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Swizec Teller
@Swizec
Best selling author of Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through The Hockeystick book ⏵ scalingfastbook.com blog ⏵ swizec.com
San Francisco
Joined July 2008
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    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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    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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    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
    Using an enum instead of a boolean, when applicable, isn't over-engineering. It's anti-under-engineering.
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    Scar a developer with 1 word, I'll start timezones
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    Nothing teaches you software architecture like dealing with your own crap from 3+ years ago.
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    this is how developers solve problems
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    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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    This one weird trick reduced a #javascript library from 160MB to 64KB 🤯
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    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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    Don’t use AI to write your tests
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    What if software engineering paid royalties? Like $0.00001 every time your function is called 🤔
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    I wish more engineers thought of APIs as abstractions instead of pass-thru access to the database
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    Why are engineers so surprised to learn that they're meant to deliver business results bigger than their salary?