Connecting the dots in public (Changelog Interviews #467)

Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 6 p.m.

b'Today we\\u2019re joined by Shawn \\u201cswyx\\u201d Wang, also known as just \\u201cswyx\\u201d \\u2014 and we\\u2019re talking about his interesting path to becoming a software developer, what it means to \\u201clearn in public\\u201d and how he\\u2019s been able to leverage that process to not only level up his skills and knowlege, but to also rapidly advance his career. We cover Swyx\\u2019s recent writing on the light and dark side of the API economy \\u2014 something he calls \\u201cliving above or below the API,\\u201d his thoughts on Cloudflare eating the cloud by playing Go instead of Chess, and we also talk about the work he\\u2019s doing at Temporal and how\\u2019s taking his frontend skills to the backend.'