JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford·2009·Google Tech Talks·1 hr 30 minCrockford's walkthrough of the language — its good parts, its bad parts, and the historical accidents that produced both.
Lexical Scanning in Go
Rob Pike·2011·Google Tech TalksRob Pike walks through the lexer he built for Go's text/template package — a small masterclass in using state functions and channels to write a parser that reads like prose.
In The Loop
Jake Archibald·2018·JSConfAsiaJake Archibald walks through the browser event loop — tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, and the surprising ways the runtime interleaves your work with rendering.
What the Heck is the Event Loop Anyway?
Philip Roberts·2014·JSConfEUA visual, almost-cartoon walkthrough of how JavaScript actually schedules work — and the talk that taught a generation of frontend devs how their runtime really behaves.
How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Joshua Bloch·2007·Google Tech TalksThe Java Collections architect distills decades of API design into a tight set of heuristics. Still the canonical reference on the subject.
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
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Linus Torvalds·2007·Google Tech TalksLinus visits Google in 2007 to explain — bluntly — why distributed version control is the right model, why CVS and Subversion are not, and how git's data model falls out of that.
Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
Rich Harris·2023·Svelte Society NYCHarris revisits the SPA-vs-MPA argument through the lens of edge runtimes — and pushes back on the idea that SSR-everywhere is a victory for users.