Awesome Podcasts

A curated list of awesome podcasts related to programming, technology and business.

Table of Contents

• Apple
• Business
• Comedy
• Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain
• Databases
• Data Science
• Design
• DevOps
• Developer Interviews
• Finance
• Gaming
• History
• Media
• Microsoft
• Mobile
• Product
• Programming
• Programming Languages
• Radio
• Space
• Stationary
• Technology
• Testing
• Web

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Apple

• AppStories - Each week, Federico and John discuss their favorite new apps and noteworthy updates, dive into the stories and people behind the apps they love, and explore the social and cultural impact of the App Store.
• Welcome to Macintosh - A tiny show about a big fruit company.

Business

• Bootstrapped - 25+ Years of Software Bootstrapping Experience
• CodePen Radio - A podcast all about what it's like running a small web software business.
• StartUp - StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.
• The Distance - The Distance is a podcast by Basecamp about longevity in business, featuring the stories of businesses that have endured for at least 25 years and the people who got them there.
• The Rocketship Podcast - The podcast that inspires tens of thousands of entrepreneurs each week.
• The Tim Ferriss Show - Time Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best know for the 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages.

Comedy

• Do By Friday - A weekly challenge show hosted by Merlin Mann, Alex Cox, and Max Temkin.

Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain

• Blockchain Curated - Blockchain Curated is a project by Zach Segal twitter that makes the best blockchain-related content more accessible to the world. We curate the top 1% of cryptocurrency articles and convert them into free weekly podcasts that are emailed to our listeners.
• BlockChannel - At BlockChannel we believe that education about digital currencies and blockchains should be relevant, fun, and easy to find. We hope to help create a new generation of financial-tech developers/enthusiasts!
• Flippening - Flippening Is A Podcast For Full-time & Institutional Crypto Investors
• Ledger Cast - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Information, Analysis, and News
• Unchained - In this podcast, host Laura Shin talks with industry pioneers across tech, financial services, health care, government and other sectors about how the blockchain and fintech will open up new opportunities for incumbents, startups and everyday people to interact more efficiently, directly and globally.

Databases

• Scaling Postgres - Learn how to get the best performance and scale your PostgreSQL database via curated content from this weekly show.
• The NoSQL Database Podcast - NoSQL tips and tricks as well as success stories from around the world.

Data Science

• Data Skeptic - Data Skeptic is your source for a perseptive of scientific skepticism on topics in statistics, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, and data science.
• Learning Machines 101 - A gentle introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Talking Machines - Human conversation about machine learning.
• The AI Podcast - Artificial Intelligence has been described as “Thor’s Hammer“ and “the new electricity.” But it’s also a bit of a mystery – even to those who know it best.
• The O'Reilly Bots Podcast - The O'Reilly Bots Podcast covers advances in conversational user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and messaging that are revolutionizing the way we interact with software.
• The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast - The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast explores the opportunities and techniques driving big data and data science.
• This Week in Machine Learning & AI - Your guide to all that’s interesting and important in the world of machine learning and AI.

Design

• Layout - Layout is a weekly podcast about design, technology, programming and everything else.
• Responsive Web Design Podcast - A podcast from Karen McGrane and Ethan Marcotte, who interview people who make responsive designs happen.
• Tentative - Tentative is a podcast about digital product design, hosted by thoughtbot designers Reda Lemeden & Kyle Fiedler.
• Through Process - Through Process is a podcast about how we become designers.

DevOps

• AWS Podcast - Jeff Barr discusses various aspects of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering. Each podcast include AWS news, tech tips, and interviews with startups, AWS partners, and AWS employees.
• DevOps Cafe - In this interview driven show, John Willis and Damon Edwards take a pragmatic look at the technology, tools, and business developments behind the emerging DevOps movement.
• Food Fight Show - The Podcast where DevOps chefs do battle
• Google Cloud Platform Podcast - Tune in every week to listen to Francesc and Mark discuss Google Cloud Platform!
• The Cloudcast - Award-winning podcast on all things | Cloud Computing | AWS Ecosystem | OpenSource | DevOps | AppDev | SaaS | SDN
• The Ship Show - Build engineering, DevOps, release management & everything in between!

Developer Interviews

• Away From The Keyboard Away From The Keyboard is a podcast that talks to technologists and tells their stories.
• Descriptive - Programmer origin stories
• Hello World Podcast - Interviews with your favorite speakers about how they got started!
• no dogma - Discussions on software development
• Scale Your Code - Learn from today's most successful developers and CTOs with in-depth interviews.
• Software Engineering Daily - Software Engineering Daily features daily interviews about technical software topics.
• Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

Finance

• Freakonomics Radio - Freakonomics Radio is an award-winning weekly podcast with 8 million downloads per month.
• Invest Like the Best - Welcome to Invest Like the Best. In each episode, I speak with the most interesting people I can find, whose stories will help you better invest your time and your money, and teach you how to play with boundaries in your own life.
• Planet Money - The economy explained.

Gaming

• Polygon Longform - Polygon Longform is a podcast containing spoken word versions of our in-depth features and monthly covers.

History

• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.

Media

• The Incomparable - The Incomparable is a weekly dive into geeky media we love, including movies, books, TV, comics, and more, featuring a rotating panel of guests and hosted by Jason Snell.

Microsoft

• Coding Blocks - Coding Blocks is the podcast and website for learning how to become a better software developer
• Ctrl+Click - CTRL+CLICK CAST inspects the web for you!
• Herding Code
• MS Dev Show - THE podcast for Microsoft developers.
• RunAs Radio - RunAs Radio is a weekly podcast for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products.
• Yet Another Podcast

Mobile

• Android Developers Backstage
• Fragmented - An Android Developer Podcast
• iOSBytes - The latest news in the iOS community.
• iPhreaks - The iPhreaks Show is a weekly group discussion about iOS development and related technology by development veterans.

Product

• Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast - The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast is a weekly show from thoughtbot discussing the business of great products.
• Product People - A podcast focused on great products and the people who make them
• This is Product Management - This is Product Management interviews brilliant minds across numerous disciplines that fuel modern product teams.

Programming

• /dev/hell - Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler are trapped in Development Hell.
• Code Podcast - A show about modern software engineering.
• Coder Radio
• Dev Discussions - Dev Discussions are recorded conversations between web-application developers as we discuss relevant topics.
• Developer On Fire
• Developer Tea - A podcast for developers designed to fit inside your tea break.
• DevelopersHangout
• Full Stack Radio - A podcast for developers interested in building great software products.
• Functional Geekery
• Hanselminutes - Fresh Air for Developers
• My Code Is Broken
• Programming Throwdown
• Reactive - A podcast in which we merge, filter, scan and map streams of thoughts and talk about software engineering, culture, and technology.
• That Podcast - Beau and Dave talking about life as dads, programmers, and entrepreneurs.
• The Bike Shed - On The Bike Shed, hosts Derek Prior, Sean Griffin, Laila Winner, and guests discuss their development experience and challenges with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.
• The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
• The Creative Coding Podcast - Iain and Seb discuss the ins and outs of programming for creative applications
• The Manifest - A podcast all about package management
• ThoughtWorks - A community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation and delivery, while advocating for positive social change.
• Turing Incomplete - A Podcast About Programming

Programming Languages

C

• .Net Rocks! - .NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform.
• CodeChat - CodeChat is an endless collection of casual conversations with software developers, technologists, gadgeteers, innovators, makers, and more.

C++

• CppCast - CppCast is the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers.

Clojure

• The Cognicast - A podcast by Cognitect, Inc. about software and the people that create it.

Elixir

• The Elixir Fountain - Your weekly podcast for news & interviews from around the Elixir lang Community

Go

• Go Gab - A podcast about everything Go.
• Go Time - Go Time is a weekly podcast featuring specials guests where we'll discuss interesting topics around Go the language, the community, and everything in between.

JavaScript

• FiveJS - The latest news in the JavaScript community.
• JS Party - A community celebration of JavaScript and the web.
• Javascript Jabber - JavaScript Jabber is a weekly discussion about JavaScript, front-end development, community, careers, and frameworks.
• NodeUp - NodeUp is a podcast about Node.js

Kotlin

• Talking Kotlin - A bimonthly podcast on Kotlin and more hosted by Hadi Hariri.

PHP

• PHP Roundtable - The PHP podcast where everyone chimes in.
• PHP Town Hall - A podcast for developers who want to keep up to date with the latest random happenings in the PHP community, with occasional updates about Phil's turtle.
• The Laravel Podcast - The Laravel Podcast brings you Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
• Three Devs and a Maybe - Join us each week as we discuss all things web development.
• Voices of the elePHPant - Meet the people that make the PHP community special

Python

• Podcast.__init__ - A podcast about Python and the people who make it great
• Talk Python To Me - A podcast on Python and related technologies

Ruby

• Ruby5 - The latest news in the Ruby and Rails community.
• Ruby on Rails Podcast - The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, open source software, and the programming profession.
• The Ruby Rogues - The Ruby Rogues podcast is a panel discussion about topics relating to programming, careers, community, and Ruby.

Rust

• New Rustacean - A Podcast About Learning Rust
• Rusty Radio

Scala

• The Scalawags - Monthly podcasts about Scala language

Radio

• 99% Invisible - Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing.
• Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything - Personally connecting the dots. All of them.
• Radiolab - Radiolab is a show about curiosity.
• Slack Variety Pack - A podcast about work, and the people and teams who do amazing work together.

Space

• Liftoff - All systems go
• NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast - An in-depth look at the various researchers, scientists, engineers and all around cool people who work at NASA to push the boundaries of innovation.
• StarTalk Radio - Science meets comedy and pop culture on StarTalk Radio!

Stationary

• The Erasable Podcast - From literature to carpentry, accounting to space travel, the wood-cased pencil and its ancestor have undeniably been at the center of the creation and innovation for centuries.
• The Pen Addict - The Pen Addict is a weekly fix for all things stationery.

Technology

• a16z - Software Is Eating the World
• Accidental Tech Podcast - A tech podcast we accidentally created while trying to do a car show.
• Analog(ue) - So many podcasts are about our digital devices. Analog(ue) is a show about how these devices make us feel and how they change our lives for the better, but also for the worse.
• Ctrl-Walt-Delete - Ctrl-Walt-Delete is a new show from The Verge featuring legendary tech reviewer Walt Mossberg and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel.
• The Vergecast - The Vergecast is your source for an irreverent and informative look at what's happening right now (and next) in the world of technology and gadgets.
• What's Tech - We live in the future, where drones skim the sky, corporations enter the space race, and smart watches track our every movement. But how? And why?

Testing

• Test Talks - A podcast about software testing and automation
• Testing In The Pub - Your regular podcast all about software testing and delivery.

Web

• Between Screens
• Boagworld - Every Thursday Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington are joined by a variety of guests to discuss a range of web design related topics.
• Front-end Five - All of your Front-end News in 5 Minutes
• Relative Paths - A UK based podcast for web industry types
• Shop Talk - ShopTalk is a podcast about front end web design, development and UX.
• The Path to Performance - A podcast for everyone dedicated to making websites faster.
• The Web Platform Podcast - A weekly show that dives deep into all things web from the developers building the platform today.
• TTL Podcast - The TTL Podcast, hosted by Rebecca Murphey, features conversations with front-end developers at large organizations about how they do their jobs.
• Web of Tomorrow - A podcast about JavaScript, web development, web design, and technology.

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