swyx  

@swyx

Life is too short not to play long term games. DX Author Instigator Angel Investor Pitch me: swyx@hey.com

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    Jul 1

    🚨 The Handbook is here! 🚨 It comes in 3 flavors. The Handbook: 450+ pages of everything I have learned about building an exceptional and *sustainable* coding career. This is the ultimate guide for the 4-8yrs from Junior to Senior Dev!

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Are you planning to get an Apple M1 MacBook in the next year?

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  3. 4 hours ago

    As much as I do the "make 100 pots to make 1 good pot" thing, I greatly admire people who just aim for greatness and consistently hit their mark with focus. Rahul only does 1 "topic" a year for the speaking circuit. he ends up telling a supremely confident and structured story.

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    I mean seriously, just listen to this poetry. on the "flow" experience that inspired 's speed.
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    6 hours ago

    Write to connect with people who see the world as you do.

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  5. 20 hours ago

    what sadistic PM at decided this was an acceptable default notification setting. when has anyone ever wanted to get email notifications potentially every 15 minutes. every time i stare at this and send a mental FUCK YOU to whoever coded this up

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  6. 21 hours ago

    TIL that the `unload` event is legacy and should never be used, and `beforeunload` shouldn't be added unconditionally: via Phil's excellent article below, 65% of pages use `unload` and it nukes the bfcache 🤯 you can test for cacheability!!

    🔍 A deep dive into how to optimize for the browser's Back/Forward Cache — i.e. how to properly use the pagehide & pageshow events (probably the two *least* well-understood events on the web): I guarantee you'll learn something new! 👍
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  7. Retweeted
    Nov 9

    I'm over the moon excited to release my "Debugging CSS" book! 🚀 A book about how to debug CSS, which includes everything you need to know to sharpen your debugging CSS skills. 📘 Get your copy:

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  8. 22 hours ago

    great notes here (with examples) from Alec: i keep around a <details>/<summary> snippet to consciously make it easier for myself to do expandable docs in my own docs.

    Let me start with my perception of _why_ people read technical docs: 1. To evaluate if they need something 2. To set up something (presumably only once) 3. To troubleshoot setup or implementation 4. [a distant fourth] To learn more about underlying concepts and principles
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    22 hours ago
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    I don't blame the tools. JS is in a unique spot of being a mainstream language running both in the browser and the server, and being used today in a dramatically different way than a decade ago. Growing pains were inevitable. Now, it's time to unify and simplify as said.

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  10. Nov 21

    I am 100% regretting not inserting "designing" to the above list, which shows you my shocking amount of bias despite constantly telling myself and others how important great brand, product, code design are. 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

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  11. Nov 21

    Very strong start to the new podcast by and not only was there the usual strong pitch by , but the sleeper hit was the in depth discussion of 5. made me really appreciate both!

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    Nov 21

    Cheat code to build the Capture Habit: - Tweet about articles/talks you enjoy and tag the author - Summarize the most impactful points - Send other people to your summary when the topic arises again - Watch your intellectual capital compound Knowledge work -> Knowledge wealth

    Replying to @Nutlope @swyx
    Ok, serious question. What do you recommend to people who have never learned to properly take notes, or don't have the patience for it, or just dislike it? How would they go about changing this behavior?
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  13. Nov 21

    There's nothing like ideating, building, testing, marketing, shipping, and iterating on your own thing - to make you appreciate all the jobs you DON'T normally do and take for granted.

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  14. Nov 21

    Learning documentation - teaches a hello world example Reference documentation - exhaustive list good dichotomy from who makes Dexy - showing running code in docs

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    Nov 21

    Quite possibly my favourite anecdote from Rory Sutherland’s Alchemy.

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    Nov 19

    Errors are one of the most defining aspects of a developer experience. Why aren't they better? talks about how we're trying to do just that at Temporal

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    Nov 20

    Consuming content without taking notes is like pouring water into a cup with holes.

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    Nov 20

    Like many of us, I am starting to look towards 2021 - it’s FINALLY almost here. I would love to have a small group on womxn in tech to do regular checkins, accountability and goal sharing with. Is anyone else looking for that sort of thing? Reply below or shoot me a DM 🤗

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    Nov 20

    Here's another free preview lesson from the AppSync Masterclass. "AppSync vs API Gateway" ❓caching ❓service integrations ❓WebSockets ❓WAF ❓authentication ❓custom domain names ❓private endpoints ❓group-based auth ❓req & resp validation

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  20. Nov 20

    Great recap of the story of to date! the sheer contrast between how well (and comparatively easily) Tailwind is funded vs how the vast majority of open source struggles for funding makes wonder what lessons we can draw. I fear a lot of it cant be replicated

    Enjoyed being a guest on the Code Story podcast a few weeks back, check it out here if you'd like to listen:
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    Jan 18

    1/ Why you need to document things to improve your decision-making, a thread: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." ~Richard P. Feynman Feynman is one of my heroes, a brilliant physicist who was also a renaissance man

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