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Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what (if anything) is taking strangeloops’ place?
Hopefully nothing. I’ve been to three and it’s a huge self congratulatory waste of time for everybody. Like most software conferences
Sturgeon's Law is fractal, I have also been to three and don't regret it. Your frame of mind shapes an experience as much as the actual experience.
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#33Wish Jon Blow would get back out there! He was asked on a recent stream and said he has turned down invites while trying to get Jai pushed out the door.
Jai has been in development for a decade. I would appreciate if it were finally open-sourced.
Considering the fact that Jon despises open-source you might be waiting a long time.
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#34Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.
I just checked and my PyCon keynote got 6,200 - pretty happy with that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-KQZZarpc
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#35I don’t like watching videos (or rather can’t watch at night, but can read). To date I haven’t found an AI that can produce a good article from a video. No, not just transcribe the video but actually produce a quality article with images and stuff from the video. Like a human who is instructed as “watch this video and produce a very high quality article that talks about the things talked about in the video”.
Has anyone has any luck with this?
It would be awesome if I can give this link to AI that will produce a PDF, each video being a chapter in the PDF.
Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024
#36Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.
I just checked and my PyCon keynote got 6,200 - pretty happy with that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-KQZZarpc
I consider you a pretty big name in our little corner of the world, so that number seemed pretty low to me! Expected 5 figures at least!!
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#37I got to see some of these in person, though at different conferences. If you're at all interested in Java, the talks by Venkat Subramaniam and Nicolai Parlog are worth a watch.
> If you're at all interested in Java
Is that even a thing in 2025? I thought the consensus was that Kotlin has a strictly better syntax than Java.
(I'm not even a Kotlin fan. I was pretty sad when Kotlin started taking Scala's market share...)
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#38I don’t like watching videos (or rather can’t watch at night, but can read). To date I haven’t found an AI that can produce a good article from a video. No, not just transcribe the video but actually produce a quality article with images and stuff from the video. Like a human who is instructed as “watch this video and produce a very high quality article that talks about the things talked about in the video”. Has anyo…
> would be awesome if I can give this link to AI that will produce a PDF, each video being a chapter in the PDF
If you've got is slides+YouTube, then https://notebooklm.google [0] might work wonderfully well. It does for me. Though, it more Q&A than an article with illustration.
[0] https://illuminate.google.com is its limited/audio-only alternative.
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#40I know these are conferences that they track, but I happen to know the Scott's talk from FOSDEM titled "So You Think You Know Git?" is at 1.3m million views: