Totally Gridbag
In briefTotally Gridbag is a short humorous animation about the frustrations of Java Swing's GridBagLayout, originally made as a Flash cartoon.
Software & Languages
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Gerald Jay Sussman: The Role of Programming (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
In briefGerald Jay Sussman speaks at Dan Friedman's 60th birthday celebration about how programming helps formulate and clarify ideas. He argues that ambiguous mathematical notation hinders understanding.
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GopherCon 2014 Inside the Gophers Studio with Blake Mizerany
In briefA GopherCon 2014 session where Blake Mizerany replaced his planned talk with a panel discussion with members of the Go team. It covers Go's design choices and community questions.
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MAKRO | Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights 3/19
In briefA KRAZAM comedy sketch in which Makro walks through the latest Microsoft Office 365 Excel update in a mock stream highlights format.
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Microservices
In briefA short KRAZAM comedy sketch in which engineers explain an absurdly tangled microservices architecture to a manager. It parodies how backend complexity gets justified with jargon.
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why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
In briefAnswer in Progress investigates why Japanese websites look different from those elsewhere, using an AI clustering approach to test the 2013 claim. It then looks at possible explanations.
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Lecture 7A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
In briefLecture 7A of the 1986 MIT 6.001 SICP course, with Gerald Sussman presenting the metacircular evaluator, part 1. It shows how a Lisp evaluator can be written in Lisp itself.
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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes Amazon EC2 Instances for Performance (CMP325)
In briefA Netflix performance engineer presents how Netflix tunes EC2 instances, covering instance type choice, Xen modes, SR-IOV and kernel tuning. The goal is near bare-metal performance in the cloud.
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How Google is building a browser monopoly
In briefTechAltar's eight-minute video arguing that Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer as Google leverages its browser position. It covers anti-competitive behavior toward other browsers like Firefox and Edge and the role of Chromium.
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Pizza Party: A Command Line Program for Ordering Pizza
In briefA short 2007 demo of Pizza Party, a command line program that orders Domino's pizza from a UNIX-like terminal. The video shows the designers placing an order using the software.
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Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
In briefA 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl code using Windows Vista's speech recognition, with hilariously bad results.
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Google Chrome announcement
In briefGoogle's 2008 press announcement of its open source browser, Chrome, featuring Sundar Pichai among the presenters.
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The Next Programming Language - Douglas Crockford - code::dive 2022
In briefDouglas Crockford's code::dive 2022 talk on what the next programming language should look like. He presents ideas behind his Misty language, including message-passing actors.
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Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup
In briefA two-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, conducted by Paul McJones in 2015. It covers his youth, education at Aarhus and Cambridge, his career at Bell Labs and elsewhere, and the design and evolution of C++.
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Lang NEXT 2014 Panel Systems Programming in 2014 and Beyond
In briefA panel from the Lang NEXT 2014 conference on systems programming in 2014 and beyond. Language designers including Bjarne Stroustrup and Rob Pike discuss the topic, including C++ header compile times.
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$stdout - Side Projects
In briefA four-minute programmer rap by stdout about abandoned side projects and the promise to finish them someday. The lyrics poke fun at dev procrastination and big app ideas.
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Q&A with Guido van Rossum, Inventor of Python
In briefAn open Q&A with Python creator Guido van Rossum hosted by Microsoft Reactor, covering his career, PyCon's origins and his opinions on other languages.
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reddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig
In briefPeter Norvig answers the top questions submitted by reddit users in a 27-minute interview. Topics include programming language choice, AI, and workplace design.
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Chiara Mooney & Shiven Mian – Building for Microsoft (Chain React 2023)
In briefMicrosoft engineers Chiara Mooney and Shiven Mian describe the journey and challenges of building and consuming React Native for Windows inside Microsoft. It was given at Chain React 2023.
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The Next Five Years of ClojureScript - David Nolen
In briefDavid Nolen reviews the first five years of ClojureScript, documenting its landmarks and looking ahead to the next five. It is a history-and-roadmap talk from the Clojure community.
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The Mind Behind Linux | Linus Torvalds | TED
In briefTED curator Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds about his personality, his engineer's pragmatism, and the creation of Linux and Git. Torvalds also discusses taste in code and why he open sourced Linux.
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Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed!
In briefInternet of Bugs analyzes Cognition's Devin demo frame by frame, arguing the video did not show Devin completing paid Upwork jobs as claimed, and showing what the task required versus what Devin produced.
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ElixirConf 2019 - Day 1 Morning Keynote - Brian Cardarella, Luke Imhoff, Paul Schoenfelder
In briefThe ElixirConf 2019 day 1 morning keynote, including the announcement of Lumen, an alternative BEAM implementation designed for WebAssembly. It features DockYard's team presenting the project and a demo.
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Carl Sagan: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
In briefA very short clip of Carl Sagan saying that to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. It illustrates how everything depends on a chain of prior things.
