Swizec's articles in the "time" category
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Below are 18 articles filed under time. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Saving time in UTC doesn't work and offsets aren't enough
Lessons from a painful outage with timezones, UTC offsets, and database clients that took a whole week to resolve.
March 25th, 2022
Lesson learned, test your migrations on the big dataset
September 2nd, 2015
Week 7: Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
December 3rd, 2013
My new favourite pomodoro app
September 20th, 2013
First lessons learned about writing technical books
January 29th, 2013
Lessons learned after a month of freelancing full time
October 30th, 2012
Python and lazy evaluation
August 24th, 2012
The best 70 cents I have ever spent on the iStore
June 14th, 2012
Making our irc bot talk
April 25th, 2012
Sleep hacking
November 3rd, 2011
Handling timezones in python
November 2nd, 2011
I learned two things today 31.8.
August 31st, 2011
Why don't computers understand timezones?
August 25th, 2011
Living life in 25min increments
June 21st, 2011
Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
November 23rd, 2010
Snow Leopards in mah rooms!
September 2nd, 2009
Klok - the missing PIM application
December 16th, 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. 👌"