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Can you automate love?
What's the laziest thing you've ever built? For me it's a bot that sends cute pictures every dayMarch 17th, 2021If you can JavaScript, you can backend
When you think of a backend or server developer, who comes to mind? A wizard of arcane magics. The future belongs to full-stack frontend engineers.March 16th, 2021Can you code faster?
What slows you down most while coding? It's not lack of skill. It's not lack of ideas. It's uncertainty. Fear.February 26th, 2021Why you can't find an engineering coach
Wanna learn boxing? Join a gym, find a coach. Tennis player with a kink in your game? Find a coach. Software engineer with a missing skill? Google, random blogs, fun newsletters, dubious podcasts, noise on twitter ๐คจJanuary 8th, 2021Reflecting on 2020
The year that felt like a drag and ended in the blink of an eye. January 2nd, 2021Deep work December
do you ever feel like you're working working working and nothing is happening? Like a game character running against an invisible obstacle? That's how I've been feeling lately. Stuck.December 2nd, 2020How *do* you standout as a developer?
Course creators are always telling you to learn this or that but how does any of it help *your* goals? That's the missing piece ๐คNovember 26th, 2020Use private libraries to cleanup your codebase
You're using the many-small-repositories approach to work faster as a team. But where do you put shared code? How do you make it nice to use? How to publish and install private packages?November 16th, 2020What's your code for?
Perfect code that doesn't solve the problem is useless. Perfect metrics that don't serve the user are a distraction.November 6th, 2020The mistake that strangles engineering teams
You work hard on a feature. Weeks of back and forth with designers, product managers, tech leads, and the rest of your team. Your feature is amazing and you're proud as heck! But then ...October 26th, 2020How I use delegation to get more done
Productivity porn shows you how to pack more into your day. Productivity porn is wrong my friend. You need to remove things to grow.October 23rd, 2020Sucking is the first step
You ever feel like you have no idea what you're doing? Everyone feels that way. Sometimes more, sometimes less.October 19th, 2020Should you take a pay cut for equity
Would you take some % of your salary in bitcoin? The joke is that compared to pre-IPO equity, bitcoin is predictable and has a known value.October 9th, 2020Computer science is not software engineering
Wow, college was such a waste of time ... when did you ever invert a binary tree outside of an interview? Honestly I never inverted a binary tree in college either โน๏ธOctober 2nd, 2020My favorite serverless project
When's the last time your first project in a new technology was also your favorite? Doesn't happen very often ...๐ค It happened to me in November 2018.September 24th, 2020Modern backend is a JavaScript function
Many engineers think server-side code is the scary domain of True Engineers. Something newbies, juniors, and frontend engineers shouldn't touch. They're wrong. Modern backend is a joy. โค๏ธSeptember 22nd, 2020A JavaScript function that makes $40,000+/year
What's the best code you ever wrote? Is it the most clever, or the cleanest. The most fun problem to solve, or the most impactful. The surprise throwaway everyone uses, or the love nobody noticed.September 21st, 2020Why senior engineers get nothing done
You start a new job and it's amazing. Code all day, clear objectives, easy guidelines, ship a bunch of features be a hero. Then something happens and suddenly you get nothing done. ๐คSeptember 11th, 2020Your first NextJS app โ CodeWithSwiz
On CodeWithSwiz ep2, we tried NextJS and built our first tiny app. Complete with a design system, static rendering, React Query to talk to AWS Lambda, and deployed to live ๐คSeptember 1st, 2020How to export a large Wordpress site to Markdown
Migrating from Wordpress to Markdown sounds easy. Mention it to any developer and they'll say "Pfft, an afternoon of work at worst". Suddenly it's 6months later and you're losing your mind.August 31st, 2020Why engineers are worth so much
Engineers don't do the day to day work, they build assets the business can exploit for years to come. That's the magicJuly 24th, 2020What makes you a senior software engineer anyway?
I used to think a senior engineer was someone who gets a project, understands the context, puts their head down, and gets it done. But no. A senior engineer does so much more than just write code and design systems.February 13th, 2019Moods
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