Somehow I never found podcasts interesting.
I was special guest in one last year and liked to talk, but I never liked listening to them.
We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts
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#342Time was, you had to be very careful where you hosted your RSS files because there were so many badly written players that polled the website every few seconds without any caching. Is this still the case?
I guess CDNs and services like S3 made it a non-issue.
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#343While I agree there are plenty of great podcasts out there, I disagree with some of the things in the article. > When Netflix moved into streaming, they invested billions of dollars into original programming, helping usher in the “New Golden Age of Television” The current age of TV started long before Netflix moved to original content. This is not a model anyone should want to see in podcasts. Closed wall content is…
> Closed wall content is bad for everyone.
You said that twice. It's not bad for subscribers. There's a good argument to be made that ad-driven content is bad for everyone. In fact there's an argument to be made that ad-driven content is ushering in the end of the world. Who was it that said "we're building dystopia to maximize clicks." If you pay for your media, you at least know what the product really is.
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#344Personally, I'm not a fan of podcasts at all. I've tried, and listened to some interesting ones, but in the end I'd much rather consume the same content by reading instead of listening. It's faster, it's easier to skim and skip around, you can have hyperlinks to other references, etc. Overall, text just works better for the kinds of content I'm interested in. There's a podcast related to a product I work with that I'…
Try searching podcasts by people or topics here https://www.listennotes.com
Hey, another fan of your site. Thanks for simplicity of your site!
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#345I'm truly grateful for podcasts as a medium where I can learn something and not have to stare at a screen anymore
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I love that podcasts are one of the few pure truly open mediums. Its literally just a audio file on a server somewhere included in an RSS feed. I think more people should try to create their own podcast. I've been doing my own podcast after being a guest on a couple episodes of another tech podcast and I can't recommend it enough. I think it should be treated like the low barrier to entry medium it is. Current favori…
May I know the name of the tech podcast in which you appeared? You may also point us to those episodes if that's fine.
Hey, so I was a guest host on SEDaily and did about 5 episodes I think and then decided to do my own podcast called corecursive. My format is interviews where an expert is explaining some aspect of software engineering to me.
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/01/30/design-princ...
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#347Honest question here: How do you guys get the time/focus to listen to podcasts? I can't focus on people talking while doing something else so I either have to put down whatever I am doing in order to listen, or I'll miss most of what is being said. Maybe it's just me?
For me, long walks. I get a little exercise and fresh air. My sister listens to audio books while doing housework. As the article mentions, many people listen while driving.
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#348If anything there's too many good podcasts - I usually set my device to keep the five most recent, and there are good shows I simply don't get to. (I never could "zone out" and program while a podcast is on like some people, I need ambient/classical/electronic music to do that)
Where do you find them? I keep trying to get into podcasts (tech, computer science, military, history...) but I really struggle. A sea of ancient abandoned shows when I search on my iPhone, seems nothing still running? Where should I be looking?
There are a couple of open-source sites I work on to help devs find podcast content.
Qit is designed for finding/playing shows by topic, so you can (for example) search for shows about GraphQL: https://qit.cloud/search/graphql
devpodcasts.app lets you browse shows by latest release or by tag: https://devpodcasts.app/shows
Looks like devpodcasts.app is a bit behind though, so I'll write a ticket and get that fixed up soon :)
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I know the name of the tech podcast in which you appeared? You may also point us to those episodes if that's fine.
Hey, so I was a guest host on SEDaily and did about 5 episodes I think and then decided to do my own podcast called corecursive. My format is interviews where an expert is explaining some aspect of software engineering to me. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/01/30/design-princ... https://corecursive.com
Love this show, you did a great job!
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I seriously enjoy humor or political / debate podcasts, especially while commuting, but technical podcasts never stick. I find when getting into a new framework (something like Rails or React) then it's an interesting bit of "immersion learning" to throw on the latest episode of the big associated podcast. Maybe I pick up a bit of knowledge, but just hearing people speak naturally about the framework helps me build a…
There's technical podcasts that are guides? When listening to something like The Changelog, it's just a conversation about a technology and its origins.
Most tech podcasts tend to focus on interviews, but I tend to shy away from those.
There are quite a few shows that are different though, either discussion or news based. Here are a couple of my favorites. * Coding Blocks * Complete Develop Podcast * Six Figure Developer * Weekly Dev Tips
Full disclosure, host of CB here :)