Swyx

The Swyx Mixtape

Technology EN ↓ 540 episodes

swyx's personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less! Fridays: Music picks! Weekends: long form talks and conversations! This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like. Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io

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[Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on JSParty 26.03.2022 54:53

In December I was on the Changelog to talk about my career and work, and we promised a more indepth followup on Temporal in future. Here it is! Listen to the JSParty episode: https://changelog.com/jsparty/208

[Music Friday] The Greatest Showman Story - Jeremy Jordan 26.03.2022 13:15

Watch him sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08AGzOmCk-s you can see him in the Hugh Jackman story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PluaPvhkIMU

Facebook Infra and the GraphQL Story [Lee Byron] 25.03.2022 29:46

Listen to Software at Scale: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-44-building-graphql?s=r See also Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler

Expensify and the 90's Tech Stack [David Barrett] 24.03.2022 9:08

Listen to the StackOverflow Podcast: https://the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/why-david-barrett-ceo-of-expensify-still-takes-his-turn-on-pagerduty/transcript (from about 8mins in)

Architect, Begin, and the Functional Web App [Brian Leroux] 23.03.2022 18:09

Listen to devtools.fm: https://devtools.fm/episode/26?view=SECTIONS

Netlify and the Git Push Nirvana [Software Defined Talk] 22.03.2022 18:56

Listen to SDT: https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/330 (about 50mins in) See also Netlify's press release: https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web

[Weekend Drop] Finding Your Voice and Content Creation with swyx, Bekah Hawrot-Wiegel, Tessa Mero, Shruti Balasa, and Michael Jolley 19.03.2022 1:00:58

See the twitter buzz: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Fspaces%2F1eaKbNPbMmXKX&src=typed_query&f=live

[Music Friday] Hey It's Delilah 2020 and 2022 - Jessica Ricca 18.03.2022 8:02

Hey It's Delilah 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWGo4EhE84 Hey It's Delilah 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZF263xBfms

Making $8m/yr covering the MCU [New Rockstars/Jay Acunzo] 17.03.2022 9:01

Listen to Unthinkable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/new-rockstars-vs-NjSZB6rJYx-/

Becoming the Winter Soldier [Sebastian Stan] 17.03.2022 7:23

Listen to XOXO with Jessica Szohr: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-xoxo-91519105/episode/sebastian-stan-93902649/

How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man [James Young] 15.03.2022 3:35

Watch Corridor Crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbIhj35kyA (10 mins in)

The MCU-Sony Deal [Acquired.fm] 15.03.2022 10:04

Listen to SONY on Acquired: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/acquired-ben-gilbert-and-david-rosenthal-9pne_5jCY2u/ (2h 22mins in) My mixtape queue is always live here: https://github.com/sw-yx/brain/blob/master/A%20-%20Mixtape/Mixtape%20Daily%20Clip%20notes.md

[Music Fridays] Star Wars - John Williams 12.03.2022 9:28

The Force Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb2zuegwcwk Duel of the Fates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlYCxbBZUCY Obi-Wan trailer: https://twitter.com/obiwankenobi/status/1501630732619423744

Time Series DB's: Clickhouse at Sentry (Ted Kaemming, James Cunningham) 11.03.2022 23:39

Listen to the Data Eng podcast: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/snuba-event-data-warehouse-episode-108/ (11mins in) https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-per-second-using-clickhouse/ Transcript James Cunningham Yeah, so I'd say as far as all the decisions that we made in order to go into this new platform, one of the biggest leaders was that we had a big push for having...

Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix) 10.03.2022 11:09

Listen to HashiCast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hashicast/episode-5-paul-dix-influxdb-PGC9o3DmNyc/ (12 mins in) Benefits of TS DBs: Compression for timestamps Write throughput because append-only writes Downsampling high precision for 7 days, then 10min summarizations for 3 months, then 1hr summaries Query patterns - Instead of SQL, Influx uses InfluxQL More on the TICK stack: https://d...

Time Series DB's: TimeScale [Ajay Kulkarni, Michael Freedman] 09.03.2022 9:35

full recording: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Timescale Series C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430000 Timescale vs Influx: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766566 Timescale vs Clickhouse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096541 Timescale launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984464

[Music Friday] Deep End / good grief (Fousheé / sky) 05.03.2022 6:54

https://www.thefader.com/2020/07/31/foushee-gets-what-shes-owed-in-deep-end sky - good grief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoSHncRm_8M

When Kim Kardashian Passed the Bar [Bari Weiss] 04.03.2022 11:44

Listen to Honestly with Bari Weiss: https://overcast.fm/+vpWZ6rHT0 (2mins in) Kim passing the "baby bar": https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59642262 More on Bari: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

When Coinbase Banned Politics [Brian Armstrong] 03.03.2022 8:19

Listen to How I Built This: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/12/1055432035/coinbase-brian-armstrong

When Compaq Ruled Computing [Bryan Cantrill] 02.03.2022 12:06

Listen to the Oxide Twitter Spaces : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faY7kWHQuNE (starts 5 mins in)

When Apple clones you [Matt Ronge] 01.03.2022 10:54

This has been edited down to 10 minutes. Listen to Indie Bites for the full story: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/indie-bites/growing-to-4m-despite-apple-rn2HtUxBjfL More: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/16/robber-barons-2-0.html

[Weekend Drop] Personal Knowledge Management for Developers in VSCode - Kevin Lin, CEO Dendron.so (YC W'21) 26.02.2022 34:00

Watch this chat in YouTube (with screenshare): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECUvzJ1r6bU Notes on the Second Brain movement: https://www.swyx.io/tiago-forte-second-brain Week 1-5 of my Second Brain workshops Previous mixtape episodes

[Music Fridays] Eminem (EXPLICIT) 26.02.2022 8:57

You can check out a great lyrical analysis of MGK vs Eminem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyW8h1XmkAk

The Unit Economics of the New York Times [Alex Lieberman] 25.02.2022 13:07

Listen to Business Breakdowns: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-breakdowns/the-new-york-times-the-Eb-7_okaSv0/ (23mins in)

The Unit Economics of Cleantech Investing [Chris Sacca] 24.02.2022 13:02

Watch/listen to Stanford ETL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJa231UfwY (19mins in)