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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4 mo on HNConsistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode
4 mo on HNHacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org
4 mo on HNRailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson
4 mo on HNLiterate Programming in the Large
3 mo on HNKeynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas
3 mo on HNEmily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"
4 mo on HNRailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson
3 mo on HNHow to: Work at Google — Example Coding/Engineering Interview
4 mo on HNGabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
3 mo on HN"Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly," Bertrand Meyer
4 mo on HNMoishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google
3 mo on HNCppCon 2016: Dan Saks “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++”
3 mo on HNBuilding pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner
3 mo on HNThe Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger
3 mo on HNGetting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!
3 mo on HNBuild Your Own Async
3 mo on HNOld Geeks Yell At Cloud (with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill)
3 mo on HNProgramming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012
3 mo on HN2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer
3 mo on HNWhat nobody tells you about documentation
3 mo on HNLinux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016
3 mo on HNOculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack
3 mo on HNAndreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019
3 mo on HNGeorge Hotz | Programming | we do coronavirus science aka hacking nature #lockdown part1 | COVID-19
3 mo on HNHow A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio
3 mo on HNMaking Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote
3 mo on HNEmojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
3 mo on HNLichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)
2 mo on HN#NoEstimates (Allen Holub)
3 mo on HNSoftware Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
3 mo on HNLet's port Diablo to SerenityOS!
3 mo on HNThe Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard
3 mo on HNThe Original Skunk Works – Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer UK 2017
3 mo on HN“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki
2 mo on HNGeorge Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1
2 mo on HN