swyx

@swyx

By day, I help devtools cross the chasm: Netlify, Svelte, Temporal. By passion, I help devs ! You'd be shocked at the overlap.

Seattle, WA
Joined April 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    9 Jul 2020

    💁‍♂️ How to Play Long Term Games: Systems > Goals Discipline > Motivation Trust > Distrust Principles > Tactics Writing > Reading Vulnerability > Confidence North Stars > Low Hanging Fruit Trends > News Habits > Sprints Questions > Answers Problems > Solutions People > Projects

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  2. 2 hours ago

    🎧 Today's clip is this excellent Twitter strategy from : It's caused me switch terminology, from "being a Schelling point" to being a "lighthouse". I do still like the idea that influencers switch from Schelling to Shilling as they grow.

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  3. 7 hours ago

    What is Temporal, and why should you care? I wrote about it earlier this year:

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  4. 7 hours ago

    Building community is so underrated. The "product" is the friends we made along the way! But when it gets ugly it can get really ugly. Higher highs, lower lows. People are messy. 3 main tools to manage this: - Code of Conduct - Mission, Vision, Values - Accountability/Checks

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  5. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    🎉 We are live with the TypeScript SDK!! Write highly scalable and reliable long-running workflows without being a distributed systems expert! Also live on your favorite orange website if you feel so generous :)

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  6. 8 hours ago

    And now gets its own fulltime Technical Community Builder in !

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  7. 13 hours ago

    🎉 We are live with the TypeScript SDK!! Write highly scalable and reliable long-running workflows without being a distributed systems expert! Also live on your favorite orange website if you feel so generous :)

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    16 hours ago

    Today I'm announcing that going forward I'll be working as the Technical Community Builder at . What's it mean?👇 - In-person Svelte Summit conferences🥳 - Regular hangouts on Discord📻 - A refreshed website with up-to-date content📚 - Faster community growth📈

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  9. Nov 22

    Stych reaches 🦄 valuation with 25 people: That’s $40m valuation per head. 🤯

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  10. Nov 22

    P.S. if you want to see the latest in JS reinvention come join the meetup tomorrow where we are launching our new TypeScript SDK in beta!

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  11. Nov 22

    JS Devs: Would not be caught dead using PHP Also JS Devs: Furiously reinventing PHP since 2013

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  12. Nov 22

    My favorite nontraditional measure of dev community traction is # of mentions in job descriptions. By this measure, is in incredibly good company for a 2 year old startup: Help your users hire/get hired and they will be loyal for life.

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  13. Nov 22

    looks like v0.50 will make things a lot more customizable/specific - all hail the :where pseudoclass!!! thank goodness for Tailwind Labs supporting this plugin

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  14. Nov 22

    Question for Typography users - is there an easy way to override settings for every breakpoint? customizing DEFAULT just does the default... i then have to repeat it for literally every breakpoint? resorting to using !important... doesnt feel great

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    Nov 22

    "Productivity through Product Focus" by Reddit's is about to begin! Tune in: and join the chat:

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    Nov 22

    How I apply 's priority list: Systems > Goals Discipline > Motivation Trust > Distrust Principles > Tactics Writing > Reading Vulnerability > Confidence North Stars > Low Hanging Fruit Trends > News Habits > Sprints Questions > Answers Problems > Solutions People > Projects

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    Nov 22

    Announcing Render's $20 million Series A and new free plans 🚀 Building Render with amazing people continues to be an immense source of joy and fulfillment. Back to work 🧑‍💻

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    Nov 22

    Using Launch Cheat Sheet by as the basis for the rework. It's a fantastic resource.

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  19. Nov 22

    Beautiful illustration of Facebook's Invisible Asymptotes here from (10mins in)

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  20. Nov 21

    YouTube blogged about their algorithm, which adds a couple things to 's list: - Clickthru Rate - Watch Time - Survey Responses - Sharing, Likes, Dislikes Interestingly, they refute Zuck's claim that "borderline content" gets more engagement:

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  21. Nov 21

    Writing up my thoughts on organizing the NYC for my next newsletter. Aspiring/Experienced event organizers - Any topics I should cover? What do you want to know?

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