The Swyx Mixtape

Listen to the Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast/459 (15mins in) Transcript You said something interesting about the preciousness of our development environments… And I’m with you that we’ve commoditized the servers, but we definitely have not commoditized dev, because it’s so intricate, it’s so set up… Sometimes it’s like “There be dragons. Please don’t touch my laptop, because it works rig...

Watch on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlsTlFW7BSo The following is my conversation with Lee Robinson, Head of Developer Relations at Vercel which recently launched Next.js 12, the most popular framework in the most popular programming language in the world. The conversation can be broken into two parts. The first covering the new features in Next.js, primarily Next.js Middleware and Edge...

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1hZKeYkZU

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOgyNfHl1U If— by RUDYARD KIPLING If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too;    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating...

Full podcast: https://tim.blog/2015/12/14/derek-sivers-on-developing-confidence-finding-happiness-and-saying-no-to-millions/ (1h30min in) Transcript: https://tim.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/125-derek-sivers.pdf (page 34 on) So, I’ve got to tell you, so we haven’t really talked about this yet, but this is so up your alley, up your listeners’ alley, people who are into books will appreciate this...

Watch Naval on the JRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44 Tiago's quote: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1410739112261214209

Read: https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbase-fact-check-decentralizing-truth-in-the-age-of-misinformation-757d2392d61a Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoZG89pDzzY (33mins in) Coinbase Fact check: https://blog.coinbase.com/factcheck/home Announcing Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformation Every tech company should go direct to their audience, and become a...

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddKDPikKbNk Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro [ 00:00:11 ] Four Components of Developer Experience [ 00:02:08 ] API Design [ 00:03:27 ] Documentation [ 00:06:52 ] Learning Journey [ 00:07:59 ] Feature Mapping Presentation [ 00:11:10 ] Companies With Great DX [ 00:12:58 ] Most Misunderstood thing about Developer Experience [ 00:15:46 ] Docs as Service Team not En...

Listen to The Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast/466 Stdout's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/stdout/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid

watch Steve Yegge's podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GurMGEDHUY Transcript [00:00:00] So this week we've been going through Steve yogis podcasts and his greatest hits his updated perspectives on the big clouds and what they're doing right. And what they're doing wrong. But the other thing that Steve is really well known for is his views on tech interviewing. And he's done in big tech inter...

Listen to Steve Yegge's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0xmHrQJdAw the first in this little series was i talked about their ability to root out disease and dysfunction in the organization and squash it immediately the second one was about their focus on retail customers and individual people and how they put that front and center in first and foremost and there was no also customer servi...

Watch Steve Yegge's podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4z46Ea35Q a company is like a body it's not like a person like a human being it's like a thing it's an entity that has its own agenda and its own goals and its own control of resources and its own value system and uh the individual members of the company kinda don't matter as long as they're doing their job and the company cares about t...

Listen to Stevey's Tech Talk (10mins in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtUAc_ew9Y Playstation ad talked about in the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/06/11/playstation-4s-price-and-policies-humiliate-microsofts-xbox-one-at-e3/?sh=377dd8aa133f https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mattrick Listener Jeremy Jung emailed in this clip: https:...

Listen to the full episode on PodRocket: https://podrocket.logrocket.com/svelte https://podrocket.logrocket.com/swyx https://podrocket.logrocket.com/rich-harris https://podrocket.logrocket.com/elderjs

Listen to Software Defined Talk (17 mins in) https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/297 https://www.enterpriseready.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing

Listen to the Nathan Barry podcast https://nathanbarry.com/048-ali-abdaal-building-multiple-income-streams-content-creator/ (7 and 21 mins in) Transcript So, I started the YouTube channel in my penultimate year, so I, I, I, I done five years of med school at this point. I’d set up a few businesses. I had like two SAS products that I was using to side hustle, income, most my, my way through med sch...

Listen to Brian Clark's podcast https://unemployable.com/podcast/intersectional-positioning/ 20mins in https://www.nerdfitness.com/ Transcript   [00:00:00] Hey folks. It's Swyx so today's clip is the longest one. I'm sorry about that. Basically. It was such a good story from beginning to end and I could not cut any of it out. It covers nerd fitness, which is one of the fitness blogs I've been trac...

Listen to Code Story: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-robinson-getemails/ https://getemails.com/data-privacy/ https://vimeo.com/48104974 https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2013/05/former-ratepoint-customers-launch.html https://www.amazon.com/Permission-marketing-fastest-growing-companies-permission-ebook/dp/B087KTYCH1

The following is my conversation with Abhi Aiyer and Ward Peeters, two lead engineers behind Gatsby Cloud and the recently announced Gatsby v4, which is at the forefront of what I think is the most significant change in the Jamstack landscape in the past 2 years. Watch the video version here . Links: Gatsby 4 Netlify DPR My blogpost on Smart Clients vs Smart Servers Timestamps:  [00:00:00] Cold Op...

Lion King Medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH66hZIPVjk From Now On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruCl8X-xWPA https://www.musicalityvocal.com/ If you like the Greatest Showman also check out their cover of  This Is Me

2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmrDjvv_ENQ 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcqloQezOUg GitLab IPOed for $15b valuation today.

Listen to a16z live: https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/one-on-one-with-a-and-z-11-how-much-rare-knowledge-is-there-4aF0UbP7 - rarely wrong just early - pets.com, diapers.com - hadoop -> databricks - Nycira -> central control plane - 2b revenue company - rare knowledge - what do you believe that nobody else believes - 2 kinds - super secret, or in plain sight - airbnb - history of hot...

Listen to the Ship It! podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/ship-it-devops/its-crazy-and-impossible-Q3tD0SVWCh1/  (45 mins in) Steve Jobs anecdote - $50m fumble https://twitter.com/apartovi/status/1447251334814523392?s=20

Video: https://youtu.be/Cxaf8E00GMM Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sJSqNy-t-kVxzrWlqMTp_03nI7Zo8Znr7k0f0C6L9ig/edit?usp=sharing Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:17] Part 1 - Components: Code Organization for Real Apps [00:04:26] What we learned from React [00:07:46] Part 2 - Architecture: Choreography vs Orchestration [00:13:05] Retries and Timeouts [00:14:37] Part 3 - Time: Re...

Squid Game OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADyazK7btX4 Trumpet Concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYA2RRJpS6k Blue Danube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGdn0OZ22Q https://www.thefocus.news/tv/squid-game-what-is-the-classical-music-played-before-the-game/