Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)
In briefA short scene from Malcolm in the Middle in which Hal tries to fix a light bulb and is pulled into a growing chain of side repairs.
Software & Languages
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Andy Keep - Writing a Nanopass Compiler
In briefAndy Keep's Clojure/Conj talk on writing a nanopass compiler, built from many single-task passes with formally defined intermediate languages. It covers the framework's origins in a compiler teaching course at Indiana University.
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Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen - Matthias Felleisen
In briefMatthias Felleisen's keynote uses weather prediction as an analogy for type systems, arguing they forecast problems so you can act on them. It draws on his experience developing Typed Racket.
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Parsing with Derivatives
In briefA Stanford talk by Matthew Might on parsing with derivatives, a new way to write parsers, and why better parsing tools are needed. It discusses language theory and criticizes ad-hoc hand-written parsers.
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"Design in Practice" by Rich Hickey
In briefRich Hickey's Clojure Conj 2023 talk on design in practice, covering problem statements, decision matrices, choosing precise words and making decisions in a team.
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2013 Keynote: Chandler Carruth: Optimizing the Emergent Structures of C++
In briefChandler Carruth's CppNow 2013 keynote on how C++ builds complex software from simple emergent structures, and how compilers optimize them through inlining and value semantics.
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Meteor Screecast
In briefThe original 2012 screencast introducing Meteor, a JavaScript framework for building web apps quickly. It demonstrates realtime updates, latency compensation and low boilerplate.
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Why We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin
In briefNetflix engineer Drew Gallatin explains why the company runs FreeBSD-current on its CDN. He describes the team, how they track upstream, their contributions and performance milestones, and a bug causing a 20% performance regression.
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Scaling ZFS for NVMe - Allan Jude - EuroBSDcon 2022
In briefAllan Jude of Klara presents work on making ZFS scale on fast NVMe storage, covering fixes to the TaskQueue interface and removal of bottlenecks. The talk was given at EuroBSDcon 2022 and describes raising write throughput from about 3 to over 7 GB/sec.
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Carbon Language Successor Strategy: From C++ Interop to Memory Safety - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 23
In briefChandler Carruth's CppNow 2023 talk describes Carbon as a successor language to C++ rather than a superset, focusing on C++ interop and a path to memory safety in large existing codebases. It explains why Carbon takes a different approach from Cpp2 and Circle.
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Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018
In briefRaymond Hettinger's PyBay 2018 keynote on preventing, finding and fixing bugs under a time budget. He covers testing practice, type annotation tradeoffs and the limits of coverage metrics.
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Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust
In briefAn excerpt from a Bay Area Rust meetup on Servo's WebRender, which renders CSS display lists on the GPU at very high frame rates. It explains the approach and demos rendering at around 500 FPS.
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Category Theory, The essence of interface-based design - Erik Meijer
In briefErik Meijer argues that category theory is the mathematicians' version of interface-based design. He shows that Java 8 lambdas and method references form a Cartesian closed category.
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Notch Coding Minicraft!
In briefFootage of Notch (Markus Persson) live-coding his Minicraft game in Java during a Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam. It shows a working game developer building a complete small game from scratch.
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Tudor Gîrba - Moldable development
In briefTudor Girba's Curry On! 2019 talk on moldable development, the idea that developers should build custom tools and views for each software system they work on. It draws on the Pharo and Glamorous Toolkit environments.
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Ex Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨💻 - @Barnacules
In briefA former Microsoft SDET with 15 years on Windows gives his view on why Windows 10 updates keep shipping with bugs. He points to changes in how the company tests its software.
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Type-Driven Development in Idris — Edwin Brady
In briefEdwin Brady, creator of Idris, introduces type-driven development in a dependently typed language. He shows types being written first and programs derived with interactive editing, then extends beyond simple examples to programs that interact with users and networks.
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Alen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018
In briefAlen Ladavac of Croteam talks about continuous integration and automated testing pipelines in games, with case studies from The Talos Principle and Serious Sam.
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Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 2023
In briefChandler Carruth's CppNow 2023 talk on modernizing compiler design for the Carbon toolchain, using data-oriented design and modern hardware assumptions. It covers lexing, parsing and compact data structures aimed at compiler performance.
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Python at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger
In briefA PyData London 2018 talk on how JPMorgan scaled its Athena Python platform over ten years to about 35 million lines of code and thousands of developers. It covers infrastructure, tooling and culture for analytics and visualization at that scale.
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Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%
In briefMatt Parker follows the community effort to speed up his slow Wordle-solving code, which ended up running hundreds of millions of times faster. He walks through the techniques contributors used.
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Edsger Dijkstra interview
In briefA 24-minute interview with Edsger Dijkstra, the Dutch computer scientist, including his views on writing programs by hand and keeping errors out of them. It is part of a longer Dutch TV interview.
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Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth
In briefSamuel Falvo II live-codes a text preprocessor and blog engine in Forth over about an hour. It shows Forth's dictionary being snapshotted and restored in place of mutation, and how a small Forth system gets real work done.
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C++ Weekly - Ep 19 C++14 For The Commodore 64
In briefAn episode of C++ Weekly in which Jason Turner shows modern C++14 compiling to the Commodore 64's 6502. It demonstrates writing efficient high-level code for 8-bit hardware.
