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Ask HN: Recommend in-depth, comparative, critical programming podcasts

14 points by m_fayer 8y ago

I've had trouble finding non-academic podcasts covering languages, frameworks, hosted services, cloud providers, etc. that go beyond the introductory, conceptual, and overly credulous. I'd like to hear comparisons of competing offers/techniques/and technologies, and discussion of what the adoption of a given tool looks like at scale.

gigatexal 8y ago
I’d be interested if such podcasts exist.
yesenadam 8y ago
So maybe make them yourself? Sounds great. (I read some advice on writing books which was exactly that - write the book you wish existed but doesn't!)
atmosx 8y ago
Keep in mind that podcasts that go beyond introductory levels usually have smaller audience. Plus, most tech podcasters rarely go beyond a year or two. Check out this one: https://testandcode.com/ https://testandcode.com/ and http://testandcode.com/rss http://testandcode.com/rss - a podcast about python testing (the SSL has expired apparently, which says one thing or two about the state of the website). The "AWS podcast" features advanced functionality discussions when the episode focusses on one service alone. For example the recent episode around s3 is every interesting. Regards
kristjansson 8y ago
You may have already tried it, but I find Software Engineering Radio[0] relatively technical and informative. Each episode features an interview with a single guest on a single topic for about an hour. There’s definitely interesting discussions, especially in the archives - the episode / interview with Martin Thompson (of mechanical sympathy) comes to mind. [0]: http://www.se-radio.net/ http://www.se-radio.net/
a-saleh 8y ago
I kinda liked to listen to functional geekery [1], because I really like the space of kinda-fringe-but-mostly-practical space many of the guests occupy with regards to functional languages. Good mix of people working with languages professionally, on side-projects as well as in research. Nice range of languages, heard about clojure, clojure-script, functional-style js, elm, purescript, haskell, idris, F#, erlang, elixir, and even prolog? I find them often go beyond the introductory, especially when the guest has been working with non-mainstream technology to solve some interesting problem. Your mileage may vary, though, large part of the episode can consist of "So, how did you get to learn $LANGUAGE"? [1] https://www.functionalgeekery.com/ https://www.functionalgeekery.com/
spoonie 8y ago
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/ https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/ Not as much discussion, but probably fits the bill for other parts.
pedro1976 8y ago
Code Podcast [1] is an outstanding in-depth podcast for devs, without the usual blabla. IMO the best I have found so far. [1] https://codepodcast.com/ https://codepodcast.com/

14 points by m_fayer 8y ago

gigatexal 8y ago

I’d be interested if such podcasts exist.

yesenadam 8y ago

So maybe make them yourself? Sounds great. (I read some advice on writing books which was exactly that - write the book you wish existed but doesn't!)

atmosx 8y ago

Keep in mind that podcasts that go beyond introductory levels usually have smaller audience. Plus, most tech podcasters rarely go beyond a year or two. Check out this one: https://testandcode.com/ https://testandcode.com/ and http://testandcode.com/rss http://testandcode.com/rss - a podcast about python testing (the SSL has expired apparently, which says one thing or two about the state of the website). The "AWS podcast" features advanced functionality discussions when the episode focusses on one service alone. For example the recent episode around s3 is every interesting. Regards

kristjansson 8y ago

You may have already tried it, but I find Software Engineering Radio[0] relatively technical and informative. Each episode features an interview with a single guest on a single topic for about an hour. There’s definitely interesting discussions, especially in the archives - the episode / interview with Martin Thompson (of mechanical sympathy) comes to mind. [0]: http://www.se-radio.net/ http://www.se-radio.net/

a-saleh 8y ago

I kinda liked to listen to functional geekery [1], because I really like the space of kinda-fringe-but-mostly-practical space many of the guests occupy with regards to functional languages. Good mix of people working with languages professionally, on side-projects as well as in research. Nice range of languages, heard about clojure, clojure-script, functional-style js, elm, purescript, haskell, idris, F#, erlang, elixir, and even prolog? I find them often go beyond the introductory, especially when the guest has been working with non-mainstream technology to solve some interesting problem. Your mileage may vary, though, large part of the episode can consist of "So, how did you get to learn $LANGUAGE"? [1] https://www.functionalgeekery.com/ https://www.functionalgeekery.com/

spoonie 8y ago

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/ https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/ Not as much discussion, but probably fits the bill for other parts.

pedro1976 8y ago

Code Podcast [1] is an outstanding in-depth podcast for devs, without the usual blabla. IMO the best I have found so far. [1] https://codepodcast.com/ https://codepodcast.com/