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Software practice, open source & careers videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering agile, code review, legacy code, open source maintenance, licensing, programmer careers, interviews, productivity, tech management, programming philosophy, live coding sessions.

126 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 49–96

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talk#1666

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger

SF Python

“Here's a good recent one by Raymond Hettinger on making things easier for yourself when programming”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

commentary#1675

Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!

Naomi Wu

“I wish more people had the nerve to do that instead of letting it slide.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

tutorial#1682

Build Your Own Async

David Beazley

“an amazing resource to understand async at a deep level”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

podcast#1704

Old Geeks Yell At Cloud (with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill)

Arrested DevOps

“the whole thing is worth watching”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1718

Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

tef ebooks

“Both of these talks are in my top 5.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

explainer#1829

2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer

LearnCode.academy

“Watch this brilliant video, I think the author nailed it”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2017

talk#1837

What nobody tells you about documentation

PyCon AU

“I highly recommend Daniele Procida's talk about this”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1854

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

GitHub

“Just dropping this gem of a talk[1], for the uninitiated.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

demo#1870

Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack

Meta VR

“it was fantastic because, first, you were showing to your audience how to work with Racket”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#1892

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CraftHub Events

“Bryan Cantrill (DTrace etc) has a good talk on ethics in software engineering[0].”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

demo#1943

How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio

Coding Tech

“I think it is a good demonstration of an expert doing typical developer activities.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

talk#1989

Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote

O'Reilly

“Kathy Sierra gave an informative talk on the topic of learning at the 2015 O'Reilly Fluent conference.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017

talk#1998

Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

Tom Scott

“There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#2034

Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

Lichess

“He has a good talk about how he did it here”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

talk#2078

#NoEstimates (Allen Holub)

Allen Holub

“If you want a well-reasoned discussion of where the waste is and isn't, I highly recommend Allen Holub's talk #NoEstimates”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#2082

Software Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering

Zendesk

“he explores the question of whether "software engineering" is or can really be engineering.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

demo#2142

Let's port Diablo to SerenityOS!

Andreas Kling

“the video on porting Diablo to SerenityOS in an hour is pretty interesting to watch”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#2226

The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard

Tom Scott

“I saw a good talk on it from Tom Scott some time ago[0] which I think is relevant.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#2262

The Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017

LeadDev

“I would also recommend this conference talk on the subject by Nickolas Means, it was very well done”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#2302

“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki

Elm Europe

“he raises some interesting points about how measuring projects by Github activity is strongly biased”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

tutorial#2387

George Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1

george hotz archive

“The guy's a certified legend.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#2391

Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."

O'Reilly

“I saw Mikey Dickerson give a great talk about his experience leading the completion of healthcare.gov”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

talk#2446

Software Engineering's Greatest Hits

Greg Wilson

“I highly recommend watching Greg Wilson's Software Engineering's Greatest Hits[1].”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#2496

"Uncle" Bob Martin

Program on Entrepreneurship

“This talk was really formative for me”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

lecture#2529

Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example

Brian Will

“I recommend the whole series”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

tutorial#2533

Browser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!

Andreas Kling

“At one point, he deletes half the HTML file to isolate where in the site the problematic code is.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

comedy#2564

Interview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1

Kai Lentit

“A funny enough YouTube video (comedy)”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

podcast#2635

Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440

Lex Fridman

“I highly recommend checking out this podcast”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#2696

Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline

O'Reilly

“Required viewing”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

talk#2700

Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga

YUI Library

“JSON by being so simple actually became really easy to use.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

talk#2707

Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).

Tom Raftery

“Assholes will ruin your project[1], you need to get rid of them”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#2713

Using JSLint For Evil

ryantravistate

“This reminds me of Douglas Crockford's classic story about the JSLint license”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#2876

Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences

“giving data instead of asking for data avoids error conditions”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#2886

Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“Eric Brechner of Microsoft (of all possible places...) gives a great talk on his team's approach”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

talk#2901

"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki

elm-conf

“great talk by Evan Czaplicki and his approach to Elm development”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

demo#2910

Vibe coding complex changes in Rust

Jon Gjengset

“I found this one and sat down and watched the whole three hours.”

2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

commentary#2942

Handmade Hero | Getting rid of the OOP mindset

vexe

“Casey Muratori (Handmade Hero) on why OOP is bad and how to get rid of that mindset”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#2943

dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

dotconferences

“A couple of my colleagues have given talks on healthcare.gov from the perspective of the engineers who worked around the clock to help get the site running again”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015