Hands-On Engineering Podcasts
Podcasts where working engineers talk about actually building software: languages and frameworks, infrastructure and cloud, databases, testing, debugging, performance, and open source. Practitioner craft rather than industry news or management.
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- 91
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- Podcasts
- 88
- Newsletters
- 1
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Who publishes here — active in the last 90 days
1,050 posts
Teaches web development through free and paid video courses, including JavaScript30, React for Beginners, and...
1,036 posts
Teaches JavaScript and front-end development through Level Up Tutorials, a video course platform, and brings t...
936 posts
Co-founder of Jupiter Broadcasting, a Linux and open source podcast network launched in 2008, who hosts shows...
Adam Stacoviak
712 posts
Founder and editor-in-chief of Changelog Media, covering software development and open source. Previously led...
683 posts
Co-host of LINUX Unplugged, the Jupiter Broadcasting show on Linux, open source, self-hosting and home lab too...
Ryan Donovan
656 posts
Podcast host covering software engineering, AI agents and developer productivity. Hosts The Stack Overflow Po...
Tobias Macey
602 posts
Hosts the Data Engineering Podcast, covering data platforms, pipelines, and the tools engineers use to move an...
Corey Quinn
597 posts
Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, writing and speaking on AWS news, services and cloud costs. Hosts the Last...
Gergely Orosz
551 posts
Big Tech and startups from the inside. Especially relevant for software engineers / AI engineers, useful for a...
Michael Kennedy
508 posts
Python developer, PSF Fellow and founder of Talk Python Training, which offers courses for Python developers....
508 posts
Software developer who co-hosts Soft Skills Engineering, a weekly advice show for software engineers. The show...
Brian Okken
486 posts
Software engineer working on embedded test and measurement systems in Python and C++, with a focus on RF measu...
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- “If you manage a Linux server and the only place you got notified of this vulnerability is through the Golang mailing list, you got to up your vulnerability mana...” Shay Nehmad, Cup o' Go
- “We looked at a lot of open source code, looking for examples of records and whether this change would be a concern. We found a handful of classes that would get...” Dan Smith, Inside Java
- “Hydro is developed now mostly via agents, humans driving agents, and we are putting up PRs at a much faster pace, and the PRs themselves are much larger. Last w...” Shadaj Laddad, The New Stack Podcast
- “A lot of security vulnerabilities in application code have similar shapes, and they're very hyper local usually. The ones that are tough to catch are state acro...” Erik Onarheim, TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers
- “You want to extract some information from unstructured data, use an extraction model. Then you want to classify what it finds. Then you use a decision model. An...” Kamran Ayub, TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers
- “Attackers have learned DevOps principles. They failed over. That's fantastic. They did what we all wish our companies were doing every day.” Matt Kohn, The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
- “We have a dog and it does a lot of stupid stuff. And the dog is not a human. I try to train the dog to be very good. She can sit. She can close doors. But every...” Cody Chandler, The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
- “You're going to run out of smart people to do stuff. That's my biggest concern with this whole thing… Now we're not training the new joiners. They're not gettin...” Cody Chandler, The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
- “Human in the loop theater is a problem that we're seeing. When you do have that need for human accountability, that human has to have the opportunity to absorb...” Chris Ford, Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
- “Pull requests of a couple thousand lines of code, who can manage that? I think it is getting out of the cognitive capacity of people to review all those pull re...” Darko Fabijan, Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News
- “Sadly, no, because AI has a hard time going into the different layers of the state websites, and maybe this will get better. We found that it was not terribly h...” Shannon Yavorsky, Software Engineering Daily
- “A rule written in a prompt is not deterministically enforced. A guardrail is actual machinery: a gate, a check, a human, a limit in code.” Heidi Porter, Practical AI
- “I think roughly two-thirds of serious kernel CVEs stem from memory safety bugs. And 30 years of C discipline hadn't moved that number in any other positive dire...” Danilo Krummrich, Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
- “The two key fundamentals that I've identified is the persistence or ephemeral nature of the identity and the deterministic or non-deterministic nature of the id...” Or Weis, Software Huddle
- “The cutting edge continues to get more expensive. But a single point in capability keeps getting cheaper.” Elecia White, Embedded
- “Having something that is agent-writable and human-reviewable is actually not a super easy design constraint to satisfy. I have spoken to folks on data teams who...” Tristan Handy, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
- “I think the biggest threat for SaaS companies out there is this artifact space. It makes custom UIs, custom interfaces, custom reports. Do you go into Salesforc...” Dave Fowler, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
- “Sometimes you talk about taking a 15-minute run down to a five-minute run. And maybe on the surface, that doesn't sound that impactful, but that's like four ite...” Dan Manges, Remote Ruby
- “These protocols are the air you breathe. These protocols are the plumbing. They may not be that sexy, maybe, but if we don't get those right, that entire agenti...” Mazin Gilbert, The New Stack Podcast
- “I like to have humans review things mostly for context sharing. … If I ask you to review some code, sure, you might find some stuff, but now we're sharing conte...” Matthew Sanabria, Fallthrough
- “I was just texting someone about this yesterday. They were like, I can't believe no one's replaced GitHub yet. I'm like, you mean nobody's wanted to add free CI...” Nick Gerace, Fallthrough
- “One big difference between robotics models and LLMs is the challenge of backtracking. For LLMs, when you train things on the computer, if it makes a mistake, yo...” Chip Huyen, The InfoQ Podcast
- “I use multi-agent a lot. … I actually built this protocol to let them message each other to make sure that you can coordinate and don't overlap. So what happene...” Chip Huyen, The InfoQ Podcast
- “I was surprised that there's a threshold. And once I saw the threshold, it makes sense to warn people. You test this in your own little environment, not thinkin...” Kirk Wolak, Postgres FM
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- Sources are hand-picked by us for this market. Post and episode counts are everything we have indexed for them, back to whatever archive the source publishes.
- People and advertisers are everyone credited or heard on these sources in the last 90 days, ranked by every post they have appeared on here. Topics come from the 10 newest posts of each source, so every source counts equally.
- A person is counted once per post, whether they wrote it, hosted it, or appeared on it as a guest. Podcast credits come from the transcript.
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