Best Talks and Podcasts I know February 25, 2024
Some talks, that I think every software developer should watch.
Simple made easy
If you watch only one talk from this list, it should be this one. There are so many wise truths to software development, that have been holding up the past 12 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)
Have you heard about WebAssembly yet? This talk is not only illustrating what it is but implements the absolute basics in an educational way. Also, it is a master class in giving a talk, that keeps you at the edge of your seat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-A78RgMhZU
Performance matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A
The life of a file
Files and functions should be short right? They should only span a few lines of code, so that everything is understandable, clean and so on. But they don’t have to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDsk374LDE
Functional Design Patterns
Gang of four patterns are used extensively in OOP, what are the patterns in functional programming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQt1NAHYC0
Maybe Not
I don’t know how to summarize this briefly. I believe it is a talk about evolving systems, libraries and working with information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug
Growing a language
One of my favorite talks in which Guy Steele talks about language design with a fun twist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast
A brilliant talk about the lessons learned from finding a severe bug in Xerox scanners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0
Software unscripted
Software unscripted has become one of my favorite podcasts. Richard Feldman (author of Roc programming language) hosts this podcast and talks about language development and web development and functional programming and all the things, it’s great.
If you want to dip your toes in, listen to the episode with Casey Muratori and the one with Greg Wilson.
Jon Gjengset
If you are interested in Rust, just watch some of Jons videos on YouTube, he is amazing at explaining difficult technical things in depth.