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This Developer's Life
- robgough 15y agoI recently had a couple long car journey's to take, and was recommended to listen to these podcasts as I went along. Loved them, really quite interesting ... and made the journey's feel really quick! So thanks :) A+++ Would listen again :P
- phsr 15y agoThis is my favorite podcast right now. The latest one, 'Typo', was amazing. Bill Hill was absolutely motivating, his passion is an inspiration.
- ajanuary 15y agoThe Bill Hill interview was amazing as always. The rest seemed to be a lot more filler than other episodes though.
- lancebailey 15y agoI am just know founding out about your podcast, but from the little bit I have heard I will definitely add you to the rotation
- synnik 15y agooh, its a podcast! I couldn't tell at first. The front page is just images and captions, with no immediately visible info on what I am looking at. As the top center image is shoes, I thought it was some weird storefront... at least until I moused over something. They might want at least a one-liner saying what that page is. There is such a thing as a design that is TOO minimal.
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- JoshMock 15y agoYour thought process was exactly the same as mine! Maybe they need to bring in a UX consultant. :)
- robconery 15y agoAbsolutely true - I'll add that later this week! Edit: Fixed just now.
- gdltec 15y agoThere is a one sentence describing what the site is all about "A podcast about developers and their lives." and it is at the top, but the color of the font is too light.
- pbz 15y agoTrue, also an icon for the download link. Although it's big is easy to miss. Maybe a "play" icon for each episode on the main page could help as well.
- shioyama 15y agoThis is a fantastic podcast, I only wish they would put out episodes more frequently. I know that it's based on the format/style of This American Life, but honestly I think it's actually better.
- innes 15y agoI tried this podcast once - found it embarassingly pretentious, with terrible musical interludes set too high in the mix. Conery's speaking style really rubbed me up the wrong way. But I'll maybe give it another go. Maybe he's got it under control since then.
- mistermann 15y agoTotally agree, it was painful for me.
- igorgue 15y agoWell, I don't know, I'm a Trent Reznor fan so I like the music.
- robconery 15y agoIf the alternative is "rubbing you the right way"... I'll pass :). If you had the time to be a bit more concrete with your thoughts - it would probably help. I'm not an audio engineer, I'm a developer like you.
- innes 15y agoDon't worry, I'm not going to get all Christina Aguilera on your ass. Anyway, I do admire your ambition at attempting something a little different from the 'guys chatting' norm.
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- xpaulbettsx 15y agoAgreed, though it might have improved; it just seemed as if they were trying too hard to explicitly imitate Ira's speaking style.
- brown9-2 15y agoseemed as if they were trying too hard to explicitly imitate Ira's speaking style. This is exactly what it sounds like. I don't understand the appeal of this, sounds like a ton of work just to sound like someone else.
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- igorgue 15y agoAs a fan of This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) I love this podcast, I've been listening to it for a while already I recommend "Audacity" and "Homerun".
- sosuke 15y agoThis is pretty good. I've never seen the appeal of podcasts before but I'm enjoying http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-9-management http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-9-management right now. I'm probably going to listen to the rest of them if this holds up.
- droithomme 15y agoArg! Sites that don't have an explanation of what they are anywhere drive me nuts. It's especially infuriating that it seems to be a collection of things that should be useful to developers, suggesting that they have good advice even though they can't manage the very basics on their own site, like stating somewhere what the site is about.
- wazoox 15y agoNot bad, but the sound quality lacks somewhat. Sometimes voices are saturated, sometimes there's a phaser effect (re-encoding problem?)... As a non native english speaker, these little things make the podcast quite harder to follow through, particularly in the noisy environment of a car.
- martin1b 15y agoI LOVE this podcast. I think Rob and Scott do a great job of discussing areas of developers lives that are not generally talked about in a podcast. We don't always want to geek out and talk bits and bytes. TDL is a nice mix with some snappy musical interludes. Not to mention, they bring in some pretty big names in our industry. Oh, I like the site too.
- jpeace 15y agoThis has easily become one of my favorites... big up to these guys for providing such an entertaining podcast.
- gdltec 15y agoI enjoy this podcast very much, too bad Scott and Rob don't record more episodes... would love to hear a new episode every day!
- pearle 15y agoI just finished listening to the Typo episode. It was fantastic and was my first introduction to Bill Hill.