The Swyx Mixtape

Audio source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/intelligence-squared/the-sunday-debate-brave-new-usI2DpLUHQ0/ (55 mins in) Full debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw Part 2 is next: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Loki vs 1984: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1419128271799656449 Aldous Huxley's comments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tffX3VljTtI (11 mins in) Warren Spector's 6 + 2 + 1: What's the core idea? Why do this game? Commercial hit? No choice? What are the dev challenges? Hard is ok, impossible not good Is this idea well-suited to games? Games are about DOING, not BEING What's the fantasy? If no fantasy, bad idea What are the verbs? Games are about Doing Has anyone done this befo...

The incredible origin story of Yahoo from start to $850m IPO in 2 years. Source: https://greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/jerry-yang-how-yahoo-went-from-a-hobby-to-the-early-king-of-the-internet Yahoo Origin Story Jerry Yang: When the HTTP and the web and HTML came along, it was this moment of aha. All that information can be put together in a graphical way. That is point and click. You don't have...

This is the audio version of the essay I published on Monday . I'm excited to finally share why I've joined Temporal.io as Head of Developer Experience. It's taken me months to precisely pin down why I have been obsessed with Workflows in general and Temporal in particular. It boils down to 3 core opinions: Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code. Target audience: product-focused deve...

Sources - Olivia Rodrigo - Drivers License (Tori Kelly cover) - Tori Kelly & Alessia Cara - Masterclass Of Impressions (Britney Spears, Xtina) - Tori Kelly & Jessie J - Who You Are - Demi Lovato - Sorry not Sorry (feat. Tori Kelly) - Ed Sheeran - Perfect (Tori Kelly cover)

Source : https://3clipspodcast.com/design-matters-deep-research-as-respect-ft-debbie-millman/ Debbie Millman of the Design Matters podcast shows how she gets tender, emotional moments from her guests.

I recently started the audiobook version of Brent Schlender's Becoming Steve Jobs and this passage on Apple's name made me stop in my tracks: "There are different tales about the origin of the name, but it was a brilliant decision. Years later, Lee Clow, Steve’s longtime collaborator on Apple’s distinctive brand of advertising, told me, “ I honestly believe that his intuition was that they were go...

Two anecdotes from StackOverflow founder Joel Spolsky, on how Google and Amazon wrote elegant software that balances simplicity and power. Audio: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-of/ep-70-simplicity-vs-value-in-YaRkM5T41IN/ (45mins in) Talk video: https://businessofsoftware.org/2009/01/joel-spolsky-at-business-of-software-2009-video/ Oct 2021 update - I snipped it here: https://youtu....

Audio source: https://www.tropicalmba.com/ten-years-dynamite-circle/ (24 mins in)

Video: https://octo.github.com/speakerseries/swyx Blog Post: https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/dx-blog/technical-community-builder-is-the-hottest-new-job-in-tech Slide dec: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WGCfellGTboDwtM_D9uMwsHtD0qCFeBv6AYNUSxlDLg/edit?usp=sharing My talk at Heroku's conference where I met Idan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_w1YWCHXFg Timestamps 00:01:17 Intro presenta...

Original "Still Alive" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI Still Alive - Frank Sinatra Big Band Swing Version (The 8-Bit Big Band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22vbhTi1ieI

Audio Source: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-popcast-with/episode-77-googles-kelsey-1hEI5D-Myci/

Audio source and show notes: https://simplify.simplecast.com/episodes/kathryn-mannix-how-to-die-well "Dying is not as bad as you think": https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/dying-is-not-as-bad-as-you-think/p062m0xt/player

Audio source: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-cosmic-queries-for-the-acutely-curious/ 22 mins in Transcript [00:21:14] I would love to know how you develop your skills to be able to explain and communicate complex ideas effectively to the everyday person or any suggestions for people struggling in this area, because you must have worked really, really hard to be able to go, "Ok...

Audio source: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/740/there-i-fixed-it Transcript As long as he could remember, going back to when he was a child, Sam was scared of spiders. But not scared in the normal way, where lots of us don't feel great when we see a big spider, or a snake, or a big bug, or whatever. Sam It invaded all aspects of my life at all points in the year. I was thinking about spiders al...

My thoughts on shipping The Coding Career Handbook as a Side Project, and tips and tricks on how to do it well. Audio source: https://modernweb.podbean.com/e/s08e09-modern-web-podcast-sides-projects-with-shawn-wang/

See them sing it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4nYLQsXjoM

Audio source: https://underthehoodpod.robinhood.com/#element-452 (15 mins in) Mp3: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/under-the-hood/the-future-of-finance-with-ApbGyU2DfQE/ Why the future is remote work and location independent pay. The backing track to my narration is Algorithms by Chad Crouch .

Source: https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/automated-data-labeling-for-ai-apps.html See also: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/09/snorkel-training-dataset-management-with-braden-hancock/ Software 2.0 is Andrej Karpathy's idea that instead of coding business logic by hand, the applications of the future will be trained by data. In other words, machine learning. But ML is limited by th...

I've moved back to the US! Just a quick audio update + announcement that I'm taking this week off because of lack of equipment. The backing track to my narration is Algorithms by Chad Crouch .

I joined Alexey Grigorev's DataTalks. Club podcast to talk about my viral essay on How to Market Yourself (without Being a Celebrity) . Links: - How to Market Yourself without Being a Celebrity ( tweet thread ) - DataTalks. Club Video and Transcript - The Coding Career Handbook - special discount Timestamps Marketing ourselves (1:15) Components of personal marketing (5:00) Personal brand for an av...

The theme song of humanity. Audio sources: Baba Yetu at Cadogan Hall Official music video Baba Yetu at Llangollen Lyrics “Baba Yetu” is essentially the Lord’s Prayer sung in Swahili. The title translated means “Our Father”. Baba yetu, yetu uliye Mbinguni yetu, yetu amina! Baba yetu yetu uliye Jina lako e litukuzwe. Utupe leo chakula chetu Tunachohitaji, utusamehe Makosa yetu, hey! Kama nasi tunavy...

5 tips to improve your writing: Novelty Intrigue Stories Analogies Examples Audio source: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/196-david-perell (35 mins)

Everything is copied - although Apple didn't copy as much from Xerox as most people say. Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc (the full 4 part documentary is an inspiring watch)

dbt is taking the data eng world by storm. this is the best 10 minutes i've heard on it, from Fishtown Analytics cofounder Drew Banin. Fun fact: Fishtown is a town in Philadelphia ! Audio source: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/dbt-data-analytics-episode-81/ (14 mins in) Fivetran CEO geeking out on dbt: https://medium.com/hashmapinc/the-origins-and-future-of-fivetran-with-george-fraser-1af8...