Idea Showcase
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In total, I've written 493 essays, snippets, tutorials, and notes!
Essay Breaking Barbarian
2022-08-07
This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this behavior "barbarianism" - you can listen to the full explanation [when the episode drops in future](https://www.svelteradio.com/).
Essay The Great Unzippening
2022-07-30
Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.
What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items
1 ♥2022-07-24
I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data loss, but it is annoying to see iCloud be so unreliable at even the simple task of syncing mostly text files.
Essay How to Manifest a Meetup
2022-07-15
This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for Thursday night. So I [tweeted out an invite](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1546219659195826178):
Talk Bun vs Deno - New Runtimes for the Third Age of JS
People are tearing up the foundations of JavaScript with new assumptions and a need for speed. Let’s look at the new kids on the block - Bun and Deno and explore how they might someday replace Node in your tech stack.
Essay Sharding Yourself
4 ♥2022-06-27
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
On The Importance of 15-5 Updates
1 ♥2022-06-25
We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to commit to it, and to share it with you.
My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762) came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into [blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762#31671401):
The 8 Jobs of Management
2022-06-15
Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets
2022-06-12
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance score by ~17 points, adds ~4 seconds to Time to Interactive, occasionally gets adblocked (so _nothing_ renders!)
Corey Quinn is one of my favorite cloud/creators/podcasters/writers/comedians and I was honored to be invited on his pod!
Essay The End of Localhost
4 ♥2022-06-08
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
7 ♥2022-06-01
2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
> 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.
Running Docker without Docker Desktop
2022-05-27
Docker is great. Docker Desktop sucks. Here's my fix.
My 2022 New Mac Setup
8 ♥2022-05-22
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
I joined JSParty crew to talk more about the Third Age of JS after my Reactathon talk!
Essay The Law of Conservation of Risk
2022-05-16
Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed
Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In
1 ♥2022-05-07
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk
RWR YouTube (live) @ 2022-07-13
Swyx YouTube @ 2022-07-21