Titus Winters talks about maintaining and refactoring large C++ code bases (i.e. code bodies that require multi-step refactoring). He describes how “higher-level” language features effectively make refactoring harder (e.g. functions, classes, templates, concepts).
Tag: Video
Wrestling with the Python
Sometimes Python makes some useful things unnecessarily complex for weird and inconsistent reason … e.g. “code blocks.”
Naïvité FTW
Daniele Procida explores how a certain naivety (being unsophisticated) can lead to beautiful and useful things.
Update 2021-08-15: the original video from DjangoCon 2018 is not available any more. It seems Daniele gave a similar talk at EuroPython 2018 also.
ZIO Pipeline
This is an awesome talk for nerding out on ZFS interna. ?
Threads on async
If you were to design a threading library today how would it look like? David Beazley manages to demonstrate a lot of edge cases in tiny examples … while live-coding! ?
systemd from BSD
A remarkably sober analysis of what problem systemd solves for Linux … at a BSD conference of all places. ?
Why hardware + software is cheaper than hardware alone
Thomas Dullien of Google’s Project Zero on why security suffers because it’s actually cheaper to build more complex things (i.e. ship some piece of hardware with a general purpose processor and define features in software instead of using a purpose-built chip).
Lego Love
An interesting talk about Lego CAD with some glimpses into “after market” Lego. 😀
Strings at Facebook
It’s great to see how the simplest things we take for granted are engineered and improved. Case in point: Facebook’s std::string replacement.
Exciting Unlimited Register Machines
A brief and entertaining talk by an obviously excited presenter. 🙂 It goes into the same directions as Jim Weirich’s talk about the Y combinator.