SwyxinHackerNoon.comNo Zero Days: My Path from Javascript Newbie to Full Stack Developer at Age 302019 Edit: I am very gratified that this writeup continues to help people over a year after publishing! I have updated my thoughts in a new…7 min read·Dec 22, 2017--15--15
SwyxHumans of Hacker NewsIn honor of the death of DevBootCamp I put up a HN post offering to do a free phone call to exchange knowledge. I was pleasantly surprised…2 min read·Jul 21, 2017----
SwyxTutorial: How to Host an Alexa Flash Briefing feed on AWS Lambda and get a Free Amazon Echo Dotnote: this tutorial uses Python for convenience but could be adapted for Node/other languages with minor effort.6 min read·Jun 3, 2017--3--3
SwyxCollection // Curation // Censorship // Communication // CommemorationIn the beginning, there is a hot mess of undifferentiated stuff. As time passes, random results and conditions interact to create…3 min read·May 24, 2017----
SwyxBen Thompson on Ben ThompsonApplying PageRank’s ideas to identify the top 10 Stratechery Articles, Daily Updates, and Exponent podcasts5 min read·May 19, 2017--2--2
SwyxFeedback // IntelligenceIt is often hard to comprehend both the scale and speed of human economic disasters. The Hungarian pengő suffered an inflation rate of…4 min read·May 14, 2017----
SwyxMeta-competence // Meta-cognitionsubscribe at https://slashslashblog.wordpress.com or find me on Twitter @swyx3 min read·May 7, 2017----
SwyxNotes: Onboarding EmployeesCollating some resources on setting onboarding practices in rough chron order1 min read·Dec 12, 2016----
SwyxThe Age of Global ArbitrageI have been butting heads in forums on my usage of the Amazon Mechanical Turk program to get jobs done at half the US minimum wage. One…2 min read·Dec 1, 2016--1--1
SwyxOn Meta-CompetenceThe smartest people I know don’t merely play the game. They play to where the game is going, if you will pardon the mixed metaphor. It is…3 min read·Nov 25, 2016----
