swyx

Infinite Builder 👷🏽‍♂️ I help people Learn in Public • Author, the Coding Career Handbook (https://www.learninpublic.org)

NYC Joined on Dec 2, 2017 http://swyx.io

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This is the repo for swyx's blog - Blog content is created in github issues, then posted on swyx.io as blog pages! Comment/watch to follow along my blog within GitHub

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fullstack javascript and python

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swyx

May 27 '22

Running Docker without Docker Desktop

#docker

2 min read

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swyx

Dec 27 '21

Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022

#devtools #summaries #javascript

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Dec 26 '21

Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse

#datasette #tech #data #python

5 min read

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Dec 3 '21

How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS

#tips #javascript #css

2 min read

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Dec 2 '21

Fave New Podcasts in 2021

#reflections #podcast

4 min read

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Nov 8 '21

Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

#reflections #community #devrel

7 min read

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Oct 16 '21

100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere

#css

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Oct 4 '21

Eating the Cloud from Outside In

#cloud #aws #strategy

8 min read

swyx

Sep 20 '21

Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

#react #graphql #rest #supabase

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Sep 11 '21

September 11th from Singapore

#reflections

3 min read

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Sep 3 '21

The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

#creators

5 min read

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Aug 30 '21

3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever

#git #tips

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Aug 30 '21

The Self Provisioning Runtime

#dx #ideas

10 min read

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Aug 23 '21

Why Isn't Usage Based Billing A Bigger Category?

#reflections #pricing

5 min read

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Aug 16 '21

Measuring Developer Relations

#dx #devrel #content

17 min read

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Aug 8 '21

Why I'm not a VC (yet)

#reflections #money #vc

5 min read

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Jul 22 '21

The Genius of Apple's Name

#apple #naming #tech

3 min read

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Jul 19 '21

Temporal - the iPhone of System Design

#temporal #work #reflections

15 min read

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Jul 5 '21

My 2021 New Mac Setup

#mac #tech

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Jun 25 '21

The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge

#learning #epistemology #reflections

8 min read

swyx for Temporal

Jun 22 '21

The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal

#temporal #architecture #go

7 min read

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Jun 19 '21

Memento Vivere

#reflections

2 min read

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Jun 13 '21

Why IaaS beat PaaS

#cloud #aws #azure

4 min read

swyx

Jun 6 '21

Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

#reflections #learninpublic #react

10 min read

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May 28 '21

The Power of Personal Podcasting

#creators #podcast #reflections

7 min read

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May 26 '21

Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained

#tech #stripe #creators

4 min read

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May 25 '21

How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase

#react #javascript #webdev

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3 min read

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May 22 '21

$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail

#creators #reflections

5 min read

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May 20 '21

How To Optimize for Change

#learnings #apidesign #tech

9 min read

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May 18 '21

Why Creator Clones Fail

#strategy #creators #youtube

5 min read

swyx for Temporal

May 17 '21

Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal

#temporal #go #podcast #machinelearning

5 min read

swyx

May 15 '21

Don't Rush to Simplicity

#reflections #complexity #memes

4 min read

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May 14 '21

What if Stripe is the next Google?

#reflections

3 min read

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Apr 28 '21

80/20 is the new Half-Ass

#reflections #advice

3 min read

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Apr 25 '21

How to use SvelteKit with Netlify Forms

#tutorial #svelte #netlify

4 min read

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Apr 22 '21

35 Principles for 35 Years

#reflections #advice

7 min read

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Apr 8 '21

Reflexive McLuhanism

#reflections #reflexivity #mcluhanism

3 min read

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Apr 5 '21

Set Explicit Help Timeouts

#reflections #advice #lampshading

3 min read

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Mar 28 '21

Blogpost Annealing

#reflections #writing #learninpublic

4 min read

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Mar 26 '21

Shortcodes vs MDX

#writing #shortcodes #react

5 min read

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Mar 14 '21

The Part Time Creator Manifesto

#creators #reflections

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12 min read

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Mar 12 '21

Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil

#reflections #programming #advice

6 min read

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Mar 6 '21

TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive

#react #speaking #summary

2 min read

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Mar 4 '21

Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech

#dx #community

10 min read

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Mar 4 '21

Workshopping

#reflections #blogging #creation

2 min read

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Feb 28 '21

Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice

#watercooler #reflections #singapore

5 min read

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Feb 18 '21

Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"

#reflections #typescript

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4 min read

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Feb 12 '21

The Simple Magic of Prefixed URLs

#ideas

2 min read

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Feb 8 '21

Enablement vs Ownership Roles

#reflections #management #ownership

6 min read

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Feb 1 '21

Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

#reflections #product #startup

5 min read

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Jan 29 '21

Errors Are Not Exceptions

#languages #go #javascript

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Jan 25 '21

Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff

#reflections

6 min read

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Jan 20 '21

The Meta-Creator Ceiling

#reflections

5 min read

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Jan 18 '21

My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging

#writing

4 min read

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Jan 17 '21

Strategy Turns

#strategy #advice

7 min read

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Jan 13 '21

Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify

#aws

5 min read

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Jan 8 '21

What drives Optimal Overhead?

#research #systems

8 min read

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Jan 3 '21

Notes on The Psychology of Money

#finance #money #books

9 min read

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Jan 1 '21

Fibonacci Goals

#ideas

3 min read

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Dec 30 '20

My Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel

#reflections

1 min read

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