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swyx

@swyx

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

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Jun 11 '20

4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers

Answering Q&A's

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Jun 2 '20

Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup

AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.

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May 29 '20

Bringing AWS to App Developers

Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining

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May 20 '20

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 will look totally unrecognizable

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May 18 '20

Working The Reverse 9 to 5

Having weird sleeping hours is working out... very well for me.

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May 17 '20

Slack is Fumbling Developers

Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities

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May 13 '20

IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020

Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.

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Apr 27 '20

The Day I Became A Software Engineer

A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.

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Apr 22 '20

Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy

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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Apr 21 '20

Cloud Distros

The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.

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Apr 15 '20

OSI Layers for Coding Careers

Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.

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Apr 13 '20

How to Market Yourself

Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.

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