Swizec's articles in the "thoughts" 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 30 articles filed under thoughts. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Shipped code wins
November 2nd, 2022
What makes a real image?
What does a real image look like? The rise of modern AI photo editing and generation tools makes this an interesting question.
August 23rd, 2022
Why other people's code looks weird
Are you an organizer or a searcher? What about your team?
January 22nd, 2022
When it’s okay to work overtime
Not all overtime is bad overtime
December 11th, 2021
What's your code for?
Perfect code that doesn't solve the problem is useless. Perfect metrics that don't serve the user are a distraction.
November 6th, 2020
How to lie with facts
June 5th, 2020
Why you don't have time to advance your career
February 4th, 2019
This kid is amazing
January 25th, 2019
Focus on the process, not the goal
January 11th, 2019
How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business
December 31st, 2018
It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work – a review
October 9th, 2018
Should you work at a startup
October 5th, 2018
Online workshops are MORE interactive than in-person workshops
September 5th, 2018
Lifestyle inflation after 3 years of San Francisco
August 14th, 2018
How running a side business is a lot like running a marathon
July 25th, 2018
The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code
July 20th, 2018
What Richard Feynman taught me about joy
July 12th, 2018
What's an intermediate dev anyway?
June 21st, 2018
You have permission to suck
June 19th, 2018
Some tricks I learned recording & publishing an educational video every day for 30 days
May 24th, 2018
I tried VR on a plane and I'm a believer
May 22nd, 2018
How I prepare for a talk at an 8,000 people conference
May 21st, 2018
What I learned at MicroConf Growth 2018
May 10th, 2018
Does blogging really drive sales?
April 17th, 2018
What I learned from Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
March 29th, 2018
Coding is bad for you
March 16th, 2018
How our engineering team got 12x faster using these 5 lessons about integrating 3rd-party services
March 15th, 2018
Working IN your career vs. ON your career
March 7th, 2018
Why everything must change every five years
February 23rd, 2018
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. 👌"