Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js
In briefRyan Dahl tells the history of Node.js and why he created it at a Phoenix meetup. He explains the push for non-blocking IO on a clean slate rather than extending an existing ecosystem.
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Erlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional
In briefA joint Erlang Factory 2016 keynote by Phoenix creator Chris McCord and Elm creator Evan Czaplicki on using the two together, including Phoenix.Presence design and PubSub optimizations.
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Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
In briefTom 7's pilot episode of a series that plays with type systems and absurd programming, presented as a parody of the GPL v3 license. It mixes a typesetting experiment with a long, story-driven intro on the origin of TeX. Source code and papers are linked from the author's site.
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Category Theory in Life - Eugenia Cheng
In briefEugenia Cheng gives the opening keynote at Lambda World 2017, presenting category theory as very abstract algebra whose abstraction gives it broad applicability. She applies it to everyday questions including privilege and prejudice.
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Speed Up Your JavaScript
In briefA 2009 Google Tech Talk by Nicholas Zakas on the hidden performance pitfalls of JavaScript. It covers what is fast and slow in the language and how to avoid common bottlenecks.
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The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt
In briefGary Bernhardt's Cascadia Ruby Conference 2011 talk on using the Unix shell for practical problem solving. He builds pipelines interactively by iterative refinement, using small tools as levers.
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Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4
In briefJake Vanderplas's PyCon 2016 talk shows how sampling-based methods such as simulation, shuffling and bootstrapping make statistics intuitive. His pitch is that if you can write a for-loop, you can do statistics.
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PHP doesn't suck (anymore)
In briefAaron Francis walks through how PHP has changed from 2012 to 2023, covering traits, array destructuring, generators, typed properties and more. It is a quick chaptered tour of modern PHP features.
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"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)
In briefRobert Collins explains why rustup installs were painfully slow on Windows and how changes to rustup and Windows cut install time from 3m30s to 14s. The talk covers NTFS, small files and the cost of antivirus hooks on file close.
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“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki
In briefElm creator Evan Czaplicki's 2018 Elm Europe talk on how to define success for an open source project and language community. It argues against judging projects by GitHub activity and touches on community expectations.
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Visualising software architecture with the C4 model - Simon Brown, Agile on the Beach 2019
In briefSimon Brown's Agile on the Beach 2019 talk presents the C4 model, a lightweight approach to diagramming software architecture with a shared vocabulary and simple notation.
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GopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike
In briefRob Pike's GopherCon 2016 talk on the design of the Go assembler, explaining why Go uses a common assembly language translated to each architecture.
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Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments
In briefA short demo of Code Bubbles, an IDE interface built around editable code fragments in bubbles instead of files. It was a research prototype for Java development.
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The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard
In briefTom Scott explains how he built his emoji keyboard, which turned out to be a series of bodged-together tools including AutoHotkey and LuaMacros. He tells stories about the value of quick-and-dirty solutions.
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Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
In briefTom LaGatta's talk on category theory at a 2014 LispNYC meetup, covering objects, morphisms and the basic ideas in an informal, conversational style. It runs about 97 minutes.
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Robert C Martin - Clean Architecture and Design
In briefRobert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) talks about clean architecture and design, including keeping the database and frameworks out of the center of an application. It is an hour-long conference talk.
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Alexis King - “Effects for Less” @ ZuriHac 2020
In briefAlexis King's ZuriHac 2020 talk on how effect systems in Haskell can be implemented efficiently. It looks at the performance cost of effect libraries and how to reduce it.
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Browser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!
In briefIn a long live-coding session, Andreas Kling works on making the Cookie Clicker game playable in the Ladybird browser from SerenityOS. He tracks down bugs in the browser engine and fixes them.
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Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440
In briefA roughly 3.7-hour Lex Fridman podcast with Pieter Levels, the solo developer behind over 40 startups. They discuss programming, viral AI products, indie hacking and digital nomad life.
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OCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020
In briefA one-hour OCaml Workshop 2020 talk on the state of the OCaml Platform, covering IDE support, next steps for the tooling and plans for 2020-2021.
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Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?
In briefMattKC fits a playable Snake game into a QR code by writing tiny x86 machine code and patching the ZBar scanner so it can run the decoded data.
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Google I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded
In briefPaul Irish and Pavel Feldman present the newest Chrome Dev Tools features at Google I/O 2011, including live CSS editing, saving changes, breakpoints and network analysis. It also covers remote debugging.
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Self: The Movie;
In briefA 1995 Sun Microsystems film about the Self programming language, a prototype-based Smalltalk relative, showing its live, graphical programming environment.
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Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."
In briefMikey Dickerson's keynote at Velocity NY 2014, one year after the healthcare.gov launch failure. He recounts how a small team rescued the site and what the episode showed about government IT contracting.
