All Questions Answered
Donald Knuth·2011·Stanford·1 hr 15 minDon 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.
Crafting quality that endures
Karri Saarinen·2025·Figma ConfigThe 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 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.
Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
Bryan Cantrill·2016·MonktoberfestCantrill on how the craft is actually transmitted — stories, mentors, war anecdotes — and what gets lost when we pretend software is purely a written discipline.
The Mind Behind Linux
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Linus Torvalds·2016·TEDAn unusually candid TED conversation in which Torvalds describes himself as an engineer, not a visionary, and explains the temperament behind Linux and Git.
The Future of Programming
Bret Victor·2013·Dropbox DBXBret Victor, in costume as a 1973 researcher, surveys the ideas the field once had — and the ones we quietly stopped pursuing.
Real Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg·2010·Lone Star Ruby ConfA historical look at what 'software engineering' was originally proposed to mean — and why what we practice today is barely related.