What follows is a list of talks I’ve watched or listened to over the years that I’ve gotten a lot of use or enjoyment out of. Expect this page to be updated somewhat regularly as I discover new talks and am reminded of old ones.

Programming Languages and Libraries

Author	Talk
Adam Chlipala	Ur/Web
Bryan Cantrill	The Summer of Rust
Daniel Patterson	Typed Routing with Continuations
David Beazley	Die Threads
David Beazley	Discovering Python
David Beazley	Python Concurrency From the Ground Up
David Beazley	Topics of Interest (Python Asyncio)
Markus Winand	Modern SQL
Matthew Flatt	Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme: An Experience Report
Raymond Hettinger	Super considered super!
Rob Simmons	Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong
Robby Findler	Racket: A Programming-Language Programming Language
Simon Peyton Jones	Adventures With Types in Haskell
Simon Peyton Jones	Haskell is Useless
Zach Smith	Nim - A New Option for Optimizing Inner Loops

Software Engineering

Author	Talk
Avi Bryant	Abstract Algebra and Distributed Data Processing
Bryan Cantrill	Platform as a Reflection of Values: Joyent, Node.js, and Beyond
Bryan Cantrill	Principles of Technology Leadership
Bryan Cantrill	Zebras All the Way Down
Casey Muratori	Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces
Gary Bernhardt	Boundaries
Jon Moore	Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right
Martin Thompson	Designing for Performance
Sandi Metz	Polly Want a Message
Zach Tellman	Everything Will Flow
engineerguy	Why the other line is likely to move faster

Consulting/Business

Author	Talk
Allen Holub	#NoEstimates
David Heinemeier Hansson	Startup School 2008
Michael Dearing	Executive Communication
Mike Monteiro	Fuck You, Pay Me

Funny

Author	Talk
Gary Bernhardt	A Whole New World
Gary Bernhardt	Wat

Misc

Author	Talk
Robert Lustig	Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Randy Pausch	Achieving Your Childhood Dreams