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Emma Hamilton

Software developer and maintainer of OSS tools including Keystatic, Keystone, emotion-css, changesets, manypkg, and preconstruct.

Specialties

  • Front-end Engineering,
  • Design Systems,
  • Content Management Systems,
  • Keystone,
  • Keystatic,
  • React,
  • GraphQL

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    Building with Monorepos

    Monorepos are everywhere in the React community from design systems and apps to open source libraries. Being able to work on multiple packages together is powerful, but it’s not without its problems. Emma Hamilton shows you how to solve these problems by exploring the evolution of Emotion’s monorepo.

    March 2020
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    Introducing Preconstruct

    Preconstruct is a build tool for JavaScript packages with first-class support of monorepos and strong opinions to get you back to work faster.

    November 2019·3 min read

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    The agent trusted a committed docs folder of generated artefacts over my instructions. I deleted the lot and lost nothing.

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    We shipped a working MVP for the Tech Council of Australia in two weeks using an agentic development workflow. Along the way, we learned how easily agents can produce convincing work without moving a product forward, and why engineers still need to decide what progress looks like.

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