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What Kind of Music or Podcasts Do You Listen to While You Code?

Do you like to listen to music or podcasts while you code? If so, what kind of music or podcasts do you prefer?

Our team has a preference for instrumental music or lo-fi beats to help us focus on intensive projects. Some of our favorites include Nujabes, Lo-Fi Girl, and Tomppabeats. As for podcasts, we enjoy listening to tech-related shows like "CodeNewbie" (of course!) and "Syntax" to stay up-to-date on industry news and learn about new technologies. “Radiolab” is also a particular favorite here at DEV.

What about you? Share your favorite music or podcast recommendations in the comments below!


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Uriel Bitton • Edited

Hardstyle! Hardstyle all day everyday :)

Artists like: Da Tweekaz, Sound Rush, Coone, Hard Driver. Some great energetic tracks!

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Robby Russell 🐘🚂

Here's a playlist that I created...titled INSTRUMENTAL Post-Rock Music to Work & Focus to.

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Pontakorn Paesaeng

Video game OST and anime songs.

Example

  • Kickback Sega Remix
  • Danganronpa Climax Reasoning
  • Danganronpa Investigation theme (Box 15, Ikoroshia, Despair searching)
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Sergej Smelov • Edited

I like listening to relatively heavy and rhythmically complex music. It creates sort of a wall between me and all the things and thoughts that can distract me from writing code. Usually it is math metal, metalcore or, for example, AI-generated djent: youtu.be/CqvmUnG25dA

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Randall

I almost always listen to music while coding and I also tend to like instrumental stuff. Lately I've been listening to:

State Azure - perfect programming music for me
Progressive Trance music generally, when I need slightly more energy.
Nier Automata OST some days I just listen to it on loop, minus a few slightly annoying tracks :) it hits a lot of the right spots for me in the right order.

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Ernst03

Today is a good day to Code what with the bloody rain and the bloody wind.
Extra points for knowing the Movie Quote I subverted there.
So it's Soft Guitar music off of Amazon Music.
Got a new kitten and he likes the bass from the subwoofer.
The older girls are protesting by staying outside!
The new kitten is objectionable to their sensibilities.

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Chill with no lyrics, electro and electro pop. And for INTENSE sessions of dev, I listening electro type festival 🕺

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Carlos Martinez

I'm currently going through a SE bootcamp, so I have a relatively short experience to pull from haha. So far I love listening to lofi reggaeton/hip hop beats, but tbh any chill music does the trick! Otherwise, I just start singing along and no work gets done lol.

I'll for sure be checking out those recommendations!

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Alexander Hutorezki

silence is golden

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henrytheodore

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