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Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by loevborg »

I'll recommend Software Engineering Radio (http://www.se-radio.net/). The interviewers are a bit uneven, but the topics and interviewees mostly interesting. A vast backlog, too!

Other than that, my main source of information is youtube videos coverted to mp3 using `youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3`. Possibly your podcast player can treat regular mp3s as podcast episodes (the wonderful PocketCasts on Android supports this: http://www.shiftyjelly.com/support/pocketcasts#115)

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by TillE »

anton_gogolev wrote: post #85
swah wrote: post #7

http://atp.fm , but I rarely finish one episode these days... I wish I could listen to fun smart folks talking about computers other than Apple. Also, I'd love to hear people that weren't so overtly progressive. Most stuff I find is too serious and I rather hear podcasts to entertain myself instead of trying to learn more stuff while driving.

In all honesty, Siracusa is, well, the only guy worth listening to in this particular podcast. Occasional smart comments by two other co-hosts are drowned in an overall sea of mediocre insight or factual errors.

I think we're all just spoiled by John's consistent insight and wit. Other tech podcasts are filled with people like Casey, who talk a lot but don't have anything to say. Marco is usually fine.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by chris_wot »

I stumbled across Partially Derivative at http://www.partiallyderivative.com

They start off their podcasts with a review of some sort of alcoholic beverage, then progress through discussions about data science. I find the combination works, I suspect the alcohol helps them express themselves and often it gets pretty hilarious - but I don't think I've listened to an episode that hasn't informed me or gave me some sort of insight into data science yet.

Hat tip to the podcast - they're pretty awesome.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by chris_wot »

MichaelCrawford wrote: post #68
vezzy-fnord wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The K5 diaries are still going back and forth, that's interesting.

Kuro5hin's alexa rank is about 300,000 also many stories have significant pagerank. One can see from google trends that k5 is a popular site to read, but the five dollar one-time troll suppression fee discourages new members.

I'd consider this a positive, not a negative.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by swah »

santaclaus wrote: post #42
swah wrote: post #7

http://atp.fm , but I rarely finish one episode these days... I wish I could listen to fun smart folks talking about computers other than Apple. Also, I'd love to hear people that weren't so overtly progressive. Most stuff I find is too serious and I rather hear podcasts to entertain myself instead of trying to learn more stuff while driving.

> Also, I'd love to hear people that weren't so overtly progressive. Uhhhh, what? The only remotely political topic they touch on is women in technology. Casey Liss went to bloody Virginia Tech, hardly Reed College level progressivism.

Ok, as a non-native speaker, maybe the "qualifier" I used is too strong.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by WildUtah »

anton_gogolev wrote: post #85
swah wrote: post #7

http://atp.fm , but I rarely finish one episode these days... I wish I could listen to fun smart folks talking about computers other than Apple. Also, I'd love to hear people that weren't so overtly progressive. Most stuff I find is too serious and I rather hear podcasts to entertain myself instead of trying to learn more stuff while driving.

In all honesty, Siracusa is, well, the only guy worth listening to in this particular podcast. Occasional smart comments by two other co-hosts are drowned in an overall sea of mediocre insight or factual errors.

Nonsense. Marco may be frivolous and scatter-brained but the man has some serious brain power. He's a very effective duck tape programmer and does some hard algorithm work along with serious UI polishing. There aren't many millionaire independent programmers who succeed based on the quality of their programming without much business and marketing acumen, but Marco shows it can be done.

Casey is a fine straight man.

Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?

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Post by dcraw »

Plugging my own relatively new podcast, Theory and Craft (http://www.theoryandcraft.fm)

Each episode we take a paper or topic from the research world and discuss how it applies to us as practicing software engineers.

Somewhat inspired by Adrian Colyer's Morning Paper (http://blog.acolyer.org/).

I'm also a big fan of:

* http://www.se-radio.net/ - hour-long interviews with solid guests

* http://giantrobots.fm/ - pretty wide array of topics (tech, design, business) covered by a Boston-based rails dev shop

* http://nodeup.com/ - Only NodeJS, well-produced, infrequent

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