#PodcastRecommendations #ProgrammingPodcasts 🎧
Hey there techies! Enough about the job market, let’s talk podcasts! What’s your go-to podcast while programming? Or maybe even about programming? Here are a few recommendations to get the conversation started:
– “Syntax” by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski: A great podcast for web developers covering a wide range of topics.
– “Software Engineering Daily” by Jeff Meyerson: Dive deep into the world of software engineering with this informative podcast.
– “CodeNewbie” by Saron Yitbarek: Perfect for beginners in the coding world, with inspiring stories and helpful tips.
What podcasts are you currently listening to? Share your favorites below! 🌟 Let’s discover some new gems together!
Hey! I’ve got a great answer for this question! My own, haha! Forgive me for the self-promotion, but I actually think it’s really good!
The podcast’s called Book Overflow ([YouTube link here](https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod), but we’re on every major podcast player.) Every week my co-host and I read and discuss a new software engineering book. I have experience mostly at Big Tech, while he has worked pretty much exclusively at start-ups, so our experience complements each other really well.
I like to say it’s a book club masquerading as a podcast. We don’t provide comprehensive overviews of each book, but rather discuss them in a way similar to hearing two coworkers chat over lunch. We’re enjoying the format because we *really* didn’t want to launch the millionth “tech news of the week” podcast. By reading the books and focusing our discussion around them, we keep the conversations technical and very substantive.
We’re still pretty new, but we’ve already interviewed some of the authors of the books! In fact, our[ interview with Brian Kernighan](https://youtu.be/_QQ7k5sn2-o?si=PqLP23sQ3_Vfcvoy) (CS legend and inventor of “Hello, World!”) just went semi-viral on Hacker News. We peaked at #3! We’re really excited about the potential for the podcast and are hoping we encourage more software engineers to be voracious readers.
If you’d like to listen, you can find links to every major platform we’re on through [our website](https://www.bookoverflow.io) and you can also see our published reading schedule so you can follow along!
EDIT: It looks like this comment pushed us over 1,000 subscribers on YouTube! Thanks, everyone! You won’t be disappointed!
I don’t listen to many programming specific podcasts, but several tech news podcasts. Here are some of them that I listen to by general topic:
General Tech News:
Daily Tech Headlines
Cybersecurity News:
Sans Internet Storm center
Cyberwire Daily
Risky Biz
Cybersecurity and Law:
Caveat
Self-hosting News:
Self-hosted
The Late Night Linux (LNL) family of podcasts:
Late Night Linux
2.5 Admins
Linux Matters
Linux After Dark
Linux Dev Show
Hybrid Cloud Show
Ask the Hosts (not necessarily tech related, but fun to get to know the hosts across the LNL podcasts outside of tech)
The primagen, fireship, kikis bytes
Not investment advice is my favorite, it’s about tech and finance and it’s very entertaining
I listen to the All In podcast but I feel embarrassed about it so I don’t listen when I’m around other people
Syntax (for web devs) is great. Other than that I search for topics I’m interested in that week rather than specific shows.
That has the pleasant side effect of exposing me to lots of random, interesting topics, personalities and perspectives. I’ve definitely started to think in more holostoc ways about software engineering because of it, though I suppose that’s where I’m at in my career as well (becoming more architecture amd process-focused)
My 2 favourites currently are Soft Skills Engineering and Acquired
* The Best One Yet
* The Money with Katie Show
* The Rational Reminder Podcast
* Drunkenomics
Soft Skills Engineering – Weekly show where the hosts answer questions about all the non-technical stuff that happens at work. They have a lot of fun with it, but also give good advice and the show has a great slack network for their patreon donors.
Level Up Engineering – More about leadership / people management side of things. Conversations between the host and a guest on a range of topics on management strategies, productivity metrics, etc.
Changelog – This one’s a network of multiple podcasts with a feed that includes all of them. Some language/stack specific stuff, other more general career talk.
The ringer fantasy football podcast 🙌
Banging out an audio plugin slowly but surely to Last Podcast on the Left & You’re Wrong About
not programming related but cream crew has me absolutely in fkin tears sometimes on my commutes to the office
now that i think about it, i can’t even think of a single programming podcast ive listened to other than the one by the dude who maintains oh-my-zsh.
This has nothing to do with programming but I’m a big fan of the freakonomics radio podcast.
They do tend to be a bit … “corporate simpy” because I mean they’re economists what do you expect. But if that doesn’t bother you it’s a great pod
Security Now (computer security)
Spitballers (comedy)
Soft Skills Engineering is a fantastic one.
Old O&A, MSSP, beginning days of TACS, Chippa Podacast, Cumtown, Bonfire
In order of my favorites
Safe to say when I was non remote I had to make extraaaa sure things only played through my headphones
Nothing industry-related. Every now and again I’ll listen to “Myths and Legends” for entertainment.
The last thing I want to do after a day of developing software is to do anything even remotely related to software development. I need to disconnect.
Darknet diaries
clubbed to death – matrix soundtrack [10 hours] on youtube
I listen to rotten mango.
I got a life outside software. I don’t want a podcast about work as well
Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History for me.
No programming ones tbh I get enough of that at work. I enjoy:
– Morning Brew Daily
– Unabomber docuseries podcast by Apple
– Real Survival Stories
– Dateline
Trash taste
I barely watch anime and don’t play as many games anymore, but the chemistry between the hosts is just gold for me.
Cum town
How to find a job
accquired!
None actually. I sometimes google what I think i need to know and read the text. If there’s a video I’ll ask an ai to summarize
Dark net diaries with Jack Rhysider
– changelog
– oxide and friends
– embeddedFM
– syntax
– amp hour
– corecursive
– coding blocks
– software engineering daily
– hansel minutes
– hackaday
– stack overflow (rip)
I don’t listen to a whole lot of stuff about programming, but while I’m working I’ll listen to Citation Needed (or any of the TechDiff youtube content), sometimes Maintenance Phase, or just my music collection
Software engineering radio, TWIML, cocaine and rhinestones.
The All In Podcast is very very good imo.