About the author
swyx
@swyx
Infinite Builder 👷🏽♂️ I help people Learn in Public • Author, the Coding Career Handbook (https://www.learninpublic.org)
NYC
Feb 18 '21
Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
Feb 12 '21
The Simple Magic of Prefixed URLs
You can enhance the web by making wrappers around it.
Feb 8 '21
Enablement vs Ownership Roles
Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
Feb 1 '21
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
Jan 29 '21
Errors Are Not Exceptions
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
Jan 25 '21
Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff
Every creator wrestles with the tradeoff between quality and consistency. The answer - Default to consistency, and cut scope.
Jan 20 '21
The Meta-Creator Ceiling
Don't play games you don't want to win.
Jan 18 '21
My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging
A simple way to decide when and what to write.
Jan 17 '21
Strategy Turns
What got you here won't get you there.
Jan 13 '21
Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify
A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
Jan 8 '21
What drives Optimal Overhead?
The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
Jan 3 '21
Notes on The Psychology of Money
A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral finance