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Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

#11
Without doubt Darknet Diaries, it should be a mandatory listen for anyone touching computers. It is a crash course on building secure systems by learning from the failures of others.

I highly recommend starting from episode #1 because they are almost all great and episodes often reference past topics.

https://darknetdiaries.com

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

#14

I’ve been disappointed with podcasts over the past couple of years. I tend to listen to YouTube videos now.

That's interesting, i keep getting annoyed by the wild inaccuracies and downright silly mistakes whenever I find a YouTube creator that produces videos on a topic I've got decent working experience in.

I.e. rxjs code like this behaviorSubject.pipe(mergeMap() => of(behaviorSubject.getValue())

With podcasts, you usually get people that actually do the things they're taking about for a living as they're often not primary content creators

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

#15
I wonder if there is a gap in the audio market for low-level podcasts aimed at building technical "muscle memory".

Example: repeated syntax step-throughs in a rote/kata style, like foreign language courses.

I've never seen anything like that and have often wondered if it could work without the visual accompaniment.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

#18
Software Unscripted https://twitter.com/sw_unscripted is good. I don't know whether it's well known or not. Possibly a hidden gem.

Already mentioned, but Signals & Threads https://signalsandthreads.com is a very notable one. Probably the best episode hit-rate of any development-related podcast I've listened to.

Core Intuition https://coreint.org Apple-platform focused. Hosts have endearing personalities.

The Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast Good interviewers and wide-ranging episode topics (some get deleted - I won't subject myself to Kubernetes-related blather!)

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

#19

I wonder if there is a gap in the audio market for low-level podcasts aimed at building technical "muscle memory". Example: repeated syntax step-throughs in a rote/kata style, like foreign language courses. I've never seen anything like that and have often wondered if it could work without the visual accompaniment.

I don't see how this would be that useful. If you are learning a foreign language, you already know what you want to say, but not how to say it in the new language.

Syntax doesn't really matter after programming for more than a year, as the important part is how to solve a problem, and not how to write down that solution.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

#20
I've been really enjoying the Hacked podcast for about a year now. It's quite similar to Darknet Diaries but episodes are typically shorter and they seem to be branching out a bit more past just security. They don't seem to have a website so here are some of the useful links:

* https://twitter.com/hackedpodcast

* https://open.spotify.com/show/21zZfOy7VCSIIWlJ64DElv?si=f1ad...

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacked/id1049420219

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