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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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Mar 3 '20

Three Jobs of Containers

A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop

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Mar 2 '20

Starting a Developer Meetup Community

Thoughts on how I am doing with 4 months of Svelte Society in the bag.

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Mar 1 '20

How I Approach First Principles Thinking

An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on Applications

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Feb 29 '20

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 developer experience.

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Feb 28 '20

Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS

I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are my impressions.

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Feb 26 '20

Digital Garden Terms of Service

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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Feb 25 '20

Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site

Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies

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Feb 24 '20

Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools

The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces

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Feb 23 '20

Using DEV.to as a CMS

Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!

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Feb 21 '20

Serverless Functions are Stateful

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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Feb 12 '20

Clientside Webmentions

How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.

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Feb 10 '20

Big L Notation

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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