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Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Looks great, but please make sure your site has at least basic functionality with JavaScript disabled (right now it loads just an empty page).

This is really important for your users who use screen readers (for the blind), folks with older computers or miniature/underpowered computers.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Understand others may have differing opinions but I for one never understood podcasts. They seem a very inefficient way to consume information, with generally a very low signal to noise ratio. I can see an attraction while driving, but I don't do that so don't have that problem. The only one I can remember listening to and enjoying in the past was related to roguelike development, and was essentially more of a well c…

When I worked in the service industry, my shift was 90% waiting for customers, 10% responding to them. Podcasts allowed me to keep my eyes up and look available to help, and were something that I could put down without worrying about keeping my place.

The benefit of podcasts is that they work when other forms of media don't work. I agree that they don't make good competitors to books and other more dense mediums.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Love the concept. All of the descriptions are cut short and end with... As a user, that leads me to believe I can click on a cut description to see the full description. At least on mobile Safari, clicking on a description does nothing.

Thanks! That's the result of our somewhat shaky truncation feature which is supposed to stop overly long titles and descriptions to break the layout. We'll look into how a "click to expand" feature could work!

I feel like the truncation is fine, but too short at the moment. On mobile at least, it’s 25 characters, which isn’t enough space for me to figure out what the episode is about half the time

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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I love podcasts but lately I feel I've got too many to listen to. I unsubscribe only to find I missed an episode. That FOMO coupled with an almost obsessive need to reach podcast "inbox zero" is becoming a problem. This looks like the kinda platform that could curb that with focus on individual episodes rather than the Podcast itself.

I've got some gaming ones I have on rotation all the time, but the rest I tend to dip in and out if I see something in the show notes/title that looks interesting.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Recently noted down my favorite podcasts I love. It's a bit hard to keep up at times even with 2x/2.5x speeds and smart speed on with Overcast. There's so much good content out there. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/podcasts

Check out www.podcastnotes.org

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Understand others may have differing opinions but I for one never understood podcasts. They seem a very inefficient way to consume information, with generally a very low signal to noise ratio. I can see an attraction while driving, but I don't do that so don't have that problem. The only one I can remember listening to and enjoying in the past was related to roguelike development, and was essentially more of a well c…

Generally I agree. That said, some podcasts have grabbed my attention and I catch myself listening to them more and more often. Lex Fridman's podcasts namely, though his podcasts fall gravitate more towards interviews with astonishingly interesting people. I mean two hours worth of François Chollet's tweets is pure gold.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Please show podcast date; I appreciate you need to bootstrap signups by having Sam Altman on your front page but the product is not just useless but actively wastes my time when I can't tell if this is new content. (The Sam Altman interview is from Nov 2018 and this info is concealed by podnami)

Why this obsession with "newness"? If the podcast is crap because nothing they are talking about is new enough, then maybe you're better of not listening to it. If it's good content and discussions, they'll be timeless.

Re: Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes

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Hello there, congrats on launch You should really add context by date of release and a link to listen not : Ex for exponent episode : https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/exponent/episode-152-pl...

Thank you!

We will add a detailed view, alongside a RSS feed for the top list tomorrow.

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