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by AkiraMichi 3496 days ago
I've tried listening to university lectures and varies conferences talks. But, I find them distracting on the road. I've found, consuming really technical stuff to be much easier. When I can give it my full attention.

Personally, I like to listen to podcasts that cover new and upcoming technologies in the field. They could be about high level stuff or even the nitty and gritty, like new language syntax or upcoming improvements to the GC.

Though, I prefer listening to audio books just as much. And, I find them to be a great supplement for professional growth along with podcasts. When I'm not listening to fiction or sci-fi books, which isn't much. I try and listen to books about soft-skills and anything relating to software development that doesn't involve having to read code.

I can't really give you any hard suggestions here. Because, I mostly, work with languages like Ruby & JS/ES6. But, there should be similar options available for at least the JVM, if not the Java ecosystem.

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What are some of your favorite more technical podcasts?
With technical podcasts, I don't listen to there every episode. Only, the ones that I find interesting. But, here are some of the ones, that I usually enjoy listening to.

- The Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast

- Does Not Compute https://spec.fm/podcasts/does-not-compute/

- Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots http://giantrobots.fm/

- The Bike Shed http://bikeshed.fm/

- The Hanselminutes Podcast http://hanselminutes.com/

- The Web Ahead http://5by5.tv/webahead

Not technical but CGPGrey from Youtube has "Hello Internet" which is fun and relaxing.
That and “Cortex” by CGPGrey. Both of these can be quite entertaining and relaxing.
Thanks for the new things to check out!