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] Remote IDEs and the End of Localhost on the InfoQ podcast
Listen to the InfoQ podcast: https://soundcloud.com/infoq-channel/interview-shawn-swyx-wang
Blogpost: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
In this episode, Shawn Wang (swyx), head of developer experien…
[Music Friday] Stories ft. Hunter
- Make you feel my love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxsd7rhhFYw
- Ain't No Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB5ITxz9CK0
- Easy on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb4f5IPvwXU
[Misc] Eric Schmidt on AI
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkeRxeh34I
Transcript
eric schmidt is a business leader and
software engineer that served as
google's chief executive officer from
2001 to 2011.
under his leadership…
[Misc] Guided Metacognition - David McRaney
Listen to Cautionary Tales: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cautionary-tales/cautionary-conversation-the-FW0bxClD_ij/
[Misc] The James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake
Listen to Ted Talks Daily: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/ted-talks-daily/the-marvels-and-mysteries-JkbNAa9DMYl/ (or video: https://www.ted.com/talks/heidi_hammel_and_nadia_drake_the_marvels_an…
[Misc] Inside Voice: Lake Bell and the Sexy Baby Voice Phenomenon
Listen to Revisionist History and Inside Voice: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/revisionist-history/from-inside-voice-lake-bell-8XVyoz7eT5A/
[Music Friday] Fly Me to the Moon - Going Spaceward
LIsten on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1puRnV6gwE
[Business] Haseeb explains FTX
Listen to the Chopping Block:
- Nov 9 https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unchained/the-chopping-block-ftx-the-3ki-p42chnb/
- Nov 16 https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unchained/the-chopping-block-why-r…
[Tech] dbt criticism and How dbt Fails
- Listen to Data Eng Podcast: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/data-ecosystem-year-in-review-2021-episode-251/
- How dbt Fails: https://benn.substack.com/p/how-dbt-fails
[Tech] dbt origins (again!) and dbt Semantic Layer - Drew Banin
Watch/listen to Analytics Everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPvZ_YRSgs
Gitlab data guide: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/data-team/platform/dbt-guide/ and https://abo…
[Tech] dbt as a standard - Laurie Voss
Listen to The Right Track: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-right-track/ep-6-domain-expertise-with-laurie-voss-of-netlify/
Transcript
Stefania: I wanted to maybe shift a little bit in term…
[Weekend Drop] Developer Experience & the Coding Career Handbook with Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud
Listen to Screaming in the Cloud: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/learning-in-public-with-swyx/
Episode Summary
Today Corey sits down with swyx, head of developer experienc…
[Music Friday] Hits of 2019 - VoicePlay A Cappella
Listen to Voiceplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGsqVTy9qM
[Business] The Austin Powers Just Do It Award - Amazon's Bias for Action Culture
Listen to https://share.transistor.fm/s/cf016ca5
the austin powers store page screenshot mentioned: https://inventlikeanowner.com/podcast/alex-edelman-building-the-amazon-website-in-the-late-90s/
[Tech] Reddit's Two Tables, Amazon's Biblio Records and Title Authority
Listen to Invent like an Owner: https://share.transistor.fm/s/97560e78#t=29m26s
Reddit has Two Tables (2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32407873
[Business] Amazon's move to subscriptions and Prime
Neil Roseman is the former VP for Software Engineering at Amazon. He is currently the Technologist in Residence at Summit Partners - a funding company committed to finding and partnering with excepti…
[Weekend Drop] Trading derivatives with VBA and Finance - swyx on the Keycuts podcast
Listen to Keycuts: https://www.thekeycuts.com/dear-analyst-50-walking-through-a-vba-script-for-trading-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-derivatives-with-shawn-wang/
This little podcast/newsletter started …
[Music Friday] Remixes, Interpolations and the Nostalgia Loop - Charlie Harding
- I'm Good (Blue) clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RLzVUuXe4
- Charlie Harding clip https://www.listennotes.com/search/?q=Will+the+future+of+music+sound+a+lot+like+the+past%3F
[Tech] GitHub Copilot - Ryan Salva
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:/…
[Tech] Stable Diffusion - Emad Mostaque
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/3060cbd8-2c17-4…