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Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#42Maybe I'm strange, but if I would have a friend I would recommend him to either listen to some nice radio with music and news, just favorite kind of music or nothing. Lately I'm partial to the sounds of a pebble beach or strange Buddhist rhythms. Also Lo-Fi music compilations seem soothing, lately I've found Alien Cake Music with Lo-Fi Grunge. I think that this Lo-Fi trend lately and in general the thing some people…
How exactly does Lo-Fi music "introduce you to new concepts & subjects in an engaging, informed, & intelligent way"?
My point is to relax instead. So a contrarian answer to the title question (ignoring the broader question): "none".
Though often my mind does not stop and does the work on its own or I'm more relaxed and later on can focus better.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
People love to bash Lex but he really is great. He consistently gets interesting guests and often understands something about the subject which is more than can be said for some other long-form podcasters. And I can tell he is improving as well.
> improving Over the last 2 years, he's been bringing on fewer and fewer tech-related guests while injecting more and more of his own (often political) commentary into the podcasts rather than simply asking good questions. The podcast has gotten worse, not better (at least from the perspective of someone who just wants to hear insights from proven tech leaders).
I only know him from clips, when he brought someone on that explained why January 6 was a crime, Lex immediately slumped back in his chair and pushed back with a non sequitur "the media has lied before".
Disappointing that the one guy everyone holds up as neutral, curious party is just another partisan.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#44The Full Stack Journey by Scott Lowe.
https://feeds.packetpushers.net/fullstackjourney
Fascinating listening to how others learn and grow.
Screaming in the Cloud by Corey Quinn. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...
Similar episodes plus more snark than you can poke a stick at.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#45Related question: any of these podcasts that is available to download In mp3 format on a pc? I want a podcast I can copy to an mp3 player for swimming. But most platforms dont provide mp3 downloads
If you need it in mp3 format specifically you might need to do some transcoding because some shows/platforms only provide m4a downloads. If you're just interested in the raw audio file you should be able to extract the download links from the rss feed. On the off chance that there isn't a raw rss link available (eg. there's only a link to apple podcasts page), there are guides that allow you to extract the raw rss link via api.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
People love to bash Lex but he really is great. He consistently gets interesting guests and often understands something about the subject which is more than can be said for some other long-form podcasters. And I can tell he is improving as well.
> improving Over the last 2 years, he's been bringing on fewer and fewer tech-related guests while injecting more and more of his own (often political) commentary into the podcasts rather than simply asking good questions. The podcast has gotten worse, not better (at least from the perspective of someone who just wants to hear insights from proven tech leaders).
I mostly agree. I started listening from the beginning and loved the deep leanring/CS/physicist/neuroscientist/philosopher guests.
I think he began running out of those people or just wanted to expand. Some of the new format guests are great, but I skip many episodes now, whereas before I enjoyed 99% of them.
Still, at its best it remains one of the most informative and insightful podcasts I know of, largely due to the guest expertise.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#47I really enjoy Software Unscripted by Richard Feldman.
He interviews well-spoken programmers and skill leaders from a variety of language ecosystems -- and usually the guests share his appreciation for simple, strongly typed, functional and pure functional programming languages (like Elm).
Currently Richard Feldman is building a new language and ecosystem inspired by Elm but for non-browser application domains -- and he often discusses concepts and engineering trade offs as related to the design and implementation choices that are being made while growing this (to me quite exciting) new language.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#48Lex Fridman. He does long form interviews (~4 hours) on more than just tech, and all of the guests he interviews are fascinating. He simultaneously approaches his interviews from a scientific background (MIT AI lecturer) and a love for humanity. If you like tech, one episode I'd like to recommend is episode #309 with John Carmack. https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4
Lex was great until he realized, controversy makes more $$ than education. Very unfortunate.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#49Lex Fridman. He does long form interviews (~4 hours) on more than just tech, and all of the guests he interviews are fascinating. He simultaneously approaches his interviews from a scientific background (MIT AI lecturer) and a love for humanity. If you like tech, one episode I'd like to recommend is episode #309 with John Carmack. https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4
Lex is great. Some of my favorite episodes of him are with some really cool software engineers. -- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b... https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f... -- Bjarne Stroustrup -…
Command line heroes was amazing, I was bummed they ended - but I guess they did cover a lot. (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes)
I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio (https://coder.show/) Tagline: "taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development" They called the layoffs and salary adjustments happening now back in April 2021
If you want to look at software from a non-coastal US perspective (and don't mind occasional [or in early episodes not-so-occsional] profanity) I like Friday afternoon deploy (https://friday.hirelofty.com/)
I also was to second the Go Time recommendation from another post (https://changelog.com/gotime) - while it is Go focused more often than not, in recent months they've done show on intellectual property, tech horror stories and code maintenance
Re: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
#50I'd like to hear this as well.
I cast a wide net in my information gathering, but I tend to still skim a boatload of content...
Because, I don't trust any of it. I take the skeptic (not cynical, there is a difference) on all content.
Because given that I have been on the internet for decades, I've seen how the sausage is made through a number of company lenses and roles....
However, as I age, one thing I have found out is that expertise atrophies at an incredible rate.
I was one of Intels DRG managers testing all sorts of kit, from private dealings with the initial Unreal engine, gaming testing on plasma monitors for subjective visual glitching etc...
But the space of tech is just so fn huge these days, and expertise (and relevancy) don't age well....
So, I just dont know who to keep up with given the scale of tech info out there... as Tech has become the Mycelium to the Human Organism (the fruit of the Tech-celium) - We built the ornaism that controls us.