The Swyx Mixtape

Listen to the Infinite Loops podcast: https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/alex-danco-everyones-job-is-world-building-ep53/ (40mins in) Read the full essay: https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/ See tweet reactions: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1424953927426928646 Transcript     [00:00:00] Hey everyone today, I'm about to break one of the core rules of this...

Listen to Brett Goldstein's podcast https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/films-to-be-buried/bill-lawrence-films-to-be-vyfQWE4F5O3/  (20 mins in)

Listen to/Watch the Tiger Belly podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNZe_ghZK4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(American_game_show)#Season_one_(2005%E2%80%932006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Mandel#Later_work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Harvey Transcript   [00:00:00] swyx: This is the story of how, Howie Mandel booked Deal or No Deal, completely turning his care...

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9qsxhhNUoU 1. Wake up whenever you want  2. Make sure your house is a complete disaster  3. Procrastinate  4. Pretend to be busy 5. Wait for opportunities  6. Always say no  7. Be suspicious of people 8. Never fix the things you dislike about yourself 9. Focus on things you can’t control  10. Use fear as motivation  11. Only do what is comfortable...

This podcast involves two live demos, you can catch up on the YouTube verison here: https://youtu.be/T3K_DrgLPXM Links Builder.io https://www.builder.io/ PartyTown https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown Qwik https://github.com/builderio/qwik https://dev.to/mhevery/a-first-look-at-qwik-the-html-first-framework-af Timestamps [00:01:53] Misko Intro  [00:03:50] Builder.io  [00:08:31] PartyTown  [00:11...

Listen to Jenny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHTxqk_UxHo Listen to Father and Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZAr_WaLcw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Conchords

Watch the TED talk: https://ideas.ted.com/why-you-think-youre-right-even-when-youre-wrong/ Scout Mindset book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089CJ6SVS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Imagine for a moment you’re a soldier in the heat of battle — perhaps a Roman foot soldier, medieval archer or Zulu warrior. Regardless of your time and place, some things are probably constant. Your adr...

Watch full talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U The FYPM app https://www.theverge.com/22684237/fuck-you-pay-me-lindsey-lee-lugrin-decoder-interview

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6PgHFS48gY

I was interviewed by Sai of Redpoint based on these blogposts: https://www.swyx.io/community-builder/ https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel/ The session was covered by Tom Tunguz, whose blog I love ( https://tomtunguz.com/shawn-wang-offi... ) and the feedback was wonderful! Full video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guK1XiLQbH8 Timestamps [00:01:42] What is DevRel?  [00:04:59] Where shou...

Metal Hawks - For Whom the Bell Tolls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYWgGHJpXU Adam Ezegelian - Demons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdyafdVktw Adam Ezegelian - Sweet Child of Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1W_THw2d4 AMHBand - Sweet Child of Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4eo6LS9lto Jack Black Duet (Kickapoo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTmhVbPr6c AMH - Backwards https://...

Listen to MFM: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/my-first-million/197-with-dharmesh-shah-DzipvNkQ17y/ https://website.grader.com/ More on website grader: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/website-grader https://www.growthbot.org/ More ideas on Engineering as Marketing

Listen to the Nathan Barry show: https://nathanbarry.com/030-sam-parr-growing-2m-subscribers-selling-newsletter/ 50mins in Sam Parr's $800k email: https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1332018614367645697?s=20 https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1331759376433115140?s=20 300k views: https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1332024062919503875?s=20 3k subscribers - max 1% conversion rate Transcript  ...

Listen to TWiST: https://thisweekinstartups.com/ask-an-angel-plus-antonio-garcia-martinez-vs-apple-with-zach-coelius-e1215/ Listen to my previous episode on Angel Investing Math: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-swyx-mixtape/why-angel-investing-is-dumb-v6oYXBeO4wS/

Listen to the full Deep Questions podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/deep-questions-with-cal-newport-cal-newport-t94EC0dyxsL/ (clip is from 40ish mins in) Notes YouTube CPM $2.50, Audio CPM $25, yet Audio gets paid for non-listened downloads Low end YouTube podcast audience 37k, high end 400k views per episode Audio makes way more for something half that audience Audio targets 25-45yo p...

A wideranging convo with Sunil covering the future of React, the Third Age of JavaScript, and the Meta of online discourse. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3h1WICelqs Follow Sunil: https://twitter.com/threepointone Chapters: [00:01:40] React and Temporal, Declarative vs Imperative My Temporal Explainer: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1417165270641045505 https://www.solidjs.com/...

Video version on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErO9Ujccwds My conversation with Jaden Baptista introducing him to Temporal. Transcript [00:00:00] swyx: Hey everyone is Swyx. I've been gone for the past couple of days and you may or may not be wondering what's happened. I basically got a cold and at this conference, it's actually nice to have a conference cold. I guess, because that mean...

Listen to the Sourcegraph podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/christopher-chedeau/ (~28mins in) Lessons learned: Hackathon is important for intrapreneurship Near Death moment requires leap of faith Solve People Problems with Technology, not just technology problems Transcript   [00:00:00] swyx: I'm continuing my exploration of how technologies get adopted. And recently there was a reall...

Listen to the Future of Coding Podcast: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/011 (30ish mins in) 3 Lessons Learned: Features over Benefits - original was a tutorial  - second time: here's why react is different. Focus on the implementation rather than how to use it - Sophie Alpert, Dan Abramov, Cheng Lou Support everybody : IRC, Stackoverflow, Reddit Influencers - David Nolen Bigger conferences, F8...

Song: DJ Snake - Run It (ft. Rick Ross & Rich Brian) [from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings] BBC Radio 1 interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09tz2bz

Full interview on the HOSS talks FOSS podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e3IC-lAgXs Vitess: https://vitess.io/ Planetscale: https://planetscale.com/ Vitess was created in 2010 to solve the MySQL scalability challenges that the team at YouTube faced. This section briefly summarizes the sequence of events that led to Vitess' creation: YouTube’s MySQL database reached a point when peak traffic...

Listen to the full episode on SERadio: https://www.se-radio.net/2020/06/episode-413-spencer-kimball-on-cockroachdb/ Previous two parter on Spencer:  https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml

Listen to the full interview on SEDaily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/06/28/timescale-time-series-databases-with-mike-freedman/ We originally created Timescale, really from our own need. Around that time, 2014-2015, my co-founder and I, Ajay Kulkarni, who we go back many years, we resynced up and we started thinking about it was a good time for both of us to think about what the next...

Listen to more on the StackOverflow Podcast: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/podcast-364-mark-porter-mongodb-database/ Transcript markporter    [00:00:00] swyx: This is Mark Porter, the CTO of Mongo DB on his personal journey from relational databases to Mongo DB.    [00:00:06] Mark Porter: I am a relentless tech geek. I've loved tech my whole life. In fact, my Twitter handle is MarkLovesTec...

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