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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[Tech] GitHub Copilot - Ryan Salva 12.10.2022 20:46

Listen to Lenny's pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lennys-podcast/the-role-of-ai-in-new-wOqPsa5VyW0/ starts at 10mins Oege de Moor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oegedemoor/ Codex paper: https://overcast.fm/+xs-qU9hPo/05:09

[Tech] Stable Diffusion - Emad Mostaque 11.10.2022 19:53

Listen to Interdependence: https://interdependence.fm/episodes/open-source-ai-and-stable-diffusion-with-emad-mostaque-EzZuPFyI my unpublished research on Emad: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/3060cbd8-2c17-4fbf-a41e-3a9b23f5fe18 ambient discomfort on LLM size: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/wiqjxv/d_the_current_and_future_state_of_aiml_is/ https://twitter.com/swyxio/status/15766857408...

[Tech] AlphaFold - Demis Hassabis 10.10.2022 14:29

From Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/demis-hassabis/ Transcripts from Karpathy's https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0299-large.html link | 00:37:13.160 So let's go to the basic building blocks of biology link | 00:37:16.960 that I think is another angle at which you can start link | 00:37:20.200 to understand the human mind, the human body, link | 00:37:22.280 which is quite fascinating, link...

[Weekend Drop] Steve Yegge Joins Sourcegraph 09.10.2022 30:57

Listen: https://twitter.com/sourcegraph/status/1577687896814911488 Steve's post about Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/introducing-steve-yegge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viNB7v3bgx8

[Music Friday] EMOTION | Brooke Simpson, Melanie Pfirrman, Mia Mor cover 07.10.2022 3:54

Watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5vkE7mmWJ0

[Creator] Thoreau and Long Walks - Austin Kleon 06.10.2022 23:48

Listen to 3 Books: https://www.3books.co/chapters/111 (about 1hr 20mins in) 5 hour walks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp_MKrnSdaM&list=PLbsKh5N-eR063R9VopWCM_SZ5ccxhNGLm&index=26

[Creator] Output before Input - Colin & Samir 05.10.2022 3:33

Listen to Colin & Samir: https://overcast.fm/+6Z2pphyiU/25:00

[Creator] The Twitter Metagame - Julian Shapiro 04.10.2022 10:41

Listen to Lenny's pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lennys-podcast/growth-tactics-retention-M7Vx8YjC0Ei/

[Creator] Fierce Nerds - Dharmesh Shah and Paul Graham 04.10.2022 15:00

Listen to MFM: https://overcast.fm/+rTsWDbyUc/10:04 PG's essay http://paulgraham.com/fn.html HN response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194284

[Weekend Drop] DevRel, Dev Megatrends and Dev Careers on the Cloudcast 02.10.2022 40:58

Listen to Cloudcast: https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/01/2022-look-ahead-developer-careers.html SHOW NOTES: Shawn’s homepage Temporal.io (homepage) - open source microservice orchestration Learning in Public - The Coding Career Handbook The Coding Career (community) Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You seem to be at the center of (or around) so many developer-centric conversations. Tell us a little...

[Tech] The Death of Hadoop 29.09.2022 13:28

2017 Why Hadoop is Dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QngDInV2ino 2020 Hadoop Death Roundtable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-on-premise-it/hadoop-is-dead-the-on-PuYEm57yaqZ/

[Tech] What is Hadoop? - Jared Hillam 27.09.2022 11:05

Watch the presentaiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s-vSeWej1U Watch the followup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfF750YVDxM

[Music Friday] Laufey 23.09.2022 13:39

I wish you love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=issStxOM5kw Valentine and Laufey Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLhHDI9VRQ Moon River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdq0VchYyE Sunny Side of the Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIGiPrejRi4

[Business] Ramp's Product Velocity and Long Run Opportunity - Packy McCormick 22.09.2022 32:52

Read Not Boring: https://www.notboring.co/p/ramping-up

[Business] From China to Ramp - Eric Glyman 20.09.2022 24:03

From Cartoon Avatars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgUrYn9wKqE

[Business] The Paribus Story - Eric Glyman 19.09.2022 18:09

Listen to 20VC: https://overcast.fm/+OozP0Z6Wg

[Creators] Lillian Li's Origin 16.09.2022 11:14

Listen to Analyse Asia: The post that I enjoyed from Lillian: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1395562957434544128?s=20&t=tcHfqZ4WQ1Toq7I6n6xvag Those posts are paid, so just browse the free ones: https://lillianli.substack.com/ Her threads are pretty good too: https://twitter.com/lillianmli/status/1350857550791491591 and https://twitter.com/lillianmli/status/1372554923552964608

[Creators] Ben Thompson vs Packy McCormick 15.09.2022 52:26

Listen to Cartoon Avatars: https://three-cartoon-avatars.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-15-pt-2-packy-mccormick-and-ben-thompson-talk-about-their-own-start-finding-your-audience-and-the-creative-process-SZ8erNlY

[Creators] Mr. Beast's Origin 14.09.2022 15:57

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMIHsy8gng

[Creators] Matt Levine's Origin 13.09.2022 19:17

Listen to Cartoon Avators: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cartoon-avatars/ep-19-matt-levine-meme-PU_5OpvEtw2/ (49 mins)

[Creators] The Anthony Bourdain Oyster Story - Jay Acunzo 13.09.2022 16:47

Listen to Unthinkable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/special-episode-jay-on-2-XzR_uNrP-yc/ (19mins in)

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Syntax.fm 12.09.2022 53:31

Listen to Syntax.fm: https://syntax.fm/show/478/supper-club-developer-experience-with-shawn-wang

[Music Friday] The Story of "Viva La Vida" - Chris Martin 09.09.2022 5:25

Listen to Howard Stern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUnWFsc5WBU

[Tech] Is relational the new COBOL? - Mark Porter 08.09.2022 42:02

Watch his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgCgIz0WYvU