Awesome talks

There are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings, and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and I've been doing this for quite some time now. I created this list of online talks that I really enjoyed watching. I'll also be updating this list whenever I've watched another awesome talk that is worthy enough. Suggestions are always appreciated through a pull request. So without further ado ..

(In no particular order)

Categories

• Software Development
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Functional Programming
• Software Design
• Web Development
• Test-Driven Development
• Methodologies
• Computer History
• Databases
• Security
• Cognitive Development

Software Development

• The Computer Revolution hasn't happend yet by Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997) [1:04:34]
• The Future of Programming by Bret Victor (Dropbox's DBX conference 2013) [32:55]
• Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor (CUSEC 2012) [54:20]
• Media for Thinking the Unthinkable by Bret Victor (MIT Media Lab 2013) [39:32]
• Finding a Way Out by Chris Granger (Strange Loop 2013) [33:46]
• Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted by Thomas Figg (EMF 2012) [1:06:43]
• Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure by James Mickens (Monitorama PDX 2014) [27:35]
• Are We There Yet? by Rich Hickey (JVM Languages Summit 2009) [1:10:04]
• Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey (Strange Loop 2011) [1:01:26]
• The Value of Values by Rich Hickey (GOTO Copenhagen 2012) [58:53]
• Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure by Rich Hickey (Clojure/Conj 2017) [1:14:51]
• The Web We Lost by Anil Dash (Berkman Klein Center 2013) [1:10:54]
• Growing a Language by Guy Steele (ACM OOPSLA 1998) [53:30]
• The Mess We're In by Joe Armstrong (Strange Loop 2014) [45:49]
• To the Moon! by Russ Olsen (Clojure/Conj 2013) [52:43]
• Simplify Challenging Software Problems with Rocket Science by Bradley Grzesiak (Rocky Mountain Ruby 2015) [23:07]
• A short history of Software Engineering, and other ideas that didn't work by Paolo Perrotta (Barcelona Ruby Conference 2020) [36:35]
• Linus Torvalds on Git by Linus Torvalds (Google 2007) [1:10:14]
• The Worst Programming Language Ever by Mark Rendle (NDC Oslo 2021) [1:00:40]
• Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing by Carin Meier (Strange Loop 2015) [36:00]
• Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney (NDC 2014) [01:02:52]
• 5 WTFs in 6 LOCs by Dorothy Wingrove (Brighton Ruby 2016) [05:11]
• Programming is Writing is Programming by Felienne Hermans (NDC Oslo 2017) [55:46]
• We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips (Pacific Northwest Scala 2013) [50:42]
• Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg (Software Art Thou 2018) [1:07:57]
• Feature Branching Considered Evil by Thierry de Pauw (DevTernity 2019) [49:38]
• Programming’s Greatest Mistakes by Mark Rendle (NDC Copenhagen 2022) [55:34]
• Email vs Capitalism: A Story About Why We Can't Have Nice Things by Dylan Beattie (Joy Of Coding 2023) [54:49]
• Preventing the Collapse of Civilization by Jonathan Blow (DevGAMM 2019) [01:02:41]