Swyx

The Swyx Mixtape

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

Author

Swyx

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Technology

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swyx.io

Latest episode

Jun 3, 2026

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Episodes

[Health] Eating Ourselves to Death - Dr. Casey Means 13.12.2022

Listen to the Bari Weiss Podcast https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/honestly-with-bari/eating-ourselves-to-death-luwFMbHKBiv/

[Weekend Drop] How to Thought Lead, the Metacreator Ceiling, and Learning in Public on the Build in Public podcast 10.12.2022

Listen to the KP Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oTmQhagN4k

[Music Friday] Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend 10.12.2022

Listen to Conan's pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/conan-obrien-needs/live-with-will-arnett-at-the-ERUub61feOY/

[Business] Starting Shazam - Chris Barton 08.12.2022

Listen to Tony Robbins' podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tony-robbins/the-power-of-perseverance-zCW71lehdTi/ Shazam turns 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32520593

[Business] Oracle and the Internet Computer Architecture - David Senra 07.12.2022

listen to Founders: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/founders/124-softwar-an-intimate-UrgGJSAiaY2/ 40mins in

[Business] Blockbuster's Innovation - The Great Fail 06.12.2022

Listen to the Great Fail: https://overcast.fm/+l2GyND71I/12:00

[Business] Musicians feared the Record Player - Jason Feiffer 06.12.2022

Listen to Build for Tomorrow: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/episode/the-best-ways-to-use-a-crisis/ (40ish mins in) Today's twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1599890745200377857 Transcript So turn to the century, the phonograph, brand new innovation, the very first record player, consider how completely insanely revolutionary this was, for all of human history, before the phonograph...

[Weekend Drop] Remote IDEs and the End of Localhost on the InfoQ podcast 04.12.2022

Listen to the InfoQ podcast: https://soundcloud.com/infoq-channel/interview-shawn-swyx-wang Blogpost: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost In this episode, Shawn Wang (swyx), head of developer experience at Airbyte, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the rise of remote development environments. Topics covered included, whether remote development experiences are good en...

[Music Friday] Stories ft. Hunter 02.12.2022

Make you feel my love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxsd7rhhFYw Ain't No Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB5ITxz9CK0 Easy on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4f5IPvwXU

[Misc] Eric Schmidt on AI 01.12.2022

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkeRxeh34I Transcript eric schmidt is a business leader and software engineer that served as google's chief executive officer from 2001 to 2011. under his leadership google grew from an early silicon valley startup to arguably the most important technology company on the planet schmidt is currently co-founder of schmidt futures and sits on the board of many...

[Misc] Guided Metacognition - David McRaney 30.11.2022

Listen to Cautionary Tales: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cautionary-tales/cautionary-conversation-the-FW0bxClD_ij/

[Misc] The James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake 29.11.2022

Listen to Ted Talks Daily: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/ted-talks-daily/the-marvels-and-mysteries-JkbNAa9DMYl/ (or video: https://www.ted.com/talks/heidi_hammel_and_nadia_drake_the_marvels_and_mysteries_revealed_by_the_james_webb_space_telescope?language=en) more with Heidi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMbeCKh-9v4

[Misc] Inside Voice: Lake Bell and the Sexy Baby Voice Phenomenon 28.11.2022

Listen to Revisionist History and Inside Voice: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/revisionist-history/from-inside-voice-lake-bell-8XVyoz7eT5A/

[Music Friday] Fly Me to the Moon - Going Spaceward 18.11.2022

LIsten on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1puRnV6gwE

[Business] Haseeb explains FTX 16.11.2022

Listen to the Chopping Block: Nov 9 https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unchained/the-chopping-block-ftx-the-3ki-p42chnb/ Nov 16 https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unchained/the-chopping-block-why-rlhFySZAtMB/

[Tech] dbt criticism and How dbt Fails 27.10.2022

- Listen to Data Eng Podcast: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/data-ecosystem-year-in-review-2021-episode-251/ - How dbt Fails: https://benn.substack.com/p/how-dbt-fails

[Tech] dbt origins (again!) and dbt Semantic Layer - Drew Banin 25.10.2022

Watch/listen to Analytics Everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPvZ_YRSgs Gitlab data guide: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/dbt-guide/ and https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/data-team/ Our previous episode on dbt: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml

[Tech] dbt as a standard - Laurie Voss 24.10.2022

Listen to The Right Track: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-right-track/ep-6-domain-expertise-with-laurie-voss-of-netlify/ Transcript Stefania : I wanted to maybe shift a little bit in terms of how the industry is changing before we move on to how you have seen data cultures being built and data trusts being undermined and all those things. Can you talk a little bit about how you see...

[Weekend Drop] Developer Experience & the Coding Career Handbook with Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud 22.10.2022

Listen to Screaming in the Cloud: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/learning-in-public-with-swyx/ Episode Summary Today Corey sits down with swyx, head of developer experience at Airbyte, and so much more! They begin by chatting about swyx’s career history, professional motivation, and an industry taboo: following the money. Then Corey and swyx move into a discussion abo...

[Music Friday] Hits of 2019 - VoicePlay A Cappella 21.10.2022

Listen to Voiceplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGsqVTy9qM

[Business] The Austin Powers Just Do It Award - Amazon's Bias for Action Culture 19.10.2022

Listen to https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml the austin powers store page screenshot mentioned: https://inventlikeanowner.com/podcast/alex-edelman-building-the-amazon-website-in-the-late-90s/

[Tech] Reddit's Two Tables, Amazon's Biblio Records and Title Authority 18.10.2022

Listen to Invent like an Owner: https://swyx.io/podcast/learn-in-podcast/rss.xml Reddit has Two Tables (2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32407873

[Business] Amazon's move to subscriptions and Prime 16.10.2022

Neil Roseman is the former VP for Software Engineering at Amazon. He is currently the Technologist in Residence at Summit Partners - a funding company committed to finding and partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to help them accelerate their growth and achieve dramatic results. Jorrit Van der Meulen originally joined Amazon in 1999 and left in 2005. After working at Zillow for nearly four ye...

[Weekend Drop] Trading derivatives with VBA and Finance - swyx on the Keycuts podcast 15.10.2022

Listen to Keycuts: https://www.thekeycuts.com/dear-analyst-50-walking-through-a-vba-script-for-trading-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-derivatives-with-shawn-wang/ This little podcast/newsletter started as a little experiment last year. I never thought I would make it to episode number 50, but here we are! Thank you to the few of you out there who listen/read my ramblings about spreadsheets. I decide...

[Music Friday] Remixes, Interpolations and the Nostalgia Loop - Charlie Harding 14.10.2022

I'm Good (Blue) clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RLzVUuXe4 Charlie Harding clip https://www.listennotes.com/search/?q=Will+the+future+of+music+sound+a+lot+like+the+past%3F

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