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Writing Scaling Fast,a book on lessons learned from ~15 years of engineering in tech startups. blog ⏵ http://swizec.com prev book ⏵ http://SeniorMindset.com
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A fun thing to do: Add a DB-level data constraint to find all the places your app-level validation was wrong. you *cannot* guarantee clean data with app code only

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it's slop all the way down

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Is vibe coding just a new kind of logic programming? You make statements about the program and computer figures out the rest 🤔

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I love watching a room full of engineers squirm when asked to give each other praise for things that went well. 😈

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I hate the part of sprint planning where I look at the list and say "That's too much" then have to concede there's only so many hours in a week. honestly rude

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New update: Promoters and origins of replication are now easier to spot in your results summary! No more guessing—just clear, intuitive visualizations.

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Don’t forget to explore-exploit

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If someone feels threatened by your success, it is their job to step up, not your job to diminish yourself.

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A beta reader described my new book as “Decades worth of SE principles in simple yet concise packaging” ❤️

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Great speed comes from pancakes

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Good read. Taste matters emilkowal.ski/ui/developin...

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This is obvious right? then why do we all keep falling for it

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Products not projects. Outcomes not features. More feedback earlier. swizec.com/blog/what-i-...

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always be building never not be building

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Why I write less

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oh wow thanks google

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90’s developers: I need dynamic typing because my code is too advanced to write types for 20’s developers: Hold my beer

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I love how we as an industry have been chasing this dream that stakeholders could solve their own problems and answer their own questions ever since FORTRAN and SQL and it never works They dont wanna. Agents won’t solve this.

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you know what this is about

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TIL about React Scan. Looks super cool

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It takes about 3 years to experience the consequences of your own technical decisions. swizec.com/blog/depth-t...

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No, AI, I don't think that I will

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Legs didn’t wanna go fast today 😮‍💨

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You'd be surprised how often the answer to *"Why can't we just ..."* is *"Huh, I guess we can"*. But only if the question doesn't challenge your ego.

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Go fast but finish the race

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listening to yugo nostalgia today so I can get in the president for life vibe 'murricah 🤘

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If you see layoffs, ask yourself: Does this company sell something I need more than eggs? usually the answer is no

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Here's the problem with being a creator in the software engineering space: It kinda sucks. Your alternative lifestyle is making 300k+ total comp doing the same thing for a core group of humans with mutual skin in the game.

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So did the industry invent Staff Engineers just because we needed glue work to be promotable and recognized as technical? www.noidea.dog/glue

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