Hi HN,
I love listening to programming or programming-adjacent/technology podcasts while I do chores, I would like to find more!
Please share your favorite ones!
Here are mine, in no particular order:
- CoRecursive
- ADSP (Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs)
- Two's Complement
- Darknet Diaries
- Lex Fridman (some episodes with programmers and programming language creators)
Im having a hard time finding ones not just hypong the next framework, but any of your favorites I'd love to hear about!
Edit: CppCast was my favorite, but its no longer as fun without the original two ;)
I can't listen to them anywhere I want. I have to pause and rewind constantly to catch detail. I can't underline something significant or save it for later.
Most programming podcasts are just paid interviews it seems. It’s always the same guest on the same podcasts making the same comments.
Very few hosts ask relevant questions or try to have a dialogue. It always comes across as extremely disingenuous when you can tell they are just sucking up to the person they are interviewing.
The only podcast I consistently listen to is Oxide and Friends, it comes across is genuine even if it’s basically an advertisement for Oxide Computers. Probably more to do with who the hosts are as people.
[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-fo...
Also oxide is doing god's work for servers. I've had the misfortune to automate thousands of servers through their BMCs, and boy did I curse a lot.
It's become far too long and not focused enough for me to enjoy lately, but it's a nice change of pace to hear about new or lost ideas, rather than hearing about mundane tech I see and hear about every day anyway. Less Rust, Javascript and k8s, and more revisiting papers and moonshot ideas from the 80s for me, please!
A great introduction to this podcast is the Devine Lu Linvega (of 100 Rabbits fame) double episode about writing his own tools, and orca, his music live coding platform.
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045
- Soft Skills Engineering: very humorous and light take on the people side of SWE
- StaffEng: interviews with engineers with staff+ roles
- Lenny's: if you are into product, growth and startups in general
It was already mentioned by a sibling comment, but podcasts from the Changelog are also very good.
Recently I started listening to Acquired, starting with their episodes on Nintendo and Sega, then Microsoft. Not all of their episodes are tech companies, but plenty are if that’s what you want.
Software Unscripted sometimes, and Rustacian Station occasionally. CoRecursive as you already mentioned.
- 2.5 Admins (sysadmins Talking)
- A Bootiful Podcast (Java / Spring)
- Risky Biz (IT Security News)
- Software Engineering Radio
- The Engineering Room with Dave Farley
- Ship It (What happens after git push)
- ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast
- Big Ideas in App Architecture (Cockroach DB Makers)
- OpenSource Security Podcast (Two guys talking about OS)
- InfoQ Podcast
- Engineering Enablement
https://show.csprimer.com
Also YouTube version: https://youtube.com/@cs_primer
Especially the one about packet loss, it was really interesting to hear the way a software engineer explains network protocols.
I hope you continue.
I started an open source scrollset compiling the list here: https://pldb.io/lists/podcasts.html (source: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/main/lists/podcasts.scro...)