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Shawn Wang

@swyx · www.swyx.io/

It’s Always Year Zero

In the short term, opinions about technology often follow a compressed form of Laver’s Law:

Everything just before me was completely broken.
Everything that comes after me is completely unnecessary.
Everything I use right now is perfectly fine; stop

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Shawn Wang on Dec 15, 2020

test testing

Every now and then, a debate flares up about the value of typed JavaScript. “Just write more tests!” yell some opponents. “Replace unit tests with types!” scream others. Both are right in some ways, and wrong in others. Twitter affords …

Shawn Wang on Jul 10, 2019

STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows

Product teams from AirBnb and New York Times to Shopify and Artsy (among many others) are converging on a new set of best practices and technologies for building the web apps that their businesses depend on. This trend reflects core …

Shawn Wang on Jan 18, 2019

Shawn Wang

It’s Always Year Zero

Types or Tests: Why Not Both?

STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows

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