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

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I listen to the Changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when I'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. Would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?

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jekbao
1. Website: HN

2. Website: Echojs for my JavaScript interest

3. Website: Subreddit Programming for my general interest in programming

4. Magazine: Harvard Business Review for understanding business needs. Reading business case studies help to align my tech skills with business needs. I find this combination particularly essential.

5. Magazine: MIT Technology Review for tech related research

6. Podcast: Nodeup for my nodejs interest

7. Website: Producthunt for uncovering products that I dont know.

Lastly something which you didn't ask. But I want to share is books and video tutorials. Books and videos recommendation is a whole new topic.

Hascheme
> 5. Magazine: MIT Technology Review for tech related research

Thanks. It looks very interesting.

baristaGeek
Thanks for the Echojs recommendation. Looking forward to follow it closely.
baristaGeek
ACM TechNews, Slashdot, Wired, Pando, ArsTechnica and some TechCrunch, Mashable and Pulsosocial (TechCrunch for LatAm).

As for blogs I follow closely Paul Graham's, Sam Altman's, Ben Horowitz's and Alex Torrenegra's.

I don't follow or listen to any podcasts at all.

dsacco
I visit /r/netsec a lot. It's a subreddit devoted entirely to information security; the discourse there is pretty high caliber for an open internet forum. Fairly strong signal to noise ratio.

That's not a podcast or blog, but it is a website and it is extremely good for keeping up to date on software security news.

swah
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.

santaclaus
> 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.

rbritton
Maybe gp is including blog posts as well? Marco Arment ventures into other political topics to some degree. I don't think I've ever heard John Siracusa or Casey Liss hit on anything significantly political other than women in tech.
swah
Ok, as a non-native speaker, maybe the "qualifier" I used is too strong.
gurkendoktor
I feel that all podcasts about Apple tech have gone downhill since Apple Watch was announced; endless discussions about its price tiers and fitness bits. Yet nothing insightful ever comes of it.

I guess that's how everyone felt when the original iPhone 'invaded' former Mac-only blogs...

anton_gogolev
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.
TillE
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.
WildUtah
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.

anton_gogolev
I never questioned intelligence levels of any of the hosts. It's just that John is infinitely more entertaining, informative and insightful; Marco and Casey are often out of their depths on many subjects.
aksx
I like to listen to Marco's point of view of the tech world, being a successful independent developer his (conservative) opinions on languages and platforms are always insightful.
bevacqua
ponyfoo.com

2ality.com

csswizardry.com

nczonline.net

substack.net

perfectionkills.com

webreflection.blogspot.com

mandeepj
I listen to dotnetrocks.com podcasts during my commute to work and while taking a walk. Love it so far. Learned so much new stuff.

edit - I also follow asp.net\community, techcrunch, robert scoble's updates, the hacker news, fb engineering, scott hanselman, guy kawasaki and few more tech resources via my fb news feed. I also watch few videos from time to time at youtube.com. MSDN blogs, Channel 9, mvc conf, dotnet conf are also in my reference list.

My problem here - I come across so much great content everyday but it is very hard to digest everything or keep everything somewhere conveniently to refer later. Currently, I email content links to myself. I tried pocket and other similar services but they do not have good features to retrieve or refer content later on. And, this is the reason I started work on this site - www.LinkSto.re few years ago. It provides you summary of articles that you saved, clutter\ad free reading. User profile to show you what they have saved.

Features coming soon - great search capabilities by tags, date or content. Calendar to locate stored articles or schedule reading for yourself or with your friends. Article recommendations.

I am really sorry for this shameless plug.

sixothree
More pocasts - RunAs radio and Coding Blocks
sdenton4
My main podcasts are:

* Talking Machines (http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/), which is a relatively 'heavy' podcast about machine learning, great for when I've managed to make coffee before getting on the Bart.

* Partially Derivative (http://www.partiallyderivative.com/), the podcast about data science and beer. Perfect for the days when I haven't managed to make coffee before getting on the Bart.

jmsb
I've been doing a lot of driving this year, and dotnetrocks has been one of my staples.

What surprised me the most once I started listening was that I was expecting a very Microsoft focused show because of the name, but that ended up being only partly true. There are just as many shows that are are focused on developer tools, javascript, and the industry in general as there are shows that deal with .NET technologies. Not to mention the geek-out shows which just dive into random areas of tech and science. I really like the breadth of topic. It's in a sweet spot for me.

I'd love to find another show that has a similar scope but focuses on another language or area of technology, since it would both keep my interest while giving me familiarity with a whole other area of programming. I haven't found one yet, but maybe skimming through the lists posted here will reveal one.

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nullspace
A couple of fun linux / open source podcasts.

1. Linux Action Show (http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/tag/linux-action-show/)

2. Bad Voltage (http://badvoltage.org/)

jeo1234
I have to second Bad Voltage. Well worth your time if you're into the open source community.
Yenrabbit
Bad Voltage is fun. Linux Voice probably deserves mention as another great Linux podcast (linuxvoice.com)
arnoldschw
Blogs/websites in no particular order:

* http://blog.codinghorror.com/ (Jeff Atwood)

* http://www.catonmat.net/ (Pete Krumins)

* http://blog.fogus.me/ (Mike Fogus)

* http://research.swtch.com/ (Russ Cox)

* http://effbot.org/ (Fred Lundh)

* http://adam.herokuapp.com/ (Adam Wiggins)

Podcasts in no particular order:

* http://www.dotnetrocks.com/ (NET Rocks)

* http://herdingcode.com/ (NET focused podcast with Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scoot Koon and Jon Galloway)

* http://www.coreint.org/ (A podcast about indie software development)

* http://www.talkpythontome.com/ (Python podcast)

* http://www.binpress.com/blog/category/podcast/ (Binpress podcast about digital products)

Magazines in no particular order:

* http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ (HN in PDF)

* http://www.codemag.com/magazine (Tech/coding news)

* http://www.drdobbs.com/ (Dr. Dobbs)

and many more.

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LVB
re: Dr. Dobbs: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-d...
guiambros
Yups, RIP.

Too bad; I grew up reading Dr. Dobbs, in late 80's, and have so many fond memories. I had to travel 1h by bus to a nearby city every month to (try to) buy it. Only two newsstands in the entire state used to carry it. This was south of Brazil, so an international subscription was completely out of reach for my teenager penny-pinching standards

kzisme
Great list! Thanks for posting it
eccp
I follow all of them via RSS. In English: Hacker News, InfoQ, Planet Clojure, O'Reilly Radar (and ocasionally listen their podcast in SoundCloud), Ars Technica, The Server Side. I save some episodes of some podcasts which I find interesting (eg. The Cognicast) but takes me a long time to catch up.

I also follow some tech blogs in Spanish: Microsiervos, Fayerwayer, Manzana Mecanica, Hipertextual, Genciencia.

daurnimator
The main technically publication I really follow is lwn. Also read arstechnica on occasion, but not as much as I used to.

But I do subscribe to a few key developer's blogs. It really depends on what you work on though.

dbish
A few fun podcasts I listen to on my walk to work: Virtual Reality: Rev VR, Python: Talk Python To Me
adnzzzzZ
Just found http://fullstackradio.com/ yesterday and I've been listening to most of them. They're pretty great. They talk about their subjects in a mostly language/framework agnostic way so it's really useful. I don't know why but it's hard to find podcasts that don't assume you're a web developer by default.
del82
The Omega Tau Podcast is great: http://omegataupodcast.net/
jnsaff2
+1, very detailed discussion about topics like space, aeronautics, railroads, economics, race cars, biomedicine, genetics etc.

It really goes into detail, background and most importantly asks the questions that I, as a geek, would want to know.

Frozenlock
My favorite podcast for my daily walk is 'Security Now'

https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

It touches everything and keeps me up to date on important security vulnerabilities. (Otherwise I would probably disappear in my coding cavern for months and not know what is happening on the surface...)

wepple
another security: risky.biz

A good honest news segment highlighting the things you should know, plus a generally good feature, and a sprinkling of humour across it all.

MichaelCrawford
http://www.kuro5hin.org/section/Diary
vezzy-fnord
The K5 diaries are still going back and forth, that's interesting.
fencepost
Huh. There's a blast from the past.

I get occasional reminder spam of my email address used for k5 having been harvested at some point, but looking at those diaries doesn't fill me with a desire to return there.

Maybe to HuSi at some point.

MichaelCrawford
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.
chris_wot
I'd consider this a positive, not a negative.
MichaelCrawford
That fee was established to keep a lid on Jason Pawloski, no one else.

Unfortunately, five dollars is far beyond the means of much of the earth's population.

ingve
CppCast [0] is a pretty good C++-focused podcast. Starts with a summary of recent C++ news (and related topics), followed by an interview with excellent guests (usually luminaries from the C++ community).

[0] http://cppcast.com/

santaclaus
I really want to like that show, and Jason Turner is a really good host, but Rob Irving always sounds so confused. :(