10 years ago yesterday I moved to America with 1.5 suitcases, ~2k in the bank, a place to crash, and a freelancing client lined up. A few thoughts.

Life is a hill-climbing algorithm

Your favorite way of doing things may just be an expression of tech limitations at the time

Why I didn't become a full-time creator/educator

When you see a unicorn, you gotta hop on

A reflection on engineering through The Hockeystick

Overtraining won't always get you to the finish line faster. Growth comes in cycles - rest, push hard, recover. Less can be more when it comes to achieving your goals

Realizing I'm statistically halfway through life at 36. Time is the one thing you can't get more of

These pics are epic and you should see them

The days are long, but the weeks are short. In the wash of our daily grind, you lose sight of what a year can bring. Or a decade! I like to take a moment around the new year to reflect and make plans

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?

swizec.com has been around since 2005. For 15 of those years, it's been running Google Analytics to give me a sense of "Is anyone out there?". No more.

My talk from React Summit is now online, if you're curious. It's about code rewrites in the context of hyper growth startups. The ultimate sin. Or is it 🤔

The longest project of my life

How a focus on long-term games changed my approach to everything and calmed down my life

The year that felt like a drag and ended in the blink of an eye.

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.

Engineers don't do the day to day work, they build assets the business can exploit for years to come. That's the magic

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.