What I'm listening to.

23 shows on rotation, and the reason each one earns the time.

ShopTalk

Two decades of front-end wisdom, still the most useful hour of web talk each week.
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes and Scott make staying current on the JavaScript churn feel painless.
How I AI

Claire Vo shows the actual workflows, not the hype. Closest thing to watching over a builder's shoulder.
The Panel

Three bootstrappers talking honestly about the unglamorous middle of running a product.
The Colin and Samir Show

The best reporting on the creator economy, from two people actually inside it.
Creator Science with Jay Clouse

Jay treats audience building as a craft with methods, not a lottery.
Mostly Technical

Ian and Aaron on shipping software as a small team. Funny, and more candid than most.
Rogue Startups

Long-running and steady, on the realities of growing a small software business.
Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

The most rigorous NBA analysis anywhere. Nate goes deeper than anyone.
Founders

David Senra reads the biographies so you don't have to, then finds the throughline.
Game Theory Podcast

Vecenie on the draft and roster building. Where I go before every trade deadline.
Hard Fork

Two reporters making sense of the week in tech without losing the plot.
Riff & Refine

Design and dev in the same conversation, which is where I actually live.
AI & I

Dan Shipper interviews builders about how they really use these tools day to day.
Design Better

Craft and process from designers who have shipped at scale.
Dive Club 🤿

Ridd pulls apart real product work with the people who made it. Pure craft.
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Fifteen years of honest talk about building a business on your own terms.
The Pragmatic Engineer

Gergely gets engineers to explain how their systems and teams really work.
The Bike Shed

Thoughtful conversations about the day-to-day judgment calls in writing software.
The Recipe with Kenji and Deb

Kenji and Deb cooking and arguing amiably. My favorite non-work listen.
On Theme: Design Systems in Depth

Elyse Holladay goes deep on design systems. Rare to find this level of specificity.
Raising An Agent

A build-in-public look at making an AI coding agent.
State of Play

Tommy Geoco on where design as a profession is actually headed.