sam saccone

• github.com/samccone
• twitter.com/samccone

Posts

• August 2025 - From Prototype to Product: An Engineer's Playbook for Shipping LLMs
• December 2022 - Partial Clone Rollout - Engineering Productivity
• December 2020 - Time to debug
• July 2020 - A history of promises.
• July 2019 - Why is my webpack build slow?
• April 2019 - Demystifing the HEX
• February 2019 - Code reviews not nits
• 2015 - Reworking my process
• Fixing the flake on CI
• Logging JS errors with selenium webdriver
• Testing with Travis CI and Sauce Labs

Performance Research

• airbnb perf audit -- 9/13/2016
• [m.imgur.com] page load performance -- March 8 2016
• Tumblr dashboard loading perf -- March 2 2016
• The cost of transpiling es2015 in 2016 -- Feb 2 2016
• npm progress bar causes a 20% slow down -- Jan 26 2016
• Atom startup perf -- Nov 20 2015
• investigating npm 3 perf -- Nov 13 2015

Talks

• Performance profiling for Web Applications (NodeSchool April 18 2020) Slides
• The Future of Loading on the Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)
• Practical Performance (Polymer Summit 2016)
• Web Performance Tooling - Google I/O 2016
• Planning for Performance: PRPL (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
• Dealing with Garbage - dotJS 2015
• Recreating the Dialup modem in JavaScript - JSConf 2015
• Building Decoupled Applications with the PARM stack
• MarionetteJS the making of
• Nesting your views in Marionette

Podcasts

• Grumpy Developer: A conversation about choosing and using tools
• JS Jabber: A conversation about Marionette 2.0

Photo posts

• you have your mountains I have my woods - 10/16/2011
• saturday in the park - 10/8/2011
• art on the walls - 9/22/2011
• Sunset Russians - 9/13/2011
• I found your phone - 9/12/2011
• one two back - 9/4/2011
• the blue that killed us all - 7/19/2011
• Go now for you are free - 7/19/2011
• the dog that spoke english - 7/19/2011
• Forget the farm and let it burn - 7/19/2011
• slow - 1/24/2011
• frozen pumpkins and smokey eye balls - 12/21/2010
• hunting dead - 11/28/2010
• warm rewind - 11/21/2010
• 'seng - 9/29/2010
• exploding batteries and nachos - 9/23/2010
• How Much For Your Shoes? - 9/12/2010
• Sleepless - 9/5/2010
• The Invasion - 9/4/2010
• Tango Charlie - 8/23/2010
• Mr.Zebra - 7/30/2010
• Not Forgotten - 6/26/2010
• attack of the great green giant - 6/12/2010
• all together now - 5/21/2010
• dinosaurs and ferris wheels - 3/25/2010
• Across the states - 3/22/2010
• The Light is Home - 3/4/2010
• A Marriage in fall - 1/12/2010
• Gotcha - 1/9/2010
• breathing room - 1/1/2010
• Take me home - 12/31/2009
• Rouge Waves - 12/18/2009
• Chasing Peacocks - 12/15/2009
• . - 12/2/2009
• Photo Internships - 11/30/2009
• deep into blue - 11/27/2009
• fire place - 11/25/2009
• Mr.Cpoy - 11/20/2009
• texture - 11/19/2009
• again and again - 11/4/2009
• Range of jackson - 10/30/2009
• dusk - 10/29/2009
• under the earth - 10/7/2009
• time travel - 9/25/2009
• Walking the Ledges - 9/20/2009
• Night Time Sounds - 9/3/2009
• Rainy Nights - 8/31/2009
• fire man - 8/23/2009
• Virginia - 8/17/2009
• Midnight Football - 8/2/2009
• Steel Darts - 7/29/2009
• Surf City - 7/27/2009
• Call me Charlieee - 7/25/2009
• A Night - 7/24/2009
• Tar Heel - 7/23/2009
• "Welcome to the Wild West" - 7/14/2009
• Under grown - 7/10/2009
• _murkey - 7/9/2009
• Blue Smoke - 7/7/2009
• A 4th Homecoming - 7/4/2009
• Summer Sun - 6/30/2009
• Singing Painter - 6/22/2009
• The Daily - 6/19/2009
• Down Fishin' - 6/19/2009
• In the Heat - 6/18/2009
• Journey - 6/14/2009
• On The Hill - 6/1/2009
• Guns 3 - 5/23/2009
• Guns 2 - 5/13/2009
• Gun 1 - 4/25/2009
• In the Dark - 4/12/2009
• Take me out - 4/8/2009
• Bright Lights - 4/3/2009
• In the Earth - 3/28/2009
• The Land - 3/22/2009
• On Us - 3/20/2009
• Velvet Sky - 3/20/2009
• It all comes to an end - 3/19/2009