William Saar (saarw)

William Saar

Freelancer | Backend and data engineering for Spotify, Candy Crush, helped build SF-based appsec startup, financial trading systems, JVM perf tools | updab.com

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The term "sync engine" was not widely used 6 years ago when I wrote Flushout, so I had to use a description like "distributed data model based on event sourcing. Collaborative applications use it for..." Anyway, updated the repo description so people looking for a sync engine in TypeScript without 3rd-party dependencies can find it! https://github.com/saarw/flushout

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Breakfast in the Virgin Atlantic lounge at London's Heathrow before an 11h flight to San Francisco

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Just launched SpecToMCP - a tool to generate MCP servers from OpenAPI / Swagger specifications to let Al assistants like Claude and Cursor access APIs in a structured way that you control https://spectomcp.updab.com

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Built a simple-to-setup tool to monitor Docker container stats on mobile for free! A TypeScript file gets deployed as a container and publishes stats to a Notion page viewable in the mobile app. For early projects that can't justify full Prometheus and Grafana setup! https://github.com/saarw/simple-container-monitor

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