My favourite three are:

• Darknet Diaries
  I imagine this one is familar to most podcast fans that might stumble upon this post. The host is a fantastic interviewer, storyteller and producer. He interviews incredibly interesting people and shares their stories about all things dark net: hacking, social engineering, dark web, darknet markets and more.

• Self-Hosted
  A podcast about all things self-hosted. The two hosts are passionate self-hosters who like to discuss open-source solutions, self-hostable products and technical setups. They are highly experienced and have a ton of useful information to share. They have great guests on the show, and have built a brilliant community around the topic.

• Coding Blocks
  A general software engineering podcast. I find some episodes a bit hit or miss, but the three hosts are hilarious, informative and very entertaining. You can tell they are three very close friends who absolutely vibe off of one another. They cover all sorts of topics including programming languages, development tools, books, conferences, frameworks, companies and more.

1. Behind the Bastards
2. The Dollop
3. Hardcore History

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4. Darknet Diaries
5. Linux Unplugged
6. Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

In no particular order: TrueAnon, Blowback, Citations Needed

• The daily zeitgeist
• stuff they don’t want you to know
• the skeptics guide to the universe

bonus

• SRLSY wrong

Edit: yeah I got the wrong sub.

99% Invisible - An excellent design/architecture podcast

20k Hz (“twenty thousand hertz”) - great show about the audio that pervades our daily lives, from notification sounds to movie special effects, passing through game sounds, sound history,etc.

Imaginary Worlds - in their own words, “ a podcast about science fiction, fantasy and other genres of speculative fiction”.

All three are done by professionals in their respective fields, exceedingly well researched, and with superb production values.

To list some good ones that haven’t already been ssid:

Stop podcasting yourself

A problem squared

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

1. The Dollop- one comedian tells another comedian about crazy shit from American (or sometimes Australian) history

2. My Brother, My Brother, and Me- an “advice” show with three goofballs

3. Darknet Diaries- stories about hackers. Well researched, often with interviews of the people involved

Hard Fork: for keeping up with the biggest tech news. they do dissecting of potential impact if stuff.

Lex Fridman: He interviews really interesting subjects. I’ll listen to subjects I’m interested in based on who they are or the subject matter they are an expert in. Lot’s interesting tech folks. My favorite episode so far is with John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets. Epsidoe is 5 f***king hours but broke it up into several sessions and Carmack is so good in articulating, it flew by.

Huberman Lab: before software I liked biology and medicine. I like these occasionally because I get to learn how systems outside of software/hardware work. These I will watch/listen in a sitting as one would to a movie. It demands your attention to follow along. (I don’t like when doctors have podcasts with all the “alternative medice” BS. But Huberman is an active researcher at Stanford and in charge of a lab that cranks out sweet research. Def credible dude and very methodic and tries to rule out bias).

1. Soft Skills Engineering - Software engineering advice podcast
2. If Books Could Kill - Criticising reviews of bestselling books
3. CoRecursive - Stories about software

The Dirtbag Diaries, The Moth, This American Life

None of these are programming related. I think quite a few people know about the last two, but Dirtbag Diaries probably less so. If you enjoy the outdoors, hiking, climbing, biking, whatever, it’s worth checking out.

Blowback

We’re Not So Different

Chapo (Hell of Presidents and Hell on Earth)

roderick on the line

accidental tech podcast

reconcilable differences

Not Another DnD Podcast - Well, it’s a serial DnD podcast that has had multiple campaigns and they have bonus episodes about submitted DnD disagreements that other people have

Dungeons and Daddies - Also DnD, but this time it’s also about generational trauma and trying to reconnect

Face Jam - They eat limited time fast food items and rate it with a lot of banter and stories thrown in

Not top 3, just my top (now ended) podcast of all time.

On the Metal https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal The description: As a part of starting Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle decided to also create the podcast that they always wanted. Joined frequently by their boss, Steve Tuck, Bryan and Jess interview incredible guests retelling stories of adventure at the hardware/software interface. It’s unapologetically technical and as Jess says, “the nerdiest podcast on the face of the planet” – but if you’re their kind of nerd, you’ll find yourself hanging on every word!

No specific order but:

• Tech won’t save us
• If books could kill
• Search Engine
• Radiolab
• Majority Report
• Bad Faith