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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
a year ago
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My New Startup Checklist some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet,...
a year ago
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a year ago
some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet, but I did want to capture some notes on logistical stuff I have had to ramp up on as a first time founder. hopefully this helps somebody out there.
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My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34 I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
over a year ago
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
a year ago
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I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:
a year ago
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swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
2 months ago
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Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides) Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on practical usecases. We will go over a mental model of who is doing what and explain both where the opportunities are and where the non-AI developer can start going down the rabbit...
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
2 months ago
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Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
4 months ago
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
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Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
3 months ago
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
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The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
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The Upload (short story) My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
10 months ago
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How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in git as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian...
a year ago
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a year ago
as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian Second Brain, I have recently run into this issue a lot:
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Date me if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
a month ago
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 Public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time so have the short form.
11 months ago
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Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts You want
a year ago
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Organizing State of Diffusion++ I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
a year ago
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a year ago
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
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Pseudocode for Intentionality I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
a month ago
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a month ago
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
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Designing a Logo I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
a month ago
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a month ago
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
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Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
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Signs that a Startup is Going Bad All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
over a year ago
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[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
a year ago
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The Traction vs Trust Equation of Cofounder Dating One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the cofounder group. I thought I would jot down some notes from my own experience + that of friends in similar situations.
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
a year ago
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a year ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
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Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess. I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
a month ago
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
over a year ago
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The Platinum Rule You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum and Silver Rules.
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(draft) On Intentionality slug: intentionality
a month ago
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How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
a year ago
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
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Post Bootcamp Mindmap What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
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Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
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Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
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Don't Rush to Simplicity Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
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Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
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Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
11 months ago
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What if your Index Page was Smart? Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
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Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
over a year ago
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How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization) I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces...
a year ago
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a year ago
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces (like this one https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization) always error out so aren't very useful.
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The Law of Conservation of Risk Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed
over a year ago
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Measuring Developer Relations DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
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Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference! A quick exercise to improve your attention to detail when implementing/designing with CSS.
over a year ago
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Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
over a year ago
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
a year ago
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a year ago
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
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How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
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How to Find Podcasts That Have Been Deleted TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s
over a year ago
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
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A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
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The God Endpoints will continue until morale improves a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure...
over a year ago
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Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025) I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
a month ago
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a month ago
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:
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The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2 This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
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The Swyx.io 2023 rewrite Discussing the 2023 migration of swyx.io to the SvelteKit 1.0 and the swyxkit template
over a year ago
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3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started advice for beginners from a podcast
over a year ago
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Serverless Machine Learning at Google ---
over a year ago
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Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
over a year ago
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On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time...
a year ago
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
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Eponymous Laws Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
over a year ago
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Running Docker without Docker Desktop Docker is great. Docker Desktop sucks. Here's my fix.
over a year ago
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The Great Unzippening Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762) came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into [blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider...
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On The Importance of 15-5 Updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
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Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
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Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
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Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to deploy a Static Next.js Site to Netlify, and then upgrade it to use Dynamic Route Segments to become a full fledged Static Site Generator!
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
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Networking Essentials: Content Distribution How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
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Service as a Service Before you start offering Software as a Service, perhaps just offer a Service.
over a year ago
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Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Life and Death the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
11 months ago
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Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
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How To Google Your Errors ---
over a year ago
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Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
over a year ago
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Learning Gears > Translations welcome!...
over a year ago
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> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
over a year ago
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Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
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Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
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My 2024 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
3 months ago
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
over a year ago
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How to write a Python Twitter Unfollow Script in 2022 The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still serving up loads of outdated results.
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How To Optimize for Change Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.
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Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
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Reflexive McLuhanism First we shape X, then X shapes us.
over a year ago
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
over a year ago
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For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
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Workshopping Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
over a year ago
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The Simple Magic of Prefixed URLs You can enhance the web by making wrappers around it.
over a year ago
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The introduction to TypeScript Generics you've been missing > Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
over a year ago
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Traffic Engineering What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
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Pseudocode for Intentionality slug: intentionality
a month ago
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The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
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35 Principles for 35 Years I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by.
over a year ago
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How rollup-plugin-svelte Works Svelte is often thought of as a compiler. But really it is a compiler within a bundler.
over a year ago
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Moderating a 220k Developer Community Reflections from two-and-a bit years helping to run /r/Reactjs
over a year ago
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Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
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How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
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Singapore H1B1 Tips > Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on...
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> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on /r/sg](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7nflav/h1b1_visa_ama/) about 1yr ago. Please also read this blogpost from /u/omakaselife!...
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
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2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
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Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
over a year ago
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Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
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Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
over a year ago
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
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Svelte for Sites, React for Apps Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
over a year ago
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OSI Layers for Coding Careers Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
over a year ago
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Breaking Barbarian This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160),...
over a year ago
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This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this...
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React Distros Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today...
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Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today and tomorrow
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Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
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AmpliBox - a Self Hosted File Storage App with AWS Amplify A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
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Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
11 months ago
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
over a year ago
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The 8 Jobs of Management Recently, John Cutler...
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Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
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Big L Notation In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of...
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In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of experience, with `P` peers.
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Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
over a year ago
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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
over a year ago
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You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
over a year ago
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"No Code" Is A Lie _Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
over a year ago
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
over a year ago
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Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2 A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
11 months ago
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A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
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Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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Svelte Zen Garden reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
over a year ago
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The Power of Lampshading How to turn Ignorance into Power
over a year ago
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API Design: Modifying Defaults > This is a quick note on a API Design. I hope to make this an ongoing series.
over a year ago
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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
over a year ago
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I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
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Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
over a year ago
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10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
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What drives Optimal Overhead? The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
over a year ago
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How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website...
over a year ago
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The default Transistor.fm website is kinda ugly. Here's how to customize your Transistor.fm website if you use Transistor. But also it's a simple guide to do clientside customizations of almost any website whose code you don't control.
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How to use SvelteKit with Netlify Forms a simple tutorial
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
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Choice Architecture Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of...
over a year ago
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Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this
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Cool Facts about Cuttlefish This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
over a year ago
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This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
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Book Poll 2019 I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
over a year ago
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I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
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September 11th from Singapore just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
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How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
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How to Manifest a Meetup This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for...
over a year ago
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This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for Thursday night. So I [tweeted out an invite](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1546219659195826178):
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Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
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Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
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'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
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Working The Reverse 9 to 5 Having weird sleeping hours is working out... very well for me.
over a year ago
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Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
over a year ago
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
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How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
over a year ago
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I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
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Sharding Yourself An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
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How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
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The Meta-Creator Ceiling Don't play games you don't want to win.
over a year ago
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Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau Linking to a blogpost I was too lazy to do
over a year ago
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Collapsing Layers As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another...
over a year ago
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As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
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Tests or Types: Why Not Both? _Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not...
over a year ago
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_Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not Both?](https://css-tricks.com/types-or-tests-why-not-both/)_
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Against Namespacing Personal Sites I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm...
over a year ago
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I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
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The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules
over a year ago
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My New Mac Setup (2018-2020) quick checklist for setting up a new macbook
over a year ago
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Farewell, Netlify On leaving Netlify
over a year ago
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Clientside Webmentions How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Router Design A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
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Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
over a year ago
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
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Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
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Temporal Transparency Update Our 9th transparency update describing how we are shipping the upcoming Authentication feature
over a year ago
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Why Tailwind CSS Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
over a year ago
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You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless...
over a year ago
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Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
over a year ago
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Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
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Friendcatchers Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
over a year ago
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The Day I Became A Software Engineer A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
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How and Why to Un-Reset Tailwind's CSS Reset > 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose`...
over a year ago
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> 2021 edit: note that [tailwind typography now comes with a `not-prose` class](https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-typography-v0-5#undo-prose-styles) that unsets typography styles
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How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
over a year ago
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Book Review - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight One of the greatest autobiographies by a business icon and great writer
over a year ago
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100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
over a year ago
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 4 This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
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Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
over a year ago
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Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev _Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
over a year ago
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Unsupervised Learning: Feature Transformation Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than...
over a year ago
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Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than Principal Components Analysis!
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
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Why Creator Clones Fail The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
over a year ago
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First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview) AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost
over a year ago
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Machine Learning: An Overview The three major branches of ML
over a year ago
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Pick Up What They Put Down > Translations welcome!...
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> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/aprenda-em-publico-hack.html))
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
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80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
over a year ago
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Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
over a year ago
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Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
over a year ago
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
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Slack is Fumbling Developers Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees The simplest form of Classification algorithm
over a year ago
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A World Without Plugins What happens if we did away with plugins altogether? The case for Imperative Recipes
over a year ago
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Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
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Writing an Authentication Store in Svelte This is my attempt today wrapping an Authentication workflow into a Svelte Store
over a year ago
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
over a year ago
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Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain The case for having a -Public- Second Brain, and why I picked Obsidian.
over a year ago
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Cloud Distros The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
over a year ago
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You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
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The Third Age of JavaScript A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now...
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A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now will look totally unrecognizable
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The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
over a year ago
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Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
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Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
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The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
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Working at a Startup From Series B to C Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
over a year ago
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
over a year ago
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Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
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Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...
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This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.
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Private Conversations are Private I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I...
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I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I know, so it stands out among the general cacophony of my many other failures. I wanted to own up to what I did, explain how I handled it, and in general take ownership of the...
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How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario
over a year ago
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Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript' _[Slides...
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_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
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Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
over a year ago
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The Case for the React Native Web Singularity There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice...
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There is a possible "React Native Web Singularity", when it starts being a better standalone choice for developing for the mobile web than `react-dom`. If this speculation comes true, this would be gamechanging.
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Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS the full text of my State of JS writeup!
over a year ago
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
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I'm Writing A Book! I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
over a year ago
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10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain 10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
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A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static a survey of new documentation/static site generators
over a year ago
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Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1 Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
over a year ago
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Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily > "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
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> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
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Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
over a year ago
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#HeyForGood Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
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Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
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Adverse Status Updates and Trust I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a...
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I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a quick comment on.
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3 This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
over a year ago
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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...
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*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
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"No Code" vs RPA RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...
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RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
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You May Not Need Controlled Form Components A common design pattern for forms in React is using Controlled Components - but involves a lot of...
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A common design pattern for forms in React is using Controlled Components - but involves a lot of boilerplate code. Here's another way.
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My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging A simple way to decide when and what to write.
over a year ago
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GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries My mistakes and insights on GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries.
over a year ago
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Unsupervised Learning: Clustering Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
over a year ago
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Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
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Building Authenticated Serverless Jamstack Apps with Gatsby and Netlify Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a...
over a year ago
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Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a fully dynamic React app - which means you can use APIs to do all sorts of dynamic functionality!
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STAR Apps - A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows _Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development...
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_Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows](https://css-tricks.com/star-apps-a-new-generation-of-front-end-tooling-for-development-workflows/)_
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How to Create Luck Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*.
over a year ago
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What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
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My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
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Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
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Networking Essentials: Network Security What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
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How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
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5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book Reviewing Alex DeBrie's new the DynamoDB Book
over a year ago
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Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
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Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
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Shortcodes vs MDX Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
over a year ago
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How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
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Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
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How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
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> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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React Single File Components Are Here React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the...
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React has long eschewed convention in favor of the extreme flexibility of JS. It is time for the next level in React authorship formats.
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
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A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
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The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing...
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This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.
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Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Routing How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
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5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book 5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
over a year ago
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How to use Web Components with Next.js and TypeScript In [my livestream today](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-4-6em) I had...
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In [my livestream today](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-4-6em) I had the need to bring in a spinner component to show work in progress in my app. However found that existing React spinners were too heavy. That's when I had the idea to use web...
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Learning Lets update our priors! Oh wait we have none.
over a year ago
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
over a year ago
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4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
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To Understand Concurrent React, Look Outside React ## Table of Contents
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Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022 TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on,...
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TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.
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Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
over a year ago
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Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
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Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
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Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
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Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
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It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
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The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
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Netlify Year One - 360 Review I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
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I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
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Why You Should Pre-Sell My thoughts on preselling, from having done it successfully exactly one time.
over a year ago
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3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
over a year ago
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JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich A link to the 190 page history of JS by its original creator and the editor of ES6.
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Intro to Node-RED I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today...
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I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today and explored Huginn. It didn't really appeal so I looked for alternatives and found [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/). It uses a much more familiar toolchain (JS) and is...
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Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer Musing about how Twitter can enhance your Internet reading experience
over a year ago
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Documentation Levels People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we...
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People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we match the maturity of docs to the maturity of the project?
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Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
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Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
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Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes ---
over a year ago
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Git-Centric Workflow _Published on [the Netlify...
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_Published on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/09/26/git-centric-workflow-the-one-api-to-rule-them-all/)_
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Narrow Waists When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the...
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When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the somewhat obscure "Internet Architecture" model of the different technology layers ([my notes here](https://dev.to/swyx/networking-essentials-architecture-and-principles-2g5e)):
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How I Approach First Principles Thinking An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
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Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple...
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EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.
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How to run Python and Portray on Netlify How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
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Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
over a year ago
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Mocking and Using CRUD APIs with MirageJS and React-Query This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great...
over a year ago
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In Defense of Hammers Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
over a year ago
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Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
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Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
over a year ago
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
over a year ago
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My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020 An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
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Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk
over a year ago
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Your Site's Calling Card > Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
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> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
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Using DEV.to as a CMS Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
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Branding Bundles The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
over a year ago
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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
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