Ideas

Learn in Public

The most effective way to learn, build a reputation, and find your people.

How to Create Luck

Luck is random. Creating more chances for it is a skill.

The Rise of the AI Engineer

A new discipline emerges between research and the rest of the world.

Cognition: The Devin is in the Details

A closer look at agent labs, software agents, and the people building them.

The Third Age of JavaScript

A field guide to the changing of the guard in JavaScript.

The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy

What happens when software economics and society meet at an endpoint.

Eating the Cloud from Outside In

AWS plays chess. Cloudflare plays Go.

The Part-Time Creator Manifesto

Have a job, by all means. Just do not be your job.

Temporal: the iPhone of System Design

Why a different mental model for distributed systems matters.

Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

A personal field guide to the place where this story started.

The Upload

A small excursion into speculative fiction.