Swizec's articles in the "food for thought" category
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Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Malo delo? Poserjem se na vas in vaše demonstracije
May 18th, 2010
Do you memento mori?
April 21st, 2010
The sad state of BlackBerry apps
April 19th, 2010
Student+entrepreneur != hard
March 18th, 2010
Philosophers are crazy people!
March 5th, 2010
How Men Who Stare At Goats gave me a breakthrough
February 26th, 2010
Splitting and merging django models with perfect transparency
February 18th, 2010
Exam season eats time like women, internet and television combined
February 15th, 2010
Apple pulls another Newton with the iPad
January 27th, 2010
Why bigger penis == bigger confidence [nsfw-ish]
January 20th, 2010
Python multiprocessing is fucking sweet
January 18th, 2010
How ikigai has changed my style
January 12th, 2010
How Lisp changed my style
January 11th, 2010
The kind of professor we can all but hope to meet some day
January 11th, 2010
Kids, shrooms are fucking cool
January 1st, 2010
Rape has never been so beautiful
December 31st, 2009
Holidays - finally some time to work!
December 21st, 2009
Brittany Murphy was really hawt
December 21st, 2009
How I discovered one of the greatest influences on my life
December 15th, 2009
A careless rant about human rights
December 10th, 2009
Why the digital book revolution is stupid
December 8th, 2009
Lost a freelance project, but gained a knowledge
December 2nd, 2009
Google stoops to their level, fights freedom
November 26th, 2009
Pirating Hulu et al. is fighting racism!
November 24th, 2009
The power of 20 minutes - an inspiration
November 12th, 2009
Grindhouse fucking rawks
November 8th, 2009
Open question, please help
November 4th, 2009
What I learned of PHP by ignoring it for three months
October 23rd, 2009
The university lecture structure is all wrong
October 13th, 2009
My life is a derivative of a derivative
October 11th, 2009
How I kicked my caffeine habbit in 10 painful steps
October 7th, 2009
Yeah but you're weird
October 6th, 2009
Drunk driving is manslaughter!
October 4th, 2009
Everyone should work out! (here's why)
August 27th, 2009
How MAFIAA killed itself and why Goth is undead
August 10th, 2009
Why I hate working from home
July 30th, 2009
Erasem's Knight's Tournament 2009 (with pics)
July 20th, 2009
Unit testing is anti-productive
June 23rd, 2009
Duke Nukem Forever is never
May 7th, 2009
Stupid users are a myth
March 17th, 2009
God and science are in love
February 5th, 2009
Why MAFIAA is fighting a losing battle
January 27th, 2009
Why being creative sucks
January 4th, 2009
Old at one and twenty
November 23rd, 2008
I are officially kind of smart
November 19th, 2008
Took IQ test - found problem
November 10th, 2008
Obama wins
November 4th, 2008
Drug use is not abuse
October 13th, 2008
The mind of a wandering software poet
October 9th, 2008
God and science don't matter
October 2nd, 2008
Sex, fun and games
September 28th, 2008
Eccentric does not mean genius
September 23rd, 2008
The farce of parliamentary election
September 22nd, 2008
Stock markets collapsing - buy buy buy buy!
September 18th, 2008
The world is actually fair
September 15th, 2008
Hug a developer
September 12th, 2008
Who killed Amanda Palmer
September 9th, 2008
Computers used to work in the 90's
September 4th, 2008
Giving people space
September 1st, 2008
Typing versus shouting
August 22nd, 2008
Plans and scams
August 19th, 2008
True love
August 13th, 2008
A physics analogy to anger
August 1st, 2008
The fabled, but lazy, day
July 30th, 2008
Coding, farting and bicycles
July 27th, 2008
I'm an idiot, but a merry one
July 20th, 2008
Setting up a server only takes a while
July 15th, 2008
<insert deity> bless opensource
July 9th, 2008
The modern decadent
July 1st, 2008
Victims of modern education
June 18th, 2008
Bewbs
May 21st, 2008
Blood fetish
May 16th, 2008
Multiculture
March 13th, 2008
Emotions
March 10th, 2008
Heading for dystopia or utopia?
March 2nd, 2008
Death of Drnovšek
February 23rd, 2008
Girflriend doesn't mind my love affair
February 19th, 2008
War on scientology
February 11th, 2008
Life is simpler without love
February 8th, 2008
The Angry Walk
January 29th, 2008
Public sex
January 27th, 2008
Exams and revolutions
January 14th, 2008
Blogolicious envy
January 7th, 2008
Workaholic
December 24th, 2007
Cyber Bullying
July 4th, 2007
Internet drama
June 27th, 2007
LIcense
May 22nd, 2007
Extortion
May 16th, 2007
Fuck nonwhites?
April 20th, 2007
The Machine is us
April 11th, 2007
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
Join Swizec's Newsletter and get insightful emails 💌 on mindsets, tactics, and technical skills for your career. Real lessons from building production software. No bullshit.
"Man, love your simple writing! Yours is the only newsletter I open and only blog that I give a fuck to read & scroll till the end. And wow always take away lessons with me. Inspiring! And very relatable. 👌"