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swyx

24,260karma·6,031submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.

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personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas

book: https://learninpublic.org/

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as someone considering if I should adopt service workers or just wait for the next shiny thing can I just ask - if service workers were on iOS today, would any of you still have other reasons NOT to a…
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i dunno about superpower. indonesia probably has that title.
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sorry, but 200ms for TTI on the web? are you measuring the same way that he is? he includes 1600ms just for dns lookup and tls handshake
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i cut my personal site's TTI by 62% after reading this. I just was lazy about performance when there were some real easy wins. i do wish for more guidance on how to do PRPL in React (without nece…
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its like a bad breakup. Singapore and Malaysia were married, got into a huge fight, separated, and after living happily as neighbors for 50 years you want them to make a deal to cohabitate again?
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limiting, not banning.
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I've been using https://github.com/webpro/release-it to automate releases. It requires your github key and for somereason my github key doesnt persist thru sessions but it w…
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I'm sorry for your loss.
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i think this is the best possible outcome for Flatiron and frankly a scoop for them versus some of the other bootcamps out there (i went to another). so congrats are due to them and whoever wrangled t…
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yes MDB's success is fantastic news for innovation in the space as a whole. I hope your company does well too.
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am Singaporean. its fine.
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amazing.
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I think bootcamp students and grads need to do more to give back and also clear any misconceptions about the process. I am currently going through one and am recording a long-form narrative documentar…
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thanks for giving bootcamp grads a chance!
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excellent response, very fair of you to disclose and defend the parts that you think are worth defending
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if you are only interested in onsite you should probably state where you are. i'm at a NY bootcamp and you can get the full details at impostor-syndrome.org
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>profitability per retail square foot is one of the highest are these numbers public? source?
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i mean... maybe they got so good at marketing that they have succeeded in incepting the concept of "decently built frames for non hipsters" in your mind to be the stuff they produce? thats k…
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sounds like Singapore then
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lol they literally just made their full financials public
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this is great advice. thank you
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thank you , please write it, I guarantee a ton of interest. you can draft it and then fill it out over time
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>Although too early to declare victory just yet, my anecdotal experiences combined with my research on the web does lead me to think that the mass transition from HFS+ to APFS is going to be anothe…
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"great" is relative to how much free time you have evaluating all the various alternatives and finding the bugs/missing use cases nobody cares to tell you about up front..
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25x sales - high but seems reasonable for high growth b2b saas with network effect. you were expecting more or less? not clear from your qtn
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Are we dumbing CSS-in-JS down just to attack it? CSS-in-JS doesnt mean you have to sacrifice visual consistency or DRY principles. you can still create a central system of CSS properties and import th…
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which did you go to?
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