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?
I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whitney Cummings.
I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
This crowd might particularly enjoy his interview with Samy Kamkar (of MySpace worm fame). It gave me a few laughs and provided some inspiration to just try things and get stuff done, rather than over-analyzing everything and just sitting there spinning my wheels... a reminder I seem to need every couple of years or so :)
Do you think it's not helping as much due to narrower and narrower specialization, that is it isn't helping as broad a community that it once did but helping many small communities scattered about?
Episodes are usually small bites (~20-30 mins) of discussion/interviews on one of the upcoming technologies/trends by a couple of Andreessen Horowitz partners and an invited guest. Content is usually pretty insightful and they are really good at doing a thorough analysis of the current status of the tech industry.
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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...
Software Engineering Radio is in my podcast software but I don't find myself listening to it much.
I have a variety of others more oriented to productivity and freelancing, but they're less technical. I do highly recommend the Home Work podcast by Aaron Mahnke and Dave Caolo - one of the few I have set to auto download.
In your opinion if I were to start listening to nodeup should I start from the beginning. Node changes all the time and I feel like if I start on episode 1 I could be potentially learning outdated tech. If so what episode do you recommend starting on?
I'll recommend Software Engineering Radio (http://www.se-radio.net/). The interviewers are a bit uneven, but the topics and interviewees mostly interesting. A vast backlog, too!
Other than that, my main source of information is youtube videos coverted to mp3 using `youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3`. Possibly your podcast player can treat regular mp3s as podcast episodes (the wonderful PocketCasts on Android supports this: http://www.shiftyjelly.com/support/pocketcasts#115)
SE Radio is definitely a great podcast. I'm not even a professional developer (Linux sysadmin) and I find at least 1 episode in 3 fascinating. They do a good job of keeping the topics diverse.
I agree that sometimes the interviewers (or the recording quality itself) can be a little weak and difficult to understand, especially on older episodes. That seems to be pretty common among podcasts, actually. I dislike and/or disagree with the host, and the production quality sucks, but they get such outstanding guests that it doesn't matter. I used to listen to a lot of podcasts on homebrewing beer, and that was definitely the case in that world.
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.
* Sparkgap, focused on a specific technical topic each episode, sometimes with guests. http://thesparkgap.net
* Embedded.fm, focusued on technical and non-technical topics surrounding embedded systems software development but also often links with art and education, often with guests. http://embedded.fm
* AmpHour: Dave Jones and Chris Gammel ranting about whatever they feel like fairly often with guests. http://theamphour.com
Cortex [1] is a case study of the workflow of CGP Grey, who makes really great YouTube videos that the HN community would probably enjoy. It's slated for 10 episodes, and currently episode 5 has just been released.
I also really like Hello Internet [2], which is done by a couple of guys who make YouTube videos for a living. Usually not super tech-oriented, but they almost always have interesting discussions. It's a fun podcast.
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.
[+] [-] boothead|10 years ago|reply
I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
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[+] [-] arnoldschw|10 years ago|reply
* 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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[+] [-] santaclaus|10 years ago|reply
[1] http://edgecasesshow.com
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[+] [-] stared|10 years ago|reply
http://www.economist.com/ - my second best feed (after HN)
Occasionally:
http://www.datatau.com/ - HN for data science
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/ - Mathematics, Theoretical Physics
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ - Mathematics
http://slatestarcodex.com/ - Less Wrong-kind stuff (the guy writes frequent and well, but somehow too verbosely)
http://visualizing.org/ - data visualizations
A bit of G+ (mainly, if not only, for a few guys in mathematics and physics).
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[+] [-] anant90|10 years ago|reply
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711
Episodes are usually small bites (~20-30 mins) of discussion/interviews on one of the upcoming technologies/trends by a couple of Andreessen Horowitz partners and an invited guest. Content is usually pretty insightful and they are really good at doing a thorough analysis of the current status of the tech industry.
[+] [-] jxm262|10 years ago|reply
Thanks!
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[+] [-] mandeepj|10 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] sdenton4|10 years ago|reply
* 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|10 years ago|reply
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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[+] [-] swah|10 years ago|reply
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|10 years ago|reply
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.
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[+] [-] gurkendoktor|10 years ago|reply
I guess that's how everyone felt when the original iPhone 'invaded' former Mac-only blogs...
[+] [-] dynamicdispatch|10 years ago|reply
2)BraveNewGeek - http://bravenewgeek.com
3)Antirez(redis) - http://antirez.com/latest/0
4)Aphyr - https://aphyr.com
5)GitHub's Engineering Blog - both old and new
https://github.com/blog/category/engineering
http://githubengineering.com
6)Facebook Engineering https://code.facebook.com/posts/
7)Twitter Engineering https://blog.twitter.com/engineering
8)Code as Craft - Etsy's Engineering Blog https://codeascraft.com
and loads more... will update tomorrow.
[+] [-] aethertron|10 years ago|reply
* http://show.terrifyingrobotdog.com - new and near-future tech and its impact
* http://www.unfinished.bz - web design, business, funny stuff
* http://devchat.tv/js-jabber - JavaScript
* https://boagworld.com/show - web development and business
* http://www.relay.fm/rocket - general tech
* http://spong.com/podcasts/tsf/ - videogame development
Sites and blogs:
* http://culture.vg/ - videogame criticism
* http://acko.net/ - advanced JS
* http://scripting.com/ - web, news,
* https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/ web, writing
Here are some of my favourites that I haven't seen mentioned (so maybe lesser known).
[+] [-] fencepost|10 years ago|reply
Codepen Radio http://blog.codepen.io/radio/
Software Engineering Radio is in my podcast software but I don't find myself listening to it much.
I have a variety of others more oriented to productivity and freelancing, but they're less technical. I do highly recommend the Home Work podcast by Aaron Mahnke and Dave Caolo - one of the few I have set to auto download.
[+] [-] dcraw|10 years ago|reply
Each episode we take a paper or topic from the research world and discuss how it applies to us as practicing software engineers.
Somewhat inspired by Adrian Colyer's Morning Paper (http://blog.acolyer.org/).
I'm also a big fan of:
* http://www.se-radio.net/ - hour-long interviews with solid guests
* http://giantrobots.fm/ - pretty wide array of topics (tech, design, business) covered by a Boston-based rails dev shop
* http://nodeup.com/ - Only NodeJS, well-produced, infrequent
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[+] [-] hluska|10 years ago|reply
Edit - The irony of typing "I need my brain now" while I'm hanging out on Hacker News (and getting nothing done) is not lost on me...:)
[+] [-] codezero|10 years ago|reply
http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/
[+] [-] yitchelle|10 years ago|reply
http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
The on-the-fly pseudo-pitch that Chris Sacca did in the 1st episode is a gem.
[+] [-] nullspace|10 years ago|reply
1. Linux Action Show (http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/tag/linux-action-show/)
2. Bad Voltage (http://badvoltage.org/)
[+] [-] misframer|10 years ago|reply
3. TechSNAP (http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/techsnap/)
4. BSD Now (http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/bsdnow/)
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Other than that, my main source of information is youtube videos coverted to mp3 using `youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3`. Possibly your podcast player can treat regular mp3s as podcast episodes (the wonderful PocketCasts on Android supports this: http://www.shiftyjelly.com/support/pocketcasts#115)
[+] [-] jdwithit|10 years ago|reply
I agree that sometimes the interviewers (or the recording quality itself) can be a little weak and difficult to understand, especially on older episodes. That seems to be pretty common among podcasts, actually. I dislike and/or disagree with the host, and the production quality sucks, but they get such outstanding guests that it doesn't matter. I used to listen to a lot of podcasts on homebrewing beer, and that was definitely the case in that world.
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[+] [-] scrollaway|10 years ago|reply
- Adrian Kennard's (revk - CEO of Andrews & Arnolds UK ISP) blog: http://www.revk.uk/
- GOV.uk's digital services blog [UX, Design, Govt]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
- Canonical design blog [UX & Design]: http://design.canonical.com/
- CGPGrey, excellent youtuber and podcaster [misc. history/politics/sciences]: http://www.cgpgrey.com/
- Martin Graesslin's blog on KWin/KDE [programming]: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/
- Alexander Brazie's (Blizzard/WoW, League of Legends) blog [game design]: http://xelnath.com/
- Eric McClure's random ramblings [programming, misc personal] - http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/
- EFF Deeplinks [tech politics/activism] - https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml
Also on gaming opinions, history and news: Totalbiscuit (soundcloud + youtube) and SuperBunnyhop (interesting pieces on game design incl. https://www.youtube.com/user/bunnyhopshow/videos)
[+] [-] kasbah|10 years ago|reply
General interest, science, philosophy, design and architecture:
* Radiolab: http://radiolab.org
* 99 Percent Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org
Embedded systems/electronics:
* Sparkgap, focused on a specific technical topic each episode, sometimes with guests. http://thesparkgap.net
* Embedded.fm, focusued on technical and non-technical topics surrounding embedded systems software development but also often links with art and education, often with guests. http://embedded.fm
* AmpHour: Dave Jones and Chris Gammel ranting about whatever they feel like fairly often with guests. http://theamphour.com
[+] [-] phantarch|10 years ago|reply
I also really like Hello Internet [2], which is done by a couple of guys who make YouTube videos for a living. Usually not super tech-oriented, but they almost always have interesting discussions. It's a fun podcast.
[1] https://www.relay.fm/cortex
[2] http://www.hellointernet.fm/
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[+] [-] jekbao|10 years ago|reply
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|10 years ago|reply
Thanks. It looks very interesting.
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[+] [-] pjc50|10 years ago|reply
I would follow EEVblog if it were a proper text blog, but I don't have time for video or audio blogs.