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Cognition: The Devin is in the Details
My 2025 New Mac Setup
Becoming a High Taste Tester
Gemini Nano in Chrome 137: notes for AI Engineers
notes from Naval (2025)
Elixir/Phoenix Liveview was a mistake
2025 Advice to my old selves
Supa Pecha Kucha
How to download YouTube Videos quickly
Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess.
Designing a Logo
Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025)
Pseudocode for Intentionality
Date Me!
swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps
Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk
My 2024 New Mac Setup
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter
Early Stage Company Offsites
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset
(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
The Upload (short story)
Organizing State of Diffusion++
Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency
Bring Back Short Stories
add Whisper to your iOS Action Button
You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox
My Fave New Podcasts of 2023
Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon
Bouldering
Being a minor AI public figure
Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides)
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod
How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's New Era and The JAMstack Endgame
How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in git
[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload
Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts
The Traction vs Trust Equation of Cofounder Dating
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence
My 2023 New Mac Setup
(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)
My New Startup Checklist
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April
How to change custom domain on Substack
How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization)
How to Find Podcasts That Have Been Deleted
How to Reverse Interview Investors
The Swyx.io 2023 rewrite
Signs that a Startup is Going Bad
Organizing Developer Writing Retreats
My Fave New Podcasts of 2022
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone
The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022
Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022)
Getting Senpai To Notice You
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes)
The God Endpoints will continue until morale improves
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)
What if your Index Page was Smart?
The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs
How to write a Python Twitter Unfollow Script in 2022
Writing my first Security blogpost
Breaking Barbarian
The Great Unzippening
What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items
How to Manifest a Meetup
Sharding Yourself
On The Importance of 15-5 Updates
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning
The 8 Jobs of Management
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets
The End of Localhost
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture
Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle
Running Docker without Docker Desktop
My 2022 New Mac Setup
The Law of Conservation of Risk
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering
React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal
How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours
Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS
The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content
Moving to a GitHub CMS
Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain
How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit
The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite
Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022
Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse
How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS
Fave New Podcasts in 2021
Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events
100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere
Eating the Cloud from Outside In
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?
September 11th from Singapore
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators
3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever
The Self Provisioning Runtime
Why Isn't Usage Based Billing A Bigger Category?
Measuring Developer Relations
Why I'm not a VC (yet)
The Genius of Apple's Name
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design
My 2021 New Mac Setup
The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal
Memento Vivere
Why IaaS beat PaaS
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
The Power of Personal Podcasting
Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained
How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase
$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail
How To Optimize for Change
Why Creator Clones Fail
Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal
Don't Rush to Simplicity
What if Stripe is the next Google?
80/20 is the new Half-Ass
How to use SvelteKit with Netlify Forms
35 Principles for 35 Years
Reflexive McLuhanism
Set Explicit Help Timeouts
Blogpost Annealing
Shortcodes vs MDX
The Part Time Creator Manifesto
Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive
Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech
Workshopping
Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice
Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"
The Simple Magic of Prefixed URLs
Enablement vs Ownership Roles
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
Errors Are Not Exceptions
Solving the Quality vs Consistency Tradeoff
The Meta-Creator Ceiling
My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging
Strategy Turns
Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify
What drives Optimal Overhead?
Notes on The Psychology of Money
Fibonacci Goals
My Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel
My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34
Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips
You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools
An Annotated Guide to React Server Components
How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code
Why You Should Pre-Sell
Mimicry vs Reflexivity
You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now
The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia
Language Servers are the New Frameworks
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020
Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think
The Roaring 2020's
The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy
Temporal Transparency Update
Naked Emperors in Tech
Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync
Found-Money Startups
Moderating a 220k Developer Community
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps
AmpliBox - a Self Hosted File Storage App with AWS Amplify
Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor
Choice Architecture
Service as a Service
Follow Up
Why Tailwind CSS
Beware The Fallacy of Composition
5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes
Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations
Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify
Book Review - Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Notes on Adversarial Interoperability
Against Namespacing Personal Sites
How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money
How to Create Luck
Putting your Keyboard on Steroids with Karabiner Elements
First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview)
Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
Developer Exception Engineering
Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds
A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
Notes on "Growing a Language"
4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js
8 Landing Page Tips from Rob Hope
8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020
Unofficial VS Code Snippets for AWS Amplify
Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog`
Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Book Launch
Launching the Coding Career Handbook!
Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains
Notes on RSI for Developers
#HeyForGood
My Life as a Con Man
4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup
Bringing AWS to App Developers
The Third Age of JavaScript
Working The Reverse 9 to 5
Slack is Fumbling Developers
IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020
The Day I Became A Software Engineer
Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy
Cloud Distros
OSI Layers for Coding Careers
How to Market Yourself
I'm Writing A Book!
5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book
How to Use class instead of className with Preact and TypeScript
Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference!
How and Why to Un-Reset Tailwind's CSS Reset
Instant GraphQL with OneGraph
How to use Web Components with Next.js and TypeScript
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 4
A World Without Plugins
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3
How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1
The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel
Every Public Engineering Career Ladder
Mise en Place Writing
6 Things Markdown Got Wrong
Farewell, Netlify
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins
Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer
Observability for Frontend Developers
Every Web Performance Test Tool
Essential Plugins for Gatsby Remark
Formats over Functions
JavaScript: the First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich
The Power of Lampshading
Unit and Integration Testing for Plugin Authors
React Single File Components Are Here
You May Not Need Controlled Form Components
The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers
Guo Lai Ren (过来人)
Feedback Ladders
Working at a Startup From Series B to C
Why Svelte? (The Short Version)
Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau
Three Jobs of Containers
Starting Svelte Society
Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS
Mocking and Using CRUD APIs with MirageJS and React-Query
How I Approach First Principles Thinking
Digital Garden Terms of Service
Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools
Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site
Using DEV.to as a CMS
Serverless Functions are Stateful
Good Enough
React Distros
The Platinum Rule
Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code
Branding Bundles
How to Contribute to Open Source Frameworks
Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev
2019 /r/ReactJS Survey Results
Clientside Webmentions
To Understand Concurrent React, Look Outside React
Big L Notation
"No Code" vs RPA
Intro to Node-RED
How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com
Scrollbar Shenanigans
Jan 2020 Recap
Scaling Coding Communities
Friendcatchers
My Favorite Podcasts
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine
How rollup-plugin-svelte Works
Line Lengths
Documentation Levels
Failing to use HSL to do Palette Theming
Eponymous Laws
Why I Enjoy Svelte
Two Words
Svelte Zen Garden
Optimistic, Offline-First Apps
Writing an Authentication Store in Svelte
Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions
Collapsing Layers
Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup
writing Advice
CFP Advice
How To Learn In Private
The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools
Pick Up What They Put Down
In Defense of Hammers
BHAGs
Nov 2019 Recap
Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily
Narrow Waists
The Perfect Restaurant
Oct 2019 Recap
Private Conversations are Private
Ensembles vs Committees
Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp
"No Code" Is A Lie
API Design: Modifying Defaults
Ejectable Defaults
Sept 2019 Recap
Git-Centric Workflow
Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager
The World's Greatest Netlify Demo 2019
Adverse Status Updates and Trust
Waterfall
Your Site's Calling Card
A Better Way to Get Data
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks
Bad Ways to Get Data
Static Svelte: JavaScript Blogging with 93% less JavaScript
Using Next.js as a Static Site Generator for Netlify
Building Authenticated Serverless Jamstack Apps with Gatsby and Netlify
GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries
Keyboard First
Compilers Copout
JAMstack for Indie Hackers
Book Poll 2019
Netlify Year One - 360 Review
(Incomplete) The introduction to TypeScript Generics you've been missing
The Case for the React Native Web Singularity
You Already Use Types
Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript'
How to run Python and Portray on Netlify
JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify
Slowmad Q&A
10,000 Loose Fans
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work
Netlify Environment Variables
Netlify Year One
Using Novela by Narative (updated)
Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby)
Tests or Types: Why Not Both?
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Betwixt Reason and Result
Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense
How To Name Things
Reinforcement Learning: Game Theory
Learning Gears
Unsupervised Learning: Feature Transformation
Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection
Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
Write My Code For Me
Getting Closure on React Hooks
Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference
Post Bootcamp Mindmap
Supervised Learning: Bayesian Learning
Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions
Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines
Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost
Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors
Supervised Learning: Neural Networks
Supervised Learning: Regression
Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees
Machine Learning: An Overview
STAR Apps - A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish
Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity
Networking Essentials: Network Security
Networking Essentials: Traffic Engineering
Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
My New Mac Setup (2018-2020)
Networking Essentials: Content Distribution
Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping
3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started
Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Networking Essentials: DNS
Networking Essentials: Router Design
Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding
Networking Essentials: Routing
The Rise of Immer in React
Networking Essentials: Switching
Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles
Singapore H1B1 Tips
A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static
Specialize In The New
Clone Open Source Apps
Know Your Tools
Learn In Public
Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System
Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes
Source Code for Life v0.1
React Suspense Q&A
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪
Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium
What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me?
How To Google Your Errors
Flutter for React Native Devs in 30 Seconds
Serverless Machine Learning at Google
Are we human? Or are we reCAPTCHA?
Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds