One of the meta values of TigerBeetle is simplicity. Simplicity is hard, but it gets you all the nice things — performance, correctness, maintainability. In this talk, we'll uncover fundamental simplicity in how software is built, tested, documented, and…

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Sometimes you hear about the amazing escapades of systems programmers who delve into the depths of a niche subject and save the day by fixing impossible bugs and increasing performance by orders of magnitude. These are all great adventures, but usually those…

Taha Torabpour's demo at BSC 2025 of the new immediate mode GUI library he's been working on at AnyDesk.

Taha's links:
- https://x.com/TahaTorabpour
- https://lotusspring.substack.com/

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com
- https://x.com/BetterSoftwareC…

Distributed protocols are the foundation of scalable and reliable systems — yet we often get lost in implementation details instead of grounding our designs in systems thinking. This talk offers a different path: we’ll explore how a small set of simple, well…

Sam H. Smith's talk at BSC 2025 about implementing AST-free compilers and optimizing with sea of nodes.

Sam's links:
- https://x.com/SamHSmith2
- https://samhsmith.com/serenum

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com
- https://x.com/BetterSoftwareC…

A historical argument for creating a stable instruction set architecture (ISA) for entire system-on-a-chip (SoC) packages.

Please note that although it's never mentioned in the audio there was a typo in the slide deck that makes the situation even more ludicrous…

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Jonathan Blow (born 1971) is an American video game designer and programmer, who is best known as the creator of the independent video games Braid (2008) and The Witness (2016), both of which were released to critical acclaim.

In September 2014, Blow began…

My first talk on designing a programming language for games.
Given September 17, 2014.

An implementation is being built and there have been many demos. See the full playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1kgKJXD3PkyxO.

Jonathan Blow, the game designer of The Witness and Braid, talks about work-life balance and the consequences of not working hard.
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Building correct distributed systems takes thinking outside the box, and the fastest way to do that is to think inside a different box. One different box is "formal methods", the discipline of mathematically verifying software and systems. Formal methods…

Odin doesn't have any fancy meta programming, but that doesn't stop me from generating Odin source files. Learn more about Odin in my acclaimed eBook: https://odinbook.com/

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Chapters:
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:01:55 - HTML Templates in C
- 00:06:47 - Introducing Jai
- 00:12:27 - Security conserns
- 00:13:38 - Turning Jai into Scripting Language…

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Bill Hall's talk at BSC 2025 about mathematics as part of the programmer's toolbox.

Bill's links:
- https://bsc2025.gingerbill.org/
- https://gingerbill.org/
- https://x.com/TheGingerBill
- https://jangafx.com/

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com/…

It's been a while since the last demo on this channel, but since then I did a demo at a conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWv_vUgbmug

Unfortunately, YouTube won't let me add it to the channel!

After this Relative Pointers stream, there was a…

Vjekoslav Krajačić's talk at BSC 2025 on creating his next-generation file explorer: File Pilot.

Vjekoslav's links:
- https://filepilot.tech
- https://x.com/vkrajacic
- https://discord.com/invite/PjH9zYadTg

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com…

Andrew Reece's talk at BSC 2025 about useful patterns in bits, bytes and code, and how he arrived at the Xar data structure.

Andrew's links:
- https://azmr.uk/bsc25
- https://x.com/azmreece
- https://x.com/whitebox_sys
- https://whitebox.systems

BSC links:…