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My current work is the Latent Space podcast. The three swyx.io feeds below preserve my earlier audio archive with 583 first-party episodes.

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

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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