HACKER Q&A
📣 Hixon10

What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?


During COVID-era we got a lot of new podcasts. So I am wonder, what is the current list of Tech Podcasts, which you consume these days?

My current list:

1. https://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast/ - deep dives into different tech topics

2. https://anchor.fm/happypathprogramming - scala/kotlin/java + interviews with different tech people

3. https://postgres.fm/episodes - deep dives into different parts of PostgreSQL database

4. https://www.softwareatscale.dev/archive - interviews with different tech people

5. https://bootifulpodcast.fm/#/all-podcasts - java/spring + interviews with different tech people


  👤 nicolaslem Accepted Answer ✓
Without doubt Darknet Diaries, it should be a mandatory listen for anyone touching computers. It is a crash course on building secure systems by learning from the failures of others.

I highly recommend starting from episode #1 because they are almost all great and episodes often reference past topics.

https://darknetdiaries.com


👤 frou_dh
Software Unscripted https://twitter.com/sw_unscripted is good. I don't know whether it's well known or not. Possibly a hidden gem.

Already mentioned, but Signals & Threads https://signalsandthreads.com is a very notable one. Probably the best episode hit-rate of any development-related podcast I've listened to.

Core Intuition https://coreint.org Apple-platform focused. Hosts have endearing personalities.

The Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast Good interviewers and wide-ranging episode topics (some get deleted - I won't subject myself to Kubernetes-related blather!)


👤 jacksgt
I highly recommend CoRecursive - The Stories Behind The Code: https://corecursive.com/

Basically, the host (Adam Gordon Bell, himself a programmer) is interviewing other software developers about their career or the journey to a particular piece of software.

I found these two episodes particularly interesting: * Software Word Tour: https://corecursive.com/software-world-tour-with-son-luong-n... * The Untold Story of SQLite: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/


👤 JohnDeHope
Python Bytes. Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. Python Bytes podcast delivers headlines directly to your earbuds. If you want to stay up on the Python developer news but don't have time to scour reddit, twitter, and other news sources, just subscribe and you'll get the best picks delivered weekly. https://pythonbytes.fm/

👤 samsaga2
I like a lot https://signalsandthreads.com/.

Also, Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman when he interviews people like John Carmack.


👤 jjarvis
I like Future of Coding. The show combines interviews with paper reads. One of my favorite interviews was with Miller Puckette who created Pure Data and the original version of the Max/MSP software.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-of-coding/id126...

I also enjoy the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast. This podcast takes a much needed critical take of tech and SV culture. I feel like this is what tech journalism should be as opposed to the usual cheer leading we usually see.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id15...


👤 matt_daemon
Oxide and Friends covers a pretty good range of topics from hardware, software, business, company values.

https://feeds.transistor.fm/oxide-and-friends


👤 dewey
I was also going to post your 3). https://postgres.fm is great, and I feel like every episode I learn something new or find something to look into more in detail.

👤 holler
Have enjoyed the All-In pod for macro tech/biz/culture/etc https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja...

👤 AlchemistCamp
I’ve been getting into Corecursive

https://corecursive.com/


👤 umbs
About 9 months back I relocated to India and started listening to Scaler Pod (https://www.youtube.com/@SCALER). It's focused on startups in India, and interviews their CTO or SVPs.

Two personal favorites: Dukaan CTO Subhash Choudhary[1] and Rippling Co-Founder Prasanna Sankar[2]

[1] https://youtu.be/a5kKRtMmhzQ [2] https://youtu.be/8-6f7zh46EQ


👤 hanklazard
I enjoy all of Jupiter Broadcasting’s output (mostly shows about Linux) but especially “Self-Hosted”

http://jupiterbroadcasting.com


👤 lysecret
100% Signals an Threads. Super technical extremely well presented.

Some more fluffy ones: Hard fork. Pivot. All in.


👤 niek_pas
Accidental tech podcast - atm.fm

👤 warmfusion
For the SRE in the room, check out Slight Reliability Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1698445

His perspective on SRE really resonates and he shares some really great strategies and book recommendations for adoption of SRE practices, cultures and technologies without pretending he has all the answers.

Very good!


👤 bluehatbrit
I've been really enjoying the Hacked podcast for about a year now. It's quite similar to Darknet Diaries but episodes are typically shorter and they seem to be branching out a bit more past just security. They don't seem to have a website so here are some of the useful links:

* https://twitter.com/hackedpodcast

* https://open.spotify.com/show/21zZfOy7VCSIIWlJ64DElv?si=f1ad...

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacked/id1049420219


👤 yucky
Nobody has mentioned Acquired yet?

I think they do a great job discussing the history and business decision in tech that have led to where we are today.

It's not all tech focused, but even the handful of episodes that aren't such as the Berkshire Hathaway one are tangentially related and great.


👤 linasj
Mine is Risky Business https://risky.biz/RB691/ . It's about IT security.

But I'm more interested in dev news and I am still searching for a podcast that would have discussions about dev news.


👤 jbms
https://embedded.fm/

If you are interested in embedded software, and by extension all the stuff that software goes into.


👤 veganjay
+1 for Darknet Diaries

Also, a few others that I did not see here:

- Programming Throwdown: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/

- This Developer's Life: https://thisdeveloperslife.com/

- Adventures of Alice & Bob: https://www.beyondtrust.com/podcast


👤 heywire
Late Night Linux, Linux After Dark, Linux Downtime, 2.5 Admins

👤 niklasbuhl

👤 actionfromafar
The SAAS Podcast

Ukraine: the Latest

Startups for the Rest of Us

You're Wrong About

Built to Sell Radio

Disrupting Japan

Advent of Computing

Darknet Diaries

The Art of Product Podcast

Signals and Threads

Practical Founders Podcast

I Dream of Cameras


👤 mellosouls
I wonder if there is a gap in the audio market for low-level podcasts aimed at building technical "muscle memory".

Example: repeated syntax step-throughs in a rote/kata style, like foreign language courses.

I've never seen anything like that and have often wondered if it could work without the visual accompaniment.


👤 JohnDeHope
Coder Radio. A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology. Chris Fisher, Michael Dominick, Wes Payne. https://coder.show/

👤 swyx
here's my list: https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts#tech

and i've done annual updates you can find at the top of the post


👤 mtk0
although it is specific to scala, chris kipp's tooling podcast is fascinating. there is much to learn about tooling in general and if you're a scala developer, the technical insight is invaluable.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tooling-talks/id158000... https://www.tooling-talks.com/


👤 n8henrie
+1 for Darknet Diaries

2.5 Admins

Self Hosted

Late Night Linux / Linux After Dark

Ham Radio Workbench

Rustacean Station (esp the "new release" episodes)

RealPython has some fair content for beginner / intermediate level

Hackaday covers some pretty interesting projects I wouldn't have found otherwise


👤 avinassh
What are some tech podcasts which dive really deep into the tech?

👤 jayy-lmao
Shout out to Unruly Software! Love these guys.

Australian dev duo. Casual conversations around web dev, mostly the experiences of the hosts over the last month or so. Informative but relaxed.

10/10 parasocial relationship


👤 ilt
For UX and Web Design, I highly recommend The Boagworld UX Show, although it is over now but it has a huge repository of over 15 years, with transcripts. It's a timeless relic.

👤 patrick91
The changelog for sure! https://changelog.com/podcast

👤 Raed667

👤 swah
For some reason I mostly consume Twitch/Youtube over podcasts these days - I stopped with podcasts when I stopped driving 40 minutes to work. (I kinda miss that...)

👤 caeril
Self-Hosted, of course.

https://selfhosted.show/


👤 azangru
http203 was my favorite while it lasted. Both highly enjoyable and informative.

I also want to give a shoutout to the CSS podcast by Adam Argyle and Una Kravets. It isn't easy to listen to, because it's trying to describe verbally what's essentially visual; but it is full of useful information.


👤 larrysalibra
Nostrovia - a podcast about Nostr

https://nostrovia.org


👤 andrewstuart
I’ve been disappointed with podcasts over the past couple of years. I tend to listen to YouTube videos now.

👤 hestefisk
2.5 admins

👤 running101
Software engineering daily

👤 tluyben2
- type theory forall

- arraycast

- Eric Normand podcast


👤 birdymcbird
- all in

- this week in tech

- Lex freidman