# skwz

> Tech, finance, cars, AI and whatever comes next.

skwz is a pseudonym. X: https://x.com/skwzxs. Articles are in English; machine translations into Spanish and Portuguese live under /es and /pt.

## Pages

- [Home](https://skwz.dev/)
- [Articles](https://skwz.dev/articles)
- [My room: favorites and recommendations](https://skwz.dev/room)

## Articles

- [The rise and fall of programmers](https://skwz.dev/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-programmers): 2026-11-07, Programming. Same tools, opposite years. What split the engineers who rose from the ones who became relays between agents.
- [The dawn and dusk of personal agents](https://skwz.dev/articles/the-dawn-and-dusk-of-personal-agents): 2026-11-07, Agents. Your agent is about to walk into a casino with your card. Who opens the door to it, who closes it, and how to tell which is which.

## Favorites

- [Elden Ring](https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/elden-ring/elden-ring), FromSoftware (games): A fantasy action RPG set in the Lands Between.
- [Clair Obscur: Expedition 33](https://www.expedition33.com/), Sandfall Interactive (games): A turn-based RPG with real-time combat mechanics.
- [Rome: Total War](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4760/Rome_Total_War__Collection/), Creative Assembly (games): Empire building and real-time battles in the ancient world. The original game.
- [Sea of Thieves](https://www.seaofthieves.com/), Rare (games): A shared-world pirate adventure on the open sea.
- [Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare](https://store.steampowered.com/app/7940/Call_of_Duty_4_Modern_Warfare/), Infinity Ward (games): The 2007 first-person shooter, with a modern military campaign and multiplayer.
- [Spartan: Total Warrior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan:_Total_Warrior), Creative Assembly (games): A 2005 hack-and-slash spin-off of Total War: one Spartan against Rome's invasion of Greece.
- [Call of Duty: Black Ops II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II), Treyarch (games): The 2012 first-person shooter, with a branching campaign that moves between the 1980s and 2025.
- [Battlefield 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_3), DICE (games): The 2011 first-person shooter, known for large combined-arms battles, up to 64 players on PC.
- [League of Legends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends), Riot Games (games): Not a recommendation. Just where most of the hours went.
- [Thinking in Bets](https://www.annieduke.com/books/), Annie Duke (books): A former poker player on deciding with incomplete information, and on not judging a decision by how it turned out.
- [Clean Architecture](https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/clean-architecture-a-craftsmans-guide-to-software-structure-and-design/P200000009528), Robert C. Martin (books): Where to draw the boundaries of a system so it stays cheap to change.
- [The Almanack of Naval Ravikant](https://www.navalmanack.com/), Eric Jorgenson (books): Naval Ravikant's tweets, podcasts and interviews on wealth and happiness.
- [Poor Charlie's Almanack](https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack), Charles Munger (books): Charlie Munger's talks, his mental models, and a checklist for deciding.
- [The Elements of Investing](https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Elements+of+Investing%3A+Easy+Lessons+for+Every+Investor%2C+10th+Anniversary+Edition-p-9781119851417), Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis (books): Saving, indexing and leaving it alone, in a very short book.
- [How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models](https://felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be-more-ambitious-a-tutorial-for-humans-with-models/), Felix Rieseberg (articles): Four kinds of ambition with a model: speed, altitude, depth and range, and how to get past the first one.
- [The Art of War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War), Sun Tzu (books): An ancient Chinese treatise on strategy in thirteen chapters, attributed to the general Sun Tzu.
- [1984](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four), George Orwell (books): Orwell's 1949 novel: a man who rewrites history for the Party, and the surveillance state he secretly rebels against.
- [Walking with Elephants](https://open.spotify.com/track/6wPMapHawG4uns1R3vHzUG), Ten Walls (music): A house track by Lithuanian producer Ten Walls. It reached No. 6 on the UK singles chart.
- [Pizza](https://open.spotify.com/track/5oAgI7Pzg6vxuKrfapg3Pi), Martin Garrix (music): A progressive house single, first played as the closing track of his Tomorrowland 2017 set.
- [Avicii](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vCWHaC5f2uS3yhpwWbIA6) (music): Tim Bergling (1989–2018), the Swedish DJ and producer behind Levels and Wake Me Up.
- [Lana Del Rey](https://open.spotify.com/artist/00FQb4jTyendYWaN8pK0wa) (music): American singer-songwriter who broke through with Born to Die in 2012.
- [Frank Sinatra](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Mxqyy3pSjf8kZZL4QVxS0) (music): American singer, conductor and actor (1915–1998).
- [Oasis](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DaxqgrOhkeH0fpeiQq2f4) (music): Manchester band of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, formed in 1991. Their debut, Definitely Maybe, came out in 1994.
- [Interstellar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)), Christopher Nolan (films): Astronauts travel through a wormhole to find a new home as a failing Earth nears collapse.
- [The Lord of the Rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(film_series)), Peter Jackson (films): Three films from Tolkien's novel, shot at the same time in New Zealand.
- [Margin Call](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_Call), J. C. Chandor (films): Twenty-four hours inside a Wall Street bank that finds out its mortgage holdings could sink it, as the 2008 crisis begins.
- [The Big Short](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)), Adam McKay (films): From Michael Lewis's book: the investors who saw the US housing bubble coming and bet against it.
- [The Dark Knight Trilogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Trilogy), Christopher Nolan (films): Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
- [Rogue One: A Star Wars Story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_One), Gareth Edwards (films): The rebels who steal the plans for the Empire's superweapon, just before the 1977 Star Wars.
- [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)), Christopher Nolan (films): The physicist who led Los Alamos through the first atomic bombs, and his 1954 security hearing.
- [The Fast and the Furious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious_(2001_film)), Rob Cohen (films): An undercover police officer joins a crew of Los Angeles street racers. The first of the series.
- [True Detective, season 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_season_1), Nic Pizzolatto (tv): Two Louisiana detectives look back at a 1995 murder when new evidence reopens it in 2012.
- [Shogun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dgun_(2024_TV_series)), Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks (tv): An English sailor and a Japanese lord in Japan in 1600, from James Clavell's novel.
- [The Wire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire), David Simon (tv): Baltimore, seen through its drug trade, port, city government, schools and newspaper.
- [The Sopranos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos), David Chase (tv): A New Jersey mob boss starts seeing a psychiatrist.
- [Dark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(TV_series)), Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese (tv): Children vanish in a German town, and four families find a time-travel conspiracy across generations.
- [Chernobyl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)), Craig Mazin (tv): The 1986 nuclear disaster and the response to it, in five episodes.
- [Better Call Saul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul), Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould (tv): How con artist Jimmy McGill becomes the lawyer Saul Goodman. A prequel to Breaking Bad.
- [Succession](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)), Jesse Armstrong (tv): The Roy family fights over control of their media company as its founder's health fails.
- [Top Gear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)), Clarkson, Hammond and May (tv): The BBC's motoring show, in the years Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May presented it.
- [The Grand Tour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(TV_series)), Clarkson, Hammond and May (tv): The same three, with producer Andy Wilman, after leaving the BBC. On Amazon Prime Video.
- [McLaren MP4/4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_MP4/4), McLaren (cars): With Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost it won 15 of the 16 races of 1988.
- [Ferrari F40](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40), Ferrari (cars): Built for Ferrari's 40th anniversary, and the last Ferrari Enzo Ferrari approved himself.
- [Mercedes-AMG GT R](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-AMG_GT), Mercedes-AMG (cars): Developed at the Nürburgring. Its matte AMG Green Hell Magno paint is named after the Nordschleife's nickname.
- [Taste Skill](https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill), Leonxlnx (skills): Steers coding agents away from generic landing pages and towards professional sites.
- [security-audit](https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill), Cloudflare (skills): Security guidance and vulnerability review for codebases, APIs and services, run by your agent.
- [standout](https://skwz.dev/skills/standout.zip), skwz (skills): A design skill that makes pages look made rather than generated.
- [longtake](https://skwz.dev/skills/longtake.zip), skwz, after onetake (skills): Motion videos made entirely in code. Adapted from onetake, free for noncommercial use.
- [Claude Code](https://claude.com/product/claude-code), Anthropic (services): Anthropic's AI coding agent, in the terminal, the IDE, Slack or the web.
- [Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/), Tailscale (services): Connects your devices and services across networks with encrypted connections, built on WireGuard.
- [Hermes Agent](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/), Nous Research (services): A free, MIT-licensed AI agent with persistent memory and scheduled tasks, across chat apps and the desktop.
- [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/), Cloudflare (services): A global platform for deploying code, with storage, AI and network services alongside it.

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