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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2 mo on HNSoftware Engineering's Greatest Hits
2 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin
2 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
2 mo on HNBrowser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!
2 mo on HNInterview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1
2 mo on HNZig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains
2 mo on HNPieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440
2 mo on HNGlenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline
2 mo on HNDouglas Crockford: The JSON Saga
2 mo on HNAssholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).
2 mo on HNUsing JSLint For Evil
2 mo on HNUnconditional Code • Michael Feathers • GOTO 2018
2 mo on HNAgile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google
2 mo on HN"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki
2 mo on HNVibe coding complex changes in Rust
2 mo on HNHandmade Hero | Getting rid of the OOP mindset
2 mo on HNdotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov
2 mo on HNThe economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019
2 mo on HNLinus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for
2 mo on HNCorporate Open Source Anti-patterns
2 mo on HNCppCon 2018:H. Wright “Large-Scale Changes at Google: Lessons Learned From 5 Yrs of Mass Migrations”
2 mo on HNdotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
2 mo on HNThe Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger [synced version]
2 mo on HNThe Worst Typo I Ever Made
2 mo on HNMaking Metagun
2 mo on HN10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
2 mo on HNImplementing (part of) a BitTorrent client in Rust
2 mo on HNCrockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain
2 mo on HNKeynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De Goes
2 mo on HNEpisode 1: A basic expression evaluator
1 mo on HNWhy I deleted GrapheneOS
1 mo on HNThe Early Days of id Software
1 mo on HNInterview with Senior JS Developer
1 mo on HNLeaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
1 mo on HNIs TDD dead?
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