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Swizec Teller
@Swizec
Best selling author of Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through The Hockeystick book ⏵ scalingfastbook.com blog ⏵ swizec.com
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    Dec 8, 2025
    hockeystick moments are the biggest opportunity of your career. It's exciting and kinda scary. Everything changes! I wrote Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick as your guide. 16 years of startup experience condensed into 240 pages scalingfastbook.com
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    Dec 8, 2023
    Unpopular opinion: Telling young people to work-life balance is actively harmful. Your 20’s are the best time to grind. You have lots of energy and few responsibilities. a good 20’s grind creates the space to chill in your 30’s and beyond
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    Oct 4, 2024
    My fav anti-under-engineering trick is to use timestamps instead of booleans in the database. that way you know when it was set to true super useful for debugging later
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    Oct 4, 2024
    Using an enum instead of a boolean, when applicable, isn't over-engineering. It's anti-under-engineering.
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    Jun 1, 2021
    Scar a developer with 1 word, I'll start timezones
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    Mar 28, 2024
    Nothing teaches you software architecture like dealing with your own crap from 3+ years ago.
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    Nov 5, 2020
    this is how developers solve problems
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    Apr 18, 2024
    this is the stack I would bet on for the next 10 years works great, is boring, lots of companies use it
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    Apr 28, 2022
    This one weird trick reduced a #javascript library from 160MB to 64KB 🤯
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    Jun 7, 2020
    The curse of the format A blog is free A pdf is an email A book is $30 A course is $300 A coaching is $3000 A consulting is $30000 They all have the same content
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    Jul 17, 2024
    DRY vs simple
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    May 21, 2024
    Don’t use AI to write your tests
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    Jun 14, 2022
    What if software engineering paid royalties? Like $0.00001 every time your function is called 🤔
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    Dec 21, 2021
    I wish more engineers thought of APIs as abstractions instead of pass-thru access to the database
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    Apr 2, 2024
    Why are engineers so surprised to learn that they're meant to deliver business results bigger than their salary?
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