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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[Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage 10.06.2023 51:31

Video and pull quotes: https://www.humanskills.co/p/human-skills-012-productivity-and

[Weekend Drop] swyx on smol developer 14.05.2023 49:57

smol developer took off this week. we convened a special twitter space to talk about what we should do next.

[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer 08.05.2023 14:07

david cramer speaks on why he believes in open source businesses, and why specifically you should use BSL and not the other stuff. https://www.se-radio.net/2023/05/se-radio-563-david-cramer-on-error-tracking/ 1hr in

[Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily 04.02.2023 1:08:21

revived by https://www.swyx.io/how-to-find-podcasts-that-have-been-deleted https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/12/19/no-code-with-shawn-wang/ The software category known as “no-code” describes a set of tools that can be used to build software without writing large amounts of code in a programming language. No-code tools use visual interfaces such as spreadsheets and web based drag-and-drop s...

[Business] Community Games: from MUDs to MMORPGs - Gamecraft 03.02.2023 14:00

https://overcast.fm/+-qMwI0I10/17:00

[Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush 02.02.2023 22:33

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/the-calculus-of-fun-ep-3-vaT0YeDE68S/

[Business] Casual Games: from Deer Hunter to Snake - Gamecraft 01.02.2023 18:52

from the start https://overcast.fm/+-qMx_5Oqo

[Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft 31.01.2023 30:06

30 mins in to https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/the-fall-and-rise-of-KIbFrC70q93/

[Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft 30.01.2023 29:56

30 mins in https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/steal-this-game-ep-1-o1CHsvutpKV/

[Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif 29.01.2023 49:44

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/08/09/state-of-javascript-with-sacha-greif/

[AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender 27.01.2023 10:34

from https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/emily-m-bender-language-aVzCO4T2gGs/ further reading https://www.theverge.com/22309962/timnit-gebru-google-harassment-campaign-jeff-dean https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQqz7ScqxhSIxeYGrWjK0/edit

[AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao 26.01.2023 10:42

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fyi-for-your/the-evolution-of-ai-models-Fs_7Pd5f1aG/

[AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy 25.01.2023 23:26

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4G9zrlAGs

[AI] Behind ChatGPT: RLHF and the Proximal Policy Optimization - Practical AI 24.01.2023 14:07

from https://overcast.fm/+HaNPbG9CU/24:00 to read: https://overcast.fm/+HaNPbG9CU/24:00

[AI] GPT3's advances, applications, and prompt engineering - Peter Welinder 23.01.2023 14:09

from: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/peter-boris-fine-tuning-iu5-hVreSF8/ from 15mins in

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland 21.01.2023 37:43

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZnzzMbA7Vg 6:55 - Product versus Platform 9:05 - Durable Functions 13:49 - Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior Developers What Inspired You To Write It 16:02 - What Most Developers Should Know after They Get Their First Job 21:36 - How Did You Survive during the Pandemic and no Flight Policy 23:34 - Jsconf Asia 2018 Talk 25:20 - The Third Age of Ja...

[Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin 20.01.2023 17:17

Listen to the GCP podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/google-cloud/gke-turns-7-with-tim-hockin-tnr2DzMUkY1/

[Tech] The Origin of Kubernetes - Steve Yegge 19.01.2023 14:02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKE1S7PK1fY 14.45mins in My article on Google vs OpenAI: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/google-vs-openai

[Tech] The Origin of MongoDB - Dwight Merriman 18.01.2023 18:45

https://podcasts.mongodb.com/public/115/The-MongoDB-Podcast-b02cf624/f96bd55f Transcript Michael Lynn: Welcome to the show. My name is Michael Lynn and this is the MongoDB Podcast. Thanks for joining us. Today on the show, Lena Smart, Chief Security Officer of MongoDB, and I team up to interview Dwight Merriman, co- founder and key contributor to MongoDB. Dwight Merriman is a true tech legend. In...

[Tech] Phlogiston and The Origin of Functional Reactive Programming 17.01.2023 12:00

Listen to the Future of Coding Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/future-of-coding/structure-of-a-programming-vBrU6CDIG_Z/ (21mins)

[Tech] The Origin of Markdown - John Gruber 16.01.2023 12:56

listen to John Gruber's pod https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-talk-show-with/356-an-unranted-rant-with-pVwlyZT_AS9/ (5mins) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1241578667916042240

[Weekend Drop] Talking AI on the Techmeme Ride Home 14.01.2023 57:44

Our big AI discussion with @ReamBraden and @swyx . Shawn just posted this new essay drawing on what we discussed here: Every Google vs OpenAI Argument, Dissected full episode: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/techmeme-ride-home/twtr-spc-the-big-ai-discussion-vb0hd4qmEHA/

[Story Friday] Pole Vaulting - Matthew Dicks 14.01.2023 8:20

Listen to the Moth https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-moth/the-moth-radio-hour-pole-d7XZGOob8fs/ (15mins in)

[Health] Identity Change for Weight Loss - Layne Norton 13.01.2023 18:33

Listen to the Huberman Lab podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/huberman-lab/dr-layne-norton-the-science-QPRcFtj6kUL/ (52mins in)

[Health] Ultra-long Fasts as a Medical Treatment 12.01.2023 13:59

Listen to the Art of Manliness: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-art-of-manliness/using-extended-fasting-to-QK28R5vd4IE/