About the author
swyx
@swyx
Infinite Builder 👷🏽♂️ I help people Learn in Public • Author, the Coding Career Handbook (https://www.learninpublic.org)
NYC
Sep 3 '21
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
Aug 30 '21
3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever
Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
Aug 30 '21
The Self Provisioning Runtime
Improvements in DX in both programming languages and cloud infrastructure will eventually converge in a single paradigm, where you truly "just write business logic" and the platform mostly figures out the rest.
Aug 23 '21
Why Isn't Usage Based Billing A Bigger Category?
Usage billing is the new hotness for SaaS, and I have personally seen the pain it caused, but I was ultimately scared off from investing in it.
Aug 16 '21
Measuring Developer Relations
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.
Aug 8 '21
Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Jul 22 '21
The Genius of Apple's Name
An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
Jul 19 '21
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
Jul 5 '21
My 2021 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Jun 25 '21
The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
Jun 22 '21
The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal
This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
Jun 19 '21
Memento Vivere
Remember what life can do.