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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Hyperscaler-class Firmware+Hardware for Everyone [Bryan Cantrill] 20.01.2022 18:41

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GhBig0OWM (16 mins in) Jess Frazelle: Why Open Source Firmware is Important

Getting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale] 19.01.2022 19:01

Listen to the Sourcegraph podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/ https://twitter.com/ssougou https://www.linkedin.com/in/sugu-sougoumarane-b9bb25/ Consensus Algorithms at Scale Transcript Beyang Liu: Yeah, tell us that story. What happened between you and Elon Musk? Sugu Sougoumarane: So, this was 2000. Elon had just founded X.com. He had sold off Zip2, which was his pre...

[Weekend Drop] swyx on the Software Dev Journey podcast 16.01.2022 54:17

Listen to Software Dev Journey: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/software/152-shawn-wang-from-the-fine-px_1sYDV9yT/

[Music Fridays] Nonsensical Sounds - Paul Simon 14.01.2022 7:43

Listen to Conversations With Paul Simon: https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/revisionist-history-21817/revisionist-history-presents-miracle-and-wonder-conversations-with-paul-simon-947753006 20 mins in

On Podcasting [Lex Fridman] 14.01.2022 13:38

Listen to the Huberman Lab: https://hubermanlab.com/dr-lex-fridman-machines-creativity-and-love/ (2h 43mins in)

The Game Theory Hack [Joseph Nelson] 13.01.2022 8:48

Listen to the Sourcegraph Podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/joseph-nelson/ (about 10mins in)

How To Create Fans [Jesse Cole] 12.01.2022 14:11

Listen to the episode: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/going-bananas-K9rhSCyVziv/ 15mins in Subscribe: https://pod.link/jay

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on the MongoDB Podcast 09.01.2022 34:05

From the MongoDB Podcast: https://mongodb.libsyn.com/ep-93-swyx-learn-in-public-and-temporal

[Music Fridays] Somebody That I Used to Know (Fingerstyle) - Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel 08.01.2022 3:42

Watch Mike Dawes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bx9vTF8x2s

Habits for Other People [James Clear] 07.01.2022 9:32

listen to the Peter Attia podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-peter-attia/183-james-clear-building-mqgBcuP8-25/

Habit Formation [Andrew Huberman] 06.01.2022 11:19

Listen to the Huberman Lab (1h18mins in) https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/huberman-lab/the-science-of-making-1VeFnGW6psA/?t=4702

The Keystone Habit [Charles Duhigg] 04.01.2022 9:12

Listen to the GTD podcast: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2021/02/david-allen-interviews-charles-duhigg/

Getting Things Done [David Allen] 04.01.2022 20:31

Listen to the GTD podcast: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/10/an-overview-of-gtd/

Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison] 30.12.2021 10:42

Listen to Fake Doctors, Real Friends: https://overcast.fm/+ZHU0NDSpM

The California Gothic Monkey Story [Taylor Negron] 29.12.2021 16:11

From The Moth: https://themoth.org/radio-hour/holiday-special-2014-monkeys-megachurches-and-first-elves

How to Break into Porn [Leo Vice] 28.12.2021 13:48

Listen to the PH podcast: https://soundcloud.com/thepornhubpodcast/leo-vice-asian-male-pornstar

[Music Friday] Voctave Christmas 25.12.2021 3:08

Watch and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFFKuuaF3k

Adapting Wheel of Time to Screen [Brandon Sanderson] 22.12.2021 13:09

Watch the Intentionally Blank podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnbmku3lFmg (20mins in)

Why the Bourne Identity is Underrated [Pete Holmes] 22.12.2021 5:14

Listen to Films to Be Buried With (1h in): https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/films-to-be-buried/pete-holmes-films-to-be-6f_tQjdSLmH/

Colorblind Camouflage [Roger Hanlon] 21.12.2021 12:40

Listen to After On: https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/057 Roger Hanlon's research online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCIqaCe2zI

[Music Fridays] Spider-Man: No Way Home OST 17.12.2021 1:00:33

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVmfpULFk-M Points of interest: 11:24 Doc Ock’s theme 21:20 "Goosebumps" 37:30 Tom Holland standing in the pouring rain while he watches Jonah on the big screen right after SPOILER 42:00 The movie's max hype moment 48:05 SPOILER 3's theme 48:42 SPOILER 2's theme 51:44 Final fight 1:01:27 Goodbyes 1:04:36-1:06:12 Credits-only Spider-man theme Track List: 0:00 I...

Crypto Exchange Kings [The Economist] 17.12.2021 19:18

Listen to the Economist podcast: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/12/15/meet-the-cryptokings Read the article: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/the-most-powerful-people-in-crypto

Why Ethereum Lost The Plot [Su Zhu] 16.12.2021 38:18

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2fDTuh5aU (start at 25min mark) Crypto villain of the year https://cryptobriefing.com/2021-review-the-top-10-crypto-villains-year/ Transcript i would be curious to learn in what sense has ether over optimized for being money so what at what points did it make a trade-off like a conscience trade-off to say we we designed the chain to be better money and wor...

[Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog 12.12.2021 1:08:13

Listen to the Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast/467 Essays: https://www.swyx.io/LIP https://www.swyx.io/api-economy https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go Transcript Jerod Santo: So swyx, we have been tracking your work for years; well, you've been Learning in Public for years, so I've been (I guess) watching you learn, but we've never had you on the show, so welcome to The Changelog. Shawn Wang...

[Music Fridays] Beethoven's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 — Hilary Hahn 11.12.2021 10:15

Listen to the full concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cg_0jepxow Paganini while Hula Hooping with TwoSet Violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjO4ekcJQA Hilary on Wikipedia and Documentary and NPR Tiny Desk