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swyxio/brain
Swyx's second brain!
Swyx's personal Obsidian vault made public — a PARA-structured collection of notes, lists, drafts, and resources accumulated over years of working in developer relations and the JS ecosystem. It's not a library or a tool; it's someone's working memory, exported. Worth browsing if you follow swyx's writing and want to see the raw material behind it.
The PARA organization (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) is consistently applied and makes the structure navigable without a README tour. The R - Data Engineering and R - Dev Notes sections are genuinely dense with links and opinions that don't show up in polished blog posts. Several consolidated lists (CLI cheatsheet, DX tips, API design notes) save real time compared to assembling them yourself. The repo rolls up a dozen of swyx's older standalone lists into one place, which reduces link rot.
No license means you can read and suggest but not build on it — the ToS explicitly prohibits copying and sharing. Content freshness is uneven: some notes are clearly active, others haven't been touched since 2021 and contradict the current state of the tools they cover. The folder names include year prefixes and spaces, which makes scripted access and linking awkward. There's no way to know which notes are considered current versus abandoned drafts without reading each file.