Swizec's articles in the "work" 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 29 articles filed under work. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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Effective standups
The secret to effective standups that don't suck
June 4th, 2023
Things I learned from doing my first workshop
June 9th, 2016
Lessons learned in a year of freelancing
September 26th, 2013
Facebook ads: good for likes, bad for sales
June 12th, 2013
Mouse movements in a day of coding
May 7th, 2013
Lessons learned after a month of freelancing full time
October 30th, 2012
Symfony and the scary world of PHP
October 26th, 2012
App.net put a price on early adopter pride. And it worked.
August 14th, 2012
If this is NSFW you should quit
July 24th, 2012
Do waste many a single moment
June 5th, 2012
Google+ redesigned into Facebook
April 11th, 2012
Online, real names provide anonymity
April 3rd, 2012
Three cool things
January 31st, 2012
Sabbatical week day 3: Raining datatypes
December 29th, 2011
5 months of blog traffic in 4 days
December 20th, 2011
I suck at implementing neural networks in octave
November 15th, 2011
I think I finally understand what a neural network is
November 9th, 2011
#WebcampLj was bitchin'
October 23rd, 2011
The end of my internet diet experiment
September 26th, 2011
My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an internet diet
August 17th, 2011
The Twitters pitched 5 products, why I chose the first
June 9th, 2011
Even with Narwhals ubuntu is still a bitch to install
April 27th, 2011
Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
November 23rd, 2010
RSS not dead, just misunderstood
September 14th, 2010
Apple's Ping is a big pile of steaming dung
September 3rd, 2010
Django protip #1: A better App structure
July 21st, 2010
Rape has never been so beautiful
December 31st, 2009
Klok - the missing PIM application
December 16th, 2008
17 hour workday Sunday
October 6th, 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. 👌"