dev podcasts

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📻 My Favourite Podcasts

developer podcasts I’ve listened to

Some of these I still subscribe to, others are no longer in my subsctiption list to make time for non-dev related podcasts

• Ruby Book Club [RSS] [discontinued] – Nadia Odunayo and Saron Yitbarek read an hour of a Ruby book each week, then summarise and discuss what they learned

• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots by thoughtbot [RSS]
  product management and software business chat

• The Bike Shed by thoughtbot [RSS]
  in-depth technical chat by thoughtbot engineers

• The Changelog [RSS]
  general open source topics, usually an interview with a developer

• Shoptalk Show [RSS] by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert
  frontend talk, interviews, listener questions, quite a lot on Wordpress and CMSs

• Hanselminutes [RSS] by Scott Hanselman. Interviews with developers on a diverse range of topics

• Greater than code [RSS] Listener-supported podcast with a rotating set of panelists and one or two interviewees. Discussion revolves around the human side of software development rather than technical details

• The Web Platform Podcast [RSS] All things new and exciting about browsers, standards, and developing for the Web

• Front End Happy Hour [RSS] [Twitter] – lighthearted, not so serious panel discussion / drinking game (a topical trigger word causes everyone to drink whenever anyone mentions it)

• Why Are Computers [RSS] by Tom Stuart. Very sporadic interview series on fascinating computer-sciency stuff. Unfortunately no new episodes.

• Code Newbie [RSS] by Saron Yitbarek, interviewing guests on their coding journey. Some newbies have been professionally writing software for decades.

programming podcasts I’ve heard about, but haven’t listened to

• Turing Incomplete [feed]
  panel podcast on general programming topics

• Software Engineering Radio [feed]
  general SE topics, quite long format interviews

• The Pragmatic Bookshelf [RSS]
  interviews with authors of books published by PragProg

• JavaScript Jabber [RSS]
  by devchat.tv (like Ruby Rogues) – JS focused podcast

see also

• this long list of dev podcasts by John Sonmez, organized by categories

non-dev podcasts

• No Such Thing As A Fish [RSS] – hilarious useless-facts-and-comedy podcast by the QI Elves Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski

• TED Talks Daily [feed] – unsurprisingly, just daily TED talks

• TED Radio Hour [RSS] – one hour compilation of listener’s digest versions of TED talks around one particular topic, host Guy Raz interviews the TED speakers.

• The TED Interview – Chris Anderson interviews TED speakers to dig deeper into their ideas. The TED Interview is to TED talks what Simplify is to Books-in-Blinks.

• Freakonomics Radio [feed] – Stephen Dubner presents a well-researched, opinionated view of various sociological topics, usually interviewing an expert or a book author.

• Tell Me Something I Don’t Know [RSS] – Stephen Dubner hosts a live show where contestants present an interesting, less-known, true factoid worth knowing, judged by a panel and fact-checked live, then voted upon by the audience to pick one winner. Discontinued, but now part of the main Freakonomics feed (marketed as Freakonomics Live).

• The Curiuos Cases of Rutherford and Fry [RSS] – Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Hannah Fry use science to investigate a listener question, without taking themselves or the subject matter too seriously

• Revisionist History [feed] – by Malcolm Gladwell, where he explores some historical event worth revisiting

• The Infinite Monkey Cage [RSS] – scientist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince look at the world of science and philosophy through the lense of comedy and absurd British humour.

• Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe – particle physicist Daniel and cartoonist Jorge (the maker of the popular PHD Comics) talk about the biggest cosmological questions.

• Elements [RSS] [archived] – each episode explores one element of the Periodic Table, and its significance for the economy, industry, science, politics, history, and society.

• 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy [RSS] [archived] – each episode explores one particular invention, object, or idea that shaped the economy and the modern world as we know it.

• Click [RSS] – Gareth Mitchell presents a less-than-serious look at recent developments in the world of (ditigal) technology and their potential for arts and society

• You Are Not So Smart [RSS] – David McRaney interviews scientists about psychological issues common to all humans: biases, misconceptions, fallacies

• Methodisch Inkorrekt [feed] [German] – experimental physicists Nicolas Wöhrl and Reinhard Remfort spend a solid three hours every two weeks rambling about science, the Nobel Prize, and giggling and not taking themselves seriously

• Polyamory Weekly [RSS] – Cunning Minx interviewing various people about their journey in consensual nonmonogamy, answers listener questions, and voicing opinions on how to do relationships

Deutschsprachige Podcasts, empfohlen von Felix:

• Der Flaneur - da gehts um Technologie und Digitalisierung
• Hotel Matze - ist ein Interview-Podcast mit vielen deutschen Promis
• Fest und Flauschig ist der weltweit meist gestreamte podcast auf spotify und momentan richtig gehyped, ist auch echt sehr unterhaltsam mit vielen diversen Themen und eher unstrukturiert
• beste freundinnen ist auch ganz witzig mit 2 Vätern die über Beziehungen und Elternschaft reden usw.