The Computer Revolution hasn't happend yet
by Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997) [1:04:34]
by Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997) [1:04:34]
Awesome talks
Awesome online talks and screencasts
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Categories
The Future of Programming
by Bret Victor (Dropbox's DBX conference 2013) [32:55]
Inventing on Principle
by Bret Victor (CUSEC 2012) [54:20]
Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
by Bret Victor (MIT Media Lab 2013) [39:32]
Finding a Way Out
by Chris Granger (Strange Loop 2013) [33:46]
Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted
by Thomas Figg (EMF 2012) [1:06:43]
Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure
by James Mickens (Monitorama PDX 2014) [27:35]
Are We There Yet?
by Rich Hickey (JVM Languages Summit 2009) [1:10:04]
Simple Made Easy
by Rich Hickey (Strange Loop 2011) [1:01:26]
The Value of Values
by Rich Hickey (GOTO Copenhagen 2012) [58:53]
Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure
by Rich Hickey (Clojure/Conj 2017) [1:14:51]
The Web We Lost
by Anil Dash (Berkman Klein Center 2013) [1:10:54]
Growing a Language
by Guy Steele (ACM OOPSLA 1998) [53:30]
The Mess We're In
by Joe Armstrong (Strange Loop 2014) [45:49]
To the Moon!
by Russ Olsen (Clojure/Conj 2013) [52:43]
Simplify Challenging Software Problems with Rocket Science
by Bradley Grzesiak (Rocky Mountain Ruby 2015) [23:07]
A short history of Software Engineering, and other ideas that didn't work
by Paolo Perrotta (Barcelona Ruby Conference 2020) [36:35]
Linus Torvalds on Git
by Linus Torvalds (Google 2007) [1:10:14]
The Worst Programming Language Ever
by Mark Rendle (NDC Oslo 2021) [1:00:40]
Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing
by Carin Meier (Strange Loop 2015) [36:00]
Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers
by Kevlin Henney (NDC 2014) [01:02:52]
5 WTFs in 6 LOCs
by Dorothy Wingrove (Brighton Ruby 2016) [05:11]
Programming is Writing is Programming
by Felienne Hermans (NDC Oslo 2017) [55:46]
We're Doing It All Wrong
by Paul Phillips (Pacific Northwest Scala 2013) [50:42]
Real Software Engineering
by Glenn Vanderburg (Software Art Thou 2018) [1:07:57]
Feature Branching Considered Evil
by Thierry de Pauw (DevTernity 2019) [49:38]
Programming’s Greatest Mistakes
by Mark Rendle (NDC Copenhagen 2022) [55:34]
Email vs Capitalism: A Story About Why We Can't Have Nice Things
by Dylan Beattie (Joy Of Coding 2023) [54:49]
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
by Jonathan Blow (DevGAMM 2019) [01:02:41]
Being The Human in the Loop
by Kevlin Henney (Agile Meets Architecture 2026) [44:09]
Rethinking Software Development - Insights From 20+ Years In The Field
by Alexander Thurow (DDD Hungary Meetup 2026) [01:25:17]
Functional is cool, but do you know OO
by Sandro Mancuso (Devoxx UK 2013) [54:17]
Stop Writing Classes
by Jack Diederich (PyCon US 2012) [27:29]
Functional Principles for Object-Oriented Developers
by Jessica Kerr (JDD Conference 2013) [51:13]
Adventures in Functional Programming
by Jim Weirich (ScotlandJS 2012) [50:34]
Functional Programming: What? Why? When?
by Robert C. Martin (NDC 2014) [58:26]
Deconstructing Functional Programming
by Gilad Bracha (QCon 2013) [48:33]
Living in a Post-Functional World
by Daniel Spiewak (Lambda Jam 2013) [45:46]
Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
by Daniel Spiewak (Clojure/Conj 2013) [39:24]
Tangible Functional Programming
by Conal Elliott (Google TechTalks 2007) [56:24]
Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
by Phillip Wadler (Google TechTalks 2007) [1:06:53]
Don't fear the Monad
by Dr. Brian Beckman (Channel 9 2012) [1:07:10]
In 2 lists
Functional Programming Design Patterns
by Scott Wlaschin (NDC London 2014) [1:49:10]
Domain modelling with the F# type system
by Scott Wlaschin (NDC 2014) [1:03:40]
Propositions as Types
by Philip Wadler (Strange Loop 2015) [42:42]
Category Theory for the Working Hacker
by Philip Wadler (Joy of Code 2016) [42:17]
Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen
by Matthias Felleisen (Clojure/West 2016) [1:15:18]
Functional architecture - The pits of success
by Mark Seemann (NDC Sydney 2016) [1:00:09]
To Clojure and back: Writing and rewriting in Ruby
by Phillip Mendonça-Vieira (RubyConf 2016) [33:16]
All I needed for FP I learned in High School Algebra
by Eric Normand (Clojure/Conj 2017) [33:05]
Solving Problems The Clojure Way
by Rafal Dittwald (Clojure/North 2019) [01:02:25]
Architecture the Lost Years
by Robert C. Martin (Ruby Midwest 2011) [1:06:38]
In 2 lists
DDD: putting the model to work
by Eric Evans (JAOO 2007) [58:48]
Unleash Your Domain
by Greg Young (Øredev 2010) [45:20]
The Art of Destroying Software
by Greg Young (tretton37 2023) [42:30]
8 Lines of Code
by Greg Young (QCon 2013) [54:43]
Strategic Design
by Eric Evans (JAOO 2007) [54:40]
Reliability, Availability, and Scalability
by Udi Dahan (IASA 2008) [1:11:09]
Implementing Micro Service Architectures
by Fred George (Øredev 2013) [54:40]
Immutability Changes Everything
by Pat Helland (RICON 2012) [45:19]
Crafting Wicked Domain Models
by Jimmy Bogard (NDC 2012) [1:03:03]
The Actor Model
by Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski (Lang.NEXT 2012) [42:34]
How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
by Josh Bloch (Google TechTalks 2007) [1:00:18]
The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase
by Jeremy D Miller (QCon 2009) [1:02:30]
Microservices
by Martin Fowler (GOTO 2014) [26.25]
In 2 lists
Stewardship: The Sobering Parts
by Brian Goetz (Clojure/Conj 2014) [1:03:30]
Therapeutic Refactoring
by Katrina Owen (Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012) [26:04]
Evidence-Oriented Programming
by Andreas Stefik (Strange Loop 2015) [41:42]
The Programming Language Wars
by Andreas Stefik (CodeMesh 2014) [50:28]
Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design
by Camille Fournier (Strange Loop 2015) [40:35]
Kill "Microservices" Before Its Too Late
by Chad Fowler (Rocky Mountain Ruby 2016) [39:41]
The Lost Art Of Software Design
by Simon Brown (YOW! 2019) [46:15]
Tidy First
by Kent Beck (QCon 2023) [46:19]
Crockford on JavaScript
by Douglas Crockford (Yahoo Theater 2011) [10:14:37]
Go To There and Back Again
by Douglas Crockford (Øredev 2013) [49:06]
The Better Parts
by Douglas Crockford (JS Fest 2018) [01:00:52]
Introduction to Node.js
by Ryan Dahl (BayJax/Yahoo 2011) [58:19]
WAT
by Gary Bernhardt (CodeMash 2012) [4:17]
In 2 lists
The Birth & Death of JavaScript
by Gary Bernhardt (PyCon 2014) [29:22]
In 2 lists
Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!
by Brian Lonsdorf (HTML5 Dev Conf 2015) [36:30]
Community.js
by Chris Williams (JSConfEU 2010) [21:39]
An End to Negativity
by Chris Williams (JSConfEU 2011) [27:25]
Is Node.js Better
by Brian Ford (JSConf 2012) [41:42]
Life is Terrible: Let's Talk About the Web
by James Mickens (Øredev 2014) [32:07]
Critical rendering path - Crash course on web performance
by Ilya Grigorik (Fluent 2013) [41:10]
10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
by Paul Irish (TXJS conference 2010) [53:40]
Om Next
by David Nolen (EuroClojure 2015) [46:17]
ClojureScript for Skeptics
by Derek Slager (Clojure/Conj 2015) [41:08]
In 2 lists
TDD, where did it all go wrong
by Ian Cooper (NDC 2013) [1:00:37]
Holistic testing
by Jimmy Bogard (NDC 2013) [1:00:33]
Boundaries
by Gary Bernhardt (SCNA 2012) [33:44]
Is TDD Dead?
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) (Blog/Martin Fowler 2014) [Article]
The Transformation Priority Premise
by Robert C. Martin (NDC 2011) [53:43]
TDD in Tatters
by Scott Bellware (NDC 2014) [01:07:53]
Test-Driven Development - Write better code in less time
by Evan Dorn (LA Ruby 2012) [30:54]
The Magic Tricks of Testing
by Sandi Metz (Rails Conf 2013) [32:22]
In 2 lists
How To Stop Hating Your Tests
by Justin Searls (RubyConf 2015) [43:39]
Why You Don't Get Mock Objects
by Gregory Moeck (RubyConf 2011) [44:42]
The Clean Code Talks - Unit Testing
by Misko Hevery (Google TechTalks 2008) [32:07]
In 2 lists
TDD and Software Design
by JB Rainsberger and Sandro Mancuso (YouTube/Carlos Blé 2008) [01:28:50]
Integrated Tests Are a Scam
by JB Rainsberger (DevConFu 2013) [01:04:35]
Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases
by Kevlin Henney (JavaZone 2018) [01:04:23]
Does TDD Really Lead to Good Design?
by Sandro Mancuso (DevTernity 2018) [57:59]
TDD For Those Who Don't Need It
by Chew Choon Keat (GopherCon SG 2017) [13:42]
TDD: Theme & Variations
by Kent Beck (Tech Excellence 2024) [57:29]
The Land that Scrum Forgot
by Robert C. Martin (NDC 2011) [45:41]
Demanding Professionalism in Software Development
by Robert C. Martin (Elapse Technologies 2012) [45:03]
Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1
by Spotify Training & Development (Spotify 2014) [13:12]
Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 2
by Spotify Training & Development (Spotify 2014) [13:27]
Adopting Continuous Delivery
by Jez Humble (NDC 2013) [47:22]
The Death of Agile
by Dave Thomas (Rethink 2014) [47:47]
Why Agile Works
by Alistair Cockburn (Agile Lietuva 2012) [53:03]
Implementing Programmer Anarchy
by Fred George (Øredev 2013) [54:55]
Moving Past the Scaling Myth
by Michael Feathers (Philly ETE 2017) [52:02]
It Is Not About Software Anymore
by Mary Poppendieck (Agile India 2020) [01:06:38]
7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development
by JB Rainsberger (Øredev 2013) [00:07:42]
Explaining Team Flow
by Michel Grootjans (Michel Grootjans 2021) [14:30]
The Efficiency Paradox
by Niklas Modig (TEDx Umeå 2016) [18:48]
Extreme Product Development
by Peter Hilton (Devoxx UK 2024) [47:53]
LLM-assisted coding - A Systems Perspective
by Dragan Stepanović (AI Agents Montreal) [01:20:45]
A Brief History of Graphics
by Stuart Brown (YouTube/Ahoy 2014) [46:00]
The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer
by Brian Troutwine (Code Mesh 2015) [48:36]
The History (and the Future) of Software
by Grady Booch (CHM Live 2016) [01:09:27]
The Future of Programming
by Robert C. Martin (X/UP 2016) [01:18:20]
1968
by Kevlin Henney (Beauty in Code 2018) [56:44]
DOOM’s Development: A Year of Madness
by John Romero (WeAreDevelopers 2018) [44:12]
The Boeing 737 MAX: When Humans and Technology Don't Mix
by Kyle Kotowick (NDC TechTown 2022) [01:00:45]
Deconstructing the Database
by Rich Hickey (JaxConf 2012) [1:06:23]
Things Every Developer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Database Indexing
by Kai Sassnowski (Laracon EU 2019) [41:49]
Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
by James Mickens (USENIX Security '18-Q) [51:21]
Acceptance Testing For Continuous Delivery
by Dave Farley (PIPELINE Conference 2015) [01:02:34]
Patterns for Coding with AI
by Lada Kesseler (Craft 2026) [01:46:51]
A Lecture on Creativity
by John Cleese (London 1991) [36:59]
The Meaning of Life
by Derek Sivers (YouTube/Derek Sivers 2014) [18:54]
Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind
by Cory House (NDC 2014) [59:12]
Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle
by Brandon Hays (Mountain West Ruby 2016) [35:26]
Stop Treading Water - Learning to Learn
by Edward Kmett (YOW! 2014) [40:58]
The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
by Randy Pausch (Carnegie Mellon 2007) [1:16:26]
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
by Steve Jobs (Stanford 2005) [15:04]
Hammock Driven Development
by Rich Hickey (Clojure/Conj 2010) [39:48]
Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by RSA Animate (YouTube/RSA 2010) [10:47]
In 2 lists
Ideology
by Gary Bernhardt (Strange Loop 2015) [21:22]
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