I love watching interesting talks on various subjects. I also love making talks and presenting in front of people.

I once made TEDx talk on mindfulness. I only have a transcript of it here. I hope to give more talks of my own soon.

I mark talks that I found interesting here.

Favorite

• ​Growing a Language - Guy Steele - Transcript.

• ​Malte Ubl - Designing very large JavaScript applications (2018) - Transcript.

• ​John Sundell - Sharing (2018)​

• ​Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle (2012)​

• ​Drupal and the secret of my success | Steve Francia​

• ​Apple WWDC 1997 Closing Keynote - Steve Jobs Fireside Chat​

• ​Simplicity Matters - Rich Hickey (2012)​

• ​MVC is Not Your Problem - Joachim Kurz (2018)​

• ​10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl (2018)​

• ​Make Data Structures" by Richard Feldman (2018)​

Interesting

• ​How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw​

• ​A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS - Aditya Siram (2017)​

Notes

• Giving a talk, it is often best to start with a Why?

Links

• ​How to prepare a talk​

• ​Ask HN: What is your favorite tech talk? (2018)​

• ​Awesome conference practices​

• ​Awesome speaking​

• ​Your IDE as a presentation tool​

• ​Really like this way of using a textual overview to present the talk​

• ​List of talks that are worth watching​

• ​Tech talks that'll change how you think (2019)​

• ​Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 1: Motivation (2018)​

• ​Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How (2019)​

• ​CodeTalks - Like Youtube, but for developers.

• ​Speaking at conferences 101​

• ​Ask HN: What are some resources to improve speaking skills? (2019)​

• ​Tips for public speaking​

• ​How to quickly create a talk from scratch​

• ​Speaking At Technical Conferences​