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▶  Top 10 Wackiest x86/64 Assembly Language Instructions — Yet again, a lot of things you probably don’t need to know, but I enjoyed the presentation style here.

▶  Building Your First AWS Lambda Function in VS Code — A tight tutorial screencast that clocks in at under 10 minutes.

▶  Java's Quirks and Wrong (?) Defaults with Brian Goetz — An interesting chat with one of the leading figures in the Java world about what Java got ‘wrong’ but why it still works well that way.

▶  A Deep Dive Into AWS Lambda Security and Function Isolation — A look at what happens behind the scenes at AWS to ensure that serverless functions are secure and that all of the millions of functions they run aren’t tripping over each other.

▶  Learning to Code and Write Games for the Nintendo Game Boy — Hardly the most modern game platform to build for but the restrictive environment can be fun if you want to play with C or Z80 a bit.

▶  Working with WebSockets on AWS — A 30 minute screencast focusing on using API Gateway as a WebSocket endpoint to talk with a serverless Lambda function.

▶  The Pragmatic Programmer, 20 Years Later — Dave Thomas (of The Pragmatic Programmer and Pragmatic Bookshelf fame) reflects on the development of a new edition 20 years on from the original.

▶  What Comes After Open Source? — The creator of The Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative reflects on what ‘open source’ has come to mean and why it might be time to move forward with a new paradigm.

▶  A Look 'Behind the Code' of the Konami Code in Contra — In the NES version of the 80s game Contra you could use the famous ‘Konami code’ (a combination of directional and button presses) to get extra lives. Here’s how it was implemented under the hood.

▶  SaaS Deep Dive: Designing and Building Multi-Tenant Solutions — A practical and accessible talk on some approaches to setting up multi-tenancy in a typical SaaS app.

▶  A Chat with Brian Kernighan of Unix, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Fame — Lex Fridman, a well known AI researcher, spent well over an hour chatting with Brian Kernighan, the even better known computer scientist! Brian touches on the early days of Unix, what programming means to him, what he thinks about JavaScript, and a lot more. There’s a lot to enjoy here...

▶  A Professor Tries to Solve 240 Comp Sci Exam Problems in 4 Hours — An almost four hour long video where a CS professor attempts to solve every exam problem from the GATE theory exams (a set of exams administered in India) and explains his thinking along the way.

▶  The Worst Typo I Ever Made — Popular tech YouTuber Tom Scott shares his ‘stomach dropping’ story of how a typo wiped out an entire database of content. We’ve all been there are some time or another, but hopefully we all learn from the experience too 😁

▶  Making Music with Haskell From Scratch — This is one of those fun things to watch. A 49 minute livestream.

▶  Remote Development with Visual Studio Code — I’ve only recently started to play with VS Code’s remote editing and development features but have been very impressed. If it’s all new to you, this talk rounds up the general concepts.

▶  A Practical-ish Introduction to Data Science — This is pretty high level but extremely accessible and well worth the time if the terms ‘data science’ and ‘machine learning’ leave you scratching your head half the time.

▶  The Top 10 Videos from RedisConf Takeaway — RedisConf Takeaway was a remote version of the annual Redis conference that took place recently and Redis Labs has shared some of the talks covering topics like how Redis 6.0’s security features work, memory optimization, and how to get started with Redis.

▶  13 Talks from Failover Conf 2020 — Failover Conf was a virtual conference all about reliability and resilience engineering. Talks cover serverless, chaos engineering, devops, and improving a distributed system after a major incident.