔓Public Appearances 🗣️Blogging 📚Running 🏃♂️2026 Outlook 👀Happy New Year 🎉295.3K Impressions1 Comment