The Swyx Mixtape

Loren Sands-Ramshaw : https://lorensr.me/ The GraphQL Guide (coming soon): https://graphql.guide/ Transcript Loren Sands-Ramshaw: [00:00:00] So welcome Shawn to the GraphQL Guide interview with Shawn Swyx Wang. Is that  swyx: [00:00:04] it? I pronounce that, right. It's it's my Chinese and English initials. And it's just a branding that I'm leaned into because it's unique. Yeah. I think it's great...

An untold story from Adam Grant's new book, Think Again, with special appearance by Ed Catmull and Rufus Griscom. Audio Source: https://play.acast.com/s/the-next-big-idea/gid%3A%2F%2Fart19-episode-locator%2FV0%2F8eGHqU6ud87TFzlI-OG-ar2xD8QTim65hR_4cgCWV9c Transcript swyx: [00:00:00] I've been listening to Adam Grant, do the podcast book tour with this new book. Think again. And none of them really...

My tweet thread: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1364107473724919809?s=20 Audio source: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/nir-eyal/ (40 mins in) Future edit: Followup episode with Cal Newport on Time Block Planning Main Points 1. Prioritize the hard stuff not the distracting stuff 2. Todo lists don't have constraints, Calendars do 3. Self image of Person Who Gets Things Done Transcript swyx: [00:0...

Audio source: https://www.svelteradio.com/episodes/svelte-language-tools-with-simon-holthausen (55 mins in) My blogpost: Errors are Not Exceptions swyx: [00:00:00] A while ago, I started learning Go and found that there was an interesting difference between how Go handles errors and exceptions compared to JavaScript. So I wrote a blog post called errors versus exceptions. And that blogpost really...

Adopting BSL to defend against AWS a "truly serverless" experience for Cockroach A perpetually free relational database - what Gmail did to email 4 scales for cloud: Free tier -> sustained throughput -> sole tenancy for scale -> dedicated multitenancy cluster (for the big enterprise) it turns out that developing a multitenant hosted service also helps develop for large enterprise that wan...

I enjoyed learning about how Cockroach is leaderless and synchronous and that makes it a lot more resilient than alternatives. Audio source: https://changelog.com/founderstalk/75 Spanner paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf Share/Comment via Tweet: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1376470276918050818 Adam Stacoviak: [00:00:00] So whe...

The tweet thread here: https://twitter.com/AdamRackis/status/1370874399390367756 This is the edited audio of our conversation; Coding Career community members can find the transcript and video on Circle ! Timestamps 00:00 Introductions 01:35 Coding on the Fly 09:09 Use Terminology 13:29 Fundamentals over Frameworks 17:27 TypeScript 20:18 Storytelling 29:30 Misc: Ownership, System Design, Teaching...

This has a slow start but REALLY ramps up toward the end. Hang in there! Also featuring the voices of 4 Phantoms - Simon Bowman, Earl Carpenter, Ramin Karimloo and John Owen-Jones. Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE6SRBnDHx8 See also: Nicole singing Never Enough Nicole's bio on WIkipedia

Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOo6XSYW66c Spencer took on the competitive threat of OpenDoor at Zillow when he didn't need to, taking a tiny competitor startup seriously and pivoting a $5 billion company into a $30 billion one without a crisis. News at the time: - https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/14/zillow-surprises-investors-by-buying-up-homes/ - https://www.geekwire.com/2018/zillow...

Audio source (with video): https://thisweekinstartups.com/tobi-lutke-on-shopifys-impact-on-the-creator-economy-covid-forcing-focus-early-internet-breakthroughs-evolving-as-a-remote-manager-much-more-e1184/ Software and Blacksmithing swyx: [00:00:00] So recently Tobi Lutke, the CEO of Shopify was on theThis Week in Startups podcast with Jason Calacanis and he has some really interesting thoughts ab...

Listen to Part 1 and the original audio source from Spotify here: https://media.swyx.io/podcasts/learn-in-podcast/enclosures/2c3fb8da4708f4c7-caa6db45.mp3 Gustav Soderstrom: [00:00:00] So nearly a decade after Napster shut down, Lars Ulrich got another unexpected call from his manager cliff. We  Lars Ulrich: [00:00:05] got a call from cliff again, saying that Sean Parker wanted to talk  to  Gustav...

Audio source: https://anchor.fm/spotify-rd/episodes/00-The-most-epic-battle-in-music-history-es7j2l (10 minutes in) - I Disappear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Disappear#Release - Metallica v Napster Inc. lawsuit Highly recommend subscribing to this Spotify miniseries, it is excellently produced and Episode 2 has nice technical detail on the founding of Spotify from Daniel Ek. Gustav Soderstrom...

See my notes here on DX Circle ! Audio Source: https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-1-2iEyBTf5 a16z on Infra Introductions and Backgrounds [00:00:00] Martin Casado: [00:00:00] So this is the a16z infrastructure show. This is actually the very first one.  Where are we going to be talking about infrastructure companies investing in them, building them products? It just turns out that...

After this podcast recording, I wrote Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech which went into further detail on my thoughts on Community! Audio source: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/developer-love/ep-15-learning-in-public-with-shawn-swyx-wang SHOW NOTES Geoffrey Moore’s  Crossing the Chasm /r/ReactJS Taming the Meta Language  by Cheng Lou Avis is No. 2. We Try Harder...

Audio Source , and Shaan's viral thread . Transcript below. "Write Drunk, Edit Sober" - Hemingway What Reaction is this meant to get? 1. LOL 2. WTF/Outraging 3. AWW/Heartwarming 4. AWE/"Wow" 5. Confirmation bias, aka "Finally, someone said it" 6. "Did you know", aka Take a familiar thing and share a new fact about it: - the Duolingo business model - Tom Cruise's real name - Made to Stick - Contagi...

Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI Story source: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html The Egg By: Andy Weir   You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was...

Packy is a self described "narrative investor" and so does not do anything remotely close to objective analysis. But his is still a nice recap of what Twitter has done recently and could continue to do. You can catch Twitter's Revival, Pt. 1 with Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of consumer product, here . Audio Source: https://www.notboring.co/p/how-twitter-got-its-groove-back --- How Twitter Got...

For the record, I don't own any crypto art or endorse it. But there's clearly a movement, Dylan is constantly ahead of the rest of us, and this was a great speech. Audio source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5LapixLbk (59 mins in) The sale: https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1369812648288804865/photo/1 Vincenzo Peruggia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia Peruggia's stateme...

Interview source with Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/22319527/twitter-kayvon-beykpour-interview-consumer-product-decoder Kayvon Beykpour's impressive CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvon-beykpour-2b264b4/ The growth of Topics So health, conversations, and interests have been our big rocks for the last two and a half years. We’ve been taking bigger and bigger swings in each of those areas....

Had a really good chat with Brian (Director of Content) and Ben (Co-Founder) from LogRocket and towards the end we even found out a long kept secret about Ben's JS Parody alter-ego! Show notes and audio source: https://podrocket.logrocket.com/swyx Share via tweet: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1369348560198713363

See associated blogpost, Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil . Clip from The Art of Product (13 mins in) Preemptive Pluralization is Probably Not Evil Swyx: [00:00:00] For a while I've been observing that it's much easier to take things from 2 to 3 or 3 to 4,  basically anything to N, than it is to take things from 1 to 2, especially in code. And I didn't really have a frame around thi...

Audio Source with transcript: https://mastersofscale.com/tyra-banks/ (11 mins in) --- BANKS: I gave myself one year to be successful in Paris, and that did not mean supermodel. That meant direct bookings, meaning a client would just call and say, "We want Tyra." Then you don't have to be a supermodel for a client to say that. I was like, "I am not pounding the pavement with auditions for a year.”...

Source: https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/ (15 minutes) thanks to Matthew DiSabatino for the recommendation !

This week's clip from the Startup To Last podcast: https://www.startuptolast.com/episodes/hardcore-week-building-a-content-site Further reading on TOFU/MOFU/BOFU: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/what-is-tofu-mofu-bofu --- Transcript: Swyx: [00:00:00] I was listening to the Startup to Last podcast by Rick Lindquist, the founder of LegUp Ventures and Tyler King, the founder of Less Annoying CRM. And...

The fundamental incompatibility of email and Deep Work collide. - Clip from Lex Fridman podcast (~1:45:00) - Was Email a Mistake? New Yorker article - A World Without Email (book): https://amzn.to/3blXyjv