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March 2018

Working IN your career vs. ON your career

February 2018

Why everything must change every five years

January 2018

Don't say yes when you're happy

November 2017

After a week I must begrudgingly admit VSCode is a better editor than Emacs

Why I won't be switching to VSCode any time soon

October 2017

How resumé-driven development shapes our industry

All that once was new is old again

September 2017

What it's like to be a statistical super minority in tech

July 2017

Best coding headphones: Bose QuietComfort 35

Hello, I'm Swizec, and I'm addicted to the approval of strangers on the internet.

June 2017

Bernoulli's trials can tell you how many job applications to send

First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro

March 2017

The Trouble with Vacation

December 2016

If the first page of The Martian was written in different type systems

November 2016

Let's talk about filter bubbles

These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need

October 2016

Why coding is more fun than engineering

You don't need tests

September 2016

Magic shiny paint

Are You an Engineer or a Developer?

August 2016

It's Just Like Knitting

MacOS filesystem's annoying little quirk

June 2016

The surprising difficulty of paying the US government

February 2015

The worst software bug I've ever had to deal with as a user

May 2012

Programmers are optimists

February 2012

Why every entrepreneur should take up boxing

December 2011

Why programmers work at night

October 2011

"Startup rollercoaster" isn't even the half of it