swanson

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• The Startup CEO’s Guide to Customer Success and Onboarding

  by swanson on 11/9/2021, 2:30 PM with 21 comments

• All software advice is wrong

  by swanson on 11/2/2020, 3:09 PM with 0 comments

• Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releases

  by swanson on 4/13/2020, 1:26 PM with 0 comments

• Wrangling slow reports and large file exports in Rails with ActiveJob

  by swanson on 1/27/2020, 2:33 PM with 0 comments

• N = 1

  by swanson on 11/12/2019, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Building a Rails CI Pipeline with GitHub Actions

  by swanson on 9/25/2019, 1:40 PM with 0 comments

• Company Twitter handle was squatted and then given to TWTR employee, recourse?

  by swanson on 1/24/2019, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• Building a Fuzzy Emoji Finder

  by swanson on 7/6/2018, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• School is all about signaling, not skill-building

  by swanson on 2/13/2018, 3:39 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What services/products are missing mobile apps?

  by swanson on 10/24/2017, 11:45 PM with 0 comments

• How to start a peer group

  by swanson on 3/29/2017, 1:53 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 2/15/2017, 11:52 PM with comments

• How Daryl Morey used behavioral economics to revolutionize NBA draft picks

  by swanson on 12/7/2016, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• Closing Down a Product, Gracefully

  by swanson on 11/4/2016, 1:26 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Screenwriting as a side project?

  by swanson on 10/26/2016, 1:21 AM with 0 comments

• How much does crunch time hurt team morale?

  by swanson on 8/29/2016, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• How I Dunning-Kruger'd Marketing

  by swanson on 8/3/2016, 7:18 PM with 1 comments

• Hacking my office Indy 500 pool: exploiting arbitrage in an inefficient market

  by swanson on 5/31/2016, 5:54 PM with 0 comments

• Internal tools should be sold or killed

  by swanson on 1/26/2016, 2:42 PM with 1 comments

• by swanson on 1/26/2016, 1:49 PM with comments

• Juking the Stats

  by swanson on 9/30/2015, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing NFL Elo Ratings

  by swanson on 9/5/2014, 2:04 PM with 0 comments

• Is bad copy killing your product?

  by swanson on 7/9/2014, 3:23 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 6/30/2014, 3:09 PM with comments

• Sacramento is using crowdsourced analytics for their 2014 NBA draft pick

  by swanson on 6/26/2014, 8:36 PM with 0 comments

• The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds

  by swanson on 6/18/2014, 10:05 PM with 153 comments

• The Dream Kickoff (Exoskeleton demonstration at 2014 World Cup)

  by swanson on 5/28/2014, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• Evaluating Technical Arguments

  by swanson on 4/30/2014, 4:43 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is (2013) necessary?

  by swanson on 4/20/2014, 11:05 PM with 4 comments

• by swanson on 4/1/2014, 1:33 PM with comments

• Blind Pair Programming Interviews

  by swanson on 3/17/2014, 5:31 PM with 43 comments

• Uncle Bob on Heathcare.gov

  by swanson on 11/12/2013, 5:15 PM with 8 comments

• How Buildings Learn (and why software is no different)

  by swanson on 11/12/2013, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• AskHN: Did the HN favicon change?

  by swanson on 10/25/2013, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• The Unexpected Outcomes Of Code Review

  by swanson on 10/16/2013, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• How not to validate email addresses

  by swanson on 10/14/2013, 6:15 PM with 76 comments

• Ask HN: What email newsletters do you read?

  by swanson on 10/2/2013, 4:43 PM with 9 comments

• Crappy emails make me sad

  by swanson on 10/1/2013, 5:56 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Jekyll for MailChimp newsletters

  by swanson on 9/26/2013, 1:40 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 9/26/2013, 1:39 PM with comments

• Here are some logos

  by swanson on 8/30/2013, 1:31 PM with 0 comments

• "Have It Your Way" Software

  by swanson on 8/29/2013, 1:46 PM with 0 comments

• Do things, write about it

  by swanson on 8/12/2013, 1:28 PM with 88 comments

• Getting Traction for your Open Source Project

  by swanson on 7/22/2013, 1:46 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 7/19/2013, 7:37 PM with comments

• Step-by-Step UX Improvement

  by swanson on 7/19/2013, 1:26 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is a self-hosted email client with SaaS backend compelling?

  by swanson on 7/8/2013, 10:37 PM with 5 comments

• Delightful UX: Medium's Time to Read

  by swanson on 7/5/2013, 2:56 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 6/25/2013, 5:11 PM with comments

• Jekyll 201: Beyond Hello World

  by swanson on 6/3/2013, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• The Intern & New Hire Summer Reading List

  by swanson on 5/31/2013, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• The 30 Second Standup

  by swanson on 5/30/2013, 1:38 PM with 0 comments

• You (yes you) can make delightful products

  by swanson on 5/9/2013, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Stringer, a self-hosted anti-social RSS reader

  by swanson on 5/3/2013, 3:29 PM with 4 comments

• Expanding and Contracting

  by swanson on 5/2/2013, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• How to Not Quit

  by swanson on 4/18/2013, 1:16 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 4/17/2013, 7:37 PM with comments

• More Complicated Than It Needs To Be

  by swanson on 4/2/2013, 7:14 PM with 0 comments

• Jesse Noller: I'm officially no longer PyCon chair

  by swanson on 3/21/2013, 8:34 PM with 1 comments

• Cross-Pollinate

  by swanson on 3/20/2013, 1:32 PM with 0 comments

• The Toronto Raptors, SportVU cameras, and the NBA's analytical revolution

  by swanson on 3/19/2013, 2:01 PM with 30 comments

• Evaluating Technical Arguments

  by swanson on 1/28/2013, 4:48 PM with 0 comments

• Evaluating Technical Arguments

  by swanson on 1/28/2013, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• Worst Bug Ever

  by swanson on 1/21/2013, 3:23 PM with 115 comments

• Email Marketing Bootcamp Weekend (patio11, Customer.io, CopyHackers)

  by swanson on 1/10/2013, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• My Year in Review: 2012

  by swanson on 1/2/2013, 2:47 PM with 0 comments

• Punk's Not Dead

  by swanson on 12/27/2012, 1:37 AM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 12/27/2012, 1:34 AM with comments

• Habit Ramp Up

  by swanson on 12/17/2012, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• Rails Developers Should Take DCI Seriously

  by swanson on 12/14/2012, 3:44 AM with 0 comments

• Personal Time Capsule

  by swanson on 12/10/2012, 2:30 PM with 6 comments

• Motion is not Progress

  by swanson on 11/19/2012, 4:47 PM with 0 comments

• by swanson on 11/19/2012, 2:36 PM with comments

• Code Reviews: Good idea, bad idea?

  by swanson on 11/5/2012, 3:03 PM with 0 comments

• New Coke User Experience

  by swanson on 9/26/2012, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• Move your feet

  by swanson on 8/27/2012, 1:41 PM with 79 comments

• Unblur Quora answers without signing up

  by swanson on 7/30/2012, 5:15 PM with 0 comments

• "We kept the idea really small"

  by swanson on 7/30/2012, 2:17 PM with 0 comments

• A Dangerous Obsession with Primitives

  by swanson on 5/31/2012, 2:03 PM with 28 comments

• Test First as System 2 Thinking

  by swanson on 3/22/2012, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• Here's my Side Project Queue. What's in yours?

  by swanson on 3/2/2012, 4:22 AM with 2 comments

• The 10-Minute Hack

  by swanson on 2/29/2012, 2:32 AM with 0 comments

• Keeping Score: Make a Game of Life

  by swanson on 2/21/2012, 3:34 AM with 0 comments

• One Developer-Year in Review

  by swanson on 12/26/2011, 10:37 PM with 0 comments

• Overcoming Momentum

  by swanson on 11/27/2011, 9:09 PM with 2 comments

• I'm a serial over committer

  by swanson on 11/1/2011, 11:53 PM with 46 comments

• Get Better

  by swanson on 10/24/2011, 3:29 PM with 0 comments

• Web Development Kata - Tweet Viewer

  by swanson on 10/18/2011, 2:49 AM with 0 comments

• Intrapreneurship: Applying the Lean Startup to building internal tools

  by swanson on 10/13/2011, 1:06 PM with 0 comments

• Making a commit with the Github API

  by swanson on 7/24/2011, 12:17 AM with 2 comments

• Digging around Github's git database API

  by swanson on 7/10/2011, 1:54 AM with 11 comments

• Startup Weekend Tips & Tricks

  by swanson on 6/19/2011, 2:28 AM with 2 comments

• StackOverflow Podcast returns

  by swanson on 4/20/2011, 3:52 PM with 1 comments

• Serious Business: Python is not just for Engineering - PyCon 2011 [video]

  by swanson on 3/13/2011, 4:32 PM with 1 comments

• ShowHN: bibliotechnical - tech book recommendation MVP

  by swanson on 3/1/2011, 2:34 PM with 1 comments

• How HackerNews ruined my morning

  by swanson on 2/22/2011, 8:35 PM with 72 comments

• Ask HN: RailsRumble, NodeKnockout, What else?

  by swanson on 2/21/2011, 11:11 PM with 1 comments

• LandingPad.rb - Just Add Water (and Heroku) landing page

  by swanson on 2/16/2011, 4:16 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Programming book recommendation features

  by swanson on 1/19/2011, 2:54 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Any Python hackers want to make stuff?

  by swanson on 8/30/2010, 11:09 PM with 1 comments