List of podcasts which are helpful for software
engineers/programmers. 
The 6 Figure Developer
Podcast
- Description: The 6 Figure Developer Podcast is a
show dedicated to helping developers to grow their career. Topics
include Test Driven Development, Clean Code, Professionalism,
Entrepreneurship, as well as the latest and greatest programming
languages and concepts.
- Host: John Callaway @matsubonsai, Clayton Hunt @ClaytonHunt_104, Jon Ash
@ashjonm
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: ~35 mins
The Accidental
Engineer
- Description: Anything and everything related to
software
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 20 - 55 mins, regularly ~40 mins
Art of Product
- Description: The Art of Product is a podcast
chronicling the journeys of two software entrepreneurs (Ben Orenstein
and Derrick Reimer) building startups. Discussions span from the
technical realm to the business side and everything in between.
- Host: Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer, Ben
Orenstein @r00k
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 45 - 70 mins, regularly ~55 mins
Away from keyboard
(Soundcloud
| iTunes)
- Description: Away From The Keyboard is a podcast
that talks to technologists and tells their stories. Stories about how
they started, how they grew, how they learned, and how they unwind.
- Host: Cecil Phillip @cecilphillip, Richie Rump
@jorriss
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 30 - 70 mins, regularly ~50 mins
Base.cs
- Description: CodeNewbie teams up with Vaidehi Joshi
to turn her base.cs blog series into an awesome podcast.
- Host: Vaidehi Joshi @vaidehijoshi, Saron Yitbarek
@saronyitbarek
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 15 - 30 mins, regularly ~25 mins
The Bike Shed
- Description: Ruby, Rails, Javascript
- Host: Chris Toomey @christoomey
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 30 - 50 mins, regularly ~35 mins
BookBytes
- Description: A book club for developers.
- Host: Adam Garrett-Harris @agarrharr, Jason Staten @statenjason, Jen Luker @knitcodemonkey, Safia
Abdalla @captainsafia
- Frequency: Once a fortnight
- Runtime: 40 - 60 mins, regularly ~60 mins
CaSE
- Description: CaSE is an interview podcast for
software developers and architects about Software Engineering and
related topics.
- Host: Sven Johann @kaesfiehs, Eberhard Wolff @ewolff, Joy Heron @iamjoyheron, Stefan Tilkov
@stilkov, Lucas Dohmen @moonbeamlabs
- Frequency: Every three weeks.
- Runtime: 50 - 65 mins, regularly ~55 mins
The Changelog
- Description: Conversations with the hackers,
leaders, and innovators of software development.
- Host: Adam Stacoviak @adamstac, Jerod Santo @jerodsanto
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 40 - 80 mins, regularly ~60 mins
Code
- Description: Code Podcast is about ideas that shape
the way we build software
- Host: Andrey Salomatin @flpvsk, Michael Beschastnov
- Frequency: Once a month
- Runtime: 20 - 50 mins, regularly ~40 mins
Code Cast ZM
- Description: A biweekly podcast that focuses on
everything tech (from innovations in AI and machine learning to the
latest in data science, from the WWDC to Google IO), and the role
developers play in shaping the future of technology, both from a
uniquely Zambian perspective to the repercussions on a global scale
- Frequency: Bi-Weekly
- Runtime: regulary ~60 mins
Code Newbie
- Description: Stories from people on their coding
journey.
- Host: Saron Yitbarek @saronyitbarek
- Frequency: every Monday
- Runtime: 30 - 70 mins, regularly ~55 mins
CodePen Radio
- Description: The people behind Codepen.io talk
business, tech and more!
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 25 - 40 mins, regularly ~30 mins
Coder Radio
- Description: A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic
look at the art and business of Software Development and related
technologies.
- Host: Chris Fisher @chrislas, Michael Dominick @dominucco
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 35 - 75 mins, regularly ~55 mins
Coding
Blocks
- Description: Software Design Patterns,
Architecture, and Best Practices.
- Host: Allen Underwood @theallenu, Michael Outlaw @iamwaltuo, Joe Zack @thejoezack
- Frequency: Twice a month
- Runtime: 65 - 150 mins, regularly ~120 mins
#codepunk (iTunes
| Overcast |
Android)
- Description: A cyberculture and futurist podcast
from Bill Ahern and Michael Szul that looks at the intersection of
programming, advancing technology, and society.
- Host: Bill Ahern @neurothustra, Michael Szul
@szul
- Frequency: Twice a month
- Runtime: 30 - 60 mins, regularly ~40 mins
Complete Developer
Podcast
- Description: Listen to a senior developer and a
junior developer discuss topics about all aspects of software
development from the highly technical, to patterns and principles, to
soft skills.
- Host: Will Gant @gantsoftsys, BJ Burns
@[bowtiebeej]
- Frequency: Every Thursday
- Runtime: 40 - 65 mins, regularly ~60 mins
Command
Line Heroes
- Description: Command Line Heroes tells the epic
true tales of how developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open
source rebels are revolutionizing the technology landscape.
- Host: Saron Yitbarek @[saronyitbarek]
- Frequency: Twice a month
- Runtime: 25 - 30 mins, regularly ~30 mins
The Cynical Developer
(iTunes
| Overcast
| Stitcher
| Podchaster
| Player.fm | Pocket Casts | PodBean)
- Description: The UK based, podcast that helps you
to improve your development knowledge and career, through explaining the
latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with
what you need to succeed as a developer.
- Host: James Studdart @JamesStuddart
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 10 - 55 mins, regularly ~40 mins
The Dev Questions
Podcast with Tim Corey (Spotify)
- Description: In each episode, senior Microsoft MVP
developer Tim Corey answers one question coming from some other
developers about software engineering topics.
- Host: Tim Corey @IAmTimCorey
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 10 - 25 mins, regularly ~15 mins
Developer
Melange
- Description: A monthly podcast which brings to you
regular discussions about software engineering topics. All of them, in
one way or another, related to building great software products.
- Hosts: Paul Rohorzka @paulroho, David Leitner @duffleit, Christian Haas @dertseha, Peter Kofler @codecopkofler
- Frequency: Every first of the month
- Runtime: 45 - 60 mins, regularly ~45 mins
Developer On
Fire
- Description: Inspiring software developers tell
their stories.
- Host: Dave Rael @raelyard
- Frequency: Once or twice a week
- Runtime: 40 - 60 mins, regularly ~50 mins
Developer
Tea
- Description: Podcast to help driven developers
connect with their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they
can positively impact the people they influence.
- Frequency: Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
- Runtime: 10 - 50 mins, regularly ~20 mins
Docplanner Tech
Talks
- Description: Welcome to our Docplanner Tech Talks -
podcast, which is our way to share knowledge and become closer to the
Tech community.
- Host: Przemysław Paczoski @kodziak
- Frequency: Once a month
- Runtime: 15 - 30 mins, regularly ~20 mins
Eat Sleep
Code
- Description: The Official Telerik Podcast. They
interview “passionate people about a wide range of developer related
topics.”
- Frequency: Once a month
- Runtime: 45 - 55 mins, regularly ~47 mins
Embedded FM
- Description: Interviews and discussions related to
embedded software.
- Host: Elecia White @logicalelegance,
Christopher White @stoneymonster
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 45 - 80 mins, regularly ~65 mins
Five Nines
of Downtime
- Description: Enterprise software development,
distributed systems and whatever our guests find interesting.
- Frequency: Once every Thursday
- Runtime: 55 - 70 mins, regularly ~60 mins
FLOSS Weekly
- Description: Interviews with members of the Open
Source and Free Software community.
- Host: Randal Schwartz @merlyn, Aaron Newcomb @aaronnewcomb
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 45 - 70 mins, regularly ~55 mins
The freeCodeCamp
Podcast (iTunes
| Spotify
| Stitcher)
- Description: The official podcast of the
freeCodeCamp.org community. Learn to code for free with millions of
other people. Featuring interviews with developers from around the
world, most of whom took nontraditional paths into tech.
- Frequency: A new episode every Monday during
seasons
- Runtime: 10 - 110 minutes, varies
Generative Art
- The Podcast (Anchor
| Google
Podcasts | Spotify)
- Description: Tim and Ruth talk all things
generative art and creative code!
- Host: Ruth John @rumyra, Tim Holman @twholman
- Frequency: Varies
- Runtime: 35 - 50 mins, regularly ~40 mins
Giant Robots Smashing
Into Other Giant Robots
- Description: Podcast discussing the design,
development, and business of great software with a rotating cast of
fellow developers, designers, and entrepreneurs.
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 25 - 50 mins, regularly ~40 mins
HAK5
- Description: A podcast covering everything from
open source software and network infrastructure to penetration
testing.
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 5 - 30 mins, regularly ~15 mins
HanselMinutes
- Description: Anything and everything related to
software
- Host: Scott Hanselman @shanselman
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 30 - 40 mins, regularly ~35 mins
The InfoQ
Podcast
- Description: Podcasts on technical software topics,
interviews with some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology
directors.
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 25 - 45 mins, regularly ~30 mins
Junior Developer
Toolbox
- Description: Real talk from the trenches about
everyday life as a junior developer: building, maintaining, and
surviving a career in software engineering.
- Host: Erin Orstrom @eeyorestrom, Dave Harned @davi3blu3
- Frequency: Every Other Week
- Runtime: 35 - 60 mins, regularly ~45 mins
Kernel Panic (iTunes
| Google
Play | Overcast |
Pocket Casts | Spotify
| Stitcher
| TuneIn)
- Description: Educational podcast where tech topics
are discussed by IT veterans.
- Host: David Cohen @tutorialinux, Jeff Morski
@dmbuddy
- Frequency: Approximately once a week
- Runtime: 35 - 75 mins, regularly ~50 mins
Legacy Code Rocks (iTunes
| Player.fm |
Stitcher
| SoundCloud |
Overcast
| Android)
- Description: Legacy Code Rocks explores the world
of modernizing existing software applications. Hosts Andrea Goulet and
M. Scott Ford of Corgibytes are out to change the way you think about
legacy code. If you’re like a lot of people, when you hear the words
“legacy code” it conjures up images of big mainframes and archaic punch
card machines. While that’s true — it only tells a small part of the
story. The truth is, the code you leave behind is your legacy, so let’s
make it a good one.
- Host: Andrea Goulet @andreagoulet, M. Scott Ford
@mscottford
- Frequency: Approximately once a month
- Runtime: 30 - 70 mins, regularly ~45 mins
The Manifest
- Description: A podcast all about package
management. Each episode is a conversation with someone from the world
of package management, covering how they got into the field, the
architectural details of their work, and the communities around the
tools.
- Host: Alex Pounds @acreature, Andrew Nesbitt @teabass
- Frequency: Sporadic, but no more than once a
fortnight.
- Runtime: 50 - 70 mins, regularly ~55 mins
Modern
Web (iTunes
| Overcast
| Android
| PodBean)
- Description: Modern Web is a podcast that covers
the latest news on topics such as EmberJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, ES2015,
RxJS, Functional Reactive Programming, and more.
- Frequency: 2/3 episodes per month
- Runtime: 20 - 70 mins, regularly ~50 mins
The
MousePaw’dCast (iTunes
| Overcast |
Android
| iHeartRadio
| TuneIn)
- Description: The official podcast of MousePaw
Media, discussing game development, open source programming, and
education.
- Frequency: Once a month
- Runtime: 40 - 70 mins, regularly ~65 mins
MS Dev Show
- Description: A podcast for developers covering
topics such as Azure/cloud, .NET, Visual Studio, Node.js, ML/AI and
more! Hosted by Jason Young and Carl Schweitzer.
- Host: Jason Young @ytechie, Carl Schweitzer @carlschweitzer
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 30 - 90 mins, regularly ~60 mins
Namespace
Podcast
- Description: Jordan Cahill and Derek Drummond,
programmers, pundits, prophets, pretenders diagnose the current state of
software development by injecting a dose of science and engineering to
an otherwise chaotic industry.
- Frequency: Various, but at least twice a
month.
- Runtime: 30-60 minutes
The New Stack
- Description: Analysis and explanations about
application development and management at scale. Roundtable discussion
with technologists, analysts and journalists, interviews with
practitioners, demonstrations of software and services.
- Frequency: Various
- Runtime: unknown
Productivity
in Tech
- Description: This is the show where I sit down with
people in the tech space and talk about what they are doing and how they
get it all done.
- Host: K Jay Miller @kjaymiller
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: around 30 minutes
Programming
- Description: Learn about practical computer science
concepts in a brief and accessible way. Excellent for coding interview
preparation as well as for growing as a software engineer.
- Host: Minko Gechev @mgechev
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 10 - 20 mins, regularly ~10 mins
Programming and Performance
with Cliff Click iTunes
- Description: Various issues with Programming,
Programmers, and Computer Performance.
- Host: Cliff Click @cliff_click
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 10 - 30 mins, regularly ~20 mins
Programming
Throwdown
- Description: Anything and everything related to
software
- Host: Patrick Wheeler, Jason Gauci @NeuralNets4Life
- Frequency: Once a month
- Runtime: 50 - 90 mins, regularly ~70 mins
The Rabbit Hole
(iTunes
| Overcast
| Android)
- Description: Welcome to The Rabbit Hole, the
definitive developers’ podcast. If you are a software developer or
technology leader looking to stay on top of the latest news in the
software development world, or just want to learn actionable tactics to
improve your day-to-day job performance, this podcast is for you.
- Host: Dave Anderson @dvndrsn
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 15 - 45 mins, regularly ~25 mins
The
raywenderlich Podcast
- Description: discuss every aspect of app
development. Primarily focusing on Apple technology.
- Frequency: Once a month
- Runtime: 15 - 60 mins, regularly ~40 mins
Relative Paths (iTunes
| SoundCloud | Stitcher | Android)
- Description: A podcast about web design, web
development, music, and that kind of thing. With Ben Hutchings and Mark
Phoenix.
- Host: Ben Hutchings @meredevelopment, Mark
Phoenix @ex_jedi
- Frequency: Approximately once a month
- Runtime: 35 - 80 mins, regularly ~50 mins
Request For Commits (iTunes
| Overcast
| Android)
- Description: Request For Commits explores different
perspectives in open source sustainability. Hosts Nadia Eghbal and
Mikeal Rogers dive deep into the trials and tribulations of being an
open source maintainer, building communities, and navigating the
business side of software. Common topics include software licensing,
copyright, documentation, governance models, funding platforms such as
Open Collective, Kickstarter, etc., measuring success, and more.
- Frequency: Approximately twice a month
- Runtime: 40 - 80 mins, regularly ~60 mins
Software Defined
Talk (RSS)
- Description: Kubernetes, serverless, cloud, DevOps,
& coding. Get the lazy WTF each week, mostly.
- Host: Brandon Whichard @bwhichard, Matt Ray @mattray, Coté
- Frequency: Every Friday
- Runtime: About an hour
Software
Engineering Daily
- Description: Podcasts on technical software
topics
- Host: Jeff Meyerson @the_prion
- Frequency: Multiple episodes every week
- Runtime: 45 - 80 mins, regularly ~55 mins
Software Engineering
Radio
- Description: Targeted at the professional software
developer, aiming to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast.
Talks from experts from the software engineering world about the full
range of topics that matter to professional developers.
- Frequency: Three to four times a month
- Runtime: 45 - 90 mins, regularly ~60 mins
Soft Skills Engineering
(iTunes
| Overcast
| Android)
- Description: It takes more than great code to be a
great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly question and answer
podcast where software developer hosts answer questions about all of the
non-technical things that go along with being a software developer.
- Host: Dave Smith @djsmith42, Jamison Dance @jergason
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 25 - 45 mins, regularly ~30 mins
The Stack Overflow
Podcast (iTunes
| Overcast
| Android
| SoundCloud)
- Description: The Stack Overflow Podcast lets you
listen in on what’s new with the world’s largest developer
community.
- Host: Joel Spolsky @spolsky, Jay Hanlon @JayHanlon, David Fullerton @df07, Ilana Yitzhaki @ilanaesswhy
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 50 - 80 mins, regularly ~65 mins
The Standup
- Description: A podcast that delves into the
obstacles and successes involved in creating, running, and sustaining
successful software side projects.
- Host: Jamie Wright @jwright, Keith Thompson @keiththomps
- Frequency: Twice a month
- Runtime: 20 - 35 mins, regularly ~25 mins
The Tech Guy
- Description: Tech radio-journalist, Leo Laporte
explains everything tech from computers to the internet. This is a great
podcast for anyone who wants to gain a high-level understanding of
everyday technology.
- Host: Leo Laporte
- Frequency: Twice a week
- Runtime: 110 - 135 mins, regularly ~120 mins
Tech
Stuff
- Description: TechStuff is a top technology podcast
from HowStuffWorks. It tackles topics ranging from basic electronics,
5G, WebAuthn to the Large Hadron Collider and everything in
between.
- Host: Jonathan Strickland @JonStrickland
- Frequency: Thrice a week
- Runtime: 25 - 60 mins, regularly ~40 mins
ThoughtWorks
Podcasts (Soundcloud|iTunes|stitcher|RSS)
- Description: The ThoughtWorks podcast plunges deep
into the latest tech topics that have captured our imagination. Join our
panel of senior technologists to explore the most important trends in
tech today, get frontline insights into our work developing cutting-edge
tech and hear more about how today’s tech megatrends will impact
you.
- Host: Dr Rebecca Parsons @rebeccaparsons, Mike Mason
@mikemasonca, Neal Ford
@neal4d, Zhamak Dehghani @zhamakd, Alexey Bôas @avboas79
- Frequency: Various
- Runtime: 6 - 70 mins, regularly ~25 mins
Toolsday (By Spec
| iTunes)
- Description: the latest in tech tools, tips, and
tricks on Tuesdays at 2! (Our all game is so strong).
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 20 - 35 mins, regularly ~25 mins
Weekly Dev Tips
- Description: Short (5-10 min) episodes covering a
single practical developer tip.
- Host: Steve Smith @ardalis
- Frequency: Once a week (roughly)
- Runtime: 5 - 10 mins, regularly ~5 mins
While True Talk (iTunes
| Overcast
| Android
| Youtube)
- Description: Two friends who’ve been coding
professionally for a decade discuss what they’ve learned in the years
since they went ‘pro’!
- Host: Jas Rajasansir, Richard Gill
- Frequency: Once a fortnight (roughly)
- Runtime: 1 - 2 hours, regularly ~1.5 hours
The Women in Tech
Show
- Description: Technical interviews with prominent
women in tech.
- Host: Edaena Salinas @edaenas
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 20 - 55 mins, regularly ~30 mins