Swyx

The Swyx Mixtape

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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Swyx

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Technology

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swyx.io

Latest episode

Jun 3, 2026

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Episodes

React Native's Many Platform Vision [Rick Hanlon] 10.12.2021

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0cG47msEk&list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZZ7etkzWA7JfdmKWT0pMsa Read: https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/26/many-platform-vision

React Server Components and Shopify Hydrogen [Ilya Grigorik] 09.12.2021

Listen to the Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast/469 (40mins in) React Distros: tweet , blog Try it out: https://hydrogen.new/ Transcript when we looked at the available set of tools in the React ecosystem, we felt like the existing crop of frameworks, and particularly ones for commerce, don’t solve the right problems, or maybe don’t stack the right decisions to enable this dynamic commerce e...

Why Remix [Michael Jackson] 08.12.2021

Listen to devtools.fm: https://devtools.fm/episode/19 (23mins) My livestream going thru Remix docs (ft Lee Robinson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZV1pT-qMqg Remix's blogpost today: https://remix.run/blog/react-server-components Transcript Andrew: I've heard the core of remix referenced as that compiler. Can you explain that a little bit? What's it compiling? Is it kind of like Vite where it's...

Prophet and Zillow's $10 Billion Mistake [Hilary Parker, Roger Peng] 07.12.2021

Listen to NSSDeviations: https://nssdeviations.com/145-get-used-to-being-unhappy (30mins in) https://counting.substack.com/p/what-data-folk-were-saying-about the offensive tweet: https://twitter.com/ryxcommar/status/1456045288079204358 his actual thoughts: https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-and-prices/

[Weekend Drop] Adam Argyle: Complexity Cliffs, DX, and the Disruption of Web Design 05.12.2021

The following is my conversation with Adam Argyle, CSS Developer Advocate for Google Chrome. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xEyJ6LY7DKI The conversation covers a quite a few topics that are relevant in the webdev and web design industries: UI complexity cliffs, DX vs UX, Self Disruption, and what Web Design Tooling could be. Along the way we touch on what OpenUI is, Adam's Deferred Inputs prop...

[Music Fridays] Prosody of the Snow Queen 04.12.2021

Listen to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIOyB9ZXn8s Listen to the analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zs0U8Z6yI8

[Quick Clip] Temporal: 50 Most Promising Startups - The Information 04.12.2021

Listen to https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-talent-cloud-the-411-podcast (7 mins in) https://www.theinformation.com/ti50 (paywall) My pitch: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml

How to Grow a Top 10 Podcast + Impatience with Action, Patience with Results [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri] 03.12.2021

Listen to MFM (1hr in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIgYNAI9Fk ) how to grow podcasts big guest "how to" episode buy ads on niche audience - eg podcast junkie types - castbox, overcast be consistent and at least ok treat side hustle like a job -> grind at it maintain and improve an existing winner instead of constantly jumping around "there are no silver bullets, only lead bullets" impatienc...

Inspiration over Information [Nick Wignall] 02.12.2021

Listen to the Corey Haines podcast: https://www.swipefiles.com/everything-is-marketing/43 (1hr in) How to grow a writing audience SEO important to start Something Owned (Wordpress), Something Rented (Google), Something Borrowed (Medium) Inspiration over Information: "Medium really rewards writing that makes it easy on the reader" 5 habits that will make you... Straightforward, and plain, not too i...

Starting a Second Youtube [Charli Prangley] 01.12.2021

Subscribe to the Convertkit Creators podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgecyiAMks Related episode: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Transcript as a quick recap for anyone  new who is listening i have had a  youtube channel for i think about eight  years um  and i've grown up to two thousand two  hundred and three thousand subscribers  in that time so it's been like a slow ...

Shipping Side Projects with Wife + 3 Kids + Fulltime Job + Church + Open Source [Alex Reardon] 30.11.2021

Listen to the Egghead Podcast: https://egghead.io/podcasts/alex-reardon-on-balancing-work-life-and-large-side-projects Check out https://domevents.dev/ and Alex's course: https://egghead.io/courses/your-ultimate-guide-to-understanding-dom-events-6c0c0d23 Transcript [00:00:00] You mentioned that you had learned a lot about Dom events while you're like on the clock working on the D and D project. So...

[Music Friday] Freestyle - Kiraly Payne, Wayne Brady 27.11.2021

Kiraly Payne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxeWURe7q4 Wayne Brady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMkrtXr4b8 Youtube autotranscription for Kiraly: [Music] hey hey hey i remember this i'm gonna look about them but i was back in the day now my whole crew filled with stars [ __ ] make sure they people switch shades it was enough for me to get a picture had to go and readjust frames i've been re...

Status as a Service [Eugene Wei] 25.11.2021

Listen to 20 minute VC: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-twenty-minute/20vc-eugene-wei-on-status-as-K-_1nakoYwE/ The essay read to you on NFX: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-nfx-podcast/the-founders-list-status-as-_h9HsoiGQYc/ Reads: Status as a Service: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service Graph Design: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/9/29/and-you-wil...

Being a Lighthouse [Matthew Kobach] 24.11.2021

Listen to Masters of Community: https://pod.cmxhub.com/episodes/matthew-kobach-greatest-hits 3 key takeaways: - Three ways to build your social media brand: Be Unbelievably Niche, Be Consistent, Compound Tweets. - Be the lighthouse for topics you’re interested in. 90% of people don’t post, they just read. Get this 90% to look at your content. - Need to be passionate about and enjoy what you’re doi...

The Second Brain [Ali Abdaal and Tiago Forte] 23.11.2021

Watch his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 My Blogpost: https://www.swyx.io/tiago-forte-second-brain/ These 10 principles are basically different aspects of a system/approach to knowledge work that helps us reduce stress, produce more, and live a life of creative joy : Borrowed Creativity : Stand on the shoulders of giants. The Capture Habit : Outsource memory to devices. Idea Re...

[Music Fridays] Marc Martel 20.11.2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCxE2Lh458 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3eRHmFV8aM

Katalin Kariko [The Daily] 19.11.2021

Listen to the Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/podcasts/the-daily/mrna-vaccines-katalin-kariko.html Long read: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/how-mrna-technology-could-change-world/618431/

SynBio and mRNA [Jason Kelly] 18.11.2021

Listen to Business Breakdowns: https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/56584905/kelly-moderna-the-software-of-life Transcript Jesse: [00:06:03] And if you back up on the DNA, like this notion that it's four letters of code, can you walk us through the history of that? How did that come to be? Who's the father or mother of that? Where did that come to be? And then how did it evolve to today where it...

The 3 Levers of Fasting [Peter Attia] 17.11.2021

Listen to the Tim Ferriss Show: https://tim.blog/2021/06/14/peter-attia-transcript-2/ Transcript I think that one thing that I absolutely learned through fasting is the enormous importance of strength training throughout a fast. You’re going to lose muscle mass when you fast, you have to accept that. So the question is how do you minimize that damage? How do you lose as little muscle mass as possi...

Why We Sleep [Matt Walker] 16.11.2021

Watch his TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuIMqhT8DM Bill Gates on the book: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-We-Sleep Criticisms of the book: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ Lack of Sleep ages you 10 years by testosterone "Sleep Spindles" from Deep Sleep act like file transfer from short term memory to long term Sleep gets worse as you age Sleeping pills are blunt instruments...

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on How To Market Yourself 14.11.2021

Listen to UI Breakfast: https://uibreakfast.com/223-how-to-market-yourself-with-shawn-swyx-wang/

[Music Fridays] Taylor Swift 13.11.2021

Blank Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Zt47V3pPw Wildest Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDkg3QiJmk Out of the Woods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-n9-FVTq6w

Vercel [Guillermo Rauch] 12.11.2021

Code Story: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-guillermo-rauch-vercel-next-js/  (10mins in) Podrocket: https://podrocket.logrocket.com/vercel (57mins in)

Sidekiq Race Conditions [Chris Toomey] 11.11.2021

Listen to The Bikeshed (24mins in) https://www.bikeshed.fm/313 Transcript So we had a bug that occurred in the application where something was supposed to have happened. And then there was an email that needed to go out to tell the user that this thing had happened. And the bug popped up within AppSignal and said something was nil that shouldn't have been nil. Particularly, we're using a gem calle...

GPT-3: Ladder to Heaven [Wojciech Zaremba] 10.11.2021

Listen to the Lex Fridman podcast (1h 20mins in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5OD8MjYnOM

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