Podcasts are great for walking, riding, cooking, and mopping the floor. Whether it’s commuting, walking the dog, or traveling for work or business, listening to podcasts is a productive way to use your time without having to stare at your phone screen. Most developers spend a lot of time in front of a screen every day, which can lead to health problems such as vision and cervical spine problems. Walking while looking at your phone is an even safer issue. Listening to podcasts is a great way to reduce the amount of time spent on your phone. Podcasts are a great way to listen when you can’t read a book or watch a screen while driving or doing chores. Podcasts are even said to help with insomnia. Some people listen to podcasts at night and fall asleep quickly. Of course, different people have different habits when it comes to listening to podcasts. Some people will devote whole chunks of time to listening to podcasts and even take notes, while some people are used to listening to podcasts as background sound, as a relief from listening to music for a long time.

Everyone’s podcasting needs and habits are different, but those who listen to podcasts are likely to be somewhat curious about which podcasts others listen to. We did a little internal survey to find out which podcasts engineers listen to and like, hoping to provide you with some references.

The podcast program list is divided into two categories by language (Chinese and English), arranged in alphabetical order (Chinese podcasts are in phonetic order), and the introduction of the podcast program itself is enclosed in quotation marks.

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  • The goal of the “design chatter” at atra.fm is to “make your hearing more visual,” but the chatter has expanded to include technology and digital products.
  • Code time, podcasts about programming, all kinds of languages and tools, great guests every time, full links in show Note. Emacs and Clojure have had good releases. Unfortunately, it was discontinued in 2019.
  • “An experimental project advocating the pursuit of individual freedom and the search for truth”, the anchor updates at random, and the topic is also very random.
  • Crazy circle, “from the investment perspective to explore the nature of business”, providing high quality investment industry observation. A lot of developers are focused on investment, and this show is a great window into the various formats.
  • “Salon interview podcast” is constantly updated, with new guests every time, covering a wide range of topics, including media, humanities and social sciences.
  • IT Theory, a classic Chinese podcast program, was called “a comprehensive science and technology program”, but in fact, IT was mainly aimed at technical people. Unfortunately, IT stopped airing in 2016.
  • Relish to say, “various fields of experts jointly produced a number of high quality podcasts, sharing experience, spread experience”, frequent updates, theme diversity, the circle is close.
  • Kernels Scare, “an IT themed entertainment show that claims to be hardcore but doesn’t have much to offer,” is a water cooler but more like a chat with your tech friends.
  • A diversion, “a podcast hosted by a group of correspondents based in the US,” has recently done a number of episodes on the US election.
  • Smalltalk, two of LeanCloud’s staff and V2ex’s Livid have just launched a “Chinese podcast on interesting technology topics,” which apparently overlaps with “Core Panic.” Support wechat public account subscription, so far two programs have been updated: “Talk about your private cloud”, “Talk about the new Mac with M1 chip”.
  • Teahour, “a Chinese podcast focused on programming, entrepreneurship, and all Geek topics,” used to be very influential among programmers, but now it’s becoming more popular.
  • Heaven and earth useless, “talk show podcasts, chat movies, music, literature, animation popular works, sharing travel, food, consumption, fashion and lifestyle, more various celebrities and interesting people talk about the future and the past,” a wide range of topics, pick to listen.
  • Wordtalk, “the world’s first podcast on typography in Chinese”, is regularly syndicated with “Kernel Panic”. Fonts in the computer age are a complex system that spans both technology and design, and a developer’s daily work involves some typographic issues. Listen to this podcast to learn more about them.

English podcasts

  • Apple Events, for after-dinner talk.
  • Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions about the impact of pneumonia on the world, whether inequality is inevitable and global climate change.
  • Barbell Medicine, a professional fitness podcast, includes discussion of relevant papers.
  • Goldman Sachs: Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, Top of Mind, Talks at GS
  • Masters in Business, Bloomberg’s investment-focused podcast, has featured some of the biggest names in the financial world, from John Boggle to Ray Dalio.
  • Nature Podcast, a weekly Podcast about science and technology.
  • Talking Machines, machine learning, and artificial intelligence podcasts with Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoff Hinton. The quality of the programme was good in previous years, but it has dropped off recently.
  • Trained, the nKE sports podcast, interviews professional athletes and academics.
  • Planet Money, NPR’s podcast about economics and finance.

Podcast client

The most popular and used podcast client is Apple Podcasts, which comes with iOS, despite complaints that “the UI changes every year and takes a year to learn and adapt”. After all, “it’s not like it can’t be used.” Others used Google Podcasts (a cross-platform client with a clean interface), Spotify (already subscribed to listen to music anyway), and Moon FM (a podcast client created by a personal developer). If you are in doubt, it is recommended that you choose a client that supports OPML import and export so that you can easily switch later.