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

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Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 20 minutes
Episodes: 538
Years Active: 2021 - 2024

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Solana from First Principles [Raj Gokal]

Listen to Analyse Asia: https://www.analyse.asia/solana-with-raj-gokal/ (15mins in)

00:10:27 | Fri 20 May 2022

Backwards Causation with Airdrops [Haseeb Qureshi]

Listen to Bankless: https://sites.libsyn.com/247424/how-to-become-a-vc-with-haseeb-qureshi-layer-zero (55mins)

00:11:20 | Wed 18 May 2022

What is Web3? [Alex Danco] (EXPLICIT)

Listen to Infinite Loops: https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/alex-danco-what-is-web-30-all-about-ep95/ (37mins in)

Transcript

Alex Danco:
Yeah. So one of the cool things is that, I can say this from a…

00:10:55 | Wed 18 May 2022

The Best Explanation of the Terra/Luna Collapse [Jonathan Wu]

Listen to Unchained: https://unchainedpodcast.com/did-someone-deliberately-attack-terra-luna-to-kick-off-a-death-spiral/ (15mins in)

My reflections: https://www.swyx.io/risk-conservation

00:14:34 | Tue 17 May 2022

[Weekend Drop] Crossing the Chasm, with Richard Feldman

Richard is one of my fave speakers in software, particular in the Elm and language sphere of things. Check out Why Isn't Functional Programming The Norm? and Roc, the new language he's working on!

Lis…

01:09:42 | Sat 14 May 2022

[Music Friday] Musicians on Omegle - Frank Tedesco, Rob Landes, Marcus Veltri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VSDVQFQNWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6jp-e592Tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dfP_Xbe3Q

00:11:03 | Sat 14 May 2022

The Story of Paw Patrol [Ronnen Harary]

Listen to HIBT: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065352806/spin-master-paw-patrol-ronnen-harary (55mins in)

00:08:26 | Fri 13 May 2022

The Story of Warp [Zach Lloyd]

Listen to the Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast/487 (12mins)

Series A: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/warp-raises-23m-to-build-a-better-terminal/
HN reaction: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

00:13:37 | Thu 12 May 2022

The Story of Mailgun [Ev Kontsevoy]

Listen to Software Defined Talk: https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/346 (12mins in)

https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/rackspace-acquires-y-combinator-startup-mailgun-an-api-that-abstracts-creating-em…

00:14:45 | Wed 11 May 2022

[Weekend Drop] Self-Provisioning Runtimes on Serverless Chats

Read: https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime
See https://www.serverlesschats.com/124/ for transcript and links!

01:03:41 | Sat 07 May 2022

[Music Fridays] On the Sunny Side of the Street - Various

Clips:
- Esperanza Spalding https://youtu.be/TQtXo4tiZxs
- Laufey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIGiPrejRi4
- Sant Andreu Jazz Band https://youtu.be/BsEFFaboTAM

00:13:56 | Sat 07 May 2022