15 Fantastic Podcasts For Developers & Designers
Since there are many resources out there for getting started in web development, having some truly inspiring web development podcasts in your bookmarks is a great way to learn.
It’s the most portable way to consume content and to learn something new in web development.
The Web Ahead
This weekly podcast is hosted by Jen Simmons, talking about new technologies and the future of web. Besides that there are really informative episodes about HTML5, responsive design, and mobile development.
Sitepoint Podcast
SitePoint is well-known for its platform, publishing great articles about web development topics. SitePoint also provides great audio-content on its podcast page.
Developing Perspective
Developing Perspective is a podcast discussing news mainly in iOS development. David Smith also provides insights on general web development topics and other stuff he’s interested.
Breaking Development podcast
This is quite an “old” podcasts and there hasn’t been any new podcast since 2013. However, the archive of the Breaking Development podcast offers some great content on web development.
Creative Coding
The Creative Coding podcast covers insights and learning of programming. Hosted by Seb Lee-Delisle and game developer Iain Lobb, this podcast is a great source for new inspiration.
This Developer’s Life
This podcast provides great insights in the life of developers. If you’re thinking about getting into web development or if you’d call yourself a developer, this podcast will definitely give you some great insights.
Happy Monday
The Happy Monday podcast by Sarah Parmeter covers some great stories and inspiration for everyone working on web projects. Every Monday a new interview with someone working in web development is published.
the changelog
the changelog podcast covers mainly open source related topics and provides some great insights on various topics in software development. Every Friday a new podcast is published.
A Life Well Wasted
The podcast A Life Well Wasted describes itself as an internet radio show about video games and people who love them. The podcast covers some interesting interviews with developers working on video games.
Shop Talk Show
The Shop Talk Show is hosted by Dave Rupert and Chris Coyler and calls itself an internet radio show about the internet. Featuring some great interviews with people working in web development it offers some informative content on the various web development topics.
Let’s Make Mistakes
Let’s Make Mistakes is a podcast which I truly recommend to everyone working in the web design or web development industry. The podcast is hosted by Jessie Char and Mike Monteiro who are a great speakers I recommend listening to.
http://www.muleradio.net/mistakes/
99% invisible
With 15–20 minutes per episode, this podcast is perfect of a short ride or walk. 99% invisible describes itself as a design podcast and it covers general design topics. However, I’d recommend listen to this podcast if you’re looking for new content or just some new inspirations.
the freelance web
This podcast is definitely worth to listen to if you’re a freelancer working on web projects. Hosted by Sean Johnson and Liz Elcoate, this podcast not only covers web dev related topics, but also web industry news as well as some great interviews.
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Written by Thomas Peham from Usersnap. This article first appeared on theUsersnap blog.
Usersnap is a visual bug tracking and feedback tool for every web project used by software companies like Facebook, Google & Microsoft.
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