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31 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Trying out @factoriogame for the first time this weekend

If you don't hear from me... you'll know its going well screenshot of factorio game
@factoriogame streaming it actually DM to jump on stream and chat if we know each other
Before I attempt the last tutorial I'm checking out a few tips and tricks videos to see what I'm doing suboptimally and there's a LOT! man, tutorial was good but I was doing so much manually that they could've just told me outright...

this is the best one
ok i have some notes and am going live with the last tutorial - this time - far less nooby!

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12 Oct
This year I've done a total 180 on open source strategy.

Remember Elastic making a fuss with "Amazon: NOT OK"? I was quite persuaded. If MongoDB, Redis, Cockroach, Confluent relicensed and do fine, maybe SSPL just becomes acceptable "open source".

Now I think MIT is just fine.
Probably my biggest test of confidence was in March when @martin_casado and @davidu pushed back on the open source religion - if your monetization is SaaS, then open source is just marketing (there's nuance here, pls read his replies before reacting)

Open sourcing has a cost - at @temporalio it impacts decisionmaking in engineering, product, docs, devrel. Tradeoffs we wouldn't have if we just had a free tier.

But look at how extensively @NetflixEng has been able to adapt our SDKs and devtools:
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11 Sep
Never thought I would see a frontend eng team celebrate shipping a static marketing site with 847kb of JS.

Until I saw what it used to be…

notion.so/blog/migrating…
I'm no perf expert or perf shamer (let he who is without sin...)

But here's what I do believe:

1. local Lighthouse runs are not credible. Use webpagetest or web.dev/measure.

2. you do NOT have to use the same tech for app and site! :)
in fact i’m -so- not a perfshamer I shall now say the thing I’m not supposed to say:

before today you didnt know or care that Notion had a 9.1MB JS marketing site; if it impacted them enough they would’ve fixed it sooner; you may have a fast site but they have 10 million users.
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28 Aug
Most people know the 4 key metrics of Dev Ops:

- Delivery lead time
- Deployment frequency
- Mean time to restore service
- Change fail rate

What would the 4 key metrics of Dev Experience be?
my picks:

🌏 Time to World Tour

Anyone can do "Hello World" with `git clone` and not teach a thing. More impt to give the developer a useful mental model of what they should know in short time.

You can't visit all 192 countries, but you can show that there are 7 continents.
🏃‍♀️ Time to Implement Change

Anyone can build brittle systems. But great DX optimizes for 1-2 standard deviation changes in requirements:

- find helpful docs fast (better: no docs needed)
- low edit distance
- smooth migration paths

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1 Jul
"Broccoli positions": Opinions that may be good for you, but make the person extremely unpopular/exposes them to looking stupid.

Diametric opposite of @shreyas' Apple pie positions.

Some I've seen, no particular order:
"No amount of hiring will help us."

"This isn't good enough. Ship it."

Better than never-shipping perfection.

The more stakeholders, the better you get at not-shipping.

Make sure to build in the feedback loop or you won't know what's embarrassing.
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22 Apr
I'm turning 35 today! 🎉

As I grow older, I'm realizing the value of principles to make decisions and guide behavior. What are yours?

Here's 35 of mine:
This is a thread of 35 Principles from my 35 years, but a full writeup of these will be available on my blog: swyx.io/35-principles/

and discussed on newsletter ✉️ (good reads every week!)
1. Life is Too Short for Short Term Games

We only have so many years for long term games to compound. Make 'em count.

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14 Mar
🆕 The Part Time Creator Manifesto

swyx.io/part-time-crea…

There's a lot of "quit your job, indie hack your way to freedom" on social media.

I like my job. But I want to make too. There has to be a middle way.

Quick thread 👇
Creation is about more than just money.

It's about self sufficiency. Self actualization. Playing long term games. Collecting optionality.

It's about having a job while not *BEING* your job. Making $100k a year has alw...
I don't WANT to go full-time now, but I *could*. And I'm putting in the reps before I need to.

Because I don't derive all my self worth from my employer, I stand a little taller. Dream a little bigger. Negotiate a little harder.

It's a powerful feeling.
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