Software Practice, Open Source & Careers Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 3

talk#3450

Crockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain

YUI Library

“entertaining and insightful talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

talk#3471

Keynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De Goes

Scalapeño

“John De Goes describes pain points quite accurately in Scalapeno keynote”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

course#3495

Episode 1: A basic expression evaluator

Immo Landwerth (terrajobst)

“Not too much theory but from a nuts and bolts perspective I found it extremely approachable.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#3576

The Early Days of id Software

GDC Festival of Gaming

“the rest of the talk is very inspiring - so listen to the hour-long video”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

comedy#3635

Interview with Senior JS Developer

Kai Lentit

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#3648

Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

Bryan Cantrill

“As usual Bryan Cantrill is just brilliant at explaining stuff.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#3724

Is TDD dead?

Thoughtworks

“I can't recommend the discussion between Kent Beck, David Hansson and Martin Fowler enough.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#3758

Ada, Past Present and Future

AdaCore

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#3793

8LU - Are we *really* engineers? by Hillel Wayne

8th Light Inc.

“There was a good talk on this subject last week”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#4002

Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow

gamedev cuts

“Reminds me of Jonathan Blow's talk”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

interview#4057

Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.

TFiR

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

talk#4071

Technical leadership and glue work - Tanya Reilly | #LeadDevNewYork

LeadDev

“Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

interview#4081

Jim Coplien and Bob Martin Debate TDD

alexsmail

“this was a fun discussion about TDD between two professionals”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

talk#4089

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

Y Combinator

“I enjoyed Andrej Karpathy's talk about software in the era of AI.”

1 HN recommenders · 2025

demo#4114

Notch Coding Minicraft!

simme337

“Watching `notch` live-code is also very popular.”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

talk#4129

Learning from StackOverflow.com

Google TechTalks

“Watch Joel's tech talk - they really did figure a ton of it out at the start.”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2021

talk#4144

Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18

Josh Wardle

“If you found the article interesting, you may like this too!”

1 HN recommenders · 2022

demo#4181

Coding in Stenography, Quick Demo

Art of Chording

“There was a nice demo of using stenography for programming by one of the Open Steno Project developers”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

commentary#4186

The Story Behind Audacity

Tantacrul

“The levity and the pragmatic focus make a great combination.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

commentary#4199

Ex Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨‍💻 - @Barnacules

Barnacules Nerdgasm

“Hear about it first hand from an ex windows software tester”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#4277

F8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale

Meta Developers

“It's a long video but it's very watchable using the YouTube speed multiplier.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2016

tutorial#4294

Hot Code Reloading in C

Tsoding Daily

“he hot reloads a dynamic library without interrupting the main program, to test different functionality.”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#4321

Python at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger

PyData

“4500 developers making 20k commits a week. Codebase with 35m LOC.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#4325

SQLite: Protégé of PostgreSQL

Andrea Ross

“You might also enjoy this talk by the main author of SQLite”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

talk#4452

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences

“I think Adam Tornhill has a nice take on this.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

interview#4556

Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried

JellyvisionLab

“he approaches things in a much more realistic down to earth manner than many other engineers out there.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

interview#4570

Edsger Dijkstra interview

Hans Otten

“demonstrated in this beautiful interview”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

demo#4578

Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth

Andreas Wagner

“Sam Falvo demonstrates writing a blog engine in Forth.”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#4724

Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011

O'Reilly

“this is an excellent talk about preparing to solve hard problems in bio.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2016

podcast#4761

Before Flutter | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100

RubberDuckEng

“This is a great podcast/video episode on how Flutter came to be”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2026