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I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python package:

these are onetime setup things

One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the cofounder group.

I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it.

I set up a new Mac for work today.

I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey.

some of you may know I've recently started a new company.

Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io

Note: sometimes WhisperX is WAAYYYY too slow so I often end up using https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp which somehow runs much faster.

TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s

I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since…

Discussing the 2023 migration of swyx.io to the SvelteKit 1.0 and the swyxkit template

All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.

One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT in Miami!

As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 diffs), so it's time to do…

For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were subscribed on email!)

This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat.

We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has (as of v2.3) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all.

Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.

I returned to Zadar!

How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.

I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here.

Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.

a brief meditation on why we keep trying to build God Endpoints and why we will fail until we figure out interfaces.

Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.

Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.

Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these days.

The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still serving up loads of outdated results.

Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an open source user (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).

This week in a Svelte Radio recording, @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" ^1

Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.

I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my Obsidian Second Brain, and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state.

2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written How to Organize Meetups Good on Dx.tips

An advanced tip for high-volume writers.

We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's Coding Career Community meetup.

My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they…

Recently, John Cutler tweeted a chart on the view of management:

I've been unhappy with my tweet rendering strategy for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of…

This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost

2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to.

This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles

Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.

Docker is great.

I set up a new Mac for work today.

Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed

Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon

a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.

These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend.

Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b

Grabbing the audio