Crafting quality that endures
Karri Saarinen·2025·Figma Config·30 minThe Linear CEO on why software quality is something a company has to value out loud — and how Linear's process keeps the bar from drifting as it scales.
The Wet Codebase
Dan Abramov·2019·DeconstructAbramov on what DRY actually costs once you've lived with a too-clever abstraction — and why writing the same code twice is sometimes the right answer.
All Questions Answered
Donald Knuth·2011·StanfordDon Knuth takes unscreened audience questions for an hour — on Wikipedia, on what's next in CS, on his most memorable mistakes, on how to write programs you can still read in twenty years.
You and Your Research
Richard Hamming·1986·Bell LabsRichard Hamming's 1986 lecture on how to do truly important work — courage, focus, the company you keep, and what separates a great career from a competent one.
Design in Practice
Rich Hickey·2023·Clojure ConjAfter years of talking about design in the abstract, Hickey demystifies the actual practice — the concrete moves and habits that turn 'design' from a noun into a verb.
Platform as a Reflection of Values
Bryan Cantrill·2017·Node SummitWhy every platform — language, OS, runtime — encodes a particular ordering of competing virtues, and why a good fit is really an alignment of values.
The Future of Programming
"Uncle" Bob Martin·2016·Expert TalksBob Martin walks through 60 years of programming history and argues that almost nothing has actually changed.