This Developer's Life

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by saurabh • 15 years ago

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robgough• 15 years ago

I recently had a couple long car journey's to take, and was recommended to listen to these podcasts as I went along.

Loved them, really quite interesting ... and made the journey's feel really quick! So thanks :)

A+++ Would listen again :P

phsr• 15 years ago

This is my favorite podcast right now. The latest one, 'Typo', was amazing. Bill Hill was absolutely motivating, his passion is an inspiration.

ajanuary• 15 years ago

The Bill Hill interview was amazing as always. The rest seemed to be a lot more filler than other episodes though.

synnik• 15 years ago

oh, its a podcast! I couldn't tell at first. The front page is just images and captions, with no immediately visible info on what I am looking at. As the top center image is shoes, I thought it was some weird storefront... at least until I moused over something.

They might want at least a one-liner saying what that page is. There is such a thing as a design that is TOO minimal.

JoshMock• 15 years ago

Your thought process was exactly the same as mine!

Maybe they need to bring in a UX consultant. :)

robconery2• 15 years ago

Absolutely true - I'll add that later this week! Edit: Fixed just now.

gdltec2• 15 years ago

There is a one sentence describing what the site is all about "A podcast about developers and their lives." and it is at the top, but the color of the font is too light.

pbz• 15 years ago

True, also an icon for the download link. Although it's big is easy to miss. Maybe a "play" icon for each episode on the main page could help as well.

shioyama• 15 years ago

This is a fantastic podcast, I only wish they would put out episodes more frequently. I know that it's based on the format/style of This American Life, but honestly I think it's actually better.

innes2• 15 years ago

I tried this podcast once - found it embarassingly pretentious, with terrible musical interludes set too high in the mix. Conery's speaking style really rubbed me up the wrong way. But I'll maybe give it another go. Maybe he's got it under control since then.

mistermann• 15 years ago

Totally agree, it was painful for me.

igorgue2• 15 years ago

Well, I don't know, I'm a Trent Reznor fan so I like the music.

robconery2• 15 years ago

If the alternative is "rubbing you the right way"... I'll pass :). If you had the time to be a bit more concrete with your thoughts - it would probably help. I'm not an audio engineer, I'm a developer like you.

innes2• 15 years ago

Don't worry, I'm not going to get all Christina Aguilera on your ass. Anyway, I do admire your ambition at attempting something a little different from the 'guys chatting' norm.

xpaulbettsx• 15 years ago

Agreed, though it might have improved; it just seemed as if they were trying too hard to explicitly imitate Ira's speaking style.

brown9-2• 15 years ago

seemed as if they were trying too hard to explicitly imitate Ira's speaking style.

This is exactly what it sounds like. I don't understand the appeal of this, sounds like a ton of work just to sound like someone else.

igorgue2• 15 years ago

As a fan of This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) I love this podcast, I've been listening to it for a while already I recommend "Audacity" and "Homerun".

sosuke• 15 years ago

This is pretty good. I've never seen the appeal of podcasts before but I'm enjoying http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-9-management right now. I'm probably going to listen to the rest of them if this holds up.

droithomme• 15 years ago

Arg! Sites that don't have an explanation of what they are anywhere drive me nuts. It's especially infuriating that it seems to be a collection of things that should be useful to developers, suggesting that they have good advice even though they can't manage the very basics on their own site, like stating somewhere what the site is about.

wazoox• 15 years ago

Not bad, but the sound quality lacks somewhat. Sometimes voices are saturated, sometimes there's a phaser effect (re-encoding problem?)... As a non native english speaker, these little things make the podcast quite harder to follow through, particularly in the noisy environment of a car.

martin1b• 15 years ago

I LOVE this podcast. I think Rob and Scott do a great job of discussing areas of developers lives that are not generally talked about in a podcast. We don't always want to geek out and talk bits and bytes. TDL is a nice mix with some snappy musical interludes. Not to mention, they bring in some pretty big names in our industry.

Oh, I like the site too.

jpeace• 15 years ago

This has easily become one of my favorites... big up to these guys for providing such an entertaining podcast.

gdltec2• 15 years ago

I enjoy this podcast very much, too bad Scott and Rob don't record more episodes... would love to hear a new episode every day!

pearle• 15 years ago

I just finished listening to the Typo episode. It was fantastic and was my first introduction to Bill Hill.

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