Awesome talks
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There are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and I've been doing this for quite 
some time now. I created this list of online talks that I really enjoyed watching. I'll also be updating this list whenever I've watched another awesome talk that is worthy enough. Suggestions are always 
appreciated through a pull request. So without further ado ..

(In no particular order)

Categories
  - Software Development (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#software-development)
  - Object-Oriented Programming (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#object-oriented-programming)
  - Functional Programming (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#functional-programming)
  - Software Design (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#software-design)
  - Web Development (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#web-development)
  - Test-Driven Development (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#test-driven-development)
  - Methodologies (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#methodologies)
  - Computer History (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#computer-history)
  - Databases (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#databases)
  - Security (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#security)
  - Cognitive Development (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#cognitive-development)
  - Cryptocurrencies (https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks#cryptocurrencies)

Software Development

⟡ The Computer Revolution hasn't happend yet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY) by Alan Kay 1:04:34 
⟡ The Future of Programming (https://vimeo.com/71278954) by Bret Victor 32:55 
⟡ Inventing on Principle (https://vimeo.com/38272912) by Bret Victor 54:20 
⟡ Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/) by Bret Victor 39:32 
⟡ Finding a Way Out (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/reimagining-software) by Chris Granger 33:46 
⟡ Programming is terrible - Lessons learned from a life wasted (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYPnxv0yss) by Thomas Figg 1:06:43 
⟡ Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure (https://vimeo.com/95066828) by James Mickens 27:35 
⟡ Are We There Yet? (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey) by Rich Hickey 1:10:04 
⟡ Simple Made Easy (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy) by Rich Hickey 1:01:26 
⟡ The Value of Values (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values) by Rich Hickey 58:53 
⟡ Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU) by Rich Hickey 1:14:51 
⟡ The Web We Lost (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKMnoTTHJk) by Anil Dash 1:10:54 
⟡ Growing a Language (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0) by Guy Steele 53:30 
⟡ The Mess We're In (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4&list=UU_QIfHvN9auy2CoOdSfMWDw) by Joe Armstrong 45:49 
⟡ To the Moon! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sso4HtvJsw) by Russ Olsen 52:43 
⟡ Simplify Challenging Software Problems with Rocket Science (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1g1YyVO6j8) by Bradley Grzesiak 23:07 
⟡ A short history of Software Engineering, and other ideas that didn't work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnquVcxvAl0) by Paolo Perrotta 36:35 
⟡ Linus Torvalds on Git (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLyobOhtO4) by Linus Torvalds 1:10:14 
⟡ The Worst Programming Language Ever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFBwt1nu2U) by Mark Rendle 1:00:40 
⟡ Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHoYNStQOEc) by Carin Meier 36:00 
⟡ Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers (https://vimeo.com/97329157) by Kevlin Henney 01:02:52 
⟡ 5 WTFs in 6 LOCs (https://vimeo.com/181409251) by Dorothy Wingrove 05:11 
⟡ Programming is Writing is Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3a4HIBDU4) by Felienne Hermans 55:46 
⟡ We're Doing It All Wrong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg) by Paul Phillips 50:42 
⟡ Real Software Engineering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdlBHHimeM) by Glenn Vanderburg 1:07:57 
⟡ Feature Branching Considered Evil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7LeD7VevyI) by Thierry de Pauw 49:38 
⟡ Programming’s Greatest Mistakes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC_ioJQpv4E) by Mark Rendle 55:34 
⟡ Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q) by Dylan Beattie 56:45 

Object-Oriented Programming

⟡ Functional is cool, but do you know OO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiFYPAel-KY) by Sandro Mancuso 54:17 
⟡ Stop Writing Classes (http://pyvideo.org/video/880/stop-writing-classes) by Jack Diederich 27:29 

Functional Programming

⟡ Functional Principles for Object-Oriented Developers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGY9ViIGNU) by Jessica Kerr 51:13 
⟡ Adventures in Functional Programming (https://vimeo.com/45140590) by Jim Weirich 50:34 
⟡ Functional Programming: What? Why? When? (https://vimeo.com/97514630) by Robert C. Martin 58:26 
⟡ Deconstructing Functional Programming (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons) by Gilad Bracha 48:33 
⟡ Living in a Post-Functional World (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/post-functional-scala-clojure-haskell) by Daniel Spiewak 45:46 
⟡ Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNhBQJN44YQ) by Daniel Spiewak 39:24 
⟡ Tangible Functional Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJ8N0giqzw) by Conal Elliott 56:24 
⟡ Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8frGknO8rIg) by Phillip Wadler 1:06:53 
⟡ Don't fear the Monad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8) by Dr. Brian Beckman 1:07:10 
⟡ Functional Programming Design Patterns (https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6120-functional-programming-design-patterns-with-scott-wlaschin) by Scott Wlaschin 1:49:10 
⟡ Domain modelling with the F# type system (http://vimeo.com/97507575) by Scott Wlaschin 1:03:40 
⟡ Propositions as Types (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU) by Philip Wadler 42:42 
⟡ Category Theory for the Working Hacker (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/category-theory-propositions-principle) by Philip Wadler 42:17 
⟡ Types are like the Weather, Type Systems are like Weathermen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl7Jn_kmio) by Matthias Felleisen 1:15:18 
⟡ Functional architecture - The pits of success (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8QG9I1XW0) by Mark Seemann 1:00:09 
⟡ To Clojure and back: Writing and rewriting in Ruby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZ0XAc9Wtc) by Phillip Mendonça-Vieira 33:16 
⟡ All I needed for FP I learned in High School Algebra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epT1xgxSpFU) by Eric Normand 33:05 
⟡ Solving Problems The Clojure Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1DazRK_a0) by Rafal Dittwald 01:02:25 

Software Design

⟡ Architecture the Lost Years (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884) by Robert C. Martin 1:06:38 
⟡ DDD: putting the model to work (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/model-to-work-evans) by Eric Evans 58:48 
⟡ Unleash Your Domain (https://vimeo.com/19428577) by Greg Young 45:20 
⟡ The Art of Destroying Software (https://vimeo.com/108441214) by Greg Young 42:30 
⟡ 8 Lines of Code (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/8-lines-code-refactoring) by Greg Young 54:43 
⟡ Strategic Design (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/strategic-design-evans) by Eric Evans 54:40 
⟡ Reliability, Availability, and Scalability (https://vimeo.com/6222577) by Udi Dahan 1:11:09 
⟡ Implementing Micro Service Architectures (https://vimeo.com/79866979) by Fred George 54:40 
⟡ Immutability Changes Everything (http://vimeo.com/52831373) by Pat Helland 45:19 
⟡ Crafting Wicked Domain Models (https://vimeo.com/43598193) by Jimmy Bogard 1:03:03 
⟡ The Actor Model (http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Hewitt-Meijer-and-Szyperski-The-Actor-Model-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask) by Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski 42:34 
⟡ How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw) by Josh Bloch 1:00:18 
⟡ The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lessons-Learned-Jeremy-Miller) by Jeremy D Miller 1:02:30 
⟡ Microservices (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdBVIX9ifA) by Martin Fowler 26.25 
⟡ Stewardship: The Sobering Parts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0) by Brian Goetz 1:03:30 
⟡ Therapeutic Refactoring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dlF0kcThQ) by Katrina Owen 26:04 
⟡ Evidence-Oriented Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFrE6cgVNY) by Andreas Stefik 41:42 
⟡ The Programming Language Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZ-QSLQIB8) by Andreas Stefik 50:28 
⟡ Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlU1opuCXB0) by Camille Fournier 40:35 
⟡ Kill "Microservices" Before Its Too Late (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UKEPd2ipEk) by Chad Fowler 39:41 
⟡ The Lost Art Of Software Design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSZC3mJRO0) by Simon Brown 46:15 
⟡ Tidy First (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsyvStDuqI) by Kent Beck 46:19 

Web Development

⟡ Crockford on JavaScript (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7664379246A246CB) by Douglas Crockford 10:14:37 
⟡ Go To There and Back Again (http://vimeo.com/78893726) by Douglas Crockford 49:06 
⟡ The Better Parts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4) by Douglas Crockford 01:00:52 
⟡ Introduction to Node.js (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-sc73Y-zQA) by Ryan Dahl 58:19 
⟡ WAT (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) by Gary Bernhardt 4:17 
⟡ The Birth & Death of JavaScript (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript) by Gary Bernhardt 29:22 
⟡ Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA) by Brian Lonsdorf 36:30 
⟡ Community.js (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Yxji-tEfc) by Chris Williams 21:39 
⟡ An End to Negativity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17rkSdkc5TI) by Chris Williams 27:25 
⟡ Is Node.js Better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fa1LZYodQ) by Brian Ford 41:42 
⟡ Life is Terrible: Let's Talk About the Web (http://vimeo.com/111122950) by James Mickens 32:07 
⟡ Critical rendering path - Crash course on web performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkOBnYxqj3k) by Ilya Grigorik 41:10 
⟡ 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source (https://vimeo.com/12529436) by Paul Irish 53:40 
⟡ Om Next (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNs9TG30E8) by David Nolen 46:17 
⟡ ClojureScript for Skeptics  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsffg5xxFQI) by Derek Slager 41:08 

Test-Driven Development

⟡ TDD, where did it all go wrong (http://vimeo.com/68375232) by Ian Cooper 1:00:37 
⟡ Holistic testing (http://vimeo.com/68390508) by Jimmy Bogard 1:00:33 
⟡ Boundaries (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries) by Gary Bernhardt 33:44 
⟡ Is TDD Dead? (https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/) by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
⟡ The Transformation Priority Premise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B93QezwTQpI) by Robert C. Martin 53:43 
⟡ TDD in Tatters (https://vimeo.com/97537026) by Scott Bellware 01:07:53 
⟡ Test-Driven Development - Write better code in less time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwElTL-mdI) by Evan Dorn 30:54 
⟡ The Magic Tricks of Testing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSWYvyc42M) by Sandi Metz 32:22 
⟡ How To Stop Hating Your Tests (https://vimeo.com/145917204) by Justin Searls 43:39 
⟡ Why You Don't Get Mock Objects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9FOchgTtLM) by Gregory Moeck 44:42 
⟡ The Clean Code Talks - Unit Testing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhu57pih5w) by Misko Hevery 32:07 
⟡ TDD and Software Design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty3p5VDcoOI) by JB Rainsberger and Sandro Mancuso 01:28:50 
⟡ Integrated Tests Are a Scam (https://vimeo.com/80533536) by JB Rainsberger 01:04:35 
⟡ Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases (https://vimeo.com/289852238) by Kevlin Henney 01:04:23 
⟡ Does TDD Really Lead to Good Design? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFVA4Spcgg) by Sandro Mancuso 57:59 
⟡ TDD For Those Who Don't Need It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6oP24CSdUg) by Chew Choon Keat 13:42 

Methodologies

⟡ The Land that Scrum Forgot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk) by Robert C. Martin 45:41 
⟡ Demanding Professionalism in Software Development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0O1VVqRSK0) by Robert C. Martin 45:03 
⟡ Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1 (https://vimeo.com/85490944) by Spotify Training & Development 13:12 
⟡ Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 2 (http://vimeo.com/94950270) by Spotify Training & Development 13:27 
⟡ Adopting Continuous Delivery (http://vimeo.com/68320415) by Jez Humble 47:22 
⟡ The Death of Agile (http://www.thoughtworks.com/talks/the-death-of-agile) by Dave Thomas 47:47 
⟡ Why Agile Works (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSiBlLafNY) by Alistair Cockburn 53:03 
⟡ Implementing Programmer Anarchy (https://vimeo.com/79866978) by Fred George 54:55 
⟡ Moving Past the Scaling Myth (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/scalability-variant-structuring#) by Michael Feathers 52:02 
⟡ It Is Not About Software Anymore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iIRG9LA54) by Mary Poppendieck 01:06:38 
⟡ 7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSes_PexXcA) by JB Rainsberger 00:07:42 
⟡ Explaining Team Flow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhpQKA9XYcE) by Michel Grootjans 14:30 

Computer History

⟡ A Brief History of Graphics (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOQZmjD6P2HlOoEVKOPaCFvLnjP865X1f) by Stuart Brown 46:00 
⟡ The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY45YE7ggng) by Brian Troutwine 48:36 
⟡ The History (and the Future) of Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdI7Ukf-Bf4) by Grady Booch 01:09:27 
⟡ The Future of Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc) by Robert C. Martin 01:18:20 
⟡ 1968 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjgvffBlWAg) by Kevlin Henney 56:44 
⟡ DOOM’s Development: A Year of Madness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBU34NZhW7I) by John Romero 44:12 

Databases

⟡ Deconstructing the Database (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU) by Rich Hickey 1:06:23 
⟡ Things Every Developer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Database Indexing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HubezKbFL7E) by Kai Sassnowski 41:49 

Security

⟡ Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k) by James Mickens 51:21 

Testing

⟡ Acceptance Testing For Continuous Delivery (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Y454DTRtg) by Dave Farley 01:02:34 

Cognitive Development

⟡ A Lecture on Creativity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g) by John Cleese 36:59 
⟡ The Meaning of Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzcCWEb-tyk) by Derek Sivers 18:54 
⟡ Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind (https://vimeo.com/97415346) by Cory House 59:12 
⟡ Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zc4DSTRGeM) by Brandon Hays 35:26 
⟡ Stop Treading Water - Learning to Learn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8KcCU-p8QA) by Edward Kmett 40:58 
⟡ The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo) by Randy Pausch 1:16:26 
⟡ Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc) by Steve Jobs 15:04 
⟡ Hammock Driven Development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc) by Rich Hickey 39:48 
⟡ Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc) by RSA Animate 10:47 
⟡ Ideology (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology) by Gary Bernhardt 21:22 

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