sw-yx / awesome-dev-podcasts

a curated list of awesome dev podcasts and why they are awesome

this list is now archived - look inside https://github.com/sw-yx/brain if you would like an updated list! thank you.

awesome-dev-podcasts

a curated list of awesome dev podcasts and why they are awesome. I don't like normal "awesome" lists because they are usually not well maintained and are typically placed without an explanation of awesome, so here i will actually go out on a limb and say what i think. i'm a webdev and former finance guy so those are my biases.

list started in response to AMA with @lucidsif

note: links are incomplete because i havent had the time to link stuff up, you're gonna wanna just punch them in to your podcatcher anyway

Technical Podcasts

1. Javascript

• Devchat.TV Master feed (Javascript Jabber, My JS Story): for some good JS interviews as well as picks (at the end)
• React Native Radio: by the React Native Training guys, what it says on the tin
• The React Podcast: Michael Jackson's new podcast (not to be confused with React30), 'nuff said.
• JAMStack Radio: Netlify/Heavybit marketing for the JAMStack idea
• Egghead.io developer chats: by egghead.io instructors :)
• Syntax.fm: Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski are full of tasty treats and sicccccck picks
• Adventures in Angular: a weekly podcast dedicated to the Angular JavaScript framework and related technologies, tools, languages, and practices. Very good interviews and great picks.
• The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast: a show about JavaScript for people who hate the complexity of modern front‑end web development, hosted by Chris Ferdinandi.
• JSParty: JS party is back with a huge panel of hosts!

2. Non JS Webdev Technical podcasts

• The Big Web Show: General Web design show: "web publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. It's everything web that matters." Great guests like Jen Simmons.
• The Changelog: Interviews of Open Source people. I skip a lot of these but its good to keep tabs on the huge world outside of JS.
• Codepen Radio: The inside look at the technical decisions behind Codepen.io. the early episodes are a GOLDMINE for entrepreogrammers (more below) but now its more just "what's going on with Codepen".
• Shoptalk Show: Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert talk webdev. 'nuff said.
• Toolsday: Una Kravets (Bustle) and Chris Dhanaraj (Netflix) do 20 minutes of tech tools, tips, and tricks. Always worth clicking through to show notes and checking out their recs.
• Non Breaking Space Show: good webdev guests, not really sure what the theme is apart from generic frontend.
• The New Stack: Devops/Cloud topics - honestly a lot of it is above me but this is the most approachable by far.
• Fixate on Code: More good webdev guests :)
• GraphQL Radio: all about the GraphQL
• The Web Platform: starts of with 2 minutes of browser news, and then has awesome webdev guests
• Elm Town: A podcast about writing Web apps in the Elm language, and the people who make up the community
• Reason Town: A podcast about writing Javascript with the Reason language, and the people who make up the community
• The CSS Podcast: by couple of Google's developer advocates. Talks about all the awesome things happening in CSS world.

3. Non Webdev Technical podcasts

• Coding Blocks: Reading through and discussing coding style books. Awesome slack community you can find me on daily :)
• Talk Python To Me: does a great job of keeping python topics accessible. Stark contrast to the monotone of Podcast.init (the other big python podcast)
• Data Skeptic: Kyle Polich mansplains data science to his wife Linh Da and she constantly gives him shit. I love it.
• Linear Digressions: Ben and Katie talk data science, usually with a lame pun
• Not So Standard Deviations: Roger Peng (professor somewhere) and Hilary Parker (stitchfix) talk data science
• LambdaCast: functional programming for humans, surprisingly large following.
• Machine Learning Guide: very intense topical coverage of ML topics
• TWiMLAI: This Week In Machine Learning and AI: Sam Charrington, THE AI/ML podcast, huge.
• MS Dev Show: Carl and Jason interview people working on technology that Microsoft developers would find interesting
• Inside Facebook Mobile: highlights the technical work of FB's engineers who will discuss everything from low-level frameworks to end-user features by mobile devs

Entreprogrammer Podcasts

• Startups for the Rest of Us: Rob Walling, Cofounder of Drip, and Mike taber, founder of Bluetick
• Founder's Journey: Josh Pigford of Baremetrics
• Full Stack Radio: Adam Wathan
• Bootstrapped Web: Brian Casel and Jordan Gal
• Indie Hackers: CSAllen is awesome
• Art of Product: Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer
• Building Infinite Red: The stories behind Infinite Red - a great React Native consultancy

Crypto Podcasts

• Explain Blockchain: audio essays on intro topics
• The Bitcoin Podcast: Cello, Dee and Corey talk smack and talk sense about crypto.
• Neocash Radio: good news recap
• Lets Talk Bitcoin: non newbie, non price discussion of blockchain developments. Andreas Antonopoulous is on here a lot
• Unchained: laura shin (ex forbes) on crypto, great guests of course.

Nontechnical Podcasts

• Stanford DFJ ETL: Stanford entrepreneurship talks - a lot of OG founders are on here
• Psychology of Video Games: studying addictiveness from the masters
• Stack Overflow podcast: hilarious
• The Startup Chat: sales/marketing quick hits
• Zen Founder: therapy sessions with Sherry and Rob Walling
• Using Reflection: Mark Weiss talks to people about their tech careers
• Impostor Syndrome: Shameless self plug! long form stories of a panel of people before, during, and after a bootcamp
• Second Career Devs: Kyle Shevlin talks to career changers into development

Generalist Podcasts (Nontechnical as well as Technical Content)

• Software Engineering Daily: a wide variety of content from cloud to blockchain. very good intro pieces by Jeff Meyerson.
• YCombinator: YC podcast, more inspirational than practical. recorded video also.
• a16z: great topic choices from a16z
• acquired.fm: about tech acquisitions and trends
• The Bike Shed: Thoughtbot's podcast
• China Tech Talk: covering China's tech scene
• Command Line Heroes: Saron Yitbarek covers old tech stories
• The Economist: Babbage: The Economist tech column for free
• Exponent.fm: Ben Thompson talks about his weekly articles
• FreeCodeCamp podcast: good FCC articles read aloud
• Autonocast: covering our self driving future
• Frontend Happy Hour: bunch of senior devs (Netflix, Atlassian, etc) drink and talk webdev

Dead Podcasts with good backlogs

• Javascript Air: Kent dodds' old podcast with a ton of big guests
• React30: Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence's old podcast about React
• This Developing Story: Good guests
• Zero To Scale: Ended entrepreneurship podcasts
• Fullstack Javascript podcast: random list of JS tips
• Partially Derivative: dead data science podcast by Chris and Vidya
• Product Hunt: product hunt podcast
• The Web Ahead: by Jen Simmons
• 3 Minutes with Kent: Kent Dodds in 3 minutes
• Mapping The Journey: interviews with very very OG creators of tech

TODO: Recommended but havent listened

• Soft Skills Engineering: "Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers. We answer questions about all the stuff you didn't realize you needed to know about being an engineer"

Podcast Tools (from @BrianSchroer)

• Huffduffer: Build your own RSS podcast feed from .mp3 files found anywhere on the web (e.g. individual episodes of podcasts that you might not want to subscribe to)
• Programming Podcasts (@prodpodcasts) Twitter account: Tweets new episode announcements for several podcasts - Great way to discover new podcasts or episodes to listen to