The Swyx Mixtape

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This is a story I only vaguely knew and I enjoyed this retelling of the Great Depression leading up t…

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Follow Julia Che's work on Openess, her new open source funding/community startup.

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I turn 35 today. Here are 35 principles I have accumulated and try to live by:

1. Life is too Short for Short Ter…

This Clubhouse-style Q&A was held as part of my support for React Summit 2021 (https://remote.reactsummit.com/). Moderated by Robert Haritonov, CEO of GitNation.

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• 2:30 How do you keep up with…

Listen to Part 1: Origins here.

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Transcript: https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/…

Listen to Part 2: Growth here

Lynn Jurich started her solar energy company in the depths of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, as a 26 year old with no prior experience in the industry. Now it is a $10b …

Audio Source: https://joincolossus.com/episodes/10262551/pujji-a-primer-on-performance-marketing?tab=transcript

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The Execution Loop

Patrick: [01:17:01] Can you walk us through this idea of the…

Robin Dunbar did an interview to coincide with his new book, and there are surprising depths to Dunbar's Number that isn't normally picked up by commentators.

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Robin Dunbar did an interview to coincide with his new book, and there are surprising depths to Dunbar's Number that isn't normally picked up by commentators.

Audio source: https://play.acast.com/s/in…

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZm0tPUxjE
Site: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-15-whats-up-with-svelte

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Shawn or perhaps more popularly known as, Swyx, is a frequent writer and speaker …

Today Webflow is valued at 2 billion, profitable, and is a leader of the No Code movement.

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Vlad's Webflow Journey: https://twitter.com/callmevlad/status/1095333269946621958

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Emmanuel Straschnov (@estraschnov) is the founder and co-CEO of Bubble.

Audio source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/how-no-code-is-enabling-entrepreneurship

swyx: [00:00:00] I've always been i…

This is the narrated version of my latest blogpost.

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This is the backstory of how a 1-2 hour task stretched into 2 weeks because I kept it to myself.

A few weeks ago a customer…

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The GraphQL Guide (coming soon): https://graphql.guide/

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Loren Sands-Ramshaw: [00:00:00] So welcome Shawn to the GraphQL Guide interview with Shawn Swy…

An untold story from Adam Grant's new book, Think Again, with special appearance by Ed Catmull and Rufus Griscom.

Audio Source: https://play.acast.com/s/the-next-big-idea/gid%3A%2F%2Fart19-episode-loc…

My tweet thread: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1364107473724919809?s=20

Audio source: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/nir-eyal/ (40 mins in)

Future edit: Followup episode with Cal Newport on Time B…

Audio source: https://www.svelteradio.com/episodes/svelte-language-tools-with-simon-holthausen (55 mins in)

My blogpost: Errors are Not Exceptions

swyx: [00:00:00] A while ago, I started learning Go an…

• Adopting BSL to defend against AWS
• a "truly serverless" experience for Cockroach
• A perpetually free relational database - what Gmail did to email
• 4 scales for cloud: Free tier -> sustained throughput ->…

I enjoyed learning about how Cockroach is leaderless and synchronous and that makes it a lot more resilient than alternatives.

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The tweet thread here: https://twitter.com/AdamRackis/status/1370874399390367756

This is the edited audio of our conversation; Coding Career community members can find the transcript and video on Circ…