List of podcasts which are helpful for software engineers/programmers.

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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
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The Accidental Engineer
- Description: Anything and everything related to software
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 20 - 55 mins, regularly ~40 mins
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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
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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
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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
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The Bike Shed
- Description: Ruby, Rails, Javascript
- Host: Chris Toomey @christoomey
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 30 - 50 mins, regularly ~35 mins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Code Newbie
- Description: Stories from people on their coding journey.
- Host: Saron Yitbarek @saronyitbarek
- Frequency: every Monday
- Runtime: 30 - 70 mins, regularly ~55 mins
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CodePen Radio
- Description: The people behind Codepen.io talk business, tech and more!
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 25 - 40 mins, regularly ~30 mins
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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HanselMinutes
- Description: Anything and everything related to software
- Host: Scott Hanselman @shanselman
- Frequency: Once a week
- Runtime: 30 - 40 mins, regularly ~35 mins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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