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The Swyx Mixtape — 539 episodes

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1

Swyx on Cognition and The Meaning of Life

2

[Chit Chat Stocks] swyx on the AI majors

3

Intentionality, AI Eng, Devtools Angels, and DevRel - on Scaling DevTools

4

AI Eng on the Sandra Kublik pod

5

[Generation Ship] AI Engineering for nontechnical people

6

[Plan B] swyx on nontechnical Singapore podcast

7

[High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview

8

The Onion's A Very Fatal Murder

9

AI Engineering, Devin, and the Future of Software - swyx on Modern Web Podcast

10

Serena Colyer - Intentionality

11

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on CodeRyan podcast

12

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Real World Serverless

13

Solitude and Leadership

14

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Podrocket #3

15

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Shoptalk Show #2

16

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

17

[Music Friday] Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You - Oliver Tompsett

18

[AI] Training Data - Shoptalk Show clip

19

[AI] AGI discussion - Lex Fridman interviews John Carmack

20

[AI] Making state management intelligent - Reactathon 2023, David Khourshid

21

[AI] Why Chatbots are Not the Future - Amelia Wattenberger

22

[AI] Hacker News Recap clip - wondercraft.ai

23

Freecodecamp podcast #2

24

[Weekend Drop] The Rise of the AI Engineer

25

[Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage

26

[Weekend Drop] swyx on smol developer

27

[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer

28

[Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily

29

[Business] Community Games: from MUDs to MMORPGs - Gamecraft

30

[Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush

31

[Business] Casual Games: from Deer Hunter to Snake - Gamecraft

32

[Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft

33

[Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft

34

[Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif

35

[AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender

36

[AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao

37

[AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy

38

[AI] Behind ChatGPT: RLHF and the Proximal Policy Optimization - Practical AI

39

[AI] GPT3's advances, applications, and prompt engineering - Peter Welinder

40

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland

41

[Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin

42

[Tech] The Origin of Kubernetes - Steve Yegge

43

[Tech] The Origin of MongoDB - Dwight Merriman

44

[Tech] Phlogiston and The Origin of Functional Reactive Programming

45

[Tech] The Origin of Markdown - John Gruber

46

[Weekend Drop] Talking AI on the Techmeme Ride Home

47

[Story Friday] Pole Vaulting - Matthew Dicks

48

[Health] Identity Change for Weight Loss - Layne Norton

49

[Health] Ultra-long Fasts as a Medical Treatment

50

[Health] Ketogenic Diet & Weight Loss - Dr. Chris Palmer

51

[Health] Keto Diet vs Mitochondrial Uncoupling - Steven Gundry

52

[Weekend Drop] Talking ChatGPT on the Changelog

53

[Story Friday] What it's Like to be Adopted - Vicky Sandison

54

[Music Friday] ALMASHUPS' Mashups - Adele, Ed Sheeran, TLC

55

[Career] On Speaking - Kelsey Hightower

56

[Career] Being Hands-on vs Having Influence - Kelsey Hightower

57

[Career] From L4 to L9 at Google - Kelsey Hightower

58

[Career] Picking What To Work On - Kelsey Hightower

59

[Meta] Farewell 2022 Special - swyx

60

[Music Friday] The Better Call Saul Intro

61

[Creator] Moloch - Liv Boeree

62

[Creator] The Evolution of Social Networks - Mike Mignano

63

[Creator] Defeating Impostor Syndrome - Tim Stodz

64

[Creator] Optimistic Nihilism - Vincent Woo

65

[Music Friday] Post-Mariah Christmas Songs?

66

[Tech] Separation of (Local-first) Client vs Server - Jori Lallo

67

[Tech] Separation of Storage and Compute (Real-time) - Jeffrey Needham

68

[Tech] Separation of Storage and Compute (Databases) - Nikita Shamgunov

69

[Tech] Separation of Control vs Data Planes - Steve Yegge

70

[Weekend Drop] Talking DevRel on the Devmode.fm Podcast

71

[Music Friday] The Piano Guys

72

[Health] Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower

73

[Health] Sit Up Straight - Posture, Tech Neck, and Movement

74

[Health] We Don't Know What Causes Obesity - Chris Palmer

75

[Health] Eating Ourselves to Death - Dr. Casey Means

76

[Weekend Drop] How to Thought Lead, the Metacreator Ceiling, and Learning in Public on the Build in Public podcast

77

[Music Friday] Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

78

[Business] Starting Shazam - Chris Barton

79

[Business] Oracle and the Internet Computer Architecture - David Senra

80

[Business] Blockbuster's Innovation - The Great Fail

81

[Business] Musicians feared the Record Player - Jason Feiffer

82

[Weekend Drop] Remote IDEs and the End of Localhost on the InfoQ podcast

83

[Music Friday] Stories ft. Hunter

84

[Misc] Eric Schmidt on AI

85

[Misc] Guided Metacognition - David McRaney

86

[Misc] The James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake

87

[Misc] Inside Voice: Lake Bell and the Sexy Baby Voice Phenomenon

88

[Music Friday] Fly Me to the Moon - Going Spaceward

89

[Business] Haseeb explains FTX

90

[Tech] dbt criticism and How dbt Fails

91

[Tech] dbt origins (again!) and dbt Semantic Layer - Drew Banin

92

[Tech] dbt as a standard - Laurie Voss

93

[Weekend Drop] Developer Experience & the Coding Career Handbook with Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud

94

[Music Friday] Hits of 2019 - VoicePlay A Cappella

95

[Business] The Austin Powers Just Do It Award - Amazon's Bias for Action Culture

96

[Tech] Reddit's Two Tables, Amazon's Biblio Records and Title Authority

97

[Business] Amazon's move to subscriptions and Prime

98

[Weekend Drop] Trading derivatives with VBA and Finance - swyx on the Keycuts podcast

99

[Music Friday] Remixes, Interpolations and the Nostalgia Loop - Charlie Harding

100

[Tech] GitHub Copilot - Ryan Salva

101

[Tech] Stable Diffusion - Emad Mostaque

102

[Tech] AlphaFold - Demis Hassabis

103

[Weekend Drop] Steve Yegge Joins Sourcegraph

104

[Music Friday] EMOTION | Brooke Simpson, Melanie Pfirrman, Mia Mor cover

105

[Creator] Thoreau and Long Walks - Austin Kleon

106

[Creator] Output before Input - Colin & Samir

107

[Creator] The Twitter Metagame - Julian Shapiro

108

[Creator] Fierce Nerds - Dharmesh Shah and Paul Graham

109

[Weekend Drop] DevRel, Dev Megatrends and Dev Careers on the Cloudcast

110

[Tech] The Death of Hadoop

111

[Tech] What is Hadoop? - Jared Hillam

112

[Music Friday] Laufey

113

[Business] Ramp's Product Velocity and Long Run Opportunity - Packy McCormick

114

[Business] From China to Ramp - Eric Glyman

115

[Business] The Paribus Story - Eric Glyman

116

[Creators] Lillian Li's Origin

117

[Creators] Ben Thompson vs Packy McCormick

118

[Creators] Mr. Beast's Origin

119

[Creators] Matt Levine's Origin

120

[Creators] The Anthony Bourdain Oyster Story - Jay Acunzo

121

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Syntax.fm

122

[Music Friday] The Story of "Viva La Vida" - Chris Martin

123

[Tech] Is relational the new COBOL? - Mark Porter

124

[Tech] Serverless Postgres - Nikita Shamgunov

125

[Tech] Raft and Eventually Relational Databases - Jim Walker

126

[Tech] The Limits of Distributed Databases - Sam Lambert

127

[Weekend Drop] DevRel Real Talk - Travel and Conferences

128

[Biz] Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field

129

[Biz] Steve Jobs On Pixar

130

[Biz] Steve Jobs on Product

131

[Biz] Steve Jobs Pitching Apple

132

[Weekend Drop] AWS, Cloudflare, and Techbro Therapy on AWS.fm

133

[DX Tips] Plaid's $12 Billion UI - William Hockey

134

[DevRel Real Talk] Q&A and All Things Video from Shorts to Streams, ft. Hassan@Vercel, Theo@Ping, NaiRobi@Suborbital, Justin@AWS

135

[Weekend Drop] Tech Strategies & Biz Models - Coding Career Chat

136

[DevRel Real Talk] Making $2m/yr in DevRel (ft. Rebecca Marshburn and Nader Dabit)

137

[Music Friday] CLUBLIFE by Tiësto

138

[Better Call Saul] Kim Wexler - Rhea Seehorn

139

[Better Call Saul] Lalo Salamanca - Tony Dalton (Extended)

140

[Better Call Saul] Howard Hamlin - Patrick Fabian

141

[Better Call Saul] Chuck McGill - Vince Gilligan

142

[Weekend Drop] Coding Career Chat - Finance for Developers

143

[Creator] Viral Marketing for Teens - Shaan Puri's @SteveBartlettSC story

144

[Creators] Going Viral on Purpose - Karen X Cheng (@karenxcheng)

145

[Weekend Drop] Coding Career Chat - The Operating System of You

146

[Biz] Open Core Ventures - Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses)

147

[Biz] How do you make a successful open source *app*? - Peer Richelsen (@peer_rich)

148

[Biz] How Microsoft embraced Open Source - Sam Ramji (@sramji)

149

[Biz] The Business Models of Open Source - Adam Jacobs

150

[Weekend Drop] Bun and Deno: New Runtimes for the Third Age of JavaScript

151

[Music Friday] Unchained Melody - Mike Yung

152

[Tech] The Usecases of Clickhouse - Robert Hodges

153

[Tech] The Secret Sauce of Clickhouse - Aaron Katz

154

[Tech] The Origin of Clickhouse - Aaron Katz

155

[DevRel Real Talk] Bill Nye, the DevRel Guy (ft. AWS, Databricks and Elgato)

156

Swyx Mixtape Survey, Refactor, and Deadpool! [swyx]

157

[Weekend Drop] swyx on WebJoy podcast

158

[Music Friday] Britney Spears (fixed)

159

Principles for a Deep Life [Cal Newport]

160

Baby Steps to Get Control [Cal Newport]

161

Time Management: Capture, Configure, Control [Cal Newport]

162

What is Deep Work? [Cal Newport]

163

[Weekend Drop] The Third Age of JS on JSParty

164

[Music Friday] Naya Rivera

165

When the Truth Pops Out [Lin-Manuel Miranda]

166

How McKinsey Consultants Charge $750 an Hour [Business Breakdowns]

167

Why Australia Has No Starbucks [Brandon Richard]

168

Tech's Role in America [Katherine Boyle, Palmer Luckey]

169

[Weekend Drop] Swyx interview on FreeCodeCamp podcast

170

[Music Friday] Butterfly Lovers Concerto

171

The Levels Endorsement that Can't Be Bought [Betsy McLaughlin]

172

The Origin of Levels [Josh Clemente]

173

How to defeat Amazon and Disrupt the Publishing Industry [Brandon Sanderson]

174

Feedback Loops and the Catatonic Schizophrenic [Eric Jorgenson]

175

[Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on Purrfect.dev

176

[Music Friday] Therese Curatolo and the Scary Pockets

177

Spark, Databricks, and the Netflix Prize [Reynold Xin]

178

Welcome to the Lakehouse [Ali Ghodsi, David Meyer]

179

Snowflake and Jevons Paradox [Software Defined Talk]

180

The Origin of Snowflake [Kent Graziano]

181

[Music Friday] Star Wars Lofi - Samuel Kim

182

[Weekend Drop] Angel Investing Your Time on Educative Sessions

183

[Music Friday] Tiktok Duets but actually good lol – MiMo

184

[Bonus] Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave Letterman in 1995

185

The Parallels From Web 1 to 3 [Marc Andreesen]

186

Excel, Xbox and the Valentine's Day Story [Ed Fries]

187

The Origin of the Internet [Vint Cerf]

188

The Origin of VisiCalc [Dan Bricklin]

189

[Weekend Drop] The Many Benefits of Learning in Public on DevDiscuss

190

[Music Friday] 2002 - Anne-Marie & Ed Sheeran

191

How Panther went CLOSED Source [Jack Naglieri]

192

How Anaconda Saved Python [Peter Wang]

193

How the Mac won Developers [Max Howell]

194

[Weekend Drop] Part Time Creator Manifesto on Compressed.fm

195

[Music Friday] Adele's Tiny Desk Concert

196

Live Longer: CGMs for Insulin Levels [Betsy McLaughlin]

197

Live Longer: Brain-Derived Nootropic Factor [Wendy Suzuki]

198

Live Longer: 5x Mortality Reduction [Petter Attia]

199

Live Longer: The 3 Basic Things [John Abramson]

200

[Weekend Drop] Career+Luck with Adam Wiggins - Metamuse

201

[Music Friday] Harry Mack Freestyles

202

Solana from First Principles [Raj Gokal]

203

Backwards Causation with Airdrops [Haseeb Qureshi]

204

What is Web3? [Alex Danco] (EXPLICIT)

205

The Best Explanation of the Terra/Luna Collapse [Jonathan Wu]

206

[Weekend Drop] Crossing the Chasm, with Richard Feldman

207

[Music Friday] Musicians on Omegle - Frank Tedesco, Rob Landes, Marcus Veltri

208

The Story of Paw Patrol [Ronnen Harary]

209

The Story of Warp [Zach Lloyd]

210

The Story of Mailgun [Ev Kontsevoy]

211

[Weekend Drop] Self-Provisioning Runtimes on Serverless Chats

212

[Music Fridays] On the Sunny Side of the Street - Various

213

Writing from First Principles [Tim Urban]

214

Getting Past Writer’s Block [Brandon Sanderson]

215

The Endless Idea Generator [Dickie Bush]

216

[Weekend Drop] The radiating circles of DevX on the GitPod DevX Podcast

217

[Music Friday] All About That Bass - Postmodern Jukebox

218

Audience Building is Overrated [Rob Walling]

219

How Segment Grew 150x'ed Sales with this One Weird Trick [Peter Reinhardt]

220

The Fast Collapse from Up Close [Bootstrapped Web]

221

3 Clips on Elon + Twitter [TED, Three Cartoon Avatars]

222

How I Wrote Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, David Fincher]

223

Self Publishing & Stealing [Austin Kleon]

224

The Difference between Stealing and Creating [Colin & Samir]

225

[Weekend Drop] Talking Temporal on JSParty

226

[Music Friday] The Greatest Showman Story - Jeremy Jordan

227

Facebook Infra and the GraphQL Story [Lee Byron]

228

Expensify and the 90's Tech Stack [David Barrett]

229

Architect, Begin, and the Functional Web App [Brian Leroux]

230

Netlify and the Git Push Nirvana [Software Defined Talk]

231

[Weekend Drop] Finding Your Voice and Content Creation with swyx, Bekah Hawrot-Wiegel, Tessa Mero, Shruti Balasa, and Michael Jolley

232

[Music Friday] Hey It's Delilah 2020 and 2022 - Jessica Ricca

233

Making $8m/yr covering the MCU [New Rockstars/Jay Acunzo]

234

Becoming the Winter Soldier [Sebastian Stan]

235

How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man [James Young]

236

The MCU-Sony Deal [Acquired.fm]

237

[Music Fridays] Star Wars - John Williams

238

Time Series DB's: Clickhouse at Sentry (Ted Kaemming, James Cunningham)

239

Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix)

240

Time Series DB's: TimeScale [Ajay Kulkarni, Michael Freedman]

241

[Music Friday] Deep End / good grief (Fousheé / sky)

242

When Kim Kardashian Passed the Bar [Bari Weiss]

243

When Coinbase Banned Politics [Brian Armstrong]

244

When Compaq Ruled Computing [Bryan Cantrill]

245

When Apple clones you [Matt Ronge]

246

[Weekend Drop] Personal Knowledge Management for Developers in VSCode - Kevin Lin, CEO Dendron.so (YC W'21)

247

[Music Fridays] Eminem (EXPLICIT)

248

The Unit Economics of the New York Times [Alex Lieberman]

249

The Unit Economics of Cleantech Investing [Chris Sacca]

250

The Unit Economics of Peloton [Acquired.fm]

251

[Music Friday] Heartless / Kabhi Kabhi - Penn Masala

252

The Experience Machine Thought Experiment [Paul Bloom]

253

Temporal Series B Livestream [Temporal team]

254

Dumb Questions from Smart People [Cal Newport]

255

Questions to Estimate a Business [Shaan Puri]

256

[Music Friday] Kurt Hugo Schneider

257

Audience Building by Involuntary Reciprocity [Arvid Kahl]

258

Audience Building - the McClusky Curve [Sonal Chokshi]

259

Audience vs Substance - the role of Gravitas [Kevin Kwok]

260

Audience: The Copyblogger Formula [Tim Stoddart]

261

[Weekend Drop] Finance, Software and Career Advice for High-Schoolers

262

[Music Fridays] Ed Sheeran at the Ruby Sessions

263

The Instagram Story [Kevin Systrom]

264

The Racecar Growth Framework [Lenny Rachitsky]

265

Product Development and the Mom Test [Rob Fitzpatrick]

266

Product Market Fit [Andy Rachleff]

267

[Weekend Drop] swyx on the SourceGraph podcast

268

[Music Fridays] The Origin of the Rickroll - Endless Thread

269

OODA Loops and the Long Tail [Marc Andreessen]

270

First Principles Thinking [Elon Musk]

271

The Magnification of Small Differences [Seth Godin]

272

Groups Never Admit Failure [Naval Ravikant]

273

[Music Friday] Backstage Pass: All of Me — John Legend

274

Cybernetics and The End of Software [Peter Wang]

275

Hyperscaler-class Firmware+Hardware for Everyone [Bryan Cantrill]

276

Getting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale]

277

[Weekend Drop] swyx on the Software Dev Journey podcast

278

[Music Fridays] Nonsensical Sounds - Paul Simon

279

On Podcasting [Lex Fridman]

280

The Game Theory Hack [Joseph Nelson]

281

How To Create Fans [Jesse Cole]

282

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on the MongoDB Podcast

283

[Music Fridays] Somebody That I Used to Know (Fingerstyle) - Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel

284

Habits for Other People [James Clear]

285

Habit Formation [Andrew Huberman]

286

The Keystone Habit [Charles Duhigg]

287

Getting Things Done [David Allen]

288

Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison]

289

The California Gothic Monkey Story [Taylor Negron]

290

How to Break into Porn [Leo Vice]

291

[Music Friday] Voctave Christmas

292

Adapting Wheel of Time to Screen [Brandon Sanderson]

293

Why the Bourne Identity is Underrated [Pete Holmes]

294

Colorblind Camouflage [Roger Hanlon]

295

[Music Fridays] Spider-Man: No Way Home OST

296

Crypto Exchange Kings [The Economist]

297

Why Ethereum Lost The Plot [Su Zhu]

298

[Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog

299

[Music Fridays] Beethoven's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 — Hilary Hahn

300

React Native's Many Platform Vision [Rick Hanlon]

301

React Server Components and Shopify Hydrogen [Ilya Grigorik]

302

Why Remix [Michael Jackson]

303

Prophet and Zillow's $10 Billion Mistake [Hilary Parker, Roger Peng]

304

[Weekend Drop] Adam Argyle: Complexity Cliffs, DX, and the Disruption of Web Design

305

[Music Fridays] Prosody of the Snow Queen

306

[Quick Clip] Temporal: 50 Most Promising Startups - The Information

307

How to Grow a Top 10 Podcast + Impatience with Action, Patience with Results [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri]

308

Inspiration over Information [Nick Wignall]

309

Starting a Second Youtube [Charli Prangley]

310

Shipping Side Projects with Wife + 3 Kids + Fulltime Job + Church + Open Source [Alex Reardon]

311

[Music Friday] Freestyle - Kiraly Payne, Wayne Brady

312

Status as a Service [Eugene Wei]

313

Being a Lighthouse [Matthew Kobach]

314

The Second Brain [Ali Abdaal and Tiago Forte]

315

[Music Fridays] Marc Martel

316

Katalin Kariko [The Daily]

317

SynBio and mRNA [Jason Kelly]

318

The 3 Levers of Fasting [Peter Attia]

319

Why We Sleep [Matt Walker]

320

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on How To Market Yourself

321

[Music Fridays] Taylor Swift

322

Vercel [Guillermo Rauch]

323

Sidekiq Race Conditions [Chris Toomey]

324

GPT-3: Ladder to Heaven [Wojciech Zaremba]

325

The GitHub Codespaces Story [Cory Wilkerson]

326

[Weekend Drop] Lee Robinson: Next.js, Vercel, and the SDK for the Web

327

[Music Fridays] Davie504 vs TwoSetViolin

328

If [Rudyard Kipling]

329

Directives [Derek Sivers]

330

Leverage [Naval Ravikant]

331

Media Companies For Everyone [Brian Armstrong, Chamath, swyx]

332

[Weekend Drop] Mapping Developer Experience

333

[Music Fridays] $stdout the rapper

334

False Negatives [Steve Yegge]

335

Customer Obsession [Steve Yegge]

336

Greasy Spots on Chairs [Steve Yegge]

337

Xbox One and Bad Execs [Steve Yegge]

338

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Svelte Society

339

EnterpriseReady.io [Grant Miller, Replicated]

340

AliAbdaal.com [Ali Abdaal]

341

NerdFitness.com [Steve Kamb]

342

GetEmails.com [Adam Robinson]

343

[Weekend Drop] Abhi Aiyer & Ward Peeters: Gatsby 4 and the Jamstack Endgame

344

[Music Fridays] Musicality

345

Two GitLab Pitches [Sid Sijbrandij]

346

Rare Knowledge [Andreessen and Horowitz]

347

Manufacturing as Software [Steve Jobs]

348

[Weekend Drop] Temporal: React for the Backend

349

[Music Fridays] Squid Game OST

350

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class [Alex Danco]

351

Everything Goes My Way [Bill Lawrence]

352

Saying Yes [Howie Mandel]

353

How to be miserable for the rest of your life [Joey Schweitzer]

354

[Weekend Drop] Miško Hevery: Qwik, PartyTown, and Lessons from Angular

355

[Music Fridays] Flight of the Conchords

356

Scout Mindset [Julia Galef]

357

F*** You, Pay Me [Mike Monteiro]

358

Why Big Companies Make Bad Products [Steve Jobs]

359

[Weekend Drop] Developer Relations (with Sai Senthilkumar of Redpoint)

360

[Music Fridays] Adam and the Metal Hawks

361

Engineering as Marketing: The Growth Hack for a $35b Marketing Empire [Dharmesh Shah]

362

Email Economics: The Math to a $800k Email [Sam Parr, Nathan Barry]

363

Angel Economics: The Math to a $100k Angel Portfolio [Jason Calacanis, Zach Coelius]

364

Podcast Economics: The Math to $14,000 a month [Jordan Harbinger, Cal Newport]

365

[Weekend Drop] Sunil Pai: React and the Meta of the Web

366

[Weekend Drop] Temporal - Not so Temporary (with Jaden Baptista)

367

React Native's Near Death Experience [Christopher Chedeau]

368

How React got Traction [Pete Hunt]

369

[Movie Fridays] Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

370

Journey to Vitess [Alkin Tezuysal]

371

Journey to CockroachDB [Spencer Kimball]

372

Journey to TimeScaleDB [Mike Freedman]

373

Journey to MongoDB [Mark Porter]

374

[Weekend Drop] The True Story of Frank Abagnale

375

[Music Fridays] The Petersens

376

The Origin of Braintree [Bryan Johnson]

377

The Origin of Twilio [Jeff Lawson]

378

The Origin of Waze [Noam Bardin]

379

The Origin of Kubernetes and Heptio [Joe Beda]

380

[Weekend Drop] An Evening With Kevin Smith

381

[Music Fridays] Walk Off The Earth

382

Unity [Robert Cialdini]

383

Commitment and Consistency [Robert Cialdini]

384

Social Proof and Scarcity [Robert Cialdini]

385

The Power of Contrast [Robert Cialdini]

386

[Music Fridays] Alan Silvestri

387

The Third Generation of Cryptocurrency [Charles Hoskinson]

388

Solving The Oracle Problem [Sergey Nazarov]

389

Scaling Blockchains [Vitalik Buterin]

390

Ethereum 2.0 [Danny Ryan]

391

[Weekend Drop] What We Know We Don't Know — Hillel Wayne

392

[Music Fridays] Writing Songs - Ed Sheeran, Charlie Puth

393

Writing Poetry [Writing Excuses]

394

Writing for SEO [Jennifer Fitzgerald, PolicyGenius]

395

Writing Newsletters for a Living [Nathan Baschez, Dan Shipper]

396

Writing for Twitter and Writing for Action [Julian Shapiro, Aella, Sam Parr]

397

[Weekend Drop] Coding Career for College Students - Major League Hacking

398

[Music Fridays] Faheem Rasheed Najm aka T-Pain

399

1984 vs Brave New World Pt. 2 [Intelligence Squared]

400

1984 vs Brave New World Pt. 1 [Intelligence Squared]

401

6 + 2 + 1 [Warren Spector, designer of Deus Ex]

402

The Origin of Yahoo [Jerry Yang]

403

[Weekend Drop] Temporal — the iPhone of System Design

404

[Music Fridays] Tori Kelly Unplugged

405

The Secret To Great Interviewing [Debbie Millman, Jay Acunzo]

406

The Genius of Apple's Name [Brent Schlender]

407

Elegant Software [Joel Spolsky]

408

The Challenges of Building Community [Tropical MBA]

409

[Weekend Drop] Why Invest in Developer Community? GitHub OCTO Speaker Series

410

[Music Fridays] Still Alive - Frank Sinatra Swing Cover

411

How to Be Kelsey Hightower [Kelsey Hightower]

412

How To Die Well [Kathryn Mannix]

413

How to Explain Things Well [Neil deGrasse Tyson]

414

How to Get Rid of Phobias [This American Life]

415

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Side Projects - Modern Web Podcast

416

[Music Fridays] Dear Theodosia Cover — Trey Mclaughlin, Jamal Moore, & Arthur Chapman

417

The Race to Remote [Marc Andreeesen]

418

Snorkel.ai: Unlocking Subject Matter Experts to make Software 2.0 [Alex Ratner]

419

Dispatch from LA [swyx]

420

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Marketing Yourself - DataTalks.Club

421

[Music Fridays] Baba Yetu — Christopher Tin

422

Writing Advice [David Perell, Courtland Allen]

423

Everything is a Remix [Kirby Ferguson]

424

wtf is dbt? [Drew Banin]

425

The REAL Lesson of Tuesdays with Morrie [Mitch Albom]

426

[Second Brain 5] Finale

427

[Music Fridays] In The Heights — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

428

Apple Pie Positions and Certainty Theater [Shreyas Doshi]

429

Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 [Matthew Prince]

430

EPOC Personal Branding [Sam Parr, Shaan Puri]

431

The Goddess of Everything Else [George Hotz, Scott Alexander]

432

[Second Brain 4] Intermediate Packets / Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

433

[Music Fridays] The Thong Song — Sisqo

434

Lineage Driven Fault Injection [Kolton Andrus]

435

Hinge's Last $25,000 [Justin McLeod]

436

Nuclear Plant Security [Malicious Life]

437

Time Block Planning [Cal Newport]

438

[Second Brain 3] Distilling Notes

439

[Music Fridays] Ludwig Göransson — Black Panther, This is America, The Mandalorian

440

The Power of Personal Podcasting [swyx]

441

Robo-caller Payback Time [Josh Browder]

442

[Second Brain 2] Organizing with PARA

443

[Music Fridays] Talkbox — Byron Chambers, Lorenz Rhode, Scary Pockets

444

The three kinds of platforms [Amjad Masad, quoting Marc Andreesen]

445

Aggregation Theory [Alex Lieberman]

446

Gonzo Journalism [Antonio García Martínez]

447

Why Creator Clones Fail [MKBHD]

448

[Second Brain 1] The Capture Habit

449

"Squalid" [Jorge Just]

450

Bayesian Thinking [Julia Galef]

451

We've Hit Peak Social Media [Cal Newport]

452

Balaji Srinivasan: Overrated or Underrated? [Brian Armstrong]

453

The Worst Job You Ever Had [Andrew Wilkinson]

454

[Angel Investing] E2E Encryption Keyservers with Ashoat Tevosyan

455

Pokémon 8-Bit Jazz Breakdown [Charles Cornell]

456

Snow White in a Fur Coat [The Moth]

457

Luck vs the Definite Future [Peter Thiel]

458

How Buffett Missed Intel [Acquired.fm]

459

[Weekend Drop] Grifters and Content Creation Traps

460

Why Angel Investing is Dumb [Shaan Puri, Codie Sanchez]

461

Young and Successful; Old but Broke [Tammy Lally]

462

How FDR stopped the Great Depression [Kathleen Day]

463

[Weekend Drop] swyx on Dev Community & Deep Work vs Learning in Public

464

35 Principles for 35 Years

465

[Weekend Drop] Going from Junior to Senior Q&A

466

Lynn Jurich of SunRun, Pt 2: Growth

467

Lynn Jurich of SunRun Pt. 1: Origin

468

Jesse Pujji's Execution Loop

469

Dunbar's Number: Pt 2 - Age

470

Dunbar's Number: Pt 1 - Hierarchy

471

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Svelte — CodingCat Podcast

472

Webflow's Near Death Experience

473

Past, Present, Future of No-Code

474

Set Explicit Help Timeouts

475

[Weekend Drop] GraphQL, Learning in Public, and AWS with Loren Sands-Ramshaw

476

Steve Jobs vs. the Customer

477

Your Calendar as Todo List

478

Don't Throw in JavaScript

479

Spencer Kimball Pt. 2: Competing with Big Clouds

480

Spencer Kimball Pt 1: Consistent Synchronous Replication

481

[Career Jam] Big Tech Interviews with Adam Rackis

482

Nicole Scherzinger as Christine

483

Disrupting Yourself

484

Tobi Lütke on Software and Blacksmithing

485

Metallica vs Napster, Pt. 2 - 2011

486

Metallica vs Napster, Pt. 1 - 2000

487

[Weekend Drop] a16z on Infra #1

488

[Weekend Drop] Marketing to Developers, Learnin in Public, and Communities as Marketplaces with Patrick Woods on the Developer Love Podcast

489

How to Edit for Virality

490

The Egg

491

Twitter's Revival, Pt. 2

492

The Mona Lisa of Digital Art: CryptoPunk #7804

493

Twitter's Revival, Pt. 1

494

[Weekend Drop] Clubhouse, Ghostwriting, and Parodying on the LogRocket Podcast

495

Preemptive Pluralization is Probably Not Evil

496

Tyra Banks on Authenticity

497

Bryan Cantrill's Larry Ellison Rant

498

TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU Content

499

A World Without Email

500

[Weekend Drop] Career Jam Session with Jeff Escalante of Hashicorp

501

Normalcy — Never Again

502

JavaScript: Lovechild of Java and Scheme

503

Pick Up What They Put Down Vol. 1

504

The Brink of Failure

505

[Weekend Drop] Q&A on the Scrimba Livestream

506

Gaga Unplugged

507

The Picking Experts Problem

508

ARK ETFs and General Purpose Technologies

509

How Daft Punk Samples Music

510

Audio's Dunbar Number

511

Jay Acunzo on Starting and Ending a Podcast

512

Stop Worrying About Cold Starts

513

The Princess Bride: Home Movie

514

Estée Lauder

515

Beyoncé Unplugged

516

[Weekend Drop] Digital Gardening w/ Maggie Appleton

517

The Race of Our Lives

518

The Elicitation Technique

519

[Music Friday] P!nk

520

Closed Core, Open Shell

521

Elon on Bitcoin

522

[Weekend Drop] Building SwipeFiles.com with Corey Haines

523

Early 2010's The Onion

524

Empathy, The Hard Way

525

Nullius in Verba

526

Hybrid Calisthenics

527

Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

528

Take Back Your Life From YouTube

529

Jack Conte

530

Digital Scarcity (Explicit)

531

The Yes Ladder

532

Quality vs Consistency

533

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on FSJam Podcast

534

World War Z Review (Explicit!)

535

The Rosenhan Experiment

536

The Meta-Creator Ceiling

537

Wasting $40k vs starting Rent The Runway

538

How To Market Your Blogposts

539

Sea Shanties and C-130s