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
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 538
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
How I Wrote Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, David Fincher]
Watch Behind the Curtain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiOuUP9z7l4
Self Publishing & Stealing [Austin Kleon]
Listen to Creative Elements: https://www.creativeelements.fm/austin-kleon/ (19 mins in)
Transcript
I was like 27, or 26. At the time, these kids were probably 22. You know, so it's like, what can I be …
The Difference between Stealing and Creating [Colin & Samir]
Watch Colin and Samir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbOXYhjpXAc
[Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on JSParty
In December I was on the Changelog to talk about my career and work, and we promised a more indepth followup on Temporal in future. Here it is!
Listen to the JSParty episode: https://changelog.com/jsp…
[Music Friday] The Greatest Showman Story - Jeremy Jordan
Watch him sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08AGzOmCk-s
you can see him in the Hugh Jackman story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PluaPvhkIMU
Facebook Infra and the GraphQL Story [Lee Byron]
Listen to Software at Scale: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-44-building-graphql?s=r
See also Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler
Expensify and the 90's Tech Stack [David Barrett]
Listen to the StackOverflow Podcast: https://the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/why-david-barrett-ceo-of-expensify-still-takes-his-turn-on-pagerduty/transcript (from about 8mins in)
Architect, Begin, and the Functional Web App [Brian Leroux]
Listen to devtools.fm: https://devtools.fm/episode/26?view=SECTIONS
Netlify and the Git Push Nirvana [Software Defined Talk]
Listen to SDT: https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/330 (about 50mins in)
See also Netlify's press release: https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-…
[Weekend Drop] Finding Your Voice and Content Creation with swyx, Bekah Hawrot-Wiegel, Tessa Mero, Shruti Balasa, and Michael Jolley
See the twitter buzz: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Fspaces%2F1eaKbNPbMmXKX&src=typed_query&f=live
[Music Friday] Hey It's Delilah 2020 and 2022 - Jessica Ricca
- Hey It's Delilah 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWGo4EhE84
- Hey It's Delilah 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZF263xBfms
Making $8m/yr covering the MCU [New Rockstars/Jay Acunzo]
Listen to Unthinkable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/new-rockstars-vs-NjSZB6rJYx-/
Becoming the Winter Soldier [Sebastian Stan]
Listen to XOXO with Jessica Szohr: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-xoxo-91519105/episode/sebastian-stan-93902649/
How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man [James Young]
Watch Corridor Crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbIhj35kyA (10 mins in)
The MCU-Sony Deal [Acquired.fm]
Listen to SONY on Acquired: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/acquired-ben-gilbert-and-david-rosenthal-9pne_5jCY2u/ (2h 22mins in)
My mixtape queue is always live here: https://github.com/sw-yx/bra…
[Music Fridays] Star Wars - John Williams
- The Force Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb2zuegwcwk
- Duel of the Fates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlYCxbBZUCY
- Obi-Wan trailer: https://twitter.com/obiwankenobi/status/1501630732619423744
Time Series DB's: Clickhouse at Sentry (Ted Kaemming, James Cunningham)
Listen to the Data Eng podcast: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/snuba-event-data-warehouse-episode-108/ (11mins in)
Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix)
Listen to HashiCast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hashicast/episode-5-paul-dix-influxdb-PGC9o3DmNyc/ (12 mins in)
Benefits of TS DBs:
- Compression for timestamps
- Write throughput because append-o…
Time Series DB's: TimeScale [Ajay Kulkarni, Michael Freedman]
full recording: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ae30126a
Timescale Series C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430000
Timescale vs Influx: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766566
Timescale vs C…