Videos that give you a new perspective. Here you'll find videos that range all the way from bite-sized snacks to a multi-hour deep dives into the strangest rabbit holes you never even knew you cared about.
1. Content of posts
All top-level posts should be a link to a video essay that isn't hosted behind a paywall. Any topic is welcome, provided it doesn't break one of the other rules. What's a video essay? See below.
2. Title format
Each post title should include the title of the video, its creator, and its duration in the format [MM:SS] or [HH:MM:SS].
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"Video essay" is loose genre classification for a type of video that makes an argument or critique, or explains a point of view, usually from a single creator's perspective. They can be short or long, casual or formal, modest or theatrical, and cover any topic.
Video essays are slightly different from documentaries, media reviews, and video journalism, but the lines are blurry, and videos that aren't neatly classifiable are still welcome.
Let me know about any other communities that might fit in this list!
TL;DW (yet, saved to my watch later list), but the overwhelming majority of production code is defensive. It's code to protect against user error, malicious users, dirty upstream data, and deliver graceful error states, and exception handling. If we could trust users and upstream dependencies, all of us would be writing very simple code.
Source: SWE for over 25 years in medical, finance, and national security.
You hit the nail on the head for the first parts of the video, as they cover how quickly code is forced to grow from what you describe. It's some of the later parts and the highlighting of research that caught my attention (and may for you as well).
What's great is it's divided into chapters, and there's a pinned comment with the chapter timestamps, to skip into what may be more salient parts to check out.
Also I guess today I'm in the mindset to teach myself some new things, so I've also copied them over here for convenience:
for anyone wondering
I copied and special pasted the pinned comment to LibreOffice Writer, saved it as an .odt, then used Pandoc to convert that to markdown for here. There's probably a simpler method like a markdown editor that could do special paste into markdown formatting or something, but I didn't feel like looking for it.
Thank you kind for putting the chapters here!