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
[Tech] AlphaFold - Demis Hassabis
From Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/demis-hassabis/
Transcripts from Karpathy's https://karpathy.ai/lexicap/0299-large.html
link |
00:37:13.160
So let's go to the basic building blocks of biology
[Weekend Drop] Steve Yegge Joins Sourcegraph
Listen: https://twitter.com/sourcegraph/status/1577687896814911488
Steve's post about Sourcegraph:
- https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/introducing-steve-yegge
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viNB7v3bgx8
[Music Friday] EMOTION | Brooke Simpson, Melanie Pfirrman, Mia Mor cover
Watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5vkE7mmWJ0
[Creator] Thoreau and Long Walks - Austin Kleon
Listen to 3 Books: https://www.3books.co/chapters/111 (about 1hr 20mins in)
5 hour walks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp_MKrnSdaM&list=PLbsKh5N-eR063R9VopWCM_SZ5ccxhNGLm&index=26
[Creator] Output before Input - Colin & Samir
Listen to Colin & Samir: https://overcast.fm/+6Z2pphyiU/25:00
[Creator] The Twitter Metagame - Julian Shapiro
Listen to Lenny's pod: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lennys-podcast/growth-tactics-retention-M7Vx8YjC0Ei/
[Creator] Fierce Nerds - Dharmesh Shah and Paul Graham
Listen to MFM: https://overcast.fm/+rTsWDbyUc/10:04
PG's essay http://paulgraham.com/fn.html
HN response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194284
[Weekend Drop] DevRel, Dev Megatrends and Dev Careers on the Cloudcast
Listen to Cloudcast: https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/01/2022-look-ahead-developer-careers.html
SHOW NOTES:
- Shawn’s homepage
- Temporal.io (homepage) - open source microservice orchestration
- Learning in P…
[Tech] The Death of Hadoop
2017 Why Hadoop is Dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QngDInV2ino
2020 Hadoop Death Roundtable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-on-premise-it/hadoop-is-dead-the-on-PuYEm57yaqZ/
[Tech] What is Hadoop? - Jared Hillam
Watch the presentaiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s-vSeWej1U
Watch the followup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfF750YVDxM
[Music Friday] Laufey
- I wish you love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=issStxOM5kw
- Valentine and Laufey Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLhHDI9VRQ
- Moon River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdq0VchYyE
- Sunny Side o…
[Business] Ramp's Product Velocity and Long Run Opportunity - Packy McCormick
Read Not Boring: https://www.notboring.co/p/ramping-up
[Business] From China to Ramp - Eric Glyman
From Cartoon Avatars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgUrYn9wKqE
[Business] The Paribus Story - Eric Glyman
Listen to 20VC: https://overcast.fm/+OozP0Z6Wg
[Creators] Lillian Li's Origin
Listen to Analyse Asia:
The post that I enjoyed from Lillian: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1395562957434544128?s=20&t=tcHfqZ4WQ1Toq7I6n6xvag
Those posts are paid, so just browse the free ones: http…
[Creators] Ben Thompson vs Packy McCormick
Listen to Cartoon Avatars: https://three-cartoon-avatars.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-15-pt-2-packy-mccormick-and-ben-thompson-talk-about-their-own-start-finding-your-audience-and-the-creative-process-…
[Creators] Mr. Beast's Origin
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMIHsy8gng
[Creators] Matt Levine's Origin
Listen to Cartoon Avators: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cartoon-avatars/ep-19-matt-levine-meme-PU_5OpvEtw2/ (49 mins)
[Creators] The Anthony Bourdain Oyster Story - Jay Acunzo
Listen to Unthinkable: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unthinkable-with/special-episode-jay-on-2-XzR_uNrP-yc/ (19mins in)
![[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Syntax.fm](https://img.transistor.fm/-vB96ffrUoEfBdgajjkRP0FoN_SroW5Y6HKC0npJmuw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:3000/h:3000/q:60/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lcGlz/b2RlLzEwMjA4MTcv/MTY2Mjk2MDU2OS1h/cnR3b3JrLmpwZw.jpg)
[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Syntax.fm
Listen to Syntax.fm: https://syntax.fm/show/478/supper-club-developer-experience-with-shawn-wang