Software practice, open source & careers Videos Recommended on Hacker News (154)
Software practice, open source & careers is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 154 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 438 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Software craft and profession: agile, code review, legacy code, open source maintenance, licensing, programmer careers, interviews, productivity, tech management, programming philosophy, live coding sessions.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on 🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper): “This excellent talk completely changed the way I approached testing. Every developer who writes tests needs to watch this now!” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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11 mo on HN🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)
11 mo on HNBret Victor The Future of Programming
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
10 mo on HNTim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools
9 mo on HNUsing Python to Code by Voice
9 mo on HNAgile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2015
8 mo on HNPlover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM
8 mo on HN"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)
8 mo on HN"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong
7 mo on HNPrinciples of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017
7 mo on HNA Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)
6 mo on HNThe Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
7 mo on HNClean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1
7 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues
6 mo on HN"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
6 mo on HNMonktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
5 mo on HN!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram
6 mo on HN"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki
6 mo on HNThe Patent Scam Intro
5 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer
5 mo on HNI Like Notebooks
5 mo on HNStevey's Tech Talk E39 -- A guided tour of Emacs
5 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples
6 mo on HNRailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K
6 mo on HNMock Interview with Shawn McGrath
5 mo on HN"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans
5 mo on HNI made a NES emulator in 15 minutes
4 mo on HNWho Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018
4 mo on HNElm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file
4 mo on HNHow to crash an airplane – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2016
4 mo on HNOld Is the New New • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2018
4 mo on HNToybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist
4 mo on HNLone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg
4 mo on HNDebt Metaphor
4 mo on HNConsistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode
4 mo on HN