Software Engineering & Languages

Software (other)

Software (other) sits within Software Engineering & Languages. Read software through the choices behind its abstractions, implementations, and everyday practice. This selection contains 36 catalog videos from 31 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include excel, programmer humor, satire, sketch, !!con and code comments. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, demo, explainer, music, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Email Hates the Living”, listed under m, is cataloged as talk. A lightning-style conference talk by Ricardo Signes about the horrors of email: its protocols, formats and decades of accumulated quirks. It is delivered with a humorous horror theme to show why handling…

“The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile”, listed under Computerphile, is cataloged as explainer. Tom Scott explains for Computerphile why handling time and timezones in code is so hard, walking through a simple web app that computes how long ago something happened. It covers the quirks…