TechYaks

The Best Software Tech Talks Ever, Ranked By Techyaks Score

• You Suck at Excel

  Fog Creek 2015 · Joel Spolsky
  54 minutes · 230,026 views · 3,395 likes

• Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

  USENIX LISA 2011 · Bryan M. Cantrill
  1 hour 4 minutes · 146,976 views · 1,639 likes

• 10 Things I Regret About Node.js

  JSConf EU 2018 · Ryan Dahl
  26 minutes · 219,934 views

• Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

  HOPE 2009 ·
  1 hour 1 minute · 93,057 views · 1,629 likes

• Hammock Driven Development

  ClojureConj 2010 · Rich Hickey
  39 minutes · 156,929 views

• Growing a Language

  ACM OOPSLA 1998 · Guy Steele
  53 minutes · 102,600 views · 1,738 likes

• Spec-ulation Keynote

  ClojureConj 2016 · Rich Hickey
  1 hour 16 minutes · 69,056 views · 834 likes

• How SQL Database Engines Work

  OpenSQLCamp 2008 · Dr. Richard Hipp
  44 minutes · 55,725 views · 527 likes

• Linus Torvalds on git

  Google · Linus Torvalds
  1 hour 10 minutes · 2,071,321 views · 12,983 likes

• Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code

  PyCon 2015 · Raymond Hettinger
  52 minutes · 256,847 views · 4,073 likes

• Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

  SHARE 2016 · Connor Krukosky
  45 minutes · 2,194,867 views · 18,747 likes

• A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect (aka The Mother of All Demos)

  FJCC 1968 · Douglas Engelbart
  1 hour 40 minutes · 738,131 views · 7,652 likes

• What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services

  GOTO 2016 · Matt Ranney
  46 minutes · 177,804 views · 1,798 likes

• What Would You Do With Your Own Google?

  OSCON Data 2011 · Steve Yegge
  15 minutes · 61,044 views · 911 likes

• Y Not -- Adventures in Functional Programming

  Ruby Conference 2012 · Jim Weirich
  53 minutes · 46,909 views · 701 likes

• Introducing React Native

  React.js Conf 2015 · Tom Occhino
  31 minutes · 269,775 views · 2,236 likes

• Data-Oriented Design and C++

  CppCon 2014 · Mike Acton
  1 hour 27 minutes · 246,896 views · 2,877 likes

• Computer Heuristics Lecture

  Richard Feynman
  1 hour 15 minutes · 537,928 views · 5,482 likes

• Using Rust For Game Development

  Rust Conf 2018 · Catherine West
  42 minutes · 21,414 views · 663 likes

• Keynote: Simplicity Matters

  RailsConf 2012 · Rich Hickey
  36 minutes · 132,258 views · 1,974 likes

• Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure

  ClojureConj 2017 · Rich Hickey
  1 hour 14 minutes · 69,357 views · 1,257 likes

• I made a cell phone! (DON'T TELL THE FCC KTHX!)

  !!Con 2015 · Kevin Lynagh
  12 minutes · 20,729 views · 394 likes

• Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity

  Recurse Center · Andrew Kelley
  54 minutes · 19,398 views · 318 likes

• The Future of Programming

  DBX 2011 · Bret Victor
  32 minutes · 154,729 views · 3,309 likes

• The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

  DEMO 2014 · Alan Kay
  43 minutes · 37,037 views

• Maybe Not

  Clojure Conj 2018 · Rich Hickey
  1 hour 3 minutes · 35,497 views · 781 likes

• Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple

  MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series 1992 · Steve Jobs
  1 hour 12 minutes · 166,740 views · 3,357 likes

• Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy

  PyCon US 2016 · Larry Hastings
  32 minutes · 36,440 views · 448 likes

• Power of Simplicity

  SAP 2015 · Alan Kay
  51 minutes · 69,540 views · 941 likes

• Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?

  Qualcomm 2014 · Alan Kay
  1 hour 42 minutes · 51,169 views · 547 likes

• The History of Unix,

  Sydney Tech Week 2018 · Rob Pike
  1 hour · 42,263 views · 974 likes

• Agile is Dead

  GOTO 2015 · Dave Thomas
  40 minutes · 530,712 views · 6,226 likes

• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

  Google Tech Talks 2007 · Joshua Block
  1 hour · 362,523 views · 2,556 likes

• Inventing on Principle

  CUSEC 2012 · Bret Victor
  54 minutes · 158,172 views · 3,162 likes

• Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation

  Strange Loop 2014 · Will Wilson
  40 minutes · 15,364 views · 234 likes

• Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer Systems

  Bay Learn 2015 · Jeff Dean
  44 minutes · 39,622 views · 357 likes

• Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay

  Code Mesh 2016 · Joe Armstrong, Alan Kay
  1 hour 16 minutes · 30,691 views · 486 likes

• The Mess We're In

  Strange Loop · Joe Armstrong
  45 minutes · 141,167 views · 2,117 likes

• John Carmack's Keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4

  Quakecon 2013 · John Carmack
  30 minutes · 117,162 views · 998 likes

• Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

  PyCon US 2013 · Mirabai Knight
  34 minutes · 65,881 views · 718 likes

• The coming war on general computation

  28c3 2011 · Cory Doctorow
  54 minutes · 229,424 views · 3,654 likes

• Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB

  CppCon 2015 · Greg Law
  14 minutes · 117,741 views · 1,800 likes

• Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014

  Oculus Connect 2014 · John Carmack
  1 hour 36 minutes · 75,168 views · 796 likes

• Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

  Black Hat 2017 · Christopher Domas
  44 minutes · 215,406 views · 6,394 likes

• Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

  YUI Theater 2011 · Douglas Crockford
  1 hour 42 minutes · 212,826 views · 1,457 likes

• Om Next

  EuroClojure 2015 · David Nolen
  46 minutes · 40,785 views

• HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?!

  !!Con 2017 · Kevin Chen
  11 minutes · 98,028 views · 1,673 likes

• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

  Talks at Google · Anand Giridharadas
  1 hour · 34,675 views · 742 likes

• The computer revolution hasnt happened yet

  OOPSLA 1997 · Alan Kay
  1 hour 4 minutes · 54,417 views · 764 likes

• Lexical Scanning in Go

  GoogleFOSSSydney 2011 · Rob Pike
  51 minutes · 78,906 views · 888 likes