[HN Gopher] What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
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What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
I want to know if other developers listen to podcasts and which
ones? I love to listen to podcasts at the gym, but need some new
ones related to software engineering.
Author : SlickStef11
Score : 187 points
Date : 2022-12-11 14:57 UTC (8 hours ago)
| mh8h wrote:
| Risky Business: It's a podcast about information security.
|
| Even if you're not directly working on security, listening to
| this podcast will help you have security in mind in your every
| day developer work.
| BMc2020 wrote:
| coder dot show
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| current epsiode
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| Amazon used the stage of AWS re:Invent to toss shade on .Net and
| reveal its broader ambitions.
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| Plus, why Pydantic is giving Mike a headache.
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| Elon Musk on Twitter -- Good conversation. Among other things, we
| resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being
| removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never
| considered doing so.
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| .NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS -- "We found
| that .NET open source is heavily under-funded," said Saikat
| Banerjee, an AWS software development manager, at a re:Invent
| session this week.
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| Pydantic V2 Plan - pydantic -- The release of version 2 is an
| opportunity to rebuild pydantic and correct many things that
| don't make sense - to make pydantic amazing .
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| PyO3 user guide -- Rust bindings for Python, including tools for
| creating native Python extension modules. Running and interacting
| with Python code from a Rust binary is also supported.
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| FastAPI -- FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn,
| fast to code, ready for production
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| Coinbase Wallet on Twitter -- You might have noticed you can't
| send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple
| blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature.
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| Good Morning America on Twitter -- @GStephanopoulos sits down
| with former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
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| 'We kind of lost track': how Sam Bankman-Fried blurred lines
| between FTX and Alameda -- Exchange's former CEO says he was
| close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm
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| Why Hasn't Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested Yet?
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| Mike on Mastodon
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| asdf -- Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool
| liamwire wrote:
| I've been listening to Stacktrace for some number of years now,
| and it's been consistently quality. Primarily focused on Apple
| ecosystem development, both hosts have a great dynamic.
|
| https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stacktrace/id135943544...
| williamstein wrote:
| Syntax is good. The hosts are enjoyable and humble, and have had
| many interesting recent guests, including the founders of Node,
| Deno, and Bun in the last few weeks...
|
| https://syntax.fm/
| nickjj wrote:
| If there's ever a time to ask such a question, it might be this
| thread.
|
| Can I get some brutally honest feedback on a podcast I ran for 2
| years (100+ episodes at once per week) at
| https://runninginproduction.com/? It's a podcast focused on
| chatting with developers around how they build and deploy their
| web apps. It mostly focuses on the "why", tech stack choices,
| libraries, workflows, lessons learned, production war stories,
| etc..
|
| In my mind I thought it was a good idea but it got so little
| listeners that I had to abort recording new episodes due to burn
| out since there was no path forward to ever sustain it by
| outsourcing the burn out inducing parts. I still think it's a
| good idea but I wonder where I went wrong.
|
| I tried everything I could think of. Guest variety from solo devs
| to bigger companies like Mux and Dropbox, audio editing to ensure
| the highest quality I could get for a remote guest<->host podcast
| with new guests having assorted mic qualities, removing a lot of
| "ums" and other fluff but not over editing things to make it
| unnatural, tags to quickly find tech stacks you care about and a
| ton of clickable timestamps with a summary of each show that's
| skimmable in seconds along with tons of reference links.
|
| On paper it feels like I did everything I could to make things
| "good", but in practice after 100 episodes I had like 200-300
| listens per episode which made it no longer viable to continue
| doing since each episode was about 6 hours of end to end time to
| put together (finding a guest, editing it, show notes, etc.).
|
| I learned a ton from chatting with every guest and regret nothing
| but I overall see the podcast as a total failure since if it
| didn't gain any traction on it, it must be trash. I'd love to
| revive the show because chatting with someone new about what they
| enjoy working on was really fun.
| Alacart wrote:
| So first, 300 consistent listens per episode in this area is
| pretty respectable in my opinion. Niche things like this are
| more about _who_ is listening rather than how many people.
|
| I'm 100% someone interested in shows like yours, I just didn't
| know it existed. One major thing you could probably do right
| away is invite other people with followings in this area as
| guests. Popular podcasters are generally annoyed by requests to
| be on their show, but can be a lot more friendly if you invite
| them on yours. That's because you're doing the work and
| exposing them to your audience. They'll likely promote it or
| might even cross post it if you want to. They might have you on
| as a guest afterwards, someone with that many interviews is
| bound to have some interesting things to talk about.
|
| The episode you posted as an example of audio quality lately
| seemed more than good enough for me. As far as burn out, I
| would maybe recommend actually doing _less_ for each episode,
| at least until you feel like you can outsource the worst parts.
| What if you did only the most important parts of post, and cut
| down post production to an hour instead of 5 or 6? Maybe a tool
| that auto removes silence, umms and ahs, etc could help a bit
| here too. Descript for example can do a decent amount of this
| in about 5 minutes. Good enough in my opinion. Cut out as much
| post work as you can. I bet you your real audience won 't care.
|
| Part of it could also be just shorter recording times. I prefer
| longer episodes but it seems like I'm the only one. Editing 30
| mins of recording is a lot easier than an hour and a half, and
| people seem more likely to put on shorter episodes (I guess).
|
| Also, just skimming a bit of an episode, I think you overdo the
| formality of the intro. It sounds too scripted and not like
| your natural self. Skipping from the intro to a later clip of
| you speaking, you sound much more natural later on. A lot of
| people will bail out during the intro if they're just checking
| you out for the first time and it doesn't hook them much.
|
| The titles should reflect more of what's interesting to the
| audience, make it the coolest part of whatever they're doing
| instead of an elevator length description. Are they hitting
| high requests per second, doing something bleeding edge,
| serving a lot of users as a solo dev, etc? Combine that with
| the most interesting part of their stack for the title. Looking
| at your show notes I can see this stuff is in there, just make
| it the title.
|
| If you're burning out, try being more selective with guests
| too. Don't force it. And don't look at it as needing X audience
| numbers or whatever for success. You're building authority as
| someone in the industry, getting respect from guests and
| listeners, being exposed to way more than a normal dev, and so
| much more. If you're trying to make a living off of the
| podcast, you'll need to go wayyy more generic and attention
| grabbing. But I say don't do that. Instead do this thing well
| and you'll build a name for yourself with the kinds of people
| who listen to things like this - people in motion, building
| things, who are excelling in the field. People who are or will
| be somebody to respect in the industry.Thats a big deal.
|
| Finally, please keep making the show, this is a niche that I've
| found surprisingly hard to find good content for. I _want_ the
| technical details, I want the code talk and the deep dive that
| most podcasts cut out because "people don't want to listen to
| this". Well, I do and so do plenty of people actually building
| real things.
| adrianthedev wrote:
| Definitely one of the best and one that's still on my playlist!
| Good job!
|
| I think one important aspect is that you, personally, need to
| have a following. It's the same as in other areas like blogging
| and vlogging. You have to create yourself a persona that people
| will follow for some reason and then they will consume your
| content.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks Adrian, I still remember our episode.
|
| My persona might suck. My persona is there is no persona. I'm
| a dude building and deploying web apps. I use a lot of
| different tools and try to share everything I've learned
| along the way.
|
| I don't play anything up for videos or interviews. I'm almost
| exactly the same in real life other than I'm a little more
| unfiltered in real life.
|
| I did a meta episode on the show where I interviewed myself
| at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/100-running-in-
| produ.... Since the show is guest oriented I try to let them
| speak as much as possible (they are the star of the show) but
| in that episode since I was interviewing myself I got to talk
| a bit more.
| tiffanyh wrote:
| I listened to quite a few of your episodes.
|
| One piece of feedback though, I always felt the episode titles
| could have been better.
|
| More like https://www.indiehackers.com/
|
| Where the title was some like "X person company generates Y
| revenue with Z tech".
|
| The main difference being, it gave me a _reason_ to listen
| (sparked my interests because 1-person is generating $100,000s
| with a simple PHP form app". As opposed to "Meteor Cloud Is a
| Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps" which just
| sounds like an ad for their app.
|
| Another subtle suggestion, the date of the episode wasn't
| visible from the main feed - making it difficult to see if any
| new episodes have dropped.
|
| Sorry to hear you considered it a failure. I really enjoyed it.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks a lot. I'm seeing a trend in quite a few comments that
| are leading me to see that the titles can be much approved
| upon.
|
| That one does read a lot like an ad. For most titles I tried
| to lead with the service name plus what they do in 70
| characters or less. I tried to focus more on what the service
| does because I figured most folks wouldn't know what these
| services are, but if you know what it does it might help you
| relate to something in your own mind based on a rough idea of
| "this will be about an invoicing service or an email campaign
| service, etc.".
|
| But, if I do step back and reflect on my own browsing habits
| for not just podcasts but also YouTube. It comes down to the
| title. Always.
|
| It's an interesting problem in this context. The suggestions
| here are to mainly make the titles optimized for humans
| (which I agree with too), but I'm not sure if that will help
| with gaining traction because the site is already nearly
| invisible on Google and podcast sites. With that said though,
| after 2 years and a 100 titles in their current state, my
| original plan is clearly not working so I have nothing to
| lose to switch up that strategy. Although I'm not sure if I
| should go back and change all of the existing titles (they
| are also tied into the URL on a static site, etc.).
| Name_Chawps wrote:
| There are literally millions of podcasts out there. You have to
| do something special in order to get people to listen. The
| episode I listened to part of sounded just like it was a couple
| of normal devs chatting about development. Nothing wrong with
| that, but it's not special. If you listen to major podcasts,
| the people on the podcasts are highly charismatic and it's easy
| to listen to them talking about anything. Your podcast, on the
| other hand, has people who aren't particularly charismatic,
| just normal people talking, which I can get anywhere. Podcasts
| can be informative, but they are a form of entertainment, which
| means you have to be entertaining.
|
| "Devs chatting about development" is also a pretty tight niche.
| You could probably do better than 200-300 listeners per
| episode, but not by much. You're creating a product very few
| people want. Very few people would come solely for the
| information being conveyed. Nothing wrong with that, but just
| as a podcast about European pickles would never get millions of
| views, no matter how good it is, neither would yours.
|
| The audio quality was also not great, but this isn't a major
| issue if the podcast is entertaining.
| yunwal wrote:
| > "Devs chatting about development" is also a pretty tight
| niche
|
| There must be millions of devs who might be interested in a
| podcast that teaches them about better development practices
| capableweb wrote:
| > There must be millions of devs who might be interested in
| a podcast that teaches them about better development
| practices
|
| Sure, but just hearing/reading "Devs chatting about
| development" doesn't convince me that the outcome is I'll
| know about better development practices.
| yunwal wrote:
| Sure, but that's a problem with the marketing, not the
| niche being too tight.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks.
|
| I said yes to every single person who requested to be on the
| show. The hard part for this style of podcast is finding a
| constant stream of guests. Often times you have no idea how a
| person is going to react on a call until you're already in
| the call and recording the show. In every episode we jumped
| on a call, spent a few minutes saying hello and went straight
| into it.
|
| I went with my gut in that anyone volunteering to be on the
| show will be comfortable having a free form conversation.
| None of it is scripted but I do usually have a couple of
| bullet points in front of me to cover a range of general
| topics.
|
| But, I get where you're coming from and I'm like that too.
| I'm for sure going to gravitate towards a more engaging host
| / guest if I had an option choosing between A and B. It's
| really hard to pull this off because if you only have guests
| on the show who have a public presence on the podcast /
| interview / YouTube / etc. scene it'll be much more difficult
| to find guests as a side project. You may also lose out on
| some really cool stories. In one episode a couple of guys
| built and shipped a custom hardware device to remote African
| villages to help make email more accessible.
| ipaddr wrote:
| 200-300 people per episode is pretty good you should take pride
| in that.
|
| I would find a way to make it easier and funner and reduce the
| 6 hours.
|
| Otherwise it's a marketing success/failure.
| chiefalchemist wrote:
| I thought the same.
|
| Perhaps he should engage listeners and find out why, what,
| etc.? They're consuming the product. Also, try to get
| feedback from one-and-done listeners.
|
| Moi? I don't have time or interest in casual chat and then
| get to the end with nothing taken away. I can't invest time
| unless I'm confident I'll at least breakeven.
| elek wrote:
| I clicked and started to read the titles of the episodes and
| none of them was interesting for me. Different business names
| and descriptions...
|
| But when I clicked to one episode randomly: ah, looks to be a
| very interesting conversation with a lot of technical details
| and challenges...
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks. Which episode did you randomly click into and which
| part was interesting to you? I'm only asking because that
| could help guide me into creating better titles.
| desmosxxx wrote:
| So I actually listened to a few episodes. It was surprisingly
| good, but definitely niche.
|
| The immediate things that I noticed were the audio quality,
| your talking speed (often slightly too fast, especially when
| excited), and saying "like" too much.
|
| On the plus side, very in depth conversations, great guest, and
| you have a good interviewing voice and style IMO.
|
| If you wanted to revive this (which I think might be worth
| doing), I would work on your speech and audio first. After that
| you'll obviously need to figure out the product aspects of
| this. Marketing and presentation for one. Maybe focus on bigger
| technologies (languages, fields, etc) for your titles and
| mainline questions which can bring in the views and you can get
| into the details and tech stacks in the summaries and long form
| discussions. You need for every episode to be relevant for most
| listeners in some meaningful way, otherwise it's pretty
| difficult to retain viewers. I'd say most devs aren't familiar
| with probably the majority of episodes. Also putting video
| recordings on YouTube is a must. Some people want video and
| it's also a great marketing channel so you're limiting yourself
| without that.
|
| I do think there is something there, but I don't think you'll
| stumble on to it on accident given how niche it is already -
| it'll require some research and trial and error.
| greenpeas wrote:
| I agree, you speak too fast, and use "like" and "basically"
| way too much. See if you can find a way to improve your
| diction.
|
| Another thing, in most episodes, it seems like you have a
| list of questions that you want to ask, and you quickly go
| through them, as if you just needed to check them off the
| list. And I get it, any application running in production
| consists of multiple pieces and involves many decisions, but
| just listing all of the components one by one, turns into
| reading the specifications on the back of a cereal box. Maybe
| you could pick one or two particular aspects of the
| infrastructure and discuss those in greater depth. Ideally
| something that either you or your interviewee feel very
| strongly about. I'd also be interesting if you challenged
| some of the decisions that went into the infrastructure. All
| too often you agree too easily with your interviewee.
|
| Overall however, none of these should be dealbreakers. I
| still listened to many episodes.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks. Using filler words is one of those things where
| it's easy to notice when editing or listening to it later
| but near impossible to notice in the middle of a regular
| conversation. I do try.
|
| You are right. I do come into each episode with a number of
| high level bullets. I always try to stay on track so each
| episode flows roughly the same. Basically (:D) learning a
| bit about the service, team size, how it's built, how it's
| deployed and lessons learned. If some of these get skipped,
| it feels like an unfinished story that goes against the
| premise of the show? It's interesting to hear you think
| otherwise and would rather go deeper on a smaller subset of
| topics. I thought maybe that would make it even more niched
| down.
|
| I'm happy you brought up the part about tech choices. I do
| try to pry out the "why" on a number of decisions. There's
| a fine line here. I kind of wonder which episodes you
| watched because I thought I challenged them kind of a lot
| but I definitely keep myself in check to avoid coming off
| too combative even if they are asked in a friendly way. But
| I did try to always call out questions that I really feel
| most listeners would be thinking.
| decland wrote:
| I have listened to your podcast occasionally and I really
| enjoyed it. I can't really say what you can do to improve it as
| I personally think it was very good. I guess there are just a
| lot of podcasts out there and maybe it was an issue of
| discovery. What I listen to depends on my mood but when I was
| looking for a development related podcast yours was definitely
| one I would go to. Sorry if this is not a very helpful comment
| but I just wanted to let you know I appreciated your work.
| nickjj wrote:
| That's very helpful thanks.
|
| Maybe I'm looking into this too much but when I take a couple
| of other replies and yours together in the same context my
| takeaway was when you want to hear about the gory details
| about something development related you'd listen to the show.
| To me that says from a technical standpoint the show is good
| but you're not listening to it to be entertained
| specifically. You may also not be listening to it while doing
| something else because if technical information is what
| you're after, you might be focusing fully on the show?
|
| Even if my assessment of your specific case is wrong, it got
| me to think about a couple of new things such as "what type
| of mood are people in when they tune in?", "are folks
| listening to this for pure knowledge, entertainment or
| something else?", and "what might someone be doing while
| they're listening to the show?".
| decland wrote:
| Yes I would usually be walking or driving when I'm
| listening to a podcast. I believe I discovered yours as I
| was working on a few Django projects and I wanted to get a
| feel for other peoples experience of using it in real life.
| I think there is value in the content of the interviews
| that you wouldn't necessarily get from just reading on the
| topic. It's interesting to hear all the different kinds of
| real world projects that people are running and building.
| mathgladiator wrote:
| > Can I get some brutally honest feedback
|
| My gut is that you have plenty of content, and you need to
| organize it better and exploit SEO. Unfortunately, because this
| is for developers, the space is very saturated. Have you tried
| running ads for any particular sections that may be popular
| like #aws?
| nickjj wrote:
| I haven't tried running paid ads for anything I've released
| (I also blog and make weekly YouTube videos).
|
| The show costs at least 6 hours of personal time per episode
| which translates to a Saturday or Sunday. There's also
| hosting costs, etc.. Paid ads would be another expense. My
| thought process as a developer (and I'm probably wrong) is if
| something is worthy then it would be spread fairly
| organically. If it's not spreading organically then it's not
| good enough because it means people aren't sharing it enough
| to hit that point of critical mass.
|
| I don't take it personally but it might bias my decision not
| to use paid ads because in my mind it would feel like burning
| money to get more eyeballs on content that's not good enough.
| It's also a tough sell to get someone to land on a podcast
| page and invest 30-90 minutes into listening to it if they
| don't know anything about the show already.
|
| > you need to organize it better
|
| Any suggestions? There's a list of podcasts broken down with
| tags. Each tag is clickable and each tag has its own
| dedicated page with a title / meta description. There's also
| a massive list of tags at
| https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/.
| llaolleh wrote:
| Maybe it's a marketing problem? I had a tab of your podcast
| open, but never listened to it.
|
| The writing needs work. There is too much. You need to cut down
| and try to distill the good stuff essence for each episode to
| make users want to click.
|
| For example,
|
| "QAWolf Helps You Create Automated Browser Tests as You Use
| Your Site"
|
| -> Automated Testing for your website
|
| The verbiage adds up.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks. That's sound advice.
|
| You bring up a good point. I did try to make the titles kind
| of short (none of them are > 70 characters) while always
| trying to include the service name and the core idea of what
| the service does.
|
| But a lot of those titles were maybe optimizing for the wrong
| thing. For example "Podia Has Everything You Need to Sell
| Online Courses"[0]. It's almost like I went out of my way to
| make it sound like a sales pitch but my goal was to include
| their product's name and the core idea of what it does. It
| does feel like it's trying to optimize for SEO such as "sell
| online courses" but the content of the show has nothing to do
| with selling online courses, it's about chatting with one of
| the lead devs on how they built the platform.
|
| An alternate title based on a topic from that episode could
| have been "Podia survived Black Friday without breaking a
| sweat". If that were in a Twitter card the meta description
| includes it's a Rails site and it's always nice to hear
| success stories on how Rails does scale. It ends up have
| clickable interest for the skeptics out there and also Rails
| developers?
|
| [0]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/77-podia-has-
| everyth...
| ksbrooksjr wrote:
| I really enjoyed listening to this podcast, and I'm honestly
| surprised at how low the per episode engagement is. There's no
| shortage of podcasts focusing on the economic aspect of running
| a business, or the technical aspect of building the
| frontend/backend, but there are very few that go into the
| details of deployment, monitoring, etc. I thought your podcast
| tapped into a really interesting niche, and I posted a link to
| it in a previous hn comment [1].
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987671
| nickjj wrote:
| Hey, thanks a lot for mentioning the show!
|
| You know, your thought process is identical to mine on this
| subject haha. That's why I started the show. It felt like it
| was filling a void around a bunch of deployment topics.
| juanse wrote:
| Hi Nick, your podcast is one of my favorites of all time. As a
| solo founders I just can highlight all the knowledge I got from
| it. I come back from time to time.
|
| I would love to see it back with some suggestions other people
| are pointing out.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks! I'm definitely taking notes.
| mtlynch wrote:
| I enjoyed listening to and being a guest on Running in
| Production, and I'm sorry to hear you see the podcast as a
| failure.
|
| One difference I notice between _Running in Production_ and
| some other podcasts that are popping up in this thread (e.g.,
| _CoRecursive_ , _Darknet Diaries_ , _Lex Fridman_ ) is that
| those podcasts focus on people and stories, whereas _Running in
| Production_ focused more on technology.
|
| After writing my blog for several years, I noticed a pattern in
| that the majority of my popular posts were stories from my life
| rather than technical posts about a particular technology. The
| stories were highly related to technology, but they usually
| made sense to people who knew nothing about the technology.
|
| Even for fans of the podcast, I think the narrowness in topics
| means that not all fans of _Running in Production_ are a match
| for most episodes. Comparing it to the _Indie Hackers_ podcast,
| I 'd listen to any episode of IH if the guest sounds
| interesting because there are a lot of potential things they
| can say that might be useful to me. Because _Running in
| Production_ is more narrowly about tech stacks, the percentage
| of episodes that are relevant to me is much smaller. I 'd be
| interested in hearing about someone talk about their Flask
| stack because that's what I use in my business, but if the
| guest is talking about Elixir or Ruby, I'm unlikely to learn
| anything useful since I don't use or plan to use those
| technologies.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks Michael and congrats on all of the success with
| TinyPilot. It's nice to hear this from the perspective of
| someone who was on the show.
|
| I tried to make the story about going from development to
| production but it is for sure super focused on the technology
| choices that take you from A to B. There's the lessons
| learned which kind of apply to any tech stack but that's also
| near the end of every episode so you have to listen to the
| whole thing to get there.
|
| There's a number of little funny stories hidden away in some
| episodes. Like one guy was on vacation driving with his wife
| and ended up switching his web server from Apache to nginx
| while literally driving as a passenger.
|
| Deployment is a tricky topic to "promote" because in my
| opinion deploying a Flask app is almost no different than
| Rails. If they both have a web + worker + db + cache
| component, it's basically the same pieces (especially if
| you're using Docker). The hosting provider choice,
| monitoring, logging, CI / CD workflows, etc. is all the same.
| When I went into making this show I came at it from the
| perspective that even if you didn't use Ruby you could still
| take away a few nuggets of info from a Rails episode since
| there's a lot of overlap but I'm beginning to realize that's
| not how this works in real life.
|
| What I'm thinking now is maybe exactly what you said around
| being interested in Flask. You care about deploying a Flask
| app, not deploying in general.
|
| You are right though, I have no problem sitting down and
| listening to a 5 hour conversation with John Carmack and Lex
| because I'm interested in hearing John's stories. I'm not
| there to learn the gory details about z-fail stencil shadows.
| I care about why he ended up inventing that and how it helped
| him build a cool looking game. When looking at things from
| that angle, that changes everything. Running in Production is
| like "90% technical details / 10% story" but "80% stories /
| 20% technical details" is a more enjoyable listen for a
| podcast. If this were a technical video course that would be
| much different, but it's not. It's a podcast.
|
| Now to be fair, I did try the best I could to avoid going too
| deep into the technical details about a specific topic
| because I know most folks will doze off or lose interest
| because it's not relatable but still, bouncing around a bunch
| of technical topics at a surface level is still very tech
| heavy.
| DustinBrett wrote:
| Maybe you need a video element? I personally only listen to
| podcasts in video. I don't know why but I gave up on audio
| podcasts ages ago. I like to see the people talking.
|
| Also for sustaining, perhaps you need to lower your
| expectations and focus on doing it for fun.
| nickjj wrote:
| It's possible. I'm similar to you in that I much prefer video
| podcasts. That might be due to almost always listening to
| episodes in front of my computer with full attention. I kind
| of like to avoid all forms of tech when I'm outside or doing
| other activities that could be compatible with listening to a
| podcast (driving, exercise, etc.).
|
| Video is tricky with a new remote guest every week because
| their recording set up might be a little rough around the
| edges or it might make them uncomfortable to be on video. I
| do think video adds a huge element though. It also forces me
| to be less perfect because it's really easy to edit audio and
| you as the listener would never know. Most episodes have
| literally hundreds of cuts but you can't tell for most of
| them, but video is much harder to cut since you visually see
| the jump cuts.
|
| Thanks for the suggestion!
| otikik wrote:
| Half of the emergent traffic in YouTube (half!) is the title
| and title screen.
|
| Work on your titles, first of all.
| hacksoi wrote:
| Bro you sound like a robot. Absolutely zero charisma. There are
| plenty of other podcasts out there with more entertaining
| personalities with the same content.
| boomskats wrote:
| Bro, you sound like an asshole. None of your 'feedback' is
| useful or actionable, and neither this comment or anything on
| your profile points to any content created by your more
| entertaining personality.
| sanjayio wrote:
| To rein this convo back a bit, sometimes hearing it raw and
| hard can help. I consider myself to have medium thick skin
| and I appreciate feedback like this immensely because it
| has a certain comedic effect as well. Maybe that's how I
| grew up though.
| hacksoi wrote:
| OP wanted to know why his podcast was failing and I told
| him. I'm not obligated to provide a solution.
| ericjmorey wrote:
| Brutally honest:
|
| You suck at marketing.
|
| You need to promote the shit out of media that you want people
| to consume. What did you do to promote it? You need to create
| engagement and use platforms where you're more likely to bring
| in money (this is why Twitch is the current favorite for new
| concepts like yours). The title of each episode is factual but
| boring and makes it seem like the interview will be a sales
| pitch for each product or service. Also, minor point, there are
| no dates on the episodes. The audio, see below.
|
| You suck at audio engineering.
|
| The audio from several samples I listened to ranging from mid-
| run to the most recent episode were a plosive and fricative
| nightmare. It was literally difficult to listen to. If this
| were some course for a degree program, I could probably suck it
| up and listen to it an hour at a time. But this is edutainment.
| nickjj wrote:
| Thanks. There are dates at the bottom of each episode btw.
| The last episode was from about a year ago.
|
| Promotion wise I tried to organically promote it. Basically
| if I read a comment on HN or a few sub-reddits I'd leave a
| non-spammy reply and often end the comment with something
| that links back to an episode with a timestamped link to the
| information related to the comment. I also suggested guests
| share the episode when it goes live. I tweeted out new
| episodes but I don't have a huge following.
|
| Some of those posts on Reddit did pretty well. For example
| this single post in /r/django fueled almost a year's worth of
| guests https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/gddnh0/are_yo
| u_runn..., and the follow up post https://www.reddit.com/r/dj
| ango/comments/ifrcd6/a_few_months....
|
| > You suck at audio engineering. The audio from several
| samples I listened to ranging from mid-run to the most recent
| episode were a plosive and fricative nightmare.
|
| Is this feedback mostly on the guest's audio or my set up?
|
| It's not my full time job but remember each guest is a
| different person recording their side of the track in their
| house or office. They're using whatever bare bones mic set up
| they have. I pre-assembled a list of recording suggestions
| before the show to avoid common issues. If money were no
| object I'd send every guest $150-200 worth of equipment or
| pay to have studio time in their local area so they can
| record their side but that's not realistic for a podcast this
| size.
|
| The most recent episode has plosives but if something clips
| there's not much I can do since the source audio is messed
| up. Everyone was recording locally, usually with Audacity to
| eliminate any network artifacts. Audio editing wise on my
| side, I usually just run their track through a noise gate
| while trying not to kill the natural sound of their voice.
| Sometimes I play a little with an EQ when it's super clear
| they have a very trebly voice. Often times I can't use a
| compressor to make their volume more consistent because they
| have a huge amount of room noise that can't be filtered out
| without making them sound non-human.
|
| I'm curious what you think about this episode's quality
| https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-
| bas.... This was one where the guest ended up buying a new
| mic before the podcast (I suggested they pick up an AT-2005
| which is a pretty low cost dynamic USB mic, it's what I use
| as well). They wanted a better set up for future videos on
| their own (not just for my show). What you hear there is
| mostly straight from the source.
| glaucon wrote:
| Just wanted to say that I have listened to a number of episodes
| and enjoyed them. I think the basic idea is a sound one and
| that you executed it well, I liked being able to filter
| episodes by topic and I sometimes used it as a resource if I
| was considering using a particular technology. Context for this
| is that I just don't listen to many podcasts of any sort so I
| am, perhaps, not your ideal audience member.
|
| More generally, and not specific to runningproduction, I
| _strongly_ favour shorter podcasts and, although I appreciate
| this costs money, podcasts with a transcript.
|
| Thanks for making runninginproduction, I appreciate you may see
| it as "a total failure" but fwiw that is a very long way from
| my perception of it.
| nickjj wrote:
| Hi, thanks a lot.
|
| Yep transcripts were on my list to include but there is a
| decent cost to get accurate human vetted transcripts for ~6
| hours of (2) speaker audio content per week. There are semi-
| automated free tools but the accuracy is poor enough where
| I'd spend a !huge! amount of time rewriting and fixing them
| up (I tried a bunch, even some low cost paid solutions that
| were AI driven).
| LikeAnElephant wrote:
| I only recently stumbled across your podcast, and I LOVED it. I
| really appreciated that many of your guests weren't playing the
| startup game (ie VC funded) but were just people with an idea
| and were making a thing. I loved it! I listened to each episode
| and was really bummed when I noticed you weren't making more
| episodes.
|
| Can't help you in terms of marketing advice. Count me as
| someone who truly enjoyed your podcast, and it was my intro to
| the concept of SaaS as a lifestyle business. A breath of fresh
| air amidst a world where everyone's looking for the next round
| of funding.
| gundamdoubleO wrote:
| I recommend Soft Skills Engineering: https://softskills.audio/
|
| The hosts give advice to real problems sent in by listeners
| involving non-technical issues in the software engineering
| workplace, such as dealing with problematic co-workers, how best
| to develop your skills into seniority, how and when to negotiate
| a pay raise and how to prepare yourself for moving to another
| job.
|
| I don't think every episode is extremely useful since a lot of
| the solutions for workplace related problems can be drilled down
| to "look for a new job and quit your old one", but the hosts are
| very charismatic and funny. And when they do give good advice
| it's always something I've kept in mind which has occassionally
| helped me in my own job.
| RussianCow wrote:
| > the hosts are very charismatic and funny
|
| For me, this is what makes the show. I normally don't like
| "conversational" podcasts, but this is my one exception. There
| are thousands of resources for this kind of thing that are
| better if you want information density, but Dave and Jamison's
| conversations are endlessly entertaining, and they are both
| extremely witty and charismatic.
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| Gonna give this one a listen. Thanks for the recommendation.
| dustincoates wrote:
| I second this one. It's the only podcast on/adjacent to
| engineering that I regularly listen to (even Syntax.fm I'll dip
| in and out of). Good community, too.
| arisbe__ wrote:
| Technium Podcast is my favorite:
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhfaP5QnGb0zeEaxThM87zpo8...
| emptysongglass wrote:
| I'm ready having a hard time finding really strong Kubernetes and
| DevOps podcasts. The DevOps Paradox duo don't really have a sense
| for tight editing (especially that intro that is neither funny or
| timely). The official Kubernetes podcast hosts are very boring.
| Red Hat was doing a great one on Kubernetes but dropped it.
|
| Any suggestions?
| micimize wrote:
| Am biased in both cases, but would recommend
| https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ for topics across the
| field, https://generallyintelligent.com/podcast/ for (focused)
| interviews with (mostly) ML researchers. SED has multiple hosts
| now on top of broad subject matter but I'd recommend the George
| Hotz (self driving cars) or Dmitri Maslov (quantum computing)
| episodes.
|
| Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with the former and work for the
| latter
| jeffdoolittle wrote:
| I'm one of the hosts for Software Engineering Radio.
|
| https://se-radio.net
|
| From the About page:
|
| Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the
| professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting
| educational resource, not a newscast. Now a weekly show, we talk
| to experts from throughout the software engineering world about
| the full range of topics that matter to professional developers.
| jim_lawless wrote:
| Seconded. There's a lot of good listening in the archives in
| addition to the new episodes. One of my favorites is an old
| interview with Anders Hejlsberg that includes discussions of
| Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and LINQ.
|
| https://www.se-radio.net/2008/05/episode-97-interview-anders...
| fuy wrote:
| Some of the ones that I haven't yet seen mentioned:
|
| "Oxide and Friends" is a great interdisciplinary podcast with a
| lot of focus on hardware and low-level stuff, but always looking
| at a big picture.
|
| "Array Cast" is a pretty unique podcast about array languages
| (think APL, J, K and friends).
|
| "Type Theory Forall" - podcast about formal methods and type
| theory, some absolutely great guests there!
|
| I also have to mention "IPv6 Buzz" and in general "Packet
| pushers" family of podcasts on networking - listening to it
| helped me a lot when I had to implement some IPv6 functionality
| at my job and didn't really know where to start.
|
| Oh, and "Machine learning street talk" is just awesome if you're
| a bit more philosophically inclined.
| bobterryo wrote:
| Thanks for mentioning Array Cast. We try to aim at an audience
| that might not be familiar with the array languages, but are
| interested in who uses them and how they work. We also have
| transcripts and extensive show notes for deeper dives into the
| material. We have a lot of fun recording it and I think that
| comes through. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes
| rtfeldman wrote:
| I host Software Unscripted - weekly hour-long episodes with a
| variety of guests:
|
| http://software-unscripted.com
| bob1029 wrote:
| I've been listening to Signals & Threads:
|
| https://signalsandthreads.com
| sam_lowry_ wrote:
| Its too Janes Steet specific.
| raybb wrote:
| https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ has quite a backlog of good
| episodes but during covid the show kinda got off track.
| philip1209 wrote:
| That's because the founder passed away this Summer after a long
| struggle with mental health:
|
| https://twitter.com/software_daily/status/155561241447724237...
| rashidujang wrote:
| I really enjoy listening to Coding Blocks, especially when
| they're discussing popular software engineering books (DDD,
| Devops Handbook, etc.) which give a great overview of what the
| core concepts of the book are along with practical applications.
| They don't take themselves too seriously what with having dad
| joke sections but still manage to keep things informational and
| current. They can be pretty long so I recommend breaking
| listening sessions following their survey sections.
| tresil wrote:
| Yup, I've been listening to them for a number of years. I
| appreciate the balance of discussing technical concepts and
| general banter on developer life.
| krzysztow wrote:
| That's so good, too. I was checking if someone mentions them,
| or to write comment myself. Very good. Sometimes tangential,
| but enjoy their every episode.
| KronisLV wrote:
| Personally I occasionally listen to the Complete Developer
| Podcast: https://completedeveloperpodcast.com/
|
| To me the hosts seem pleasant and the topics relevant, it might
| not be the most detailed podcast out there, but it sure is a
| comfy one to listen to.
|
| Also, occasionally The Changelog Podcast is nice to listen to:
| https://changelog.com/podcast
|
| And the CoRecursive Podcast as well: https://corecursive.com/
|
| The latter two have a greater variety of people to talk to, about
| all sorts of projects in the industry. One of them had a pretty
| good interview about SQLite, which was an interesting listen -
| hearing a bit more about how the project came to be and how it
| was developed.
| krzysztow wrote:
| You're right, all are good. But in my case Changelog is not
| only occasional. I think I might be listening to most of the
| episodes of all series/podcasts they do and every episode of
| "Ship It!" Is the must for me now!
| tippysdemise wrote:
| I'll second the recommendation of CoRecursive and provide a
| link to the SQLite episode:
|
| https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
|
| I recommend that episode in particular.
| joaomeloplus wrote:
| i follow these onse: https://code.melo.plus/p/podcasts-for-web-
| developers
| carimura wrote:
| For Java developers check out the Inside Java Podcast where we
| interview the folks working on the Java Platform for an inside
| look at important innovations (eg Loom, Panama, Amber, JavaFX,
| secure coding guidelines, contributing to OpenJDK, etc.)
|
| https://inside.java/podcast
|
| I haven't found many that hit 100%, so subscribing to a bunch and
| allowing your podcast app to store say the "latest 3" is how I
| pick and choose the episodes I'm interested in.
| krzysztow wrote:
| I'd say for java also airhacks.fm podcast. The his Adam Bien is
| one of the most pragmatic engineers I imagine.
| conor_f wrote:
| Late Night Linux is very enjoyable. Not too heavy/dense, but good
| for keeping up with current news in the Linux/FOSS world. Focuses
| more on the technology as opposed to stories from individuals.
|
| https://latenightlinux.com/
| lsowen wrote:
| Risky Business is a great weekly cybersecurity podcast:
| https://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/
| oxff wrote:
| Nothing beats the Jane Street one for programming / engineering.
| Some of them could be introductory lectures to a subject.
| bkishan wrote:
| To add, the name of the podcast is Signals and Threads.
| MaxBarraclough wrote:
| I recommend _Happy Path Programming_ , with Bruce Eckel (author
| of _Thinking in C++_ ) and James Ward. It tends to focus on
| programming language topics rather than software engineering more
| broadly.
|
| I would give a link, but it doesn't seem to have a home-page.
| da5is wrote:
| All of the ChangeLog ones are excellent, and they have specific
| ones for Javascript and Go (and an excellent ops one called
| ShipIt): https://changelog.com/podcasts
| krzysztow wrote:
| This! Can't recommend them enough. With "Ship it!" being the
| top notch!
| joshlemer wrote:
| Yeah, GoTime is a great podcast
| gytisgreitai wrote:
| I have such love and hate relationship with them. They tend to
| pick interesting topics and invite truly awesome people, but
| gosh do they both suck as hosts - they often get carried away
| into their mildly related personal experiences or small talk
| about nothing
| qbasic_forever wrote:
| That's not my impression at all about them--I've been
| listening to three of their shows for 5 years now. The
| interviews are top notch and there are rarely episodes
| without any specific focus.
| jerodsanto wrote:
| We're always trying to improve! Do you have any examples of
| us small talking about nothing? That'd be super helpful to
| know.
| gytisgreitai wrote:
| On top of my head:
|
| - the epbf episode where one of you started talking like
| back in the old days you treated servers as pets and not as
| cattle
|
| - the episode about auditing startups where most of the
| talk you were carried away and even said somethin "let's
| continue or we won't finish" or something
|
| - oh and that Silicon Valley tv show stuff that just keeps
| popping every other time
|
| It's like that uncle of mine that I meet every Christmas
| who is always "back in my days" (I remeber when we...) or
| "in my old hometown they used to" (here at changelog we...)
|
| but that's just my personal opinion. Time is scare these
| days so I'd like to get as much info as possible.
|
| But hey, I'm sure there are millions that adore you, cause
| in general the guests and topics are great
| jerodsanto wrote:
| Thanks, these are good examples! I'm not going to
| disagree with you on the Silicon Valley references... ;)
| krzysztow wrote:
| On the other hand, some of the drift away just shows
| we're all people. I'm listening podcasts on 1.5-1.7x
| speed and digressions are all good to me. Keep up the
| awesome work you do, guys! Real fan of yours!
| s_c_r wrote:
| Y'all are one of my favorite podcasts. Loved the vim and
| neovim episodes. Heroku and Tauri ones too. Keep up the
| good work.
| fakeempire wrote:
| I feel rude even saying this because I like the work you
| guys do and don't want to bum this person out, but I had to
| stop listening to the ones with Johnny. He seems to just
| wax poetically so often. I'm sure hes super nice, but it
| feels like he talks for the majority of the episode instead
| of letting the guests and other hosts speak. Every time he
| has a thought you know your in for a 3 minute spiel.
|
| Sorry, Johnny! It's probably just me.
| jonstewart wrote:
| The podcast has grown on me a lot. You and Adam tend to
| speak with vocal fry, and it comes across as a little bro-y
| at first.
|
| Really loved the recent episodes with Adam Wiggins.
| brianzelip wrote:
| You replied to a comment about 3 different shows, to which
| are you referring?
|
| Nonetheless, Changelog has great shows and great hosts and
| great guests. I listen to _a lot_ of dev related podcasts,
| and I can assure you, they all have some of the human affects
| you pointed out.
|
| Changelog definitely rises to the top!
|
| Hi Jerod!
| hortonew wrote:
| That's the beauty of the internet, you're bound to find
| things you don't like that others have the exact opposite
| experience with. I find them extremely relatable, fun, and
| knowledgeable.
| nsikorr wrote:
| Only _related_ to software engineering but the Lex Fridman
| Podcast should be in this thread.
| xqcgrek2 wrote:
| That person's interviewing skills are atrocious and his pithy
| "love" schtick strains credulity given the way he handles
| criticism of him.
| tasuki wrote:
| How's he handle criticism?
| greenpeas wrote:
| yeah, his questions and comments are quite often naive and
| cringe. But he has incredible guests, from all sorts of
| domains, and lets them talk for hours.
| worik wrote:
| His "love schtick" is his best feature.
| yodsanklai wrote:
| What does it mean?
| yodsanklai wrote:
| > That person's interviewing skills are atrocious
|
| I think it's a bit unfair. Overall, I'd say he's a decent
| interviewer and has interesting guests.
|
| That being said, I find him pretentious, and get a bit tired
| of some recurring cliches and themes. I'd prefer if he would
| keep things a bit more "neutral". Also he invites
| occasionally some crackpots, which would be fine if he'd
| challenge them more, or invite another guest who can.
| s_c_r wrote:
| Yeah, but man does he get some great guests from time to
| time. Really enjoyed Travis Oliphant and Todd Howard in
| addition to the ones the parent listed.
| phlipski wrote:
| I only recently discovered Lex Fridman's podcast (2 monthes
| ago), but I've been obsessed! The Fiona Hill episode (#335) was
| great. The climate change discussion between Bjorn Lomborg and
| Andrew Revkin (#339) was very educational. Ray Kurzweil (#321)
| was awesome as well. I wonder how that guy (Lex) has time to
| work his real job since he seems to put out 2 episodes a week
| and they're all 2-4 hours in length and he clearly does his
| homework!
| tasuki wrote:
| I'm pretty sure this is his job. He talks about creating a
| startup every now and then, but doesn't look like that's
| happening anytime soon.
| dajonker wrote:
| Agreed, I really enjoy his interviews with people from the
| industry (and occasionally other people as well). Donald Knuth,
| John Carmack, Demis Hassabis, Brendan Eich, Chris Lattner to
| name a few.
| charlus wrote:
| Python: Talk Python To Me, Python Bytes.
|
| For ML, I'd highly recommend Gradient Descent from Weights &
| Biases - Lucas is a fantastic host.
| random314 wrote:
| My personal opinion is that if you are aiming to be a good
| developer you should be reading more and NOT listening to
| podcasts.
|
| Guests on podcasts are typically there because of whatever is
| trending and are frequently overrun with self promoters. Has
| anyone managed to get Fabrice Bellard on a podcast? No, but Uncle
| Bob will be ever ready to show up.
| gigatexal wrote:
| TalkPythonToMe CoderRadio PythonBytes LinuxUnplugged 2.5Admins
| 4pkjai wrote:
| Darknet Diaries. You could say it's more about cyber security,
| but there wouldn't be cyber security guards (lol) if we didn't
| make the apps!
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| This one is one of my absolute favorites. The two part xbox
| episode is insane.
| aelzeiny wrote:
| The two-part xbox episode was my personal favorite, because I
| remember that scene in my early years but never knew the
| story behind it.
|
| The North Korea 3-parter is equally good IMO.
| mysterydip wrote:
| While not the exact mold fit, I find the DevGameClub
| (https://devgameclub.com) podcast to be excellent. Two veteran
| game developers look at games from the past, and discuss their
| relevance and impact today.
|
| It's great to look at games through a developer's lens, why
| things were done a certain way, and how we've improved since.
| Also they frequently have developers of the games on for
| interviews after they play through, with lots of "how the sausage
| is made" stories.
| geekjock wrote:
| I'm the host of the Engineering Enablement podcast:
| https://getdx.com/engineering-enablement-podcast
|
| We interview developers and leaders who work on "platform" teams
| (e.g. devex, devprod, infrastructure) that focus on making
| developers happier and more productive. If you're interested in
| this kind of work, or the subject of developer productivity, I
| think you'd enjoy checking it out.
|
| A couple recent episodes include an interview with a former
| Dropbox engineer about how they approached measuring
| productivity, and a conversation with a couple of engineers from
| LinkedIn who've built a system for gathering real-time feedback
| about their internal developer tools.
|
| Direct links if helpful:
|
| - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3NxjyIsuxeDMQtisDqBy7D
|
| - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engineering-
| enable...
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| This one sounds interesting! I'll give it a listen.
|
| Speaking of Platform teams, I'm one of the co-founders of
| WunderGraph(https://wundergraph.com/) and we're working on a
| platform right now for API Integration. Are you open to any
| guests from a early startup?
| geekjock wrote:
| Shoot me an email at abinoda@getdx.com, would love to
| connect.
|
| Right now we're focused on interviewing people in internal-
| facing roles, but we're exploring doing a series that
| explores interesting vendors and solutions.
| dochtman wrote:
| On the Metal has been discontinued, but highly recommend giving
| it a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/on-the-
| metal/id1488187....
|
| In the security/cryptography space, Security Cryptography
| Whatever is pretty great (with tptacek):
| https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/.
| adamgordonbell wrote:
| I'm the host of CoRecursive, a monthly podcast, where each
| episode a guest shares "The story of a piece of software being
| built." I'm going to be a little shameless and plug myself. I put
| a lot of work into the podcast and hacker news readers are
| basically exactly who it's for.
|
| Decembers episode was the story of porting Doom to the 3DO. Other
| favs of the year were the story of building the Android operating
| system, building Serenity OS, building CPAN and building Eliza
| the chat bot.
|
| https://corecursive.com/
| molly0 wrote:
| I really enjoy your podcast. It's the only podcast where I go
| back and listen to past episodes multiple times, they inspire
| me as a developer!
| colinb wrote:
| I found your podcast after a comment here about the episode
| featuring the guy who built the (Apple II?) app from his cabin
| in the woods. I'm still a regular listener.
| zolokar wrote:
| I just started listening to your podcast last month, I've been
| enjoying it a lot!
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| Nothing wrong with being a bit shameless to promote it!
|
| The episodes look pretty cool, gonna them a listen!
|
| Are you also open to any guest speakers?
| adamgordonbell wrote:
| Yeah, for sure, but it's a story telling podcast.
|
| My criteria are around someone having a really crazy you-
| wouldn't beleive-it story about a software project to share.
| adamrt wrote:
| My absolute favorite podcast. Pumped every month for the new
| episode. I think I've gone back and listened to nearly every
| one.
|
| Thanks so much for doing the show Adam. Some random ideas for
| guests:
|
| - Joshua Stein (@jcs): Too many projects to list. Rad all-
| around hacker.
|
| - Mike Bayer (@zzzeek): Creator of SQLAlchemy/Alembic
|
| - Theo de Raadt: OpenBSD creator. Somewhat a controversial guy,
| but very interesting.
| adamgordonbell wrote:
| Thanks for the support and the guest recommendations!
| fuzzygroup wrote:
| This is a fantastic podcast. I'd recommend it for any
| developer. Thank you Adam.
| satysin wrote:
| I enjoy Matt and Ben's podcast Two's Complement
| https://www.twoscomplement.org/
|
| Matt as in Matt Godbolt the guy who made Compiler Explorer at
| https://godbolt.org
| geshan wrote:
| Here are 20+ of them which includes some of the ones mentioned in
| this thread:
|
| https://geshan.com.np/blog/2021/04/sofware-engineer-podcasts...
| jamespwilliams wrote:
| Go Time is good (if you like Go, obviously)
|
| (I'd also recommend Security Cryptography Whatever and Signals &
| Threads, but they've already been mentioned)
| andrewl wrote:
| I've learned useful things from all of these: The Stack Overflow
| Podcast, Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman, Software Engineering
| Radio, and Coding Blocks.
| rileymat2 wrote:
| I listen to coding blocks, but a new listener should know they
| often take on new topics, from reading a book or something, and
| can explain things wrong a bit more often than I would expect
| from an authoritative source. Things that sound plausibly
| correct. So, you have to be more careful with that one.
|
| That said I like it and recommend it.
| topkai22 wrote:
| If working in or adjacent to the Microsoft stack, .NET Rocks
| (running since 2002!) and RunAs radio are great. Not quite
| developer media, but the .NET rocks geek out episodes are some of
| my favorite primers on anywhere.
|
| Linear digressions was very good for when I was dabbling in data
| science, although they are no longer producing episodes.
|
| I really enjoy Coffee with Butterscotch although it's focused on
| comedy and game dev on lighter on software engineering.
| wskinner wrote:
| Corecursive: https://corecursive.com/
| yashap wrote:
| I'm a fan too, especially the episodes from 2020 onwards. Some
| of my favourites:
|
| - Talking with Richard Hipp about SQLite:
| https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto...
|
| - What it was like working at Apple in the early 2000s:
| https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto...
|
| - The birth of UNIX with Brian Kernighan:
| https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto...
| pbiggar wrote:
| We haven't recorded one in a while, but I have a podcast called
| To Be Continuous [1] with Edith Harbaugh from Launchdarkly. It
| was less about specifics like discussing generics in Go or
| garbage collection, more about how software gets made (product,
| startups, coding, devtools, etc). I won't claim it's the best
| software engineering podcast, but developers have told me they
| liked it :)
|
| [1] https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous
| toddmorey wrote:
| LogRocket's PodRocket podcast is pretty good for web development
| topics.
| AnhTho_FR wrote:
| I like this one with a focus on OSS: https://oss-startup-
| podcast.launchnotes.io/
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| ooo this one sounds cool. Thanks for the recommendation!
| stux wrote:
| My two favourites at the moment that haven't already been
| mentioned are:
|
| https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/algorithms-data-struct...
|
| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/software-unscripted/id...
| feiss wrote:
| For Spanish listeners, La Vieja Guardia is pretty nice, with
| interesting guests and very casual chatting
| gronky_ wrote:
| Programming Throwdown is awesome. Their last episode on quantum
| computing is one of my all-time favorite episodes of any podcast
| https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/programming-throwdown/...
| bliblablub4 wrote:
| There is this podcast solely about Donkey Kong which I absolutely
| adore. Everything about this game is magnificent and there is so
| much stuff you wouldn't know if not for this podcast. For
| example, did you know that the plot for DK Country 2 is based on
| real events? It's amazing! You can listen to it over at
| https://donkeykongpodcast.monkey
| Apocryphon wrote:
| Promising gimmick
| jamesqquick wrote:
| Well, I'm a bit biased, but myself and Amy Dutton run a podcast
| called Compressed.fm, a weekly podascast about Web Developer and
| Design with a little bit of Zest!
|
| https://compressed.fm/
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| I can vouch for this one! I've started listening to this one
| recently and been enjoying it so far. Wide range of topics
| within Web development and the hosts are very charismatic and
| welcoming.
| ufo wrote:
| Free as in Freedom, by Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler from the
| software freedom conservancy. About free software, particularly
| from the legal & lawyery end of things.
|
| Although they haven't released new episodes in a while, the
| archives are still there and most of it is just as relevant
| today.
| jcutrell wrote:
| I'm the host of Developer Tea. It's not for everyone (not a
| technical podcast), but you may enjoy it!
|
| I also recommend Hidden Brain, SyntaxFM if you are into JS
| especially, and Soft Skills Daily.
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| I'm open to technical and non technical podcasts. What do you
| mainly talk about?
| rashidujang wrote:
| Developer Tea has been my go to wind down podcast after a long
| day. Thank you!
| hortonew wrote:
| Developer Tea has been a great listen. Thanks for your
| contributions!
| qxxx wrote:
| oh yeah! Developer Tea is my favorite podcast, it is short, so
| it is enough if I go for a walk (or drink some tea)
| knaik94 wrote:
| I found it worthwhile to spend a day finding specific episodes of
| software engineering related podcasts. I've found good results
| when searching for software episodes in Algorithmic Trading,
| Math, Netsec, and Game Development podcasts. I also found that
| searching YouTube with the >20 min filter helps me find podcast-
| like single discussions/presentations. Youtube autoplay and
| recommended videos are really good for me.
|
| Chat With Traders Podcast has Quant traders and software
| engineers from time to time. Hearing technical people talk about
| work and answer questions to a non-technical audience is useful,
| because podcasts often don't have PR talk. There are exception to
| that, here's a 3 year old episode with Sam Bankman-Fried
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSDk5PAJss4
| https://chatwithtraders.com/?s=software
|
| DataSkeptic is an AI, data science, stats, advertising podcast I
| have found relatively recently. The have had multiple seasons,
| Seasons labeled, Ad-Tech (current), Physically Distributed,
| k-means, Time Series, Consensus, Interpretability, Fake News,
| Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. I
| really liked the episodes I have heard so far.
| https://dataskeptic.com/
|
| I also enjoy old developer conference presentations like ones
| from Game Developers Conference and Defcon. There are projects to
| put saved articles through text to speech in batches on the
| computer, but I have set up classic TTS on my phone instead. Not
| all articles will work well for conversion though.
| __mharrison__ wrote:
| Talk Python is great for... Python.
|
| Test and Code is a good (the only?) testing podcast (often with a
| Python angle).
| williamstein wrote:
| Seconded. The host conveys a genuine sense of deep
| understanding of Python from the perspective of users.
| krzysztow wrote:
| "Talk python" and "Real python" are the ones I enjoy listening.
| brianzelip wrote:
| > Test and Code is a good (the only?) testing podcast (often
| with a Python angle).
|
| There is also Code with Jason, the author of which wrote a book
| on testing with Ruby, and the episodes often get into tests.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| Darknet Diaries. Learn how to avoid the bad guys. :)
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| One of my favorite podcasts. The two part xbox episode is my
| favorite.
| bobleeswagger wrote:
| The style of this podcast bothers me. I was expecting it to
| be more conversational than narrated.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| It varies. When he has guests that tells stories it is a
| lot more conversational.
|
| I appreciate the narration a lot because I would have no
| idea what is going on otherwise. :)
| madamdo wrote:
| Hey, great list of awesome podcasts. I'm the host of Software
| Engineering Unlocked https://www.se-unlocked.com.
|
| The episodes focus on the experience of my guests with software
| engineering practices such as testing, or code review, their
| journey to advance their career and often also on how developers
| build their successful business.
|
| Would love if you give it a listen and see if you like my show.
| nilsandrey wrote:
| Highly recommended indeed
| willi59549879 wrote:
| I enjoyed listening to: - Command Line Heroes
| (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes): super polished,
| mostly about high level concepts and history.
|
| - Data Engineering Podcast
| (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/): Podcast about Data
| engineering and Databases.
| SlickStef11 wrote:
| So many good recommendations! Thank you everyone for the
| suggestions!
| spiralganglion wrote:
| For those interested in the theoretical, historical, or
| experimental fringes of computing, you may enjoy the
| monthly-(ish) podcast from the Future of Coding community:
| https://futureofcoding.org/episodes
|
| The most recent episode is about Bret Victor's 2006 essay Magic
| Ink, but other recent episodes have covered Alan Kay and Doug
| Engelbart, and older episodes feature interviews with people
| working at the edges of what it means to program a computer,
| including Devine Lu Linvega (Orca), Toby Schachman (Apparatus,
| Cuttle), Ella Hoeppner (Vlojure), and even Miller Puckette
| (Max/MSP, Pure Data).
|
| I'm the current host of the podcast, so if you have suggestions
| for future episodes or other feedback about the show, I'm all
| ears.
| culi wrote:
| I would be absolutely thrilled to see more coverage on the T2
| Tile Project[0] and this seems like exactly the kind of place
| this could fit in.
|
| [0] https://t2tile.com/
| fuy wrote:
| sounds interesting, will definitely listen to a few episodes!
| thealienthing wrote:
| Programming Throwdown is a pretty good podcast Ive been listening
| to it for a few years. The first 20 or so episodes, they had a
| segment that focused on a specific programming language, the
| history, application and quirks which was a fun way to learn more
| about coding and the different tools (languages) available.
| They've since evolved to cover more practical topics such as test
| driven development, AI etc. it's a good one.
|
| If you're a python fan, Talk Python To Me is a great podcast.
| Covers so many topics within python from libraries, frameworks
| and special tools.
|
| The thing I like about these two podcasts is that they don't
| assume that their listeners are primarily web developers. Since I
| don't work in the web domain, it's been tough to find a good
| podcasts that cover CS more broadly.
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