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1 Martin Thompson busting myths about hardware and explaining why it's important to know. Mechanical sympathy makes you better, because you know how the code ac

1 Martin Thompson busting myths about hardware and explaining why it's important to know. Mechanical sympathy makes you better, because you know how the code actually runs on the machine and interacts with different layers of memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1EKLQ2Wmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC1EKLQ2Wmg 2 Matt Godbolt (the man behind GCC explorer) - Emulating a 6502 system in Javascript Great talk about BBC micro and much more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuRq-Wmw5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuRq-Wmw5o 3 Matt Adereth - Clojure/typing History of keyboards and a custom keyboard written in Clojure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4 I like the 3 for their content and how each speaker presented the background and their project/hack/ideas. Highly recommend

voltagex_ 10y ago
Your second link reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv_INgaLq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv_INgaLq8 (which definitely builds on some of Matt's work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE - C++17 for the Commodore 64. Probable language warnings for my other suggestions: * Rescuing Prince of Persia from the Sands of Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8 (was this talk ever given elsewhere?) * And You Shall Know Me By My Trail of Documentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgHdHdUDaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgHdHdUDaA * The History and Evolution of Computer Viruses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2g9lgYrYJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2g9lgYrYJM