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
[Weekend Drop] Swyx on the MongoDB Podcast
From the MongoDB Podcast: https://mongodb.libsyn.com/ep-93-swyx-learn-in-public-and-temporal
[Music Fridays] Somebody That I Used to Know (Fingerstyle) - Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel
Watch Mike Dawes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bx9vTF8x2s
Habits for Other People [James Clear]
listen to the Peter Attia podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-peter-attia/183-james-clear-building-mqgBcuP8-25/
Habit Formation [Andrew Huberman]
Listen to the Huberman Lab (1h18mins in) https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/huberman-lab/the-science-of-making-1VeFnGW6psA/?t=4702
The Keystone Habit [Charles Duhigg]
Listen to the GTD podcast: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2021/02/david-allen-interviews-charles-duhigg/
Getting Things Done [David Allen]
Listen to the GTD podcast: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2019/10/an-overview-of-gtd/
Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison]
Listen to Fake Doctors, Real Friends: https://overcast.fm/+ZHU0NDSpM
The California Gothic Monkey Story [Taylor Negron]
From The Moth: https://themoth.org/radio-hour/holiday-special-2014-monkeys-megachurches-and-first-elves
How to Break into Porn [Leo Vice]
Listen to the PH podcast: https://soundcloud.com/thepornhubpodcast/leo-vice-asian-male-pornstar
[Music Friday] Voctave Christmas
Watch and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFFKuuaF3k
Adapting Wheel of Time to Screen [Brandon Sanderson]
Watch the Intentionally Blank podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnbmku3lFmg (20mins in)
Why the Bourne Identity is Underrated [Pete Holmes]
Listen to Films to Be Buried With (1h in): https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/films-to-be-buried/pete-holmes-films-to-be-6f_tQjdSLmH/
Colorblind Camouflage [Roger Hanlon]
Listen to After On: https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/057
Roger Hanlon's research online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCIqaCe2zI
![[Music Fridays] Spider-Man: No Way Home OST](https://img.transistor.fm/Ak1d_iVphfLuBYDukCRTYFfNNp8bMUzdp8fQVAmrZIQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:3000/h:3000/q:60/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lcGlz/b2RlLzc1NzMzNy8x/NjQwMDQzODgzLWFy/dHdvcmsuanBn.jpg)
[Music Fridays] Spider-Man: No Way Home OST
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVmfpULFk-M
Points of interest:
11:24 Doc Ock’s theme
21:20 "Goosebumps"
37:30 Tom Holland standing in the pouring rain while he watches Jonah on the big screen righ…
Crypto Exchange Kings [The Economist]
Listen to the Economist podcast: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/12/15/meet-the-cryptokings
Read the article: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/the-most-powerful-people-i…
Why Ethereum Lost The Plot [Su Zhu]
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2fDTuh5aU (start at 25min mark)
Crypto villain of the year https://cryptobriefing.com/2021-review-the-top-10-crypto-villains-year/
Transcript
i would be curious…
[Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog
Listen to the Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast/467
Essays:
Transcript
Jerod Santo: So swyx, we have been tr…
[Music Fridays] Beethoven's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 — Hilary Hahn
Listen to the full concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cg_0jepxow
Paganini while Hula Hooping with TwoSet Violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjO4ekcJQA
Hilary on Wikipedia and Documentary …
React Native's Many Platform Vision [Rick Hanlon]
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0cG47msEk&list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZZ7etkzWA7JfdmKWT0pMsa
Read: https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/26/many-platform-vision
React Server Components and Shopify Hydrogen [Ilya Grigorik]
Listen to the Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast/469 (40mins in)
Try it out: https://hydrogen.new/
Transcript
when we looked at the available set of tools in the React eco…