Ask HN: What software engineering related podcasts are you listening to?

From my "awesome podcasts" list related to your criteria:

- Vimcasts

I have tried several tech-related podcasts, but gave up on most within a couple episodes.

One common format is a host who brings on a new guest for an hour-long interview each episode. My main gripe with these is they're too long for the amount of substance they contain.

I ended up basically scrolling the archives of these shows to pick out only the guests I was already interested in, because the random ones just weren't worth the listening time.

The podcasts I keep coming back to are concise, edited episodes of 30 minutes or less. Most of these aren't directly related to the types you're looking for, though. I'd love to know of more.

Check out the back-episodes of "this developers life" - while not too technical it dived into some human aspects of being a developer: http://thisdeveloperslife.com

The Bike Shed [0] is great, I think it started as a ThoughtBot podcast, but one of the two regular hosts - Sean Griffin [1] - has since left for Shopify.

I think it's great because although dominated by Ruby (Griffin is a committer on Rails, and I gather it's ThoughtBot's main language) the discussion is typically applicable to other languages, or focuses on a human element. I don't think I've ever written a line of Ruby, and I enjoy it.

There's also some Haskell discussion and more recently a lot of Rust - Griffin having created the Diesel ORM [2].

The format's great though, and as a consequence never sounds like a contrived dialogue - it typically starts as a "what have you been working on this week", and that recent real experience turns into a more general discussion around whatever it was.

I can't really recommend it enough, I only found it fairly recently, and went back through to listen to the entire catalogue of episodes.

- 0: https://thebikeshed.fm

- 1: https://githib.com/sgrif

- 2: https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel

Software Engineering Radio[0] is a useful resource for in-depth discussions on software and development practices.

Developer on Fire[1] tends to feature more personal interviews with software developers.

Software Engineering Daily[2] produces episodes at a similar rate to the previous podcast but discussion tends to be product-oriented.

Coder Radio[3] can be good fun sometimes. The hosts can sometimes be a bit over the top.

[0] http://www.se-radio.net/ [1] http://developeronfire.com/ [2] http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ [3] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/coderradio/

It's much more niche-specific than most of the other suggestions, but I've been enjoying This Week in Machine Learning & AI (https://twimlai.com/). It feels like the field of ML is moving so quickly these days, and I think Sam Charrington does a good job of making new research accessible without dumbing things down too much (which I find most media outlets tend to do).