Swizec's articles in the "men" category
I aim to write mindblowing emails with real insight into the career and skills of a modern software engineer. "Raw and honest from the heart!" as one reader described them.
Below are 71 articles filed under men. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Getting off twitter, an experiment
ole Musky bought Twitter and the tech community threw a collective shitfit. The atmosphere of ragequitting, hand wringing, and aloof defiance gave me time to reflect: Why am *I* here?
December 3rd, 2022
The art of the cowboy merge 🤠
how do you catch a critical deadline that cannot be missed? We're talking external stakeholders, millions on the line, and it all hinges on *your* team getting it done on time. No overtime
September 8th, 2022
Reader Question: What do collaborative teams look like?
New members on our team invariably say 2 things:
1. Wow I've never seen a team move this fast 2. This approach feels weird. I'm uncomfortable
Teams like this are not common.
August 27th, 2022
What coding tutorials and teachers get wrong
Chatting about teaching and learning complex technical skills with an engineer I'm mentoring. She's a former chef. We shared the same frustration with online resources.
August 12th, 2022
Reader question: So about that perfect burndown chart ...
If your approach works so well, why isn't every team doing this?
August 6th, 2022
How we made the best burndown chart you've ever seen
My entire career I've never seen a sprint finished on time. The new manager said "Oh I think we can fix that" ... 18 months later he proved me wrong
April 12th, 2022
What computer science can teach us about vaccine distribution
How would you rollout the covid vaccine for max fairness and speed?
January 15th, 2021
Are You an Engineer or a Developer?
September 14th, 2016
The one thing flexbox can't do
September 7th, 2016
Slack lied to me
August 25th, 2016
The surprising difficulty of paying the US government
June 23rd, 2016
Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco?
May 13th, 2016
Animating with React, Redux, and d3
March 11th, 2016
How I got a visa normally reserved for nobel laureates
January 15th, 2016
How to wait for DOM elements to show up in modern browsers
March 26th, 2015
This is how lifestyle inflation snuck up on me
January 7th, 2015
Writey write about Write the Docs
April 17th, 2014
Adventures in homelessness
September 30th, 2013
My new favourite pomodoro app
September 20th, 2013
Always look for the gem
July 23rd, 2013
My very own daily WTF
January 10th, 2013
I infiltrated #railsgirlslj, here's what it was like
December 17th, 2012
Game development in Webgl
November 19th, 2012
How to tell a phone your website is an app
November 5th, 2012
Lessons learned after a month of freelancing full time
October 30th, 2012
Teleportation, would you use it?
September 13th, 2012
Why I still haven't learned Haskell
June 18th, 2012
Natural Language Generation system architectures
May 30th, 2012
Programmers are optimists
May 25th, 2012
My impressions of Diablo 3
April 22nd, 2012
Tracking RSS readers with Google Analytics
April 6th, 2012
Webdevs, you have no idea how much you know
March 12th, 2012
Appcelerator Titanium might've made it to my toolbox
January 23rd, 2012
Geeks of america, please start fighting SOPA
January 12th, 2012
A message from your future self
January 6th, 2012
The best $5 I have ever spent
December 13th, 2011
Why I only work with startups
November 17th, 2011
We are not generation sell
November 15th, 2011
Economy next on the noobs' list of things to ruin?
October 15th, 2011
I learned two things today 31.8.
August 31st, 2011
Software dev isn't just a logical process
August 10th, 2011
I learned two things today 31.7
July 31st, 2011
Living life in 25min increments
June 21st, 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
Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
November 23rd, 2010
Clients need deadlines too
November 10th, 2010
The greatest casual game ever devised
January 6th, 2010
Lost a freelance project, but gained a knowledge
December 2nd, 2009
Shaved! \o/
December 1st, 2009
The nightmare of switching to openSUSE 11.0 from Kubuntu
September 28th, 2009
Change is good, change we like
April 23rd, 2009
Stupid users are a myth
March 17th, 2009
World of Goo is the third game I ever bought legally
March 7th, 2009
God and science are in love
February 5th, 2009
Algorithm for unlocking any man's heart
January 30th, 2009
Why MAFIAA is fighting a losing battle
January 27th, 2009
How to induce lucid REM
January 14th, 2009
Powernaps and gambling
January 13th, 2009
How noobs are destroying the world
January 10th, 2009
Idiocy and overpolitisation
January 7th, 2009
Why being creative sucks
January 4th, 2009
In year 2009 I will ...
December 29th, 2008
The underwear your girlfriend really wants you to wear
November 21st, 2008
Obama wins
November 4th, 2008
Dirty hacks are everywhere
October 29th, 2008
10 questions you thought were polite but aren't
October 27th, 2008
What blogs are all about
October 25th, 2008
Drug use is not abuse
October 13th, 2008
Switching to feed readers
October 8th, 2008
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. 👌"