Best The Stack Overflow Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture 21:30

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3d ago21:30

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Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricity to enhance agricultural productivity. They discuss how Rainstick mimics natural thunderstorms to create electric fields and frequencies that promote plant growth, challenges and breakthroughs in the…

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The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis 40:13

12d ago40:13

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The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It offers a valuable snapshot of the global developer community, covering a wide range of topics such as preferred programming languages, tools, and technologies. Jody Bailey is the Chief Product …

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How I Started Writing Every Day Again: Rituals for Creative Flow + Nervous System Safety 23:30

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What if the difference between burnout and creative aliveness wasn’t motivation… but ritual? In this solo episode, Sam Garcia shares the breakthrough that pulled her out of an 8-month writing drought and into two straight weeks of joyful, daily writing on her second book Radical Riches. This conversation takes you deep into the heart of ritual, ide…

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Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz 47:27

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PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen resolutions, and memory constraints. The PICO-8 dev environment uses Lua and is focused on being accessible to developers while offering depth for co…

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Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos 1:00:51

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Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doom” has become so widespread that it spawned the r/itrunsdoom sub-Reddit. Recently, Doom made headlines again for being ported to TypeScript. The project involved representing Doom entirely in TypeScript…

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You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs 26:14

6d ago26:14

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Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in AI, the myth and misconceptions of the GPU shortage, and how the economics of GPU will change with new scheduling and utilization strategies. Episode notes: Mithril’s omnicloud platform aggregates an…

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Only you can stop AI database drops 32:13

10d ago32:13

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Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants. Episode notes: Retool is an enterpri…

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Business Q&A: Tech Stack Overwhelm, Visibility Blocks, and Re-Engaging Your Audience 31:35

11d ago31:35

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In this brand-new Q&A format, Sam Garcia answers real listener questions about the messy middle of running an online business — from when to rebuild your systems to how to show up online without sounding like everyone else, and what to do when your once-buzzing membership goes quiet. You’ll hear: How to tell if your business systems need a total re…

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Drone Warfare in Ukraine with Simon Shuster 54:45

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Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. He was born in Moscow, and he and his family came to the United States as refugees from the Soviet Union when he was six years old. After graduating from Stanford University in 2005, Simon returned to…

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Radix UI with Chance Strickland 56:47

9d ago56:47

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Radix UI is an open-source library of React components. Its “headless” primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns—like dialogs, dropdowns, and tabs—while leaving styling completely up to the developer. The project emphasizes usability, accessibility, and composability and has become a vital part of modern web dev, in part becaus…

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How to create agents that people actually want to use 27:07

13d ago27:07

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Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Sidekick agent with the user experience in mind, and the opportunities that AI creates for better productivity and more efficiency. Episode notes: monday.com is a work management platform that allows you t…

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The fastest agent in the race has the best evals 32:33

17d ago32:33

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Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a ten-second agent, and how they used fast inference and effective evals to build their efficient and reliable Compound agent. Episode notes: Groq delivers fast, low-cost inference using their custom-design…

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How to Work With Winter Energy in Your Business (Without Losing Momentum) 25:21

18d ago25:21

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In this episode of Regenerative Business, Sam dives deep into the energetics of winter — that quiet, restorative season when nature stops producing and the real magic happens underground. You’ll explore: The four energetic seasons of business — and how to tell which one you’re in right now The hidden wisdom of winter: rest, root work, and renewal H…

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One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community. 23:59

18d ago23:59

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar chats with Ramprasad Rai, VP of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase & Co., about the unique challenges of implementing AI in an enterprise environment. They discuss how organizations can balance AI-driven productivity with strict compliance and security requirements by…

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Building an Open-Source Laptop with Byran Huang 53:56

9d ago53:56

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Byran Huang is a full stack developer who recently made headlines in the hacker space when he created the anyon_e, which is a highly integrated, open source laptop. The effort was a massive undertaking and showcased great design, hardware, and software. In this episode, Byran joins the show with Gregor Vand to talk about his work on the anyon_e lap…

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AI code means more critical thinking, not less 32:38

20d ago32:38

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Ryan is joined by Secure Code Warrior’s co-founder and CTO Matias Madou to discuss the implications of LLMs’ variability on code security, the future of developer training as AI coding assistants become more popular, and the importance of critical thinking—especially for junior developers—in the age of AI. Episode notes: Secure Code Warrior upskill…

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Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software 31:42

24d ago31:42

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Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into understandability, and demystifying AI's opacity for understanding and control. Episode notes: New Relic is a full-stack observability platform that helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run softwa…

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Low Ticket vs High Ticket Offers: How to Choose What Actually Fits Your Business 20:54

25d ago20:54

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Choosing between low-ticket and high-ticket offers can feel like a make-or-break decision in your business — but most of what you’ve heard online about pricing, scaling, and product suites is flat-out wrong. In this episode, Sam Garcia breaks down five myths that keep entrepreneurs stuck in either/or thinking and offers a regenerative lens on how t…

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The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel 51:20

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The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable we mostly take it for granted, but behind the scenes it represents one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements. Today’s internet is also dramatically more complex and capable than in i…

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SED News: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s Struggles, and Apple’s AI Long Game 49:02

16d ago49:02

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover the $1.7B acquisition of Security AI, LangChain’s massive valuation, and the surprise $300M funding” round for Per…

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To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI 28:26

27d ago28:26

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Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensuring code security whether it’s AI-assisted or not, and the need for context and readability for humans in AI code. Episode notes: Graphite is an AI code review platform that helps you get context on c…

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Radical Wealth Redistribution: Building Regenerative Economies with Melinda Jackson 41:57

22d ago41:57

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In this expansive episode of Regenerative Business, Sam Garcia sits down with Melinda Jackson, a regenerative strategist and wealth redistribution advocate, to explore what happens when we stop seeing money as power and start seeing it as relationship. Together they dive deep into: The real meaning of radical wealth redistribution and why it matter…

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Vibe coding needs a spec, too 26:45

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Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. They explore how AI tools have evolved from autocomplete to sophisticated agents that can write code based off of just specs, and how AWS has pioneered spec-driven development through their Kiro agent. …

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Building AI Agents on the Frontend with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer 57:04

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Most AI agent frameworks are backend-focused and written in Python, which introduces complexity when building full-stack AI applications with JavaScript or TypeScript frontends. This gap makes it harder for frontend developers to prototype, integrate, and iterate on AI-powered features. Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework focused on build…

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The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik 56:26

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X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide variety of aircraft. We wanted to understand the engineering that goes into creating a flight simulator so we invited Ben Supnik on the show. Ben is a software engineer at Laminar and he’s been w…

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Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents 27:50

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Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI. Episode notes: Linear is a tool for planning and building pro…

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Guy Rubin (Founder & CEO, Ebsta) — Bootstrapping, Exiting, and the Great SaaS Consolidation 1:20:34

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In this episode, I sit down with Guy Rubin, Founder & CEO of Ebsta — the global leader in Revenue Intelligence, recently acquired by Fullcast.Guy shares unfiltered insights from a decade of building, scaling, and exiting a SaaS company that transformed how revenue teams operate.We cover:🚀 Raising Venture Capital vs Bootstrapping — the good, the bad…

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Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents 24:55

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Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the challenges of maintaining complex software systems with traditional runbooks, and the changing role of developers in an AI-driven world. Episode notes: Resolve AI is building agents to help you troub…

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Buying Frenzy Energy: How to Stack Yeses for More Cash & Momentum 18:45

1M ago18:45

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You’ve seen it everywhere—the infamous marketing funnel. Top, middle, bottom. Strangers → leads → sales. But what happens after someone goes through the funnel? For most businesses… nothing. They’re done with you, and you’re done with them. In this episode, Sam Garcia—author of Regenerative Business and founder of Dirty Alchemy—calls out why the tr…

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Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel 1:01:22

1M ago1:01:22

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A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this complexity by adding new demands around permission controls, environment isolation, and resource management. Ona is a platform for AI-native software development and engineering agents. The platform combin…

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What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 31:16

1M ago31:16

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Eira May, B2B Editor at Stack Overflow, and Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Product Suite at Stack Overflow, unpack the key takeaways from the 2025 Developer Survey for tech and business leaders. The discussion focuses on the evolving developer relationship with AI, the continu…

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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid 1:05:46

1M ago1:05:46

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Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool suited to an increasingly Mac-centric development ecosystem. Today, Homebrew is a near-essential part of the macOS software development toolkit. Mike…

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Open source is giving you choices with your agent systems 26:28

1M ago26:28

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Ryan welcomes John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, to talk about the evolving landscape of AI agents, the role of open source in keeping the tech ecosystem healthy, the challenges OS communities have faced with the rise of AI, and the implications of data privacy and user choice in the age of multi-agent AI systems. Episode notes: Mozilla.ai is build…

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Why rent a cloud when you can build one? 29:03

2M ago29:03

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Andrei Kvapil, founder of Ænix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies of Kubernetes and virtualization, and how open-source has made digital sovereignty possible. Episode notes: Cozystack is a Kubernetes-based framework for building a private cloud environment. Connect w…

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Radical Riches Affirmation Activation: Rewrite Your Wealth Frequency 19:31

2M ago19:31

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What if wealth wasn’t extractive—but regenerative? What if your money, visibility, and success became medicine for the world? This special episode is a 7-minute affirmation experience drawn from my Radical Riches Workshop—a ceremony for re-orienting your business toward purpose, impact, and legacy. Put on your headphones, breathe deeply, and let th…