Podcasts
I love listening to podcasts with Overcast especially when commuting or traveling somewhere.
Wish all podcasts had a page like this where you can do textual searches on all the content produced.
I have Top
and Other
smart playlists in Overcast. The Top
includes my favorite podcasts I want to listen to.
It includes:
- 99% Invisible - Tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.
- All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
- The Art of Product - Ben and Derrick chat weekly about building software companies.
- MIT Artificial Intelligence - Conversations at MIT and beyond about the nature of intelligence and AI.
- Chats with Kent C. Dodds - Kent C. Dodds chats with developers.
- Contravariance: A Swift podcast - Podcast by Bas Broek and Benedikt Terhechte.
- CoRecursive - Learn from software development experts. Hosted by Adam Gordon Bell.
- Cortex - CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss their working lives.
- cpp.chat - Strong opinions, weekly held - with great guests from the C++ community.
- Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - Daniel & Jorge discuss some of the simple but profound questions about existence.
- DeepMind: The Podcast - Aims to give listeners an inside look at the fascinating world of AI research.
- Design Details - Weekly conversation about design process and culture.
- The Diff: A Podcast from Facebook Open Source - Showcases the program, the projects and the people that drives the team’s mission of building community through open source technology.
- EconTalk - Economics Brought to Life, Library of Economics and Liberty.
- Egghead Developer Chats - Humans talking about the business of building software, constant learning, and balancing it with everyday life.
- Elixir Talk - Desmond Bowe and Chris Bell present.
- Fireside Swift - Popular Swift programming podcast where two buddies, Zack and Steve, discuss a new Swift topic each week.
- Foodist with Darya Rose, Ph.D
- FoundMyFitness - Podcast about health, science, nutrition, aging, and fitness.
- Function with Anil Dash - Podcast about how technology shapes culture and communication.
- Future of Coding
- Go Time - Diverse panel and special guests discuss cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker…oh and also Go.
- GraphQL Patterns - In depth discussions around everything GraphQL.
- Hello Internet - CGP Grey and Brady Haran in Conversation.
- Hidden Forces - Exploring the hidden forces responsible for driving the most powerful changes we see in the world.
- Hope in Source - What are the parallels between faith and open source software?
- How I Built This with Guy Raz - Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies.
- HTTP 203 - Where Surma and Jake occasionally talk web.
- Inside Remote - Dives deep into various topics of #remotework.
- The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan’s Weekly Podcast.
- Kevin Rose Show - Kevin Rose interviews and explores new ways to reach peak personal and professional performance.
- The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish - Mastering the Best of What Other People Have Figured Out.
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google - Weekly podcast focused on what’s happening in the Kubernetes community.
- Ladybug Podcast - Three ladies debugging the tech industry.
- Made You Think - Conversations that Stretch Your Brain Muscles.
- Maintainers Anonymous - How can we work together to achieve a common goal: whether in our code, cities, or infrastructure.
- Making Sense with Sam Harris - Neuroscientist, philosopher and best selling author.
- Masters in Business - Looks at the people and ideas that shape markets, investing and business.
- The Next Big Idea - Each episode dives deep into one big idea through immersive storytelling, narration and curator interviews with the most interesting authors at work today.
- Darknet Diaries - True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
- The Portal - This podcast does something different. Hosted by Eric Weinstein.
- Absolutely Mental - Podcast series from Ricky Gervais and Sam Harris.
- Practical AI - Making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone.
- Quanta Science Podcast - In-depth news about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.
- Rationally Speaking - Exploring the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
- React Podcast - Conversations about React with your favorite developers.
- Reconcilable Differences - John Siracusa and Merlin Mann try to figure out exactly how they got this way.
- Release Notes - The Business of Online Businesses.
- Reply All - Podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.
- Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - Sean Carroll hosts conversations with the world’s most interesting thinkers.
- Spearhead - Naval on angel investing.
- StackTrace - Apple news & rumors from a developer's perspective.
- Swift by Sundell - Answering your questions about Swift development.
- The Swift Community Podcast - Podcast for the Swift Community, by the Swift Community.
- Swift over Coffee - Helps you keep your Swift skills up to date the easy way, hosted by Paul Hudson and Sean Allen.
- Swift Unwrapped - 30-minute spin off of Swift Weekly Brief and other Swifty news.
- Talking machines - Human conversation about machine learning.
- This Week in Startups - Jason Calacanis and a rotating group of guest experts bring you this weekly take on the best, worst, most outrageous and interesting stories from the world of Web companies.
- devtools.fm - Podcast about developer tools and the people who make them. (Code)
- The Tim Ferriss Show - Interesting interviews focused on life improvement.
- The Undefined Podcast - The only engineering podcast with a 2 drink minimum.
- TLB hit - Podcast about systems and compilers by Chris Leary and JF Bastien.
- Venture Stories - Partner and co-founder Erik Torenberg takes you inside the world of venture capital and technology.
- We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network - We interview and study famous financial billionaires including Warren Buffett and Howard Marks, and teach you what we learn and how you can apply their investment strategies in the stock market.
- Weird Trick Mafia
- Zero Knowledge - Where we talk about blockchain technology and development.
- ReadME Podcast - Take a look behind the scenes of the most impactful open source projects and the developers who make them happen.
- FSJam Podcast - Conversations about the emerging world of Fullstack Jamstack applications.
- The Data Engineering Podcast
- Business Breakdowns - Series of conversations with investors and operators diving deep into a single business.
- Build Your SaaS
- Syntax.fm - Tasty Treats Podcast for Web Developers.
- Junior to Senior with David Guttman
- Serial - Tells one story — a true story — over the course of a season.
- Behind the Bastards
- Waiting For Review - Interviews from the iOS indie community, with David Gary Wood.
- CoRecursive Podcast - The Stories Behind The Code.
- Well There's Your Problem Podcast
- On the Other Side Podcast
- Tooling Talks - Series of talks about tooling.
- Goose&Duck Podcast
- Lost and Founder
- Flight Review - Weekly podcast chronicling the journey of two entrepreneurs building Flightcontrol.
- Иммигранткаст - О том как живется на чужбине.
- Launched - Interview podcast telling the stories of app devs and creators launching a product into the world.
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
- Three Cartoon Avatars
- The Cofree Coffee Cast - Host Sandy Maguire gets to know members of the functional programming community.
- Functional Futures - Podcast where we interview people that are building the future of functional programming.
- Tools & Craft – Notion
- Core Intuition - Podcast about indie software development for the Mac, iOS and other Apple technologies. (Twitter)
- The Lunar Society - Host Dwarkesh Patel interviews economists, scientists, and philosophers about their big ideas.
- SmartLess - Comedy podcast hosted by Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman & Will Arnett. (Twitter)
- Up Only - Crypto podcast with Cobie & Ledger. (Twitter)
- Huberman Lab
- Two's Complement
- Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado
- Oxide and Friends
- Moment of Zen
- The Record - Brings you the stories you should know about the Mac and Cocoa development community. (Code)
- Mostly Technical
For other awesome podcasts you can see here. I also export a list of all the podcasts I am subscribed to (can be imported to Overcast).
Favorite episodes
- Incremental Correctness (feat. Guillermo Rauch)
- Type Driven Development and Idris With Edwin Brady
- Following Your Passion to Build an Impactful Business with Quincy Larson of FreeCodeCamp
- Lisa Feldman Barrett: Emotion
- Ep. #2, The Early Days of GitHub with Tom Preston-Werner - HN thread
- Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror (2018)
- Professor Philip Wadler on Plutus (2018)
- Inventing the Future - Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital discusses how to unearth the unexplored ideas that will reshape our future.
- Joe Rogan Experience - John Carmack (2019)
Interesting episodes
- James Long - Seeking Deep Knowledge
- defn - #40 - Nikita Prokopov aka @tonsky
- Jim Kwik - Memory improvement and optimal brain performance expert (2018)
Recommendations
- Podnami - Best technology podcast episodes.
- Awesome Podcasts
- Pod Hunt
- What are your favorite podcasts?
- Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
- Podcasts which are helpful for software engineers/programmers
- Favorite Podcasts of swyx
- The 140 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind
- Curated podcasts list
- Podcasts in Russian
- Collection of Podcasts for Developers
- The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020
- Podcasts that'll take me on a journey, any genre, fiction or non fiction
- Podcasts similar to Radiolab? (Informative, wide variety of topics, etc.)
- Light-hearted and funny podcasts?
- What's a podcast you used to listen to all the time, but never do anymore?
- What are your favorite obscure podcasts? (2021)
- Podcasts for bootstrappers and indie hackers
- Top podcasts founders consume (2021)
- Fast, snappy, high content podcasts (2021)
- Fave New Podcasts in 2021
- The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021 Transcend Genre Conventions
- Must-listen podcast episode on software engineering? (2022)
- Best podcasts for software developers 2022
- Nice educational podcasts (2022)
- Nice comedy podcasts
- What’s one podcast that you recommend over all others?
- If you have a favorite podcast, what is it and why is it your favorite? (2022)
- Looking for "well this took me down a rabbit hole" podcasts
- Podcasts that actually make you laugh (2022)
- Awesome Data Podcasts
- Name two podcasts that you like: One really popular one, and one unknown (2022)
- Best comedy podcasts (2022)
- Podcast recommendations from women (2022)
- What are some of the best podcasts for developers? (2022)
- Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022?
- What podcasts deserve to be adapted into TV shows? (2023)
- Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days? (2023)
- What is you first podcast that got you hooked? (2023)
Notes
- A podcast is just people talking. Nothing magical.
- Can use QuickTime to record.
- Great opportunity to meet up with others - makes for a more fun show.
- Since it's a rather new format, there's lots of room for new concepts and new ideas.
- You don't need expensive recording studio. It's just recording conversations.
- Basic audio editing is easy to learn. You can use free tools like GarageBand and Audacity.
- Podcasts are not necessarily live. You can edit out the parts that go off topic.
- Can use a mirror for podcast interviews. Can look nice like here.
- All podcasts should have transcripts.
Links
- Best Podcasts Search
- spec.fm - Level up by listening to podcasts from the best in the industry.
- Transistor - Professional podcast hosting and analytics.
- Breaker - Social podcast app.
- Podcast Notes
- Podsync - Turn YouTube or Vimeo channels, users, or playlists into podcast feeds.
- Listen Notes - Podcast Search Engine. (API) (HN) (How I accidentally built an API business)
- Podcast Search - Full Text Search on Podcasts. (HN)
- Winds - Beautiful Open Source Podcast & RSS Reader created by Stream. (Code)
- Mixtape - Search engine for podcasts. Discover and subscribe to topics you like.
- Subscription podcasting is the next great business model (2019) (Tweet)
- Changelog - News and podcasts for developers.
- Changelog Transcripts
- Supercast - Makes podcast monetization simple.
- Favorite single podcast episodes (2020)
- Ask HN: Intellectually simulating Podcasts/conversations/Talk (2020)
- Wisecast - Smart Hosting for Podcasters.
- Why Podcasts Are My New Wikipedia – The Perfect Informal Learning Resource (2020)
- How podcasts work
- Learning effectively with podcasts (2020)
- Podify - Create podcasts from anything youtube-dl can handle. (Reddit)
- Airr - Podcast player that lets you highlight, add a note, and share moments from episodes.
- Podcast Stats - How many podcasts are there? (HN)
- PodcastFest Russian
- Podcast generator written in Go
- Relay FM - Independent podcast network for people who are creative, curious, and maybe even a little obsessive.
- How To Start and Grow a Podcast with David Perrell, Jeff Umbro, and Sachit Gupta (2020)
- Brett’s 2020 Podcasting Setup
- Artifact - Personal podcasts with the people in your life. (HN)
- Podgrab - Self-hosted podcast manager to download episodes as soon as they become live.
- Podcast Hosting Review - Reviews of popular podcast hosting platforms.
- Poise - Text-to-podcast: Repurpose any content into podcasts. (HN)
- Capiche FM - Turn phone calls into livestreamed radio shows.
- Fame - Grow Your B2B Business With A Profitable Podcast.
- An Ode to Podcasting (2020) - Lessons learned from recording 500 podcasts.
- On Deck Podcaster Fellowship
- Spotifeed - Spotify Podcast RSS Feed Generator. (Code)
- Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?
- My audio-visual setup
- TailoredFlow - Your personal decentralized RSS podcast aggregator.
- Listenbox - Listen and publish YouTube shows as podcasts.
- Subcaster - Compare podcast tools side-by-side.
- Podz - The best parts of podcasts in a personalized feed.
- Podcast note taking app that integrates directly with Roam Research (2021)
- How Spotify is Killing the Open Podcast Ecosystem (2020) (HN)
- Spotify's Open Access Platform (2021)
- The New Podcast Oligopoly (2021)
- PodClips - Discover the Best Podcast Clips.
- Callin - First Social Podcasting Platform. (Article)
- Podcasts are my new Wikipedia (2021) (HN)
- node-podcast-parser - Parses a podcast RSS feed and returns easy to use object.
- podcast-transcriber - Fully automated Cloud Function podcast transcriptions with Deepgram.
- Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?
- Podcast.ru - Создаёт удобную и красивую страницу для вашего подкаста со ссылками на все популярные сервисы.
- TwitchToPodcastRSS - Converts a twitch channel in a full-blown podcast.
- Spodcast - Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. (HN)
- Captivate.fm - Unlimited podcast hosting, analytics & marketing.
- Snipd - Highlight & Take Notes from Podcasts. (HN)
- Podcast Generator - Progress podcast generator in Go.
- How To Export Podcast Highlights To Obsidian (2021) (Reddit)
- Substack Podcast app
- Podbabble - Podcast discussion happens here. (HN)
- Cast - Podcast listening progressive web app with all-around automated quality assurance. (Code)
- Ask HN: Why is Lex Fridman so successful with his “tech” podcasts? (2022)
- Podcast RSS for Node - Fast and simple Podcast RSS generator/builder for Node projects. Supports enclosures and GeoRSS.
- podcast - Command line podcast manager and player.
- Podbay - Fastest and easiest podcast player designed for the web.
- Podcastmix - Dataset for separating music and speech in podcasts.
- Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? (2022)
- Teachers app - Podcast app for learning.
- Changelog - News and podcasts for developers. (Code)
- podcast.ai - Podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence. (HN)
- Pocket Casts (HN) (HN)
- Best podcast episode you have ever listened to? (2022)
- Apple Podcast Connector - Inofficial Connector for Apple's Podcast Data.
- Open Podcast - Open platform for podcast analytics. (GitHub)
- yt2podcast - YouTube channel to podcast server.
- Doughnut - Podcast App for macOS. (Code)
- Google Podcasts
- I Built an AI Chatbot Based On My Favorite Podcast (2022) (Tweet)
- Podalize - Podcast Transcription and Analysis.
- All-In On AI - OpenAI-powered semantic search for the All-In Podcast. (Code)
- Voilib - Semantic Search in Podcasts Transcriptions.
- Podcst Web - Modern PWA to listen to podcasts. (Code)
- Podcst API - Thin wrapper around the iTunes Search API.
- Podcast Summarizer - OpenAI Whisper + davinci for podcast summarization.
- Podcast Search - Whisper Generated Transcripts Shows.
- PodText - Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play. (HN)
- Spotify Transcripts - Combines Google Speech Recognition and the Spotify API to transcribe Spotify podcasts.
- Export your starred episodes in Overcast (2023)
- SyntaxAI Transcripts - Using OpenAI to generate Syntax Transcripts, show notes and categories.
- Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend? (2023)
- Trys - Transcription program for podcast-style recordings.
- PodFind - Find what podcasters think of new things. (Code)
- List with podcasts related to software development
- Open Podcast Metrics Pipelines
- Spotify Connector - Simple library for connecting to the unofficial Spotify podcast API.
- Video Archives - Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary talk about movies.
- smol-podcaster - Autonomous podcast production intern.
- PodStash - Turn any link into a podcast. (Tweet)
- Wondercraft - Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily. (HN)
- Bokskog - Self-Hosted Audiobook server stream > podcast app. (HN)