VimSpeak Demo
In briefAshley Feniello demonstrates VimSpeak, a voice-controlled interface for Vim inspired by Tavis Rudd's voice programming talk. The demo includes working through a VimGolf challenge by speech.
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Progressive decoding: JPEG vs JPEG XL vs AVIF
In briefA short side-by-side demo of a large image loading over a slow connection in JPEG, progressive mozjpeg, JPEG XL and AVIF. It shows how each codec renders partial data.
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F8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale
In briefAn F8 2015 talk touring the tool-chain Facebook uses to let thousands of engineers build mobile apps, including its move to Mercurial, an Atom-based IDE and continuous integration.
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CppCon 2017: Kate Gregory “10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now”
In briefKate Gregory's CppCon 2017 talk picks ten highlights from the C++ Core Guidelines and shows examples and benefits for each. It is aimed at C++ developers of any experience level who have not read the full guidelines.
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Clojure is Not Afraid of the GPU - Dragan Djuric
In briefDragan Djuric presents Clojure libraries for GPU and numerical computing, including ClojureCL, ClojureCUDA and Neanderthal. He shows how a dynamic REPL workflow can be combined with low-level hardware acceleration for machine learning and data science.
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Jellyvision Q&A with DHH & Jason Fried
In briefJellyvision hosts Basecamp founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson for a Q&A about open source, productivity, feature requests and taking care of customers.
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Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)
In briefChris Lattner and Brennan Saeta present Swift for TensorFlow at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019, covering language-integrated automatic differentiation and tooling for machine learning in Swift.
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Condition Systems in an Exceptional Language - Chris Houser
In briefChris Houser's Clojure/conj talk on why Clojure's exceptions destroy information as the stack unwinds, unlike Common Lisp's condition system, which can resume from the error site. He surveys the existing libraries that approximate conditions, explains why they don't compose with each other, and considers what a better design would look like.
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Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy
In briefArchival footage of Larry Tesler demonstrating Gypsy, the modeless text editor he and Tim Mott built at Xerox PARC, running on the Computer History Museum's restored Alto. It is a long hands-on walkthrough of one of the earliest graphical document editors.
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Servo: Building a Parallel Browser
In briefJack Moffitt presents Servo, an experimental browser engine written in Rust and designed to be parallel at every level, using multiple cores, the GPU, fork-join concurrency and SIMD. The talk covers motivations, architecture and plans for the project.
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Event Sourcing • Greg Young • GOTO 2014
In briefGreg Young, who coined CQRS, gives an in-depth GOTO 2014 talk on what event sourcing is, when it is valuable and when it is not, along with its trade-offs and common misconceptions.
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Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast
In briefKai Lentit's comedy sketch parodying an interview with an FFmpeg enthusiast. It pokes fun at the open source command-line tool experience and video conversion woes.
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Breaking Down Programming Paradigms: APL's Surprising Learning Curve // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '17
In briefAaron Hsu explains why programmers often find APL harder to learn than people with no programming background. He identifies eight patterns that contrast traditional software engineering practice with APL practice, starting from Ken Iverson's language design principles.
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GoRuCo 2012 Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne
In briefMatt Wynne's GoRuCo 2012 talk on why Rails apps get hard to change as they grow, and how a ports-and-adapters hexagonal architecture separates application logic from the framework.
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Google I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit
In briefGoogle I/O 2011 session by Ray Cromwell and Philip Rogers on writing 2D and 3D games with HTML5 and GWT. It covers porting game libraries and physics engines, sharing code with Android, and publishing to the Chrome Web Store, and showcases the ForPlay library.
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Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
In briefAndrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School laying out software 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, with LLMs seen as utilities, fabs and operating systems. It covers LLM quirks, partial-autonomy apps and keeping a human in the generate-and-verify loop.
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rand() Considered Harmful
In briefStephan T. Lavavej's GoingNative 2013 talk explaining why calling rand() and using rand() % 100 is bad in C++, and how the C++11 <random> header does the job properly.
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Greg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
In briefGreg Young, who coined CQRS, looks back on a decade of domain-driven design, CQRS and event sourcing at DDD Europe 2016. He discusses where event sourcing applies and how simple its core can be.
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The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
In briefMartin Kleppmann's Local-First Conf talk reviewing where the local-first idea came from, where it stands five years after the essay, and what the community should work toward. He argues for generic sync infrastructure.
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Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo
In briefA Computer History Museum demonstration with Dan Ingalls of Smalltalk-76 running on a Xerox Alto, recorded in 2017. He shows the live environment and discusses the system.
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Demo: Implicit Context
In briefJonathan Blow gives a formal, hour-long demo of his Jai compiler focused on the implicit context feature. The context carries things like allocators through a program without explicit parameter passing, and the talk walks through the code.
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Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors
In briefA four-minute Emacs Rocks screencast demonstrating the multiple-cursors package for Emacs. It shows how editing at many places at once can replace repetitive manual edits.
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HandmadeCon 2015 - Mike Acton
In briefMike Acton, in a HandmadeCon 2015 interview with Casey Muratori, discusses game engine development, hiring and learning on your own.
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AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg
In briefDaniel Stenberg's keynote at FrOSCon 2025 on AI slop attacks on the curl project, with examples of bogus AI-generated security reports. He discusses the toll on maintainers and why various countermeasures don't fit the project.
