Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
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Linus Torvalds·2007·Google Tech Talks·1 hr 10 minLinus 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.
The Mind Behind Linux
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.
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.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford·2009·Google Tech TalksCrockford's walkthrough of the language — its good parts, its bad parts, and the historical accidents that produced both.
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.
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.
The Mother of All Demos
Douglas Engelbart·1968·Fall Joint Computer ConferenceDoug Engelbart's 1968 demo that introduced hypertext, the mouse, video conferencing, real-time collaborative editing — most of what you'd recognize as a personal computer.