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I host Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — technical conversations with the founders, builders, and researchers shaping AI.

Has ranked in the Top 30 for US Technology on Apple Podcasts. About the show ↗

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Satya Nadella

AI at Microsoft Build — a No Priors crossover

Jeff Dean

The AI frontier, from Deep Think to Flash

Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson

After LLMs: spatial intelligence and world models

Greg Brockman

OpenAI’s road to AGI

Priscilla Chan & Mark Zuckerberg

Frontier AI and virtual biology

Marc Andreessen

The death of the browser, and why this time is different

Mark Chen

Cooking with OpenAI’s research chief

Dylan Field

Taste is your moat

Matei Zaharia & Reynold Xin

The agent cloud: Databricks’ bet on AI

Mike Krieger

Anthropic’s roadmap for agents and developers

Steve Yegge

Vibe coding and what comes after the IDE

Joon Sung Park

Simulating humanity: 8 billion digital twins

A few kind words

“Great episode, good technical discussion on LLM pretraining”
Andrej Karpathy ↗
“A good intro to the tiny corp for people who want to come work here.”
George Hotz ↗
“You guys taught me a lot of what I think I know.”
Dharmesh Shah ↗

From the archive

Three original swyx.io feeds, 583 episodes. My earlier conversations, career chats, and audio experiments, all still here.

540 The Swyx Mixtape episodes25 swyx backup pod episodes18 Career Chats with Swyx and Randall episodes

Feed 01

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

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  1. [Creator] The Chainsmokers
    13:30
  2. Swyx on Cognition and The Meaning of Life
    48:19
  3. [Chit Chat Stocks] swyx on the AI majors
    1:03:33
  4. Intentionality, AI Eng, Devtools Angels, and DevRel - on Scaling DevTools
    1:16:17
  5. AI Eng on the Sandra Kublik pod
    1:00:36
  6. [Generation Ship] AI Engineering for nontechnical people
    36:58
  7. [Plan B] swyx on nontechnical Singapore podcast
    33:47
  8. [High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview
    49:42
  9. The Onion's A Very Fatal Murder
    9:41
  10. AI Engineering, Devin, and the Future of Software - swyx on Modern Web Podcast
    43:26
  11. Serena Colyer - Intentionality
    1:08:24
  12. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on CodeRyan podcast
    31:01
  13. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Real World Serverless
    52:38
  14. Solitude and Leadership
    35:34
  15. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Podrocket #3
    38:41
  16. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Shoptalk Show #2
    48:35
  17. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Cognitive Revolution
    1:33:29
  18. [Music Friday] Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You - Oliver Tompsett
    6:12
  19. [AI] Training Data - Shoptalk Show clip
    14:48
  20. [AI] AGI discussion - Lex Fridman interviews John Carmack
    14:12
  21. [AI] Making state management intelligent - Reactathon 2023, David Khourshid
    15:01
  22. [AI] Why Chatbots are Not the Future - Amelia Wattenberger
    21:51
  23. [AI] Hacker News Recap clip - wondercraft.ai
    13:30
  24. Freecodecamp podcast #2
    2:05:22
  25. [Weekend Drop] The Rise of the AI Engineer
    1:52:53
  26. [Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage
    51:31
  27. [Weekend Drop] swyx on smol developer
    49:57
  28. [Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer
    14:07
  29. [Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily
    1:08:21
  30. [Business] Community Games: from MUDs to MMORPGs - Gamecraft
    14:00
  31. [Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush
    22:33
  32. [Business] Casual Games: from Deer Hunter to Snake - Gamecraft
    18:52
  33. [Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft
    30:06
  34. [Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft
    29:56
  35. [Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif
    49:44
  36. [AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender
    10:34
  37. [AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao
    10:42
  38. [AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy
    23:26
  39. [AI] Behind ChatGPT: RLHF and the Proximal Policy Optimization - Practical AI
    14:07
  40. [AI] GPT3's advances, applications, and prompt engineering - Peter Welinder
    14:09
  41. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland
    37:43
  42. [Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin
    17:17
  43. [Tech] The Origin of Kubernetes - Steve Yegge
    14:02
  44. [Tech] The Origin of MongoDB - Dwight Merriman
    18:45
  45. [Tech] Phlogiston and The Origin of Functional Reactive Programming
    12:00
  46. [Tech] The Origin of Markdown - John Gruber
    12:56
  47. [Weekend Drop] Talking AI on the Techmeme Ride Home
    57:44
  48. [Story Friday] Pole Vaulting - Matthew Dicks
    8:20
  49. [Health] Identity Change for Weight Loss - Layne Norton
    18:33
  50. [Health] Ultra-long Fasts as a Medical Treatment
    13:59
  51. [Health] Ketogenic Diet & Weight Loss - Dr. Chris Palmer
    23:36
  52. [Health] Keto Diet vs Mitochondrial Uncoupling - Steven Gundry
    25:54
  53. [Weekend Drop] Talking ChatGPT on the Changelog
    1:26:27
  54. [Story Friday] What it's Like to be Adopted - Vicky Sandison
    40:02
  55. [Music Friday] ALMASHUPS' Mashups - Adele, Ed Sheeran, TLC
    7:41
  56. [Career] On Speaking - Kelsey Hightower
    10:17
  57. [Career] Being Hands-on vs Having Influence - Kelsey Hightower
    5:39
  58. [Career] From L4 to L9 at Google - Kelsey Hightower
    6:23
  59. [Career] Picking What To Work On - Kelsey Hightower
    15:41
  60. [Meta] Farewell 2022 Special - swyx
    11:35
  61. [Music Friday] The Better Call Saul Intro
    9:15
  62. [Creator] Moloch - Liv Boeree
    21:12
  63. [Creator] The Evolution of Social Networks - Mike Mignano
    23:37
  64. [Creator] Defeating Impostor Syndrome - Tim Stodz
    18:39
  65. [Creator] Optimistic Nihilism - Vincent Woo
    13:43
  66. [Music Friday] Post-Mariah Christmas Songs?
    11:07
  67. [Tech] Separation of (Local-first) Client vs Server - Jori Lallo
    10:55
  68. [Tech] Separation of Storage and Compute (Real-time) - Jeffrey Needham
    13:39
  69. [Tech] Separation of Storage and Compute (Databases) - Nikita Shamgunov
    11:09
  70. [Tech] Separation of Control vs Data Planes - Steve Yegge
    19:18
  71. [Weekend Drop] Talking DevRel on the Devmode.fm Podcast
    55:14
  72. [Music Friday] The Piano Guys
    12:20
  73. [Health] Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower
    29:09
  74. [Health] Sit Up Straight - Posture, Tech Neck, and Movement
    12:09
  75. [Health] We Don't Know What Causes Obesity - Chris Palmer
    10:08
  76. [Health] Eating Ourselves to Death - Dr. Casey Means
    23:09
  77. [Weekend Drop] How to Thought Lead, the Metacreator Ceiling, and Learning in Public on the Build in Public podcast
    41:46
  78. [Music Friday] Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
    4:11
  79. [Business] Starting Shazam - Chris Barton
    38:14
  80. [Business] Oracle and the Internet Computer Architecture - David Senra
    16:58
  81. [Business] Blockbuster's Innovation - The Great Fail
    8:33
  82. [Business] Musicians feared the Record Player - Jason Feiffer
    6:45
  83. [Weekend Drop] Remote IDEs and the End of Localhost on the InfoQ podcast
    28:14
  84. [Music Friday] Stories ft. Hunter
    11:08
  85. [Misc] Eric Schmidt on AI
    15:22
  86. [Misc] Guided Metacognition - David McRaney
    15:08
  87. [Misc] The James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake
    25:32
  88. [Misc] Inside Voice: Lake Bell and the Sexy Baby Voice Phenomenon
    14:39
  89. [Music Friday] Fly Me to the Moon - Going Spaceward
    1:10
  90. [Business] Haseeb explains FTX
    36:49
  91. [Tech] dbt criticism and How dbt Fails
    27:07
  92. [Tech] dbt origins (again!) and dbt Semantic Layer - Drew Banin
    29:58
  93. [Tech] dbt as a standard - Laurie Voss
    15:12
  94. [Weekend Drop] Developer Experience & the Coding Career Handbook with Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud
    34:12
  95. [Music Friday] Hits of 2019 - VoicePlay A Cappella
    4:30
  96. [Business] The Austin Powers Just Do It Award - Amazon's Bias for Action Culture
    6:45
  97. [Tech] Reddit's Two Tables, Amazon's Biblio Records and Title Authority
    14:39
  98. [Business] Amazon's move to subscriptions and Prime
    29:13
  99. [Weekend Drop] Trading derivatives with VBA and Finance - swyx on the Keycuts podcast
    49:00
  100. [Music Friday] Remixes, Interpolations and the Nostalgia Loop - Charlie Harding
    17:57
  101. [Tech] GitHub Copilot - Ryan Salva
    20:46
  102. [Tech] Stable Diffusion - Emad Mostaque
    19:53
  103. [Tech] AlphaFold - Demis Hassabis
    14:29
  104. [Weekend Drop] Steve Yegge Joins Sourcegraph
    30:57
  105. [Music Friday] EMOTION | Brooke Simpson, Melanie Pfirrman, Mia Mor cover
    3:54
  106. [Creator] Thoreau and Long Walks - Austin Kleon
    23:48
  107. [Creator] Output before Input - Colin & Samir
    3:33
  108. [Creator] The Twitter Metagame - Julian Shapiro
    10:41
  109. [Creator] Fierce Nerds - Dharmesh Shah and Paul Graham
    15:00
  110. [Weekend Drop] DevRel, Dev Megatrends and Dev Careers on the Cloudcast
    40:58
  111. [Tech] The Death of Hadoop
    13:28
  112. [Tech] What is Hadoop? - Jared Hillam
    11:05
  113. [Music Friday] Laufey
    13:39
  114. [Business] Ramp's Product Velocity and Long Run Opportunity - Packy McCormick
    32:52
  115. [Business] From China to Ramp - Eric Glyman
    24:03
  116. [Business] The Paribus Story - Eric Glyman
    18:09
  117. [Creators] Lillian Li's Origin
    11:14
  118. [Creators] Ben Thompson vs Packy McCormick
    52:26
  119. [Creators] Mr. Beast's Origin
    15:57
  120. [Creators] Matt Levine's Origin
    19:17
  121. [Creators] The Anthony Bourdain Oyster Story - Jay Acunzo
    16:47
  122. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Syntax.fm
    53:31
  123. [Music Friday] The Story of "Viva La Vida" - Chris Martin
    5:25
  124. [Tech] Is relational the new COBOL? - Mark Porter
    42:02
  125. [Tech] Serverless Postgres - Nikita Shamgunov
    21:49
  126. [Tech] Raft and Eventually Relational Databases - Jim Walker
    10:55
  127. [Tech] The Limits of Distributed Databases - Sam Lambert
    13:18
  128. [Weekend Drop] DevRel Real Talk - Travel and Conferences
    1:16:31
  129. [Biz] Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field
    14:40
  130. [Biz] Steve Jobs On Pixar
    6:45
  131. [Biz] Steve Jobs on Product
    1:22:39
  132. [Biz] Steve Jobs Pitching Apple
    4:29
  133. [Weekend Drop] AWS, Cloudflare, and Techbro Therapy on AWS.fm
    51:25
  134. [DX Tips] Plaid's $12 Billion UI - William Hockey
    11:13
  135. [DevRel Real Talk] Q&A and All Things Video from Shorts to Streams, ft. Hassan@Vercel, Theo@Ping, NaiRobi@Suborbital, Justin@AWS
    2:33:45
  136. [Weekend Drop] Tech Strategies & Biz Models - Coding Career Chat
    1:16:02
  137. [DevRel Real Talk] Making $2m/yr in DevRel (ft. Rebecca Marshburn and Nader Dabit)
    1:35:00
  138. [Music Friday] CLUBLIFE by Tiësto
    1:00:50
  139. [Better Call Saul] Kim Wexler - Rhea Seehorn
    30:40
  140. [Better Call Saul] Lalo Salamanca - Tony Dalton (Extended)
    32:21
  141. [Better Call Saul] Howard Hamlin - Patrick Fabian
    17:05
  142. [Better Call Saul] Chuck McGill - Vince Gilligan
    12:15
  143. [Weekend Drop] Coding Career Chat - Finance for Developers
    2:41:51
  144. [Creator] Viral Marketing for Teens - Shaan Puri's @SteveBartlettSC story
    11:58
  145. [Creators] Going Viral on Purpose - Karen X Cheng (@karenxcheng)
    19:01
  146. [Weekend Drop] Coding Career Chat - The Operating System of You
    1:16:01
  147. [Biz] Open Core Ventures - Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses)
    3:53
  148. [Biz] How do you make a successful open source *app*? - Peer Richelsen (@peer_rich)
    15:19
  149. [Biz] How Microsoft embraced Open Source - Sam Ramji (@sramji)
    15:25
  150. [Biz] The Business Models of Open Source - Adam Jacobs
    24:59
  151. [Weekend Drop] Bun and Deno: New Runtimes for the Third Age of JavaScript
    35:45
  152. [Music Friday] Unchained Melody - Mike Yung
    3:31
  153. [Tech] The Usecases of Clickhouse - Robert Hodges
    13:46
  154. [Tech] The Secret Sauce of Clickhouse - Aaron Katz
    15:56
  155. [Tech] The Origin of Clickhouse - Aaron Katz
    15:05
  156. [DevRel Real Talk] Bill Nye, the DevRel Guy (ft. AWS, Databricks and Elgato)
    2:05:05
  157. Swyx Mixtape Survey, Refactor, and Deadpool! [swyx]
    7:25
  158. [Weekend Drop] swyx on WebJoy podcast
    17:28
  159. [Music Friday] Britney Spears (fixed)
    12:36
  160. Principles for a Deep Life [Cal Newport]
    10:00
  161. Baby Steps to Get Control [Cal Newport]
    17:39
  162. Time Management: Capture, Configure, Control [Cal Newport]
    23:11
  163. What is Deep Work? [Cal Newport]
    15:53
  164. [Weekend Drop] The Third Age of JS on JSParty
    1:00:10
  165. [Music Friday] Naya Rivera
    17:23
  166. When the Truth Pops Out [Lin-Manuel Miranda]
    15:48
  167. How McKinsey Consultants Charge $750 an Hour [Business Breakdowns]
    16:20
  168. Why Australia Has No Starbucks [Brandon Richard]
    9:16
  169. Tech's Role in America [Katherine Boyle, Palmer Luckey]
    32:17
  170. [Weekend Drop] Swyx interview on FreeCodeCamp podcast
    1:42:28
  171. [Music Friday] Butterfly Lovers Concerto
    33:09
  172. The Levels Endorsement that Can't Be Bought [Betsy McLaughlin]
    16:35
  173. The Origin of Levels [Josh Clemente]
    20:11
  174. How to defeat Amazon and Disrupt the Publishing Industry [Brandon Sanderson]
    15:51
  175. Feedback Loops and the Catatonic Schizophrenic [Eric Jorgenson]
    10:47
  176. [Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on Purrfect.dev
    57:31
  177. [Music Friday] Therese Curatolo and the Scary Pockets
    9:25
  178. Spark, Databricks, and the Netflix Prize [Reynold Xin]
    16:29
  179. Welcome to the Lakehouse [Ali Ghodsi, David Meyer]
    15:51
  180. Snowflake and Jevons Paradox [Software Defined Talk]
    15:42
  181. The Origin of Snowflake [Kent Graziano]
    18:48
  182. [Music Friday] Star Wars Lofi - Samuel Kim
    1:00:00
  183. [Weekend Drop] Angel Investing Your Time on Educative Sessions
    20:10
  184. [Music Friday] Tiktok Duets but actually good lol – MiMo
    10:16
  185. [Bonus] Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave Letterman in 1995
    7:53
  186. The Parallels From Web 1 to 3 [Marc Andreesen]
    9:14
  187. Excel, Xbox and the Valentine's Day Story [Ed Fries]
    19:43
  188. The Origin of the Internet [Vint Cerf]
    11:47
  189. The Origin of VisiCalc [Dan Bricklin]
    12:00
  190. [Weekend Drop] The Many Benefits of Learning in Public on DevDiscuss
    40:45
  191. [Music Friday] 2002 - Anne-Marie & Ed Sheeran
    3:25
  192. How Panther went CLOSED Source [Jack Naglieri]
    17:45
  193. How Anaconda Saved Python [Peter Wang]
    13:07
  194. How the Mac won Developers [Max Howell]
    13:35
  195. [Weekend Drop] Part Time Creator Manifesto on Compressed.fm
    52:59
  196. [Music Friday] Adele's Tiny Desk Concert
    13:58
  197. Live Longer: CGMs for Insulin Levels [Betsy McLaughlin]
    12:34
  198. Live Longer: Brain-Derived Nootropic Factor [Wendy Suzuki]
    18:47
  199. Live Longer: 5x Mortality Reduction [Petter Attia]
    6:22
  200. Live Longer: The 3 Basic Things [John Abramson]
    4:21
  201. [Weekend Drop] Career+Luck with Adam Wiggins - Metamuse
    1:04:53
  202. [Music Friday] Harry Mack Freestyles
    32:35
  203. Solana from First Principles [Raj Gokal]
    10:27
  204. Backwards Causation with Airdrops [Haseeb Qureshi]
    11:20
  205. What is Web3? [Alex Danco] (EXPLICIT)
    10:55
  206. The Best Explanation of the Terra/Luna Collapse [Jonathan Wu]
    14:34
  207. [Weekend Drop] Crossing the Chasm, with Richard Feldman
    1:09:42
  208. [Music Friday] Musicians on Omegle - Frank Tedesco, Rob Landes, Marcus Veltri
    11:03
  209. The Story of Paw Patrol [Ronnen Harary]
    8:26
  210. The Story of Warp [Zach Lloyd]
    13:37
  211. The Story of Mailgun [Ev Kontsevoy]
    14:45
  212. [Weekend Drop] Self-Provisioning Runtimes on Serverless Chats
    1:03:41
  213. [Music Fridays] On the Sunny Side of the Street - Various
    13:56
  214. Writing from First Principles [Tim Urban]
    13:56
  215. Getting Past Writer’s Block [Brandon Sanderson]
    7:31
  216. The Endless Idea Generator [Dickie Bush]
    12:51
  217. [Weekend Drop] The radiating circles of DevX on the GitPod DevX Podcast
    34:44
  218. [Music Friday] All About That Bass - Postmodern Jukebox
    4:14
  219. Audience Building is Overrated [Rob Walling]
    7:40
  220. How Segment Grew 150x'ed Sales with this One Weird Trick [Peter Reinhardt]
    6:40
  221. The Fast Collapse from Up Close [Bootstrapped Web]
    11:22
  222. 3 Clips on Elon + Twitter [TED, Three Cartoon Avatars]
    24:56
  223. How I Wrote Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, David Fincher]
    13:51
  224. Self Publishing & Stealing [Austin Kleon]
    15:07
  225. The Difference between Stealing and Creating [Colin & Samir]
    10:54
  226. [Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on JSParty
    54:53
  227. [Music Friday] The Greatest Showman Story - Jeremy Jordan
    13:15
  228. Facebook Infra and the GraphQL Story [Lee Byron]
    29:46
  229. Expensify and the 90's Tech Stack [David Barrett]
    9:08
  230. Architect, Begin, and the Functional Web App [Brian Leroux]
    18:09
  231. Netlify and the Git Push Nirvana [Software Defined Talk]
    18:56
  232. [Weekend Drop] Finding Your Voice and Content Creation with swyx, Bekah Hawrot-Wiegel, Tessa Mero, Shruti Balasa, and Michael Jolley
    1:00:58
  233. [Music Friday] Hey It's Delilah 2020 and 2022 - Jessica Ricca
    8:02
  234. Making $8m/yr covering the MCU [New Rockstars/Jay Acunzo]
    9:01
  235. Becoming the Winter Soldier [Sebastian Stan]
    7:23
  236. How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man [James Young]
    3:35
  237. The MCU-Sony Deal [Acquired.fm]
    10:04
  238. [Music Fridays] Star Wars - John Williams
    9:28
  239. Time Series DB's: Clickhouse at Sentry (Ted Kaemming, James Cunningham)
    23:39
  240. Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix)
    11:09
  241. Time Series DB's: TimeScale [Ajay Kulkarni, Michael Freedman]
    9:35
  242. [Music Friday] Deep End / good grief (Fousheé / sky)
    6:54
  243. When Kim Kardashian Passed the Bar [Bari Weiss]
    11:44
  244. When Coinbase Banned Politics [Brian Armstrong]
    8:19
  245. When Compaq Ruled Computing [Bryan Cantrill]
    12:06
  246. When Apple clones you [Matt Ronge]
    10:54
  247. [Weekend Drop] Personal Knowledge Management for Developers in VSCode - Kevin Lin, CEO Dendron.so (YC W'21)
    34:00
  248. [Music Fridays] Eminem (EXPLICIT)
    8:57
  249. The Unit Economics of the New York Times [Alex Lieberman]
    13:07
  250. The Unit Economics of Cleantech Investing [Chris Sacca]
    13:02
  251. The Unit Economics of Peloton [Acquired.fm]
    17:55
  252. [Music Friday] Heartless / Kabhi Kabhi - Penn Masala
    4:28
  253. The Experience Machine Thought Experiment [Paul Bloom]
    9:23
  254. Temporal Series B Livestream [Temporal team]
    49:43
  255. Dumb Questions from Smart People [Cal Newport]
    7:18
  256. Questions to Estimate a Business [Shaan Puri]
    8:31
  257. [Music Friday] Kurt Hugo Schneider
    11:41
  258. Audience Building by Involuntary Reciprocity [Arvid Kahl]
    11:08
  259. Audience Building - the McClusky Curve [Sonal Chokshi]
    11:03
  260. Audience vs Substance - the role of Gravitas [Kevin Kwok]
    12:12
  261. Audience: The Copyblogger Formula [Tim Stoddart]
    21:31
  262. [Weekend Drop] Finance, Software and Career Advice for High-Schoolers
    51:43
  263. [Music Fridays] Ed Sheeran at the Ruby Sessions
    9:54
  264. The Instagram Story [Kevin Systrom]
    17:09
  265. The Racecar Growth Framework [Lenny Rachitsky]
    12:41
  266. Product Development and the Mom Test [Rob Fitzpatrick]
    10:36
  267. Product Market Fit [Andy Rachleff]
    5:40
  268. [Weekend Drop] swyx on the SourceGraph podcast
    1:15:26
  269. [Music Fridays] The Origin of the Rickroll - Endless Thread
    16:11
  270. OODA Loops and the Long Tail [Marc Andreessen]
    12:54
  271. First Principles Thinking [Elon Musk]
    12:09
  272. The Magnification of Small Differences [Seth Godin]
    13:16
  273. Groups Never Admit Failure [Naval Ravikant]
    4:25
  274. [Music Friday] Backstage Pass: All of Me — John Legend
    15:48
  275. Cybernetics and The End of Software [Peter Wang]
    9:58
  276. Hyperscaler-class Firmware+Hardware for Everyone [Bryan Cantrill]
    18:41
  277. Getting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale]
    19:01
  278. [Weekend Drop] swyx on the Software Dev Journey podcast
    54:17
  279. [Music Fridays] Nonsensical Sounds - Paul Simon
    7:43
  280. On Podcasting [Lex Fridman]
    13:38
  281. The Game Theory Hack [Joseph Nelson]
    8:48
  282. How To Create Fans [Jesse Cole]
    14:11
  283. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on the MongoDB Podcast
    34:05
  284. [Music Fridays] Somebody That I Used to Know (Fingerstyle) - Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel
    3:42
  285. Habits for Other People [James Clear]
    9:32
  286. Habit Formation [Andrew Huberman]
    11:19
  287. The Keystone Habit [Charles Duhigg]
    9:12
  288. Getting Things Done [David Allen]
    20:31
  289. Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison]
    10:42
  290. The California Gothic Monkey Story [Taylor Negron]
    16:11
  291. How to Break into Porn [Leo Vice]
    13:48
  292. [Music Friday] Voctave Christmas
    3:08
  293. Adapting Wheel of Time to Screen [Brandon Sanderson]
    13:09
  294. Why the Bourne Identity is Underrated [Pete Holmes]
    5:14
  295. Colorblind Camouflage [Roger Hanlon]
    12:40
  296. [Music Fridays] Spider-Man: No Way Home OST
    1:00:33
  297. Crypto Exchange Kings [The Economist]
    19:18
  298. Why Ethereum Lost The Plot [Su Zhu]
    38:18
  299. [Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog
    1:08:13
  300. [Music Fridays] Beethoven's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 — Hilary Hahn
    10:15
  301. React Native's Many Platform Vision [Rick Hanlon]
    8:48
  302. React Server Components and Shopify Hydrogen [Ilya Grigorik]
    8:51
  303. Why Remix [Michael Jackson]
    11:16
  304. Prophet and Zillow's $10 Billion Mistake [Hilary Parker, Roger Peng]
    16:59
  305. [Weekend Drop] Adam Argyle: Complexity Cliffs, DX, and the Disruption of Web Design
    1:10:06
  306. [Music Fridays] Prosody of the Snow Queen
    12:29
  307. [Quick Clip] Temporal: 50 Most Promising Startups - The Information
    5:51
  308. How to Grow a Top 10 Podcast + Impatience with Action, Patience with Results [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri]
    16:00
  309. Inspiration over Information [Nick Wignall]
    18:15
  310. Starting a Second Youtube [Charli Prangley]
    20:39
  311. Shipping Side Projects with Wife + 3 Kids + Fulltime Job + Church + Open Source [Alex Reardon]
    14:27
  312. [Music Friday] Freestyle - Kiraly Payne, Wayne Brady
    8:35
  313. Status as a Service [Eugene Wei]
    15:22
  314. Being a Lighthouse [Matthew Kobach]
    16:11
  315. The Second Brain [Ali Abdaal and Tiago Forte]
    17:09
  316. [Music Fridays] Marc Martel
    10:33
  317. Katalin Kariko [The Daily]
    12:08
  318. SynBio and mRNA [Jason Kelly]
    12:56
  319. The 3 Levers of Fasting [Peter Attia]
    10:25
  320. Why We Sleep [Matt Walker]
    17:13
  321. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on How To Market Yourself
    47:04
  322. [Music Fridays] Taylor Swift
    14:15
  323. Vercel [Guillermo Rauch]
    13:31
  324. Sidekiq Race Conditions [Chris Toomey]
    11:19
  325. GPT-3: Ladder to Heaven [Wojciech Zaremba]
    12:11
  326. The GitHub Codespaces Story [Cory Wilkerson]
    19:26
  327. [Weekend Drop] Lee Robinson: Next.js, Vercel, and the SDK for the Web
    1:05:16
  328. [Music Fridays] Davie504 vs TwoSetViolin
    4:22
  329. If [Rudyard Kipling]
    7:08
  330. Directives [Derek Sivers]
    10:48
  331. Leverage [Naval Ravikant]
    6:50
  332. Media Companies For Everyone [Brian Armstrong, Chamath, swyx]
    18:28
  333. [Weekend Drop] Mapping Developer Experience
    21:51
  334. [Music Fridays] $stdout the rapper
    10:31
  335. False Negatives [Steve Yegge]
    29:14
  336. Customer Obsession [Steve Yegge]
    27:29
  337. Greasy Spots on Chairs [Steve Yegge]
    14:09
  338. Xbox One and Bad Execs [Steve Yegge]
    18:23
  339. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Svelte Society
    49:11
  340. EnterpriseReady.io [Grant Miller, Replicated]
    8:20
  341. AliAbdaal.com [Ali Abdaal]
    8:45
  342. NerdFitness.com [Steve Kamb]
    20:48
  343. GetEmails.com [Adam Robinson]
    11:02
  344. [Weekend Drop] Abhi Aiyer & Ward Peeters: Gatsby 4 and the Jamstack Endgame
    51:01
  345. [Music Fridays] Musicality
    15:22
  346. Two GitLab Pitches [Sid Sijbrandij]
    14:23
  347. Rare Knowledge [Andreessen and Horowitz]
    12:23
  348. Manufacturing as Software [Steve Jobs]
    10:00
  349. [Weekend Drop] Temporal: React for the Backend
    26:31
  350. [Music Fridays] Squid Game OST
    10:26
  351. The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class [Alex Danco]
    25:23
  352. Everything Goes My Way [Bill Lawrence]
    8:51
  353. Saying Yes [Howie Mandel]
    14:31
  354. How to be miserable for the rest of your life [Joey Schweitzer]
    6:32
  355. [Weekend Drop] Miško Hevery: Qwik, PartyTown, and Lessons from Angular
    1:25:06
  356. [Music Fridays] Flight of the Conchords
    13:06
  357. Scout Mindset [Julia Galef]
    12:18
  358. F*** You, Pay Me [Mike Monteiro]
    12:35
  359. Why Big Companies Make Bad Products [Steve Jobs]
    6:56
  360. [Weekend Drop] Developer Relations (with Sai Senthilkumar of Redpoint)
    49:50
  361. [Music Fridays] Adam and the Metal Hawks
    9:08
  362. Engineering as Marketing: The Growth Hack for a $35b Marketing Empire [Dharmesh Shah]
    7:25
  363. Email Economics: The Math to a $800k Email [Sam Parr, Nathan Barry]
    12:08
  364. Angel Economics: The Math to a $100k Angel Portfolio [Jason Calacanis, Zach Coelius]
    7:08
  365. Podcast Economics: The Math to $14,000 a month [Jordan Harbinger, Cal Newport]
    11:53
  366. [Weekend Drop] Sunil Pai: React and the Meta of the Web
    1:20:04
  367. [Weekend Drop] Temporal - Not so Temporary (with Jaden Baptista)
    24:39
  368. React Native's Near Death Experience [Christopher Chedeau]
    12:47
  369. How React got Traction [Pete Hunt]
    11:38
  370. [Movie Fridays] Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    11:10
  371. Journey to Vitess [Alkin Tezuysal]
    9:42
  372. Journey to CockroachDB [Spencer Kimball]
    10:19
  373. Journey to TimeScaleDB [Mike Freedman]
    12:19
  374. Journey to MongoDB [Mark Porter]
    10:16
  375. [Weekend Drop] The True Story of Frank Abagnale
    30:40
  376. [Music Fridays] The Petersens
    7:02
  377. The Origin of Braintree [Bryan Johnson]
    9:55
  378. The Origin of Twilio [Jeff Lawson]
    16:04
  379. The Origin of Waze [Noam Bardin]
    9:37
  380. The Origin of Kubernetes and Heptio [Joe Beda]
    11:26
  381. [Weekend Drop] An Evening With Kevin Smith
    31:16
  382. [Music Fridays] Walk Off The Earth
    9:28
  383. Unity [Robert Cialdini]
    9:24
  384. Commitment and Consistency [Robert Cialdini]
    8:48
  385. Social Proof and Scarcity [Robert Cialdini]
    9:59
  386. The Power of Contrast [Robert Cialdini]
    6:38
  387. [Music Fridays] Alan Silvestri
    12:23
  388. The Third Generation of Cryptocurrency [Charles Hoskinson]
    9:14
  389. Solving The Oracle Problem [Sergey Nazarov]
    11:20
  390. Scaling Blockchains [Vitalik Buterin]
    10:09
  391. Ethereum 2.0 [Danny Ryan]
    12:10
  392. [Weekend Drop] What We Know We Don't Know — Hillel Wayne
    41:27
  393. [Music Fridays] Writing Songs - Ed Sheeran, Charlie Puth
    13:50
  394. Writing Poetry [Writing Excuses]
    8:39
  395. Writing for SEO [Jennifer Fitzgerald, PolicyGenius]
    10:04
  396. Writing Newsletters for a Living [Nathan Baschez, Dan Shipper]
    8:34
  397. Writing for Twitter and Writing for Action [Julian Shapiro, Aella, Sam Parr]
    9:27
  398. [Weekend Drop] Coding Career for College Students - Major League Hacking
    41:50
  399. [Music Fridays] Faheem Rasheed Najm aka T-Pain
    10:48
  400. 1984 vs Brave New World Pt. 2 [Intelligence Squared]
    11:39
  401. 1984 vs Brave New World Pt. 1 [Intelligence Squared]
    8:38
  402. 6 + 2 + 1 [Warren Spector, designer of Deus Ex]
    7:35
  403. The Origin of Yahoo [Jerry Yang]
    10:00
  404. [Weekend Drop] Temporal — the iPhone of System Design
    23:35
  405. [Music Fridays] Tori Kelly Unplugged
    12:11
  406. The Secret To Great Interviewing [Debbie Millman, Jay Acunzo]
    7:12
  407. The Genius of Apple's Name [Brent Schlender]
    3:54
  408. Elegant Software [Joel Spolsky]
    7:52
  409. The Challenges of Building Community [Tropical MBA]
    8:39
  410. [Weekend Drop] Why Invest in Developer Community? GitHub OCTO Speaker Series
    54:33
  411. [Music Fridays] Still Alive - Frank Sinatra Swing Cover
    4:28
  412. How to Be Kelsey Hightower [Kelsey Hightower]
    3:59
  413. How To Die Well [Kathryn Mannix]
    8:19
  414. How to Explain Things Well [Neil deGrasse Tyson]
    6:53
  415. How to Get Rid of Phobias [This American Life]
    8:21
  416. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Side Projects - Modern Web Podcast
    45:39
  417. [Music Fridays] Dear Theodosia Cover — Trey Mclaughlin, Jamal Moore, & Arthur Chapman
    4:00
  418. The Race to Remote [Marc Andreeesen]
    8:38
  419. Snorkel.ai: Unlocking Subject Matter Experts to make Software 2.0 [Alex Ratner]
    9:37
  420. Dispatch from LA [swyx]
    4:03
  421. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Marketing Yourself - DataTalks.Club
    58:40
  422. [Music Fridays] Baba Yetu — Christopher Tin
    7:57
  423. Writing Advice [David Perell, Courtland Allen]
    2:44
  424. Everything is a Remix [Kirby Ferguson]
    7:11
  425. wtf is dbt? [Drew Banin]
    11:02
  426. The REAL Lesson of Tuesdays with Morrie [Mitch Albom]
    8:34
  427. [Second Brain 5] Finale
    1:12:02
  428. [Music Fridays] In The Heights — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
    8:17
  429. Apple Pie Positions and Certainty Theater [Shreyas Doshi]
    8:25
  430. Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 [Matthew Prince]
    8:05
  431. EPOC Personal Branding [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri]
    8:48
  432. The Goddess of Everything Else [George Hotz, Scott Alexander]
    14:39
  433. [Second Brain 4] Intermediate Packets / Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
    13:02
  434. [Music Fridays] The Thong Song — Sisqo
    6:45
  435. Lineage Driven Fault Injection [Kolton Andrus]
    7:02
  436. Hinge's Last $25,000 [Justin McLeod]
    7:34
  437. Nuclear Plant Security [Malicious Life]
    5:45
  438. Time Block Planning [Cal Newport]
    7:44
  439. [Second Brain 3] Distilling Notes
    1:02:07
  440. [Music Fridays] Ludwig Göransson — Black Panther, This is America, The Mandalorian
    7:09
  441. The Power of Personal Podcasting [swyx]
    9:06
  442. Robo-caller Payback Time [Josh Browder]
    2:55
  443. [Second Brain 2] Organizing with PARA
    55:32
  444. [Music Fridays] Talkbox — Byron Chambers, Lorenz Rhode, Scary Pockets
    4:53
  445. The three kinds of platforms [Amjad Masad, quoting Marc Andreesen]
    5:53
  446. Aggregation Theory [Alex Lieberman]
    4:54
  447. Gonzo Journalism [Antonio García Martínez]
    6:14
  448. Why Creator Clones Fail [MKBHD]
    13:15
  449. [Second Brain 1] The Capture Habit
    56:09
  450. "Squalid" [Jorge Just]
    6:37
  451. Bayesian Thinking [Julia Galef]
    12:19
  452. We've Hit Peak Social Media [Cal Newport]
    5:22
  453. Balaji Srinivasan: Overrated or Underrated? [Brian Armstrong]
    5:54
  454. The Worst Job You Ever Had [Andrew Wilkinson]
    3:16
  455. [Angel Investing] E2E Encryption Keyservers with Ashoat Tevosyan
    45:06
  456. Pokémon 8-Bit Jazz Breakdown [Charles Cornell]
    5:28
  457. Snow White in a Fur Coat [The Moth]
    5:27
  458. Luck vs the Definite Future [Peter Thiel]
    5:40
  459. How Buffett Missed Intel [Acquired.fm]
    5:21
  460. [Weekend Drop] Grifters and Content Creation Traps
    48:09
  461. Why Angel Investing is Dumb [Shaan Puri, Codie Sanchez]
    4:45
  462. Young and Successful; Old but Broke [Tammy Lally]
    4:51
  463. How FDR stopped the Great Depression [Kathleen Day]
    5:26
  464. [Weekend Drop] swyx on Dev Community & Deep Work vs Learning in Public
    38:24
  465. 35 Principles for 35 Years
    10:47
  466. [Weekend Drop] Going from Junior to Senior Q&A
    45:35
  467. Lynn Jurich of SunRun, Pt 2: Growth
    5:38
  468. Lynn Jurich of SunRun Pt. 1: Origin
    5:50
  469. Jesse Pujji's Execution Loop
    6:23
  470. Dunbar's Number: Pt 2 - Age
    4:32
  471. Dunbar's Number: Pt 1 - Hierarchy
    5:11
  472. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Svelte — CodingCat Podcast
    41:35
  473. Webflow's Near Death Experience
    5:39
  474. Past, Present, Future of No-Code
    3:46
  475. Set Explicit Help Timeouts
    4:13
  476. [Weekend Drop] GraphQL, Learning in Public, and AWS with Loren Sands-Ramshaw
    35:01
  477. Steve Jobs vs. the Customer
    5:34
  478. Your Calendar as Todo List
    5:27
  479. Don't Throw in JavaScript
    4:34
  480. Spencer Kimball Pt. 2: Competing with Big Clouds
    9:19
  481. Spencer Kimball Pt 1: Consistent Synchronous Replication
    5:20
  482. [Career Jam] Big Tech Interviews with Adam Rackis
    1:00:13
  483. Nicole Scherzinger as Christine
    4:48
  484. Disrupting Yourself
    15:07
  485. Tobi Lütke on Software and Blacksmithing
    4:48
  486. Metallica vs Napster, Pt. 2 - 2011
    5:43
  487. Metallica vs Napster, Pt. 1 - 2000
    6:28
  488. [Weekend Drop] a16z on Infra #1
    46:37
  489. [Weekend Drop] Marketing to Developers, Learnin in Public, and Communities as Marketplaces with Patrick Woods on the Developer Love Podcast
    44:00
  490. How to Edit for Virality
    4:46
  491. The Egg
    6:29
  492. Twitter's Revival, Pt. 2
    5:39
  493. The Mona Lisa of Digital Art: CryptoPunk #7804
    5:38
  494. Twitter's Revival, Pt. 1
    5:29
  495. [Weekend Drop] Clubhouse, Ghostwriting, and Parodying on the LogRocket Podcast
    36:03
  496. Preemptive Pluralization is Probably Not Evil
    5:52
  497. Tyra Banks on Authenticity
    5:37
  498. Bryan Cantrill's Larry Ellison Rant
    2:54
  499. TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU Content
    3:28
  500. A World Without Email
    4:07
  501. [Weekend Drop] Career Jam Session with Jeff Escalante of Hashicorp
    1:22:41
  502. Normalcy — Never Again
    5:10
  503. JavaScript: Lovechild of Java and Scheme
    5:02
  504. Pick Up What They Put Down Vol. 1
    5:33
  505. The Brink of Failure
    5:17
  506. [Weekend Drop] Q&A on the Scrimba Livestream
    57:52
  507. Gaga Unplugged
    4:11
  508. The Picking Experts Problem
    5:15
  509. ARK ETFs and General Purpose Technologies
    5:17
  510. How Daft Punk Samples Music
    1:34
  511. Audio's Dunbar Number
    4:13
  512. Jay Acunzo on Starting and Ending a Podcast
    5:26
  513. Stop Worrying About Cold Starts
    5:38
  514. The Princess Bride: Home Movie
    4:56
  515. Estée Lauder
    5:18
  516. Beyoncé Unplugged
    4:56
  517. [Weekend Drop] Digital Gardening w/ Maggie Appleton
    1:07:11
  518. The Race of Our Lives
    4:39
  519. The Elicitation Technique
    5:08
  520. [Music Friday] P!nk
    4:31
  521. Closed Core, Open Shell
    4:48
  522. Elon on Bitcoin
    3:47
  523. [Weekend Drop] Building SwipeFiles.com with Corey Haines
    58:32
  524. Early 2010's The Onion
    4:56
  525. Empathy, The Hard Way
    3:42
  526. Nullius in Verba
    4:38
  527. Hybrid Calisthenics
    2:30
  528. Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
    5:18
  529. Take Back Your Life From YouTube
    4:48
  530. Jack Conte
    4:40
  531. Digital Scarcity (Explicit)
    5:09
  532. The Yes Ladder
    4:13
  533. Quality vs Consistency
    5:16
  534. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on FSJam Podcast
    38:31
  535. World War Z Review (Explicit!)
    5:04
  536. The Rosenhan Experiment
    4:58
  537. The Meta-Creator Ceiling
    4:53
  538. Wasting $40k vs starting Rent The Runway
    4:49
  539. How To Market Your Blogposts
    5:06
  540. Sea Shanties and C-130s
    3:27

Feed 02

swyx backup pod

swyx backup pod

RSS feed 25 episodes

Browse episode archive 25 tracks
  1. yitay techinasia interview
    56:23
  2. RWKV test epsiode
    1:12:32
  3. Twitter space on the Agent Protocol
    1:54:44
  4. code interpreter spaces
    2:24:37
  5. The Rise of the AI Engineer (Twitter Space)
    2:06:31
  6. Pmarca and Anton - why AI will save the wolrd
    1:14:46
  7. Jensen Huang - NTU commencement speech
    23:13
  8. ermergency pod - google memo
    49:35
  9. latent space - replit
    1:09:31
  10. Latent Space - Sharif
    50:38
  11. Latent Space - databricks
    1:15:11
  12. test pod for latent space pod
    50:52
  13. Sourcegraph-Welcome Steve Yegge to Sourcegraph!
    23:58
  14. Live Audio-Coding + AI with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
    52:23
  15. duckcon talk
    35:40
  16. Emad mostaque on logan bartlett show
    57:34
  17. TWIML pod with Emad Mostaque
    43:14
  18. pls ignore
    10:27
  19. Kelsey Hightower session
    3:31:18
  20. Shreyas Doshi Super Follows dec
    1:10:17
  21. I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it - The need for holistic systems - Bryan Cantrill
    46:49
  22. test matt levine patio11
    1:00:31
  23. test dbt labs
    58:18
  24. test timescale
    1:03:00
  25. Beta Episode: What's a Workflow?
    7:52

Feed 03

Career Chats with Swyx and Randall

Short, focused chats about developer careers. 1 topic each, selected from the best of our writing and thinking.

RSS feed 18 episodes

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  1. Season 0 Retro: Thank You Listeners!
    6:22
  2. Get a Job As a Dev Advocate
    16:40
  3. Goals vs Processes: Why Your Goals Are Actually Wishes
    9:23
  4. When To Quit Your Job
    13:08
  5. The ABC's of a CS Degree (ft. Philip Kiely)
    24:12
  6. Getting into Cloud (ft. Forrest Brazeal)
    32:01
  7. Staff Engineering (ft. Will Larson, CTO of Calm)
    41:16
  8. Staying Consistent to Achieve Your Goals
    9:30
  9. Big L Notation
    10:53
  10. Mindset and Grit (ft. Will Johnson)
    10:00
  11. Cold Emailing to Get a New Job
    7:54
  12. Picking a Coding Bootcamp
    10:02
  13. Learning Gears
    10:18
  14. Twitter for Developers
    10:28
  15. Learn in Public
    12:26
  16. Breaking Down Problems
    7:28
  17. Create Luck
    10:19
  18. Be Uncomfortable
    8:32