Podcasts in 2025
What podcasts is David listening to in 2025
It’s been three years since my last ‘what podcasts am I listening to’ post, so I think I’m well overdue for an update.
Pocket Casts remains my goto app for podcast consumption. One nice thing is that they recently made a change so that you can now also listen to podcasts via their web interface (previously this was a premium subscription feature). I’ve not used it a lot, but a couple of times when I’ve got back home and I’m almost at the end of a good episode it has been useful to switch over to the web interface back at my desk (rather than leave my earplugs in via my phone).
My morning walk around the neighbourhood before starting work continues to be the most common time to listen to podcasts. I’m usually out for about an hour, which allows time for 30-40 minutes from a second podcast after I finish the latest Daily Audio Bible episode. The other time is occasionally when I’m about to go to sleep. I’ll put on an episode but set the sleep timer to stop playing after 5 or 10 minutes as I’ll almost always be out to it before then.
Sidenote: I used this PowerShell snippet to process the exported OPML file (from Pocketcasts) to generate the list of podcasts for this post:
$xml = [xml] (get-content "PocketCasts 2025-09-24.opml")
$xml.opml.body.outline.outline | ForEach-Object { "- [$($_.text)]($($_.xmlUrl))" }Podcasts
I’ve divided the podcasts I’m still listening to into two main groups - non-technical and technical. Within those I’ve roughly sorted them according to how often I listen to episodes.
Since the last post there’s a few that appear to have gone dormant, are no longer produced, or they broke their RSS feed, so I’ll likely be doing some spring pruning of those.
Non-technical
- 1 Year Daily Audio Bible. Still my first pick each day. As a Christian, I find this a really helpful way to start my day. Brian does a great job as a reader, and despite being American he tends to avoid political commentary (which is a bit of a minefield in the US at the moment).
- Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily. Titus and Mick with a humerous mix of sport and animal topics. Just started with this recently and enjoying it a lot.
- Dr Karl Podcast. Science talkback. Always interesting.
- Planet Maynard. Years ago I enjoyed listening to Maynard’s “Sunday Afternoon Fever” show on radio station JJJ. His podcast is a mix of him chatting to various people today and some old recordings from his radio show.
- From The Hideout. Tony Martin, Pete Smith (yes, the voiceover guy from Australian TV) and Djovan Caro. This is a delight, and very funny.
- Seeds Aberfoyle Park Sermons. My church. Great option to catch up on a sermon if I was away and missed one.
Technical
- Windows Weekly. Long episodes, so I don’t always finish them. Useful to keep up to date with what Microsoft are up to.
- Troubleshooting Agile. I was put onto this weekly podcast by former colleague Shaw. Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick produce some great conversations on all aspects of Agile software development.
- Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman. I listen to most of Scott’s episodes. They are usually around 30 mins, so a good length.
- Scott & Mark Learn To…. Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich chatting to each other on a Teams call about the latest fun things they’ve been playing with, and we get to listen in. So far, so good.
- RunAs Radio. More IT Pro-focused topics. I’m select about which episodes I listen to.
- Coding After Work Podcast. A new one for me, hosted by Jimmy and Jessica Engstrom.
- Software Engineering Radio. An old favourite. A wide variety of topics, some more interesting than others.
- no dogma podcast. Hosted by Bryan Hogan. Mostly .NET focused
- The Unhandled Exception Podcast. Hosted by Dan Clarke. Mostly .NET but some other topics too.
- Tech World Human Skills. Hosted by Ben Pearce. Was originally called ‘Elevated You’ but had to change names as there was another podcast with that name. Started off interesting but I must admit I’ve not listened to it in a while. Might get pruned soon.
- .NET Rocks!. I used to listen to everything from .NET Rocks! but now I’m much more selective. Hour episodes are a bit long sometimes.
- SQL Down Under. Greg Low really knows his SQL stuff. It’s been a while since the last episode though.
- Adelaide .NET User Group Podcast. Most of the time I’ve already heard the episodes live. But just in case, it’s good to know there’s a podcast options for catching presentations.
Farewelled
- Herding Code. Last episode was in 2020
- One Dev Minute (Audio) - Channel 9. Last episode was in 2024 and the RSS feed is broken. Some of the video versions of the episodes can be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/one-dev-minute/
- The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution. This was a great series with Gene Kim. Last episode in 2021.
Any others you can suggest I might be interested in?