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The 36 Software (other) videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 9 intermediate, 23 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include KRAZAM, GOTO Conferences, NDC Conferences.
The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile
Tom Scott explains for Computerphile why handling time and timezones in code is so hard, walking through a simple web app that computes how long ago something happened.
Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
Bryan Cantrill's Monktoberfest 2016 talk on how software engineers pass knowledge down through oral tradition, from folk rhymes to programmer lore and stories like why C lacks a logical XOR.
You Suck at Excel - Joel Spolsky (Reupload)
A reupload of Joel Spolsky's talk teaching spreadsheet users the Excel features they are probably missing, such as keyboard navigation, named ranges, tables and lookups.
Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016
Felienne Hermans argues that Excel is the world's most popular programming language and shows how spreadsheets work as a pure functional language.
The Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie's entertaining NDC talk imagines an alternate history of the web, asking what if different decisions had been made on operating systems, browsers and standards.
Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
Dylan Beattie's conference talk explores the history and mess behind plain text: encodings, Unicode, line endings and the many ways text goes wrong.
The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages - SXSW
A SXSW talk by W Watson that uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, with nods to Zizek, to critique popular programming languages.
!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen
A short conference talk from !!Con 2017 in which Kevin Chen explains the HDR imaging algorithm from a foundational paper, framing it as a system of linear equations, and implements it in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Email Hates the Living
A lightning-style conference talk by Ricardo Signes about the horrors of email: its protocols, formats and decades of accumulated quirks.
Obsidian for Beginners: Start HERE — How to Use the Obsidian App for Notes
A 12-minute beginner lesson from Nick Milo's Linking Your Thinking series introducing the Obsidian note-taking app and the first steps to start using it.
I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?
A short KRAZAM comedy sketch satirizing corporate tech life, where a worker reckons with having delivered value at the cost of his soul, complete with Slack chimes.
Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018
Joe Armstrong's GOTO 2018 talk contrasts the problems computer scientists study with the problems users have.
You Give REST a Bad Name
Dylan Beattie's parody of 'You Give Love a Bad Name' about hypermedia APIs and REST, performed with his band at developer conferences.
Using JSLint For Evil
A three-minute clip in which Douglas Crockford explains why he allowed the JSLint reference implementation to be used for evil.
Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
The SILE author's FOSDEM 2015 talk introducing SILE, a TeX-inspired typesetting system with frame-based layout, Unicode, OpenType and a Lua-based extensible design.
Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech
A short satirical sketch in which a Q&A about web servers turns into a profane rant about threads, blocking and non-blocking I/O.
David Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans
David Kriesel's FrOSCon talk on how Xerox scancopiers, due to JBIG2 compression, silently replaced digits in scanned documents.
React.js Conf 2016 - Lightning Talks - Elie Rotenberg
A five-minute lightning talk from React.js Conf 2016 by Elie Rotenberg on protecting the DOM from tampering.
Robert Moss: Julia and the Next Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System
Robert Moss's JuliaCon 2015 talk describes using Julia as a specification language for ACAS X, the next-generation airborne collision avoidance system that succeeds TCAS.
Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast
Kai Lentit's comedy sketch parodying an interview with an FFmpeg enthusiast.
Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)
A short scene from Malcolm in the Middle in which Hal tries to fix a light bulb and is pulled into a growing chain of side repairs.
Exact Instructions Challenge PB&J Classroom Friendly | Josh Darnit
A family comedy video in which kids write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a parent follows them with exact literalness, producing chaos.
Will YouTube Ever Run Out Of Video IDs?
Tom Scott explains YouTube's 11-character video IDs, which are base-64 encoded 64-bit numbers, and whether YouTube could ever run out of them.
Terry Davis Demos SimStructure (2016-08-25)
Terry Davis, author of TempleOS, demonstrates his SimStructure physics simulator and builds a PID controller using math from Numerical Recipes in C.