Best Programming Podcasts (2025)

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Rivals of Aether with Dan Fornace 44:00

20m ago44:00

44:00

Rivals of Aether and Rivals of Aether II are indie fighting games that combine fast-paced platform combat with elemental-themed characters. The game takes inspiration from Super Smash Bros. and emphasizes skillful movement, tight controls, and competitive balance, making it popular in the fighting game community. Dan Fornace is a game director and …

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Episode 491: Re-arranging deck chairs on the Titantic and my boss leaks private info 36:48

21h ago36:48

36:48

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I handed in my resignation this past Monday. During the conversation, my manager confided in me that this coming Wednesday, 25% of the workforce is being laid off. For context, this is the second round of layoffs. The first round happened a year ago and was a disaster. It was announced via a…

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635: Tabnine's Eran Yahav 17:35

34m ago17:35

17:35

Tabnine Eran on LinkedIn Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom DevBy The Mad Botter

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Human Agency in a Digital World with Marcus Fontoura 34:51

1h ago34:51

34:51

Marcus Fontoura has led engineering teams at IBM, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft...building the very systems that power our digital lives. Now, as the author of Human Agency in a Digital World, he’s asking a more profound question: how do we stay in charge of the technology we create? Scott and Marcus explore what it means to move from being passenge…

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Aviation Cybersecurity with Serge Christiaans 49:55

5d ago49:55

49:55

Aviation cybersecurity is becoming an urgent priority as modern aircraft increasingly rely on complex digital systems for navigation, communication, and engine performance. These systems were once isolated but are now interconnected and vulnerable to cyber threats ranging from GPS spoofing to ransomware attacks on airline infrastructure. As nation-…

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SE Radio 698: Srujana Merugu on How to build an LLM App 1:18:30

6d ago1:18:30

1:18:30

In this episode of Software Engineering Radio, Srujana Merugu, an AI researcher with decades of experience, speaks with host Priyanka Raghavan about building LLM-based applications. The discussion begins by clarifying essential concepts like generative vs. predictive AI, pre-training vs. fine-tuning, and the transformer architecture that powers mod…

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Blocking Software Supply Chain Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh 47:48

9m ago47:48

47:48

Modern software relies heavily on open source dependencies, often pulling in thousands of packages maintained by developers all over the world. This accelerates innovation but also creates serious supply chain risks as attackers increasingly compromise popular libraries to spread malware at scale. Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socke…

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Episode 490: How do I break into software dev from QA automation and underselling 26:14

7d ago26:14

26:14

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Dave and Jamison, I’ve been in QA/QA automation for 13 years now with a CS degree, and I’ve been trying to change my role to a software developer for a while. My only issue is that every time I brought my career aspirations to my managers they seemed to “not care” or give vague answers to…

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634: MongoDB's Frank Pachot 22:32

19m ago22:32

22:32

Frank on LinkedIn MongoDB Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog PostBy The Mad Botter

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Daniel Temkin and the Beauty of Esoteric Languages 35:12

12d ago35:12

35:12

What happens when code stops being useful and starts being art? Scott talks with artist and programmer Daniel Temkin about his new book Forty-Four Esolangs, a deep dive into the world of esoteric programming languages...systems designed not to ship software, but to provoke thought. They explore how absurdity, constraint, and humor reveal something …

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Pydantic AI with Samuel Colvin 57:28

12d ago57:28

57:28

Python’s popularity in data science and backend engineering has made it the default language for building AI infrastructure. However, with the rapid growth of AI applications, developers are increasingly looking for tools that combine Python’s flexibility with the rigor of production-ready systems. Pydantic began as a library for type-safe data val…

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SE Radio 697: Philip Kiely on Multi-Model AI 56:33

7d ago56:33

56:33

Philip Kiely, software developer relations lead at Baseten, speaks with host Jeff Doolittle about multi-agent AI, emphasizing how to build AI-native software beyond simple ChatGPT wrappers. Kiely advocates for composing multiple models and agents that take action to achieve complex user goals, rather than just producing information. He explains the…

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SED News: Bezos Returns to Building, AI’s Reality Check, and Europe’s Cloud Ambitions 54:01

14d ago54:01

54:01

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover Jeff Bezos’s unexpected return to the CEO seat with Project Prometheus, the growing debate over whether AI investm…

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Episode 489: Ethical dilemma for a gambling app dev and ethical employers 34:57

11d ago34:57

34:57

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey Jamison and Dave, love your show! A question for you guys coming all the way from the Netherlands 🧀 I’ve started as a software engineer in a gambling company lately and the moral aspect of it bothers me a bit. And while listening to you talking about the importance of accessibility in th…

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The Digital Runway: IT at the Philadelphia Airport with Camille Tomlin 32:15

19d ago32:15

32:15

Scott sits down with Camille Tomlin, Head of IT at Philadelphia International Airport, to explore the intersection of aviation, technology, and leadership. They discuss how airports are transforming digitally — with IoT, data analytics, and smart infrastructure — and how Camille leads a team that bridges city government, airlines, and millions of p…

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Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz 47:27

19d ago47:27

47:27

PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen resolutions, and memory constraints. The PICO-8 dev environment uses Lua and is focused on being accessible to developers while offering depth for co…

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SE Radio 696: Flavia Saldanha on Data Engineering for AI 1:14:25

11d ago1:14:25

1:14:25

Flavia Saldanha, a consulting data engineer, joins host Kanchan Shringi to discuss the evolution of data engineering from ETL (extract, transform, load) and data lakes to modern lakehouse architectures enriched with vector databases and embeddings. Flavia explains the industry's shift from treating data as a service to treating it as a product, emp…

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Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos 1:00:51

21d ago1:00:51

1:00:51

Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doom” has become so widespread that it spawned the r/itrunsdoom sub-Reddit. Recently, Doom made headlines again for being ported to TypeScript. The project involved representing Doom entirely in TypeScript…

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Episode 488: How do I survive in a culture of optics and jira slacker 30:38

19d ago30:38

30:38

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey Dave and Jamison, Big fan of the show — listening from Portugal! (Proof that even across the Atlantic, software politics are universal.) I’m a tech lead, and lately I’ve noticed a culture where people seem to care way more about how things look than what actually gets done. It’s like the…

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633: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti 25:48

19d ago25:48

25:48

Joe on LinkedIn Joe's Blog Joe on X Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog PostBy The Mad Botter

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C++ is Still Here, Still Powerful with Gabriel Dos Reis 35:50

26d ago35:50

35:50

In a world of Rust, Go, and Python, why does C++ still matter? Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis joins Scott to explain how C++ continues to shape everything from GPUs and browsers to AI infrastructure. They talk about performance, predictability, and the art of balancing power with safety...and how the language’s constant evolution keeps it relevant four decad…

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Drone Warfare in Ukraine with Simon Shuster 54:45

23d ago54:45

54:45

Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. He was born in Moscow, and he and his family came to the United States as refugees from the Soviet Union when he was six years old. After graduating from Stanford University in 2005, Simon returned to…

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SE Radio 695: Dave Thomas on Building eBooks Infrastructure 1:02:49

19d ago1:02:49

1:02:49

Dave Thomas, author of The Pragmatic Programmer, The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Programming Elixir, Simplicity, and co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about building infrastructure for eBooks. They discuss what an eBook is, the various forma…

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Radix UI with Chance Strickland 56:47

25d ago56:47

56:47

Radix UI is an open-source library of React components. Its “headless” primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns—like dialogs, dropdowns, and tabs—while leaving styling completely up to the developer. The project emphasizes usability, accessibility, and composability and has become a vital part of modern web dev, in part becaus…

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Episode 487: My manager ignores me during 1:1's and I am required to work in an empty office 36:18

18d ago36:18

36:18

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: “My manager insists on a weekly 1:1 with me, but he rarely pays attention. He’s often on his laptop, texting, checking email — basically anything but listening. I’ve tried sending agendas, rescheduling, reducing frequency, waiting until he’s less busy — nothing helps. I’ve even started sitti…

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Why Postgres? and why now? with Claire Giordano 36:11

1M ago36:11

36:11

Postgres has quietly become the world’s favorite database...running startups, governments, and global clouds alike. Scott talks with Claire Giordano, long-time Postgres advocate and technologist, about the database’s unlikely rise from academic roots to modern dominance. They explore its design philosophy, the open-source community that fuels it, a…

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The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis 40:13

22d ago40:13

40:13

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It offers a valuable snapshot of the global developer community, covering a wide range of topics such as preferred programming languages, tools, and technologies. Jody Bailey is the Chief Product …

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SE Radio 694: Jennings Anderson and Amy Rose on Overture Maps 1:03:45

1M ago1:03:45

1:03:45

Jennings Anderson, a Software Engineer with Meta Platforms, and Amy Rose, the Chief Technology Officer at Overture Maps Foundation, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Overture Maps project, which creates reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data. After exploring the foundations of geospatial information systems, Gregory an…

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632: Graphite's Merrill Lutsky 21:12

1M ago21:12

21:12

Merrill on LinkedIn Graphite Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog PostBy The Mad Botter

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Building an Open-Source Laptop with Byran Huang 53:56

1M ago53:56

53:56

Byran Huang is a full stack developer who recently made headlines in the hacker space when he created the anyon_e, which is a highly integrated, open source laptop. The effort was a massive undertaking and showcased great design, hardware, and software. In this episode, Byran joins the show with Gregor Vand to talk about his work on the anyon_e lap…

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Episode 486: No one on my team talks and skip level meetings 29:19

25d ago29:19

29:19

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I work at a big tech company on a remote team of about 10 people, and most of them have been here for 5+ years. I’m in the “newer” half of the team with 4 years here. My problem is, in group meetings, absolutely NO ONE talks. I mean zero small talk, they have trouble responding to simple yes…

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The Past Still Boots with the Interim Computing Museum's Stephen Jones 40:46

1M ago40:46

40:46

Scott talks with Stephen Jones of the new Interim Computing Museum, about the craft of bringing old computers back to life. From wire-wrapped boards to tape drives and terminals, this episode dives into why running the old systems — not just displaying them — matters for understanding how modern computing came to be. Support, Visit, and Donate to t…

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The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel 51:20

1M ago51:20

51:20

The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable we mostly take it for granted, but behind the scenes it represents one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements. Today’s internet is also dramatically more complex and capable than in i…

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SE Radio 693: Mark Williamson on AI-Assisted Debugging 54:12

1M ago54:12

54:12

Mark Williamson, CTO of Undo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss AI-assisted debugging. The conversation is structured around three main objectives: understanding how AI can serve as a debugging assistant; examining AI-powered debugging tools; exploring whether AI debuggers can independently find and fix bugs. Mark highlights how AI can suppor…

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185: Workflow Orchestrators 1:32:02

1M ago1:32:02

1:32:02

Intro topic: Asymmetric Returns News/Links: NanoChat by Andrej Karpathy https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat Pydantic AI https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/03/25/pydanticai-advancing-generative-ai-agent-development-through-intelligent-framework-design/ 1000th Starlink this year https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/16/live-coverage-spacex-plans-morning…

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631: Aeroview's Marc Weiner 29:36

1M ago29:36

29:36

Aeroview Marc on LinkedIn Alice for Snowflake Mike on X Mike on BlueSky Coder on X Show Discord Alice & Custom Dev Mike's Recent Omakub Blog PostBy The Mad Botter

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SED News: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s Struggles, and Apple’s AI Long Game 49:02

1M ago49:02

49:02

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover the $1.7B acquisition of Security AI, LangChain’s massive valuation, and the surprise $300M funding” round for Per…

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Episode 485: I'm terrible at hiring decisions and my coworker spams us with AI-generated memes 43:53

1M ago43:53

43:53

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: What signals do you look for when interviewing candidates? I’ve helped interview many people at this point and almost all of the engineers that I marked as “hire” that we brought on board ended up being low performers and were eventually managed out. I wasn’t the only one who approved them e…

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Cheat Codes for Junior Engineers with Kat Excellence 35:22

1M ago35:22

35:22

This week Scott talks to Kat who shares her tactical wisdom from her blog Katexcellence.io, where she decodes the early-career engineering experience with clarity and wit. From learning to build without motivation, to balancing depth and velocity, to navigating layoffs and early‑career uncertainty, Kat distills lessons from her own journey through …

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Building AI Agents on the Frontend with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer 57:04

1M ago57:04

57:04

Most AI agent frameworks are backend-focused and written in Python, which introduces complexity when building full-stack AI applications with JavaScript or TypeScript frontends. This gap makes it harder for frontend developers to prototype, integrate, and iterate on AI-powered features. Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework focused on build…

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SE Radio 692: Sourabh Satish on Prompt Injection 1:04:36

2M ago1:04:36

1:04:36

Sourabh Satish, CTO and co-founder of Pangea, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about prompt injection. Sourabh begins with the basic concepts underlying prompt injection and the key risks it introduces. From there, they take a deep dive into the OWASP Top 10 security concerns for LLMs, and Sourabh explains why prompt injection is the top ris…

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The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik 56:26

1M ago56:26

56:26

X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide variety of aircraft. We wanted to understand the engineering that goes into creating a flight simulator so we invited Ben Supnik on the show. Ben is a software engineer at Laminar and he’s been w…

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Episode 484: How to get a raise after slacking off for YEARS and my PM won't stop DM'ing me 29:27

1M ago29:27

29:27

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi! Love your show and how casually you talk and make fun of everything! I started my career as a freelancer and then joined a mid-size software development company to learn how the sausage is really made, salary wasn’t that important back then. A few kids and a lot more expensive lifestyle …

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AI-Powered Migration plus Raw Experience with Mike Rousos 36:25

2M ago36:25

36:25

On this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott Hanselman talks with cloud migration and app modernization expert Mike Rousos about the challenges and opportunities of bringing decades-old applications into the modern era. They discuss practical strategies for app modernization, how AI and GitHub Copilot are reshaping developer workflows, and what it takes…

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Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel 1:01:22

1M ago1:01:22

1:01:22

A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this complexity by adding new demands around permission controls, environment isolation, and resource management. Ona is a platform for AI-native software development and engineering agents. The platform combin…

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SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database 59:51

2M ago59:51

59:51

Kacper Łukawski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Qdrant vector database and similarity search engine. After introducing vector databases and the foundational concepts undergirding similarity search, they dive deep into the Rust-based implementation of Qdrant. Along with comparing and contrasti…

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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid 1:05:46

2M ago1:05:46

1:05:46

Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool suited to an increasingly Mac-centric development ecosystem. Today, Homebrew is a near-essential part of the macOS software development toolkit. Mike…

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Episode 483: My team hated me from day one and should I stack PTO before my resignation 38:22

2M ago38:22

38:22

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: How would you handle a situation where a team forms a negative opinion about you from day one — without any clear reason and without ever giving you a real chance to prove yourself? Even when you contribute technically, your suggestions are ignored… until someone else repeats the same thing …

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The Game Designers Workbook with Bobby Lockhart 34:43

2M ago34:43

34:43

On this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott talks with Bobby Lockhart, game designer and coauthor of The Game Designer’s Workbook. They explore the craft of game design, from turning ideas into playable experiences to balancing creativity with structure, and discuss how the principles in the workbook can help both aspiring and seasoned designers build …

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Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich 50:05

2M ago50:05

50:05

Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these systems makes it difficult for engineers to gain a clear view of how their systems behave, which can slow down troubleshooting and increase operational risk. groundcover is an observability platform th…

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