Swizec's articles in the "fun" category
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Below are 44 articles filed under fun. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Are map, reduce, and filter turing complete?
September 17th, 2013
Cool thing Thursday: Ceylon
September 27th, 2012
Monads, monads, monads, monads
September 3rd, 2012
Geek at a music festival: Day 2
July 13th, 2012
Why I still haven't learned Haskell
June 18th, 2012
My brain can't handle OOP anymore
May 7th, 2012
The exciting future Javascript
April 2nd, 2012
Closure and currying magic for cleaner javascript
March 14th, 2012
A message from your future self
January 6th, 2012
Sabbatical week day 3: Raining datatypes
December 29th, 2011
Learning me a Haskell
December 23rd, 2011
Functional isn't always better
October 7th, 2011
I couldn't get into YC so I joined a startup that did
June 24th, 2011
A cool JavaScript property you never noticed
A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.
April 16th, 2011
Processing as-you-read in clojure
April 12th, 2010
How Lisp changed my style
January 11th, 2010
The best copypasta ever copy pasted
January 8th, 2010
3 pikchurs of a pretty goat
January 4th, 2010
Shaved! \o/
December 1st, 2009
DJ Dejan - a NSFW blast from the past
November 29th, 2009
Why I hate working from home
July 30th, 2009
Duke Nukem Forever is never
May 7th, 2009
Videogame realism - ouch
April 30th, 2009
A King was happy to give me his palace
April 2nd, 2009
The day my elaborate prank failed
April 1st, 2009
Ville Depp and Johnny Valo
March 27th, 2009
I swallowed a dead raccoon
March 26th, 2009
Man better transport than Car
March 16th, 2009
The sixth photo
March 2nd, 2009
In year 2009 I will ...
December 29th, 2008
iFart is making me want an iPhone
December 17th, 2008
The underwear your girlfriend really wants you to wear
November 21st, 2008
Dirty hacks are everywhere
October 29th, 2008
Late-night fun
October 29th, 2008
Procrastination
May 24th, 2008
Girflriend doesn't mind my love affair
February 19th, 2008
She lives!
August 7th, 2007
Dane Cook
July 30th, 2007
Blade hunter
July 20th, 2007
Dusty death
July 2nd, 2007
Tea
April 27th, 2007
Bedroom golf
April 18th, 2007
Save Fred
April 10th, 2007
Weird polka
April 5th, 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. 👌"