Allie Jones

Design Systems Staff Engineer at @etsy, @recursecenter W'13. I like to make things out of pixels and yarn. Opinions my own, etc. (they/them)

[Etsy Engineering @codeascraft]

Is your legacy software system no longer meeting your business goals? At our next #CodeAsCraft Speaker Series, Software Engineer @bellmar and Etsy’s own @gredaline will share strategies for modernizing legacy codebases. Sign up here: https://t.co/i5kjh9tqs2

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@yaymukund GitHub Pages maybe?

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

The Islands Architecture is cool: server-render HTML with small "islands" that get interactive independently.

Explainer by @_developit: https://t.co/3PSeL6hGOl
Etsy's usage w/Preact: https://t.co/o7hEyAGjCS
Patterns incl w/Astro: https://t.co/hli73LdDpG

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@sufianrhazi Thanks Sufian!

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

I wrote a blog post summarizing the work I've been doing with my amazing teammates for the last two years, creating the infrastructure for server-side rendered Javascript at Etsy. I'm really proud of what we built!
https://t.co/snk1wvCFfi

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@jakevoytko Thanks! It was a little painful to reduce all of the Reactor work to one sentence even if it made sense for the audience. 😂

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@ksylor @techwolf359 @esaevian Miranda is @Ch0xi! ♥️

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

Also @esaevian and @Ch0xi (and our other not-on-twitter teammates) contributed so much and made this project so much stronger, I don't think it would have happened without them. ♥️

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

I tech led this work, and it was by far the biggest and most ambitious engineering project of my career so far. I was super out of my comfort zone at first and there were some rough patches, but taking this from wild idea to real thing was an amazing experience. I learned a ton.

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@technoheads ♥️♥️😭

[Preact @preactjs]

Great writeup of how @Etsy implemented @ksylor's "Islands" architecture in PHP and Preact.
h/t to the Etsy folks. legacy-compat was fun to build!

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@ag_dubs @nomadtechie @ksylor @cmeik Random, but I think I met @cmeik briefly ages and ages ago at my very first Javascript meetup in Providence, RI when I was baby web engineer, he was the speaker maybe? What a funny full circle moment. (Chris, I doubt you remember this, it was not otherwise memorable. 😂)

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@ksylor @nomadtechie @TatianaTMac ❤️ I was definitely riffing on other folks’ thoughts! But I’ll never forget going to a talk about writing async Python (sounded so intimidating to me!) that began with “if you write JS you already know how to do this”. I had just been assuming what I knew how to do was easy.

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@thomasABoyt I do! Spam filtering is pretty solid, if anything it tends to have false positives. But also I'm lazy about correcting it when it is wrong.

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@kamalmarhubi @ksylor It's on YouTube! https://t.co/wWWYP4Q5RE

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@rhonorv This delights me so much in so many ways. Congratulations!!

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@samantha_gold It delights me you think so. ❤️

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@ksylor Let's talk about it when you're back from vacation!

[Allie Jones @gredaline]

@ksylor I would totally do this if you get the yarn. But no promises on speed. 😂