Maya Shavin

Slow but steady ☺️🥳 My podcast Build With Maya reached 50 streams and downloads on Spotify 🤩 🎉! This is a space where I share experience in my engineering path, how we think, decide, build and grow through experiments, new tools, tradeoffs and reflection. 👉 open.spotify.com/show/0qr653E...

Shipping code 2× faster doesn't mean solving the problem 2× faster. "AI can do that in 5 minutes." Cursor & Claude Code definitely make us move faster. But speed alone isn’t better engineering. That's what I talk about in the new episode of Build With Maya: 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3PfC...

Back in 2020 I made a website that generates color palettes for TailwindCSS project, based on a given image logo. The nice part? It is still alive and get 100 stars ⭐️ (I know, it’s nothing 🤣) in this AI era. Thank you, whoever starred it and still use it 🥰. 👉 colorgen.dev

We all know the “right” way working with code. So why is the codebase still messy? Because advice without context doesn’t work. In episode #5 of Build With Maya, I talk about deadlines, ownership, and the real constraints that make “best practices” hard to apply. open.spotify.com/episode/4meA...

At some point in your career, engineering stops being about output. It becomes more about decision ownership, tradeoffs clarity, accountability, and invisible pressure. Or in short, responsibility. And that's what we cover in the latest Build With Maya episode 🎙️👇 open.spotify.com/episode/4xZx...

Do not copy/paste AI-generated answer to a PR review comment. Use your own reasoning and understanding. It’s both disrespectful and unprofessional to the reviewer ☹️. If you can explain why that AI-solution works yourself, how do I trust you know what you are doing?

Interesting how it turns out 🙂 Prompt: create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me

AI is fast and convenient. But that’s exactly why understanding starts to slip. My rule when reviewing AI-suggested fixes: If you can’t explain why it works, stop. Shipping with AI ≠ learning. If AI can answer for you — what are you actually responsible for?

Engineering isn’t about having the right answers. It’s about making decisions without certainty, and owning them later. Episode 3 of Build With Maya is live 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/1HAT...

“What will I do without AI?” 🤔 I wrote a new blog post about how AI fits into my actual engineering workflow. AI doesn't replace thinking, but help you cut through noise: onboarding, code analysis, docs, and decision-making. 👉 mayashavin.com/articles/wha...

Soo true that it is hilarious 😂 Cre: www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...

Technical presentations aren’t just about what you built — they’re about why it matters. 💡 Last week, I shared my talk “Tell the Story, Not Just the Specs” internally @salesforce — on turning complex ideas into clear, engaging stories.🎤✨ What’s your #1 tip for giving better tech talks?

Happy Rosh Hashana! 🍎🍯 This year brought fresh starts, new achievements—and even a sweet new addition to my not-so-big family 😆. I’m grateful for all that’s happened and excited for what’s ahead. As the saying goes: Don’t worry, be happy—everything happens for a reason 😘. Cheers! 🥂

Excited to be speaking at TechLead Conference 2025, hosted by @GitNationOrg ! My talk, "I Don't Know Everything, and That's the Job," is all about what I've learned (and unlearned) stepping into IC leadership roles. 😉 Join me and see you on Sep 18/19! techleadconf.com

Check out my #TheTechLeadConf badge: gitnation.com/badges/techl.... You can register via my badge and watch the stream for FREE! See you on September 18 & 19!

Check it out our awesome podcast and let’s discuss about life, tech and kids 😂

Sweet surprise of the day! 🥳 My Learning Vue book, published by O'Reilly, is now available in Korean! 🇰🇷📘 So excited (and a bit emotional!) to see it reaching even more readers 💚 I wonder which language is next? 😄 Big thank you to everyone who’s been supporting me along the way! 🥰✨

Liquid what you said?

22000 steps logged today 😝. Portugal and the weather is too cute today. 🥰

Ok I’m trying to figure if I should upgrade my shoes from Pegasus 39 to Pegasus 41, or Vomera 18, or nothing at all. What do you say? Cc @henrihelvetica.bsky.social

Just wrapped my talk at #JNation 🇵🇹 on bringing Accessibility into CI/CD! From Playwright to axe-core, Lighthouse, Evinced, and even Copilot Agent—we explored tools to automate a11y checks and generate clear reports with LLMs. Demo: github.com/mayashavin/a... Make your components accessible, fast!

Because Vite has a Vue 😂😂 @jnationconf.bsky.social

Enjoy the Vue as much as I can 😘

New podcast episode is out! 🎉 I had a fun (and insightful) chat with @santoshyadav.dev about his journey in tech, how he reached Staff Engineer, and life tips you don’t want to miss. Tune in: open.spotify.com/episode/5oXW...

May the Forth be with you!

We are live with React Day by @frontendnation.com in just under 3 hours! 🥰 If you’re into React, I hope you are joining armed with questions, because we have some great talks and panel for you. Can’t wait to host it! Join me! 🤍 📺 vi.to/hubs/react-d...

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Storybook 9 beta! So much blood/sweat/tears from @storybook.js.org and @vitest.dev teams to create the future of UI testing. Please kick the tires in your project to help us stabilize for GA. 🙏

Today @santoshyadav.dev and I recorded an episode for my podcast and must say I enjoyed it soo much 🥰. Full of interesting insights about life and career IC in tech as a Staff Engineer path 💪🏻. Can’t wait to release it soon! Subscribe to my podcast 👇🏻 😁 open.spotify.com/show/0qr653E...

Have anyone managed to use MCP to generate storybook files for your codebase based on a template? I’m thinking of doing so, but if someone already tried that, would love to hear your experience

The countdown has officially started ⏰ We have 1 week to go until React Day is LIVE with sessions by @mayashavin.com, @tej.as, @shrutikapoor08.bsky.social, @leaht.codes + Panel with @kentcdodds.com 🔥 Dive into React and take away insightful knowledge ❤️ 🎫 go.frontendnation.com/rct

happened to know about GitMCP project - gitmcp.io and how it turned from side project a full scale and popular project on AI and MCP topic 🚀. The idea of instantly transforming your public repo into documentation hub, and allowing Cursor to access latest documentation and code sounds just amazing!

🚀 New article! Sometimes wrong usage of CSS, such as positioning properties can make your component inaccessible, when it may not look like so. Let’s learn how the right use of CSS Flexbox can make the difference, and keep the code clean for a custom input counter 👇🏻 dev.to/mayashavin/m...

Forcing myself to release it 🤣

New speaker alert 🔥 We are thrilled to welcome @mayashavin.com as she dives into her findings and lessons learned after working and debating about using React daily. 🧠 Are we React-ing wrongly? Tune in to find out this April 29th! 🎟️ go.frontendnation.com/rct

Happy Friday! Who feels like stickers?

Ok is there Storybook for mobile @storybook.js.org ? 🥲

Anyone from @storybook.js.org can help me with some dependency issues? 😔

Recording time for Women on Stage conference! Don’t forget to turn in next week and let’s discuss about how we can leverage AI, Netlify async workloads and APIs to build an automation workflow for post publishing and promotion, in a smart way. Until then, have a great weekend 🥰🥰 #buildwithai

That concluded my awesome week with Google Build with AI Bootcamp. Many thanks to the GDE program and Google team for this awesome swag ☺️. Cant wait to start building with Gemma!

Day 3 - Gemma Day. Let’s learn what we can do with Gemma 3 and WebAI 💪🏻

Been a while since I attended a conference as attendee 🤣 Day 2 - Build with Gemini day as part of Google Developer Expert Bootcamp

Girls power at Build with AI Bootcamp for GDE #BuildwithAI

Who will be in Paris this week and wants to have a coffee with me? :)

Welcome to the family 😂🥰

Stay calm and let’s meditate 🧘 Good morning!