About the author
swyx
@swyx
Infinite Builder 👷🏽♂️ I help people Learn in Public • Author, the Coding Career Handbook (https://www.learninpublic.org)
NYC
Jun 13 '21
Why IaaS beat PaaS
The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
Jun 6 '21
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
May 28 '21
The Power of Personal Podcasting
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
May 26 '21
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 why.
May 25 '21
How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase
Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
May 22 '21
$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail
This post originated as an AMA on IndieHackers I launched the Coding Career Handbook almost a year...
May 20 '21
How To Optimize for Change
Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.
May 18 '21
Why Creator Clones Fail
The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
May 17 '21
Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal
A case study I published for my work at Temporal
May 15 '21
Don't Rush to Simplicity
Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
May 14 '21
What if Stripe is the next Google?
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
Apr 28 '21
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 back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.