Awesome Podcast Episodes

This is a curated list of some of the most informational and helpful podcast episodes I have listened to as a developer. The goal of this list is to provide a good place for developers to find a podcast episode on a particular topic of their interest instead of checking out a long list of episodes on individual podcasts.

This list contains podcast episodes for beginners as well advanced developers. It also has episodes about salary negotiations, work-life balance and other, day to day topics of developer life.

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Contents

• JavaScript
  • React
• CSS
• General Web Development Topics
• Advice for developers
• Miscellaneous

JavaScript

• Learning and Developing JavaScript - Discussion about learning as well as teaching javascript to beginners.
• “You Learned JavaScript, Now What?” with Chris Heilmann - Chris talks in detail about how to help newbies feel more welcome in the community, helping junior developers and javascript ecosystem in general.
• Babel with Henry Zhu (Creator of Babel) - Henry talks about creating Babel, its future, creating babel plugins. He also talked about leaving his job for doing open source full time and problems faced by open source maintainers.
• JavaScript Tooling - Discussion on modern-day javascript tooling, ESLint, prettier, babel, webpack and others.
• NPM with Laurie Voss (CTO, npm) - Laurie talks about Node, NPM, importance of package managers, what npm can do and NPM as a company.
• A flight of JavaScript frameworks - Panel talks about all the popular javascript frameworks used by developers in the past and present and their experiences with working with them.
• 20 JavaScript Array and Object Methods to make you a better developer - Explaination of various useful Array and object methods.

React

• The React Episode - In-depth explanation of important concepts in React such as state, props, lifecycle methods and more.
• Inside React with Sophie Alpert (Engineering Manager, React) - Sophie talks about her first contributions to React, working of react core team and some of the internal workings of react.
• Gatsby and GraphQL with Kurt Kemple - Discussion about GraphQL, Gatsby, future of these technologies. Kurt also talks about his past life and how being a programmer significantly improved his life.
• React and Electron with James Long - James, author of prettier, talks about his working with React, creating desktop applications using Electron.
• Redux and React with Dan Abramov - Dan talks about how he created Redux, its use cases, hot reloading vs live reloading, and other things related to React ecosystem.
• React with Pete Hunt and Jordan Walke - In-depth discussion about the core concepts and features in React from the early days.
• React Router, Flux, and Web Debates with Michael Jackson - What is a Router, why react router, flux architecture and how it works with React, web deabates on web componenets, react native.
• React Hooks - What are react hooks, what problems are they solving, detail discussion on useful hooks such as useEffect, useState, etc.

CSS

• All About CSS BEM! - A short discussion about CSS BEM naming convention and its usage in large projects.
• CSS in JS - Discussion about using CSS inside JavaScript, its pros/cons and different libraries to do so.
• CSS Grids: The Future of Frontend Layout with Dave Geddes - Features of CSS Grids, differences from Flexbox, compatibility with Flexbox, gamification based learning.

Other Web Development Topics

• WebAssembly with Lin Clark - What is WebAssembly, how it's going to affect the future of web development, its implementation, performance compared to JavaScript-driven web and other advantages of WebAssembly.
• Serverless Framework with Austen Collins - Diving into Serverless architecture, AWS ecosystem and AWS lambda.
• All about Microservices with Netflix Team - Discussion with the Netflix team about how they changed monolith architecture to microservice based architecture.
• GraphQL? Here is what you need to know! - What is GraphQL? Differences from REST, Relay, Apollo, and other core concepts of GraphQL.
• TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg (Author of TypeScript) - Anders talks about what is typescript, reason for creating it and challenges of creating a programming language.
• Whats the deal with npm, yarn and lock files? - Short but informative epsiode about what is npm, yarn, their differences, lock files and how they work in developing applications.
• Web Performance - Importance of web performance, its impact on business, measures to increase web performace.

Data Structures/Algorithms

• S1:E5 "Linked Lists in Your Apartment" - Explaination of what data structures are, what is linkedlist, its application, etc.
• S1:E6 "A friendly intro to Big O Notation" - What is big O notation, practical use cases, connection with Linked List.

Advice for developers

• Advice For Beginners - Tech Skills, Applying for Jobs, Focus, Imposter Syndrome + More - Helpful advice for beginner developers from tech skills, imposter syndrome, finding jobs and more.
• What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need - Founders and CEO's of GitHub, Twilio and Digital Ocean talks about developer ecosystems, the needs of software developers, developer tools and more.
• Marketing for Developers - Discussion about creating a personal brand as a developer. Wesbos and Scott talk about their marketing strategies for their businesses.
• Getting better offers as an engineer (salary negotiations and more) - Salary negotiations during job interviews, how to get better at it and how to approach these topics.
• Interview experiences of Frontend Developers - Panel from Netflix, Evernote and LinkedIn engineers talk about their worst and best interview experiences.
• Experience in Big Companies vs Startups - Discussion about working as a developer in Big companies vs Startups from learning, finances to work-life balance.
• Role of Mentors in growth of developer career - Discussion about Role of mentors in a career of a developer to reach from junior to senior level positions.
• Work life balance for developers - Discussion about work-life balance for developers and prevention of burnouts.
• Transition from Mid to Senior Level Developer - Discussion about how to transision from Mid to Senior level Developer.
• From coding bootcamp to software engineer at Asana - Bootcamp grad Josh, talks about how he did his career change into software development and getting a job at Asana, along with his interview experiences along the process.
• How to rock your technical interview - Founder of Interview Cake talks about how to excel in a technical interview (particularly about algorithmic interviews).
• Different Tech Careers with CPO of Treehouse - CPO of Treehouse talks about various career opportunities in tech besides software development.
• How do tech companies read your resume? - Discussion with a Recruiter about how companies scan the resumes and how to stand out.
• What happens in a technical interview? - Deep dive on a technical interview for large software companies.
• Why you should focus on fundamentals first - Discussion about the importance of learning fundamental principles and how to master them.
• Finding a Job Even If You’re Not a Senior Developer - Detailed discussion about what potential employers look for in a developer, presenting your skills in a resume, reaching out to companies and many other helpful topics for developers looking for their first jobs.
• Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram, Co-founder of Triplebyte - Ammon talks about problems in hiring good engineers, what growing YCombinator companies look for in a engineer, how triplebyte helps engineers to find a job in YC companies.
• How to become well liked at work - Suggestions on how to face difficult situations and be well liked at work.
• Senior Engineer - What does being a senior software engineer means, when did one become a senior engineer, skill sets required for a senior engineer.
• Bad Bugs - Avoiding Burnout When Solving Elusive Problems - Suggestions on how to handle bad bugs/hard problems without burning out.

Miscellaneous

• State of Programming with Jeff Atwood - Jeff talks about Atwood's law, JavaScript frameworks, docker and his learnings from building StackOverflow and Discourse.
• Airbnb Engineering with Surabhi Gupta - Surabhi talks about the engineering infrastructure inside Airbnb. Her experience from Google search and how different Airbnb search vs Google search.
• DEV Community with Ben Halpern (CEO, dev.to) - Ben talks about his motivation to start Dev community, running an open source business and his thoughts on open source social media networks.
• Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson - Quincy talks about why he started Free Code Camp, his coding journey, paid vs free bootcamp and all things Free Code Camp.
• The End (and Beginning) of Programming (from code to data) - Discussion on the future of programming and how data is becoming more important than the code itself.
• Netflix, Microsoft, Evernote engineer answers to Listener AMA - Answers to Linstner questions by Frontend Happy Hour panelists.
• Ethics in tech from CEO of FogCreek - Anil talks about the importance of ethics in technology, his personal journey in the world of software. Creating companies such as Trello, StackOverflow, Glitch etc as part of FogCreek.
• The JavaScript First Responder with Wesbos - Wesbos discusses his business, how he learns, creating courses, community engagements and web development community.
• Interview with VP of Engineering at Reddit - Nick talks about his personal journey to become VP of engineering at reddit, engineering challenges at reddit and day to day work of VP of engineering at reddit.
• Google JavaScript and AMP - Malte talks about the huge JavaScript infrastructure inside google, internal frameworks and more. He also talks in detail about the working of AMP project.
• Open Source at Facebook - Discussion about open source projects at Facebook. How Facebook decides to make a project open source and success of React.
• The Past, Present, and Future of Open Source - In this short episode, Nadia talks about origins of open source software, its journey till present days and future of open source.
• Productivity at Work - Discussion about being productive at work, tools to use for it, how to find the zone of productivity and more things surrounding this topic.
• Reading Documentation - Tips on how to efficiently read various documentations.
• The State of JavaScript 2018 - Discussion with Sasha, creator of State of JS suvey about the trends of web development, growth of various JS technologies and their future.
• Why Tech Careers are great for introverts and extroverts - Discussion about how introverts vs extroverts makes a good fit for tech roles, suggestions on improving involment of inroverts in meetings.