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Ask HN: What are your favorite tech podcasts?

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I'm a big fan of podcasts, but I wonder if I miss some cool tech podcast.(I follow a16z, The Twenty Minute VC, Changelog, Developer Tea)

What are your favorite tech podcasts ? (anything related to startups, coding, vc, marketing in startups, design etc...)

Thanks

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ulermod
Hack To Start is inspiring sometimes
jellydonut
front end happy hour

javascript jabber

.net rocks

software engineering daily

soft skills engineering

Tech stuff

kzisme
Late Nights With Trav And Los - It's a Design/Coding podcast covering a wide range of topics.

I really like their perspective.

alex_g
Foundation

The Pitch

Startup

Data Stories

Flux

podcastguy
I LOVE The Pitch...instead what is "Startup" ? by who ?
zckly
Startup is a podcast by Alex Blumberg (of This American Life). In the first season, it follows his journey of launching his own startup. Really excellent listening for anyone new to entrepreneurship! https://gimletmedia.com/startup/
1niels
It's by Alex Blumberg, former producer on "This American Life" and "Planet Money" by NPR. He recorded the podcast while founding a podcasting company named Gimlet Media and it documents how he got started, chose a name, got investment, found a partner, and various other parts of being a startup. I'd highly recommend the podcast for its amazing story telling and its transparency in including details that most companies would prefer to keep secret.
theaustinseven
I personally haven't found any quite as good as the Bike Shed(http://bikeshed.fm/). It does often focus on Ruby, but overall the types of problems they cover are not limited to Ruby in scope. I mainly like it because I get to hear some developers significantly more experienced than myself talk about how they solved certain problems.
sjellis
I would second this. For me, the fact that they often talk about Ruby helps me understand more easily, but I really listen because I like the hosts and it's interesting to hear how people in a successful consultancy and a SaaS company work.

I've also started listening to Go Time: http://gotime.fm. The hosts are good, and deeply involved in the Go community, so they always get really excellent guests.

tradersam
Accidental Tech Podcast[0].

Cortex[1].

[0]: http://atp.fm/

[1]: https://www.relay.fm/cortex

supercoder
Can't understand the attraction to ATP.

Just seems it's 3 guys complaining the Mac isn't like it used to be for 2 hours every week.

tradersam
Sometimes I get really annoyed with it, as it can be three guys complaining about Apple in general, which I don't care too much about.

The real good stuff comes when they talk about programming, gaming, and cars, which happens every episode. They also had a good interview recently with Chris Lattner that is worth the listen.

supercoder
I agree, the Chris Lattner interview was really interesting.
Veen
I like CGP Grey and Myke Hurley on other podcasts but Cortex bores me. CGP Grey needs someone different to play-off, like Brady on Hello Internet. On Cortex Myke just seems to play the role of mini-Grey. Also, there's only so much micro-workflow optimisation and productivity-wanking I can stand.
jyoung789
To me, HI seems more like a discussion between two friends. It works really well because of Brady's reporting background and interviewing skills. In Cortex, however, Myke has said that he started the podcast because he wanted to see how Grey worked. As such, the podcast is just kind of a continuous explanation by Grey, to Myke about the way he works and what he is doing to improve his productivity. Myke then explains what he is doing off of Grey's advice and Grey improves it.
Maultasche
The Security Now podcast from the Twit network is really good. I've really learned a lot about security issues and encryption from that podcast.

Other good podcasts I listen to: - .NET Rocks - Coding Blocks - Hanselminutes - Javascript Jabber - Programming Throwdown

daze42
I've been listening to Security Now for over a decade. There's no doubt it's partly responsible for my current position as a software engineer at a large corporation. I can't recommend it highly enough.
jlgaddis
Not startup-y, but tech podcasts...

I like the SANS Internet Storm Center daily podcast because it's short, to the point, and gives just enough detail that I can use to follow up on if I need/want to. I listen to some BSD Now episodes that sound interesting. I previously liked TechSNAP but had to quit listening after they recently changed hosts.

rajathagasthya
Sorry for hijacking. Is there a podcast which talks about big, distributed systems and their architecture? I'd be really interested in that.
podcastguy
Oh don't worry! I'm super interested in this too!

Anything nerdy is welcome!

csallen
- Software Engineering Daily (hosted by Jeff Meyerson)

- The Indie Hackers Podcast (hosted by me!)

llccbb
I've been enjoying the podcast Courtland!
csallen
Glad to hear it! Got some really good episodes on the way with John O'Nolan from Ghost and Nathan Barry from ConvertKit. Can't wait to get those released in mid-to-late March.
probinso
Data Skeptic

Linear Digressions

Not So Standard Deviations

Partially Derivative

New Books in Mathematics

Talk Python

Podcast.__init__

Ask an Astronomer

chadwittman
Grabbing coffee w/ AI researchers [0]

[0] http:ai-guild.com

(Self Promo)

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nunez
Loving Software Engineering Daily. Jeff makes all of the music. Check out 'The Prion' on Spotify or SoundCloud.
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perseusprime11
How I built this is not a tech podcast but I think there is a lot of good lessons to learn.
ebcode
RoguelikeRadio -- if you're into that kind of thing.