Pauline P. Narvas

@pawlean.com

Developer Experience at OpenAI, prev Vercel. → pawlean.com

I’ll say it once again: who your manager is matters. It a reason you’ll feel recognised, inspired to do better, even get promoted or get that pay rise. I always think about this when I find myself having to back up my people. Now that I have the chance to, I will!

Highlights from last week at @vercel.com... * Vercel Sandboxes now support automatic persistence and custom naming * Roboto Studio explains Next.js 16.2 to devs at all skill levels * Chat SDK supports scheduled Slack messages and concurrent message handling * new.website joins @v0.dev

Last week at @vercel.com... * You can update routing rules without redeployment * Vercel Workflow performance has a 54% median speed improvement * MCP Apps and custom MCP servers are fully supported on Vercel * Stripe integration is now available on Vercel Marketplace and v0 vercel.link/4lnYSEL

Last week in the @vercel.community... * @v0.dev got a major update * Claude Opus 4.6 is now available on AI Gateway * Workflow 4.1 Beta introduced event sourcing, every state change is stored as an event * Geist Pixel added to the Geist font family

Community management reality check: You can't be everywhere at once. But you CAN: → Turn recurring questions into self-serve material → Empower your team to own outcomes → Build systems that scale empathy The only way through is building leverage. 📈

what I love most about open source is the community 😊 ... and I think that's what makes nuxt and vite so special to everyone involved ❤️ I'm glad @patak.dev is willing to join me as a steward of npmx 🙏

danielroe — Yesterday at 20:41

hello everyone! 👋

... and apologies for the ping, but now seems a good time to talk about what npmx is as an open source project.

it was 8 days ago that I made the first commit, and I had something I was excited about a day later. it was clear to me from [the](https://bsky.app/profile/danielroe.dev/post/3md3cmrg56k2r) [community](https://bsky.app/profile/danielroe.dev/post/3md47mg7qjs22) that it would be big, and I invited patak to join two days later.

it's impossible to believe that it's been less than a week since we started inviting close allies and trusted folk. we're already at 75+ npmx contributors, and around 200 people on the server now, which is an outstanding percentage.

so now seems like a good time to make explicit what 'npmx' is:
we're open-source and for the good of the web
we're a community project, built by all of us

it might be a bit early for it, but patak and I have drafted a governance doc to set out a bit about how we want to steward npmx. it's short but we'll be filling it out more as we go on.

we've also created an opencollective so we can help support the community and hopefully, one day, help other similar projects.

we want to make the experience of using npmjs better for us and for others. and the joy of open source is that we can do that together! I hope it goes without saying, but thank you ❤️

we'd love your thoughts on the document and on the project 🙏

Last week in the @vercel.community... * 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 CLI for installing agent skill packages * AI Code Elements for building IDEs, coding applications, and background agents * Vercel Sandbox filesystem snapshots support * Braintrust tested if bash is all you need for AI agents

Sometimes I forget that I’m one of the best in the game when it comes to community, until I’m reminded that I’m one of the best in the game when it comes to community.