Software Practice, Open Source & Careers Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#60

🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)

DevTernity Conference

“This excellent talk completely changed the way I approached testing. Every developer who writes tests needs to watch this now!”

11 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#71

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

Joey Reid

“Take a look and you will be amazed of how good (or revolutionary by our standards) some old technologies were.”

12 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#122

"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"

Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech

“It's a fascinating introduction to the evolution of hardware and programming languages.”

10 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#161

Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools

ClojureTV

“I loved this talk on how as your tooling becomes more complex and automated, you start to lose sight of simpler solutions to problems.”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#176

Using Python to Code by Voice

Next Day Video

“Travis Rudd's incredible demo of voice coding [1]”

12 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#182

Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Next Day Video

“the excellent talk "Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python".”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#224

Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2015

GOTO Conferences

“I highly recommend this video of a Dave Thomas talk about what agile was supposed to be vs what it has become.”

11 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#280

Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

Next Day Video

“Mirabai Knight's talk about this is one of my all time faves”

8 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#281

"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference

“Very highly recommend this funny, informative talk to understand aspects of creating a programming language other than the theoretical ones.”

10 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#287

"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong

Strange Loop Conference

“one of those talks which were incredibly funny and informative at the same time”

10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#311

Principles of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017

RedMonk Tech Events

“No discussion of company values would be complete without a link to Bryan Cantrill’s classic talk,”

9 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#330

A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)

David Beazley

“it's quite possible the best conference talk I've ever seen.”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#337

The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

NDC Conferences

“one of the most captivating tech talks I've ever seen.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

lecture#338

Clean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1

UnityCoin

“Clean Code is a great book, but the presentation is so much better”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#381

MountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues

Confreaks

“I recommend this talk about depression and software developers: There are newer versions of this talk, but I think this one has the most powerful storytelling.”

7 HN recommenders · 2013–2020

talk#406

"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea

Strange Loop Conference

“There's a great strangeloop talk[2] demonstrating talon and the actual state of voice coding”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#447

Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering

RedMonk Tech Events

“really helped me appreciate that long comments in code can be a treasured part of a software space”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#459

!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram

Confreaks

“There's an amazing 10min !!Con 2016 talk by Sina Bahram”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#502

"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki

Strange Loop Conference

“Regardless of whether you agree with his approach to developing a programming language, it is a talk worth listening to. Very insightful.”

8 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

commentary#507

The Patent Scam Intro

Austin Meyer

“This video from Austin Meyer (creator of X-Plane) is pretty eye-opening”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#519

Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Google for Developers

“One of the best talks about code reviews and similiar things”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2024

talk#538

I Like Notebooks

Jeremy Howard

“I strongly recommend Jeremy Howard's (founder of fast.ai) recent talk”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#574

In Search of Tomorrow

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

“very good talk about the background of eve”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

demo#597

Stevey's Tech Talk E39 -- A guided tour of Emacs

Steve Yegge

“Two videos by Steve Yegge should be enough to convince the most dyed-in-the-wool anti-Emacser to consider re-evaluating their position.”

5 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

commentary#636

Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples

Brian Will

“I highly recommend "Object Oriented Programming is Bad" and "Object Oriented Programming is Embarrassing" on Youtube.”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#658

RailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K

O'Reilly

“I find this talk [0] very informative and useful while interacting with other languages and communities.”

5 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

demo#666

Mock Interview with Shawn McGrath

Molly Rocket

“please watch this alternative method of interviewing”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#795

"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans

Strange Loop Conference

“The talk is on YouTube and I gotta say, it's very insightful.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

tutorial#840

I made a NES emulator in 15 minutes

Bisqwit

“Here's a very clean and clever NES emulator in C++ by Bisqwit of TAS fame”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#853

Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018

LeadDev

“There's an excellent talk from Nick Means (GitHub) called "Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?".”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#923

Elm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file

Elm Europe

“Just stick everything in the same file until it actually hurts. This presentation[0] gets it right.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#992

How to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016

LeadDev

“I watched a talk[1] by Nickolas Means recently that goes deeper into the events of that day and the lessons learned.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#1023

Old Is the New New • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences

“There's a talk well worth watching by Kevlin Henney called 'Old Is the New New' [1]”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#1067

Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist

The Linux Foundation

“A great talk on software licensing made by the creator of the 0BSD license”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1071

Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg

Confreaks

“I always thought calling programmers engineers was very weird until I watched this great talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

explainer#1156

Debt Metaphor

Ward Cunningham

“For the best description of technical debt, you can't do better than listen to the man who first coined the term.”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

demo#1190

Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode

spudlyo

“I think does a pretty good job of illustrating the power of Org.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

demo#1193

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org

The Go Programming Language

“It's just something to watch the pros doing live coding.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#1226

RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson

Confreaks

“I really like this[1] talk from DHH on the subject”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

talk#1233

Literate Programming in the Large

Next Day Video

“well worth watching: it talks about real, huge comolex systems, and how lp can help bring them back under control”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#1257

Keynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas

EuroBSDCon

“Hasn't aged one bit. If anything Patricia is spot on pretty much everything.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

talk#1281

Emily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"

The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026

“This video from the article is a phenomenal demonstration of dictation coding”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#1317

RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson

Confreaks

“Even if you're not a Rails developer it's worth watching.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#1327

How to: Work at Google — Example Coding/Engineering Interview

Life at Google

“two of the suggestions in this excellent video from Google showing an example of a great technical interview”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#1359

Gabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

Konfy

“although aimed at haskell programmers, is really about any technology looking to grow into the mainstream”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1361

"Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly," Bertrand Meyer

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

“Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meyer is a must read.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#1418

Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google

Etsy Eng (Etsy Engineering)

“The one I found very enlightening is from Moishe Lettvin given at Etsy”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#1563

CppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”

CppCon

“The mentioned cppcon presentation by Dan Saks is awesome. Highly recommend watching even if you are not interested in C or C++”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025