
The Greatest Software Engineers of All Time
10/2/2025
Twitch https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Discord https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagen https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv ### LINKS Code Rabbit: Review your code, find bugs and ship FASTER! Check it out here: https://www.coderabbit.ai/ - Use promo code TOPSHELF ! Sentry: Application performance monitoring for developers & software teams to see errors clearer, solve issues faster & continue learning continuously. Use code topshelf for $100 off (3 months of team plan, or 150k total free errors). Try it out here: https://sentry.io/welcome/?utm_source=topshelf&code=topshelf timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - History Of Programming 04:08 - Charles Babbage 15:51 - Ada Lovelace 26:45 - John von Neumann 36:52 - Alan Turing 46:58 - Grace Hopper 1:00:21 - Q&A

Creator of Ghostty talks Zig over Go
12/1/2025
Thanks to the sponsor for today's video - Graphite! Check out stacked PRs, code review tools and more: http://gt.dev/topshelf 0:00 - Intro 0:52 - CTO to Open Source 7:00 - Graphite Ad 8:10 - Future Of Ghostty 21:30 - How It Started 25:29 - Zig vs Rust 29:53 - Go’s Place In The Stack 34:28 - Managing Open Source 42:42 - Motivation 45:49 - AI 52:21 - Live Q&A Twitch https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Discord https://discord.gg/ThePrimeagen This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. ### LINKS -- Mitchell Hashimoto | https://x.com/mitchellh -- TJ DeVries | https://x.com/teej_dv?lang=en Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen

Jose Valim: Creator of Elixir
17/12/2024
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Ryan Dahl: Creator of Node & Deno talks Deno 2.0
12/11/2024 | 1h 30min
Today we had Ryan Dahl on the podcast and talk about the history of Node, Deno and so much more. Really hope you enjoy this talk with him! Thanks everyone. Big thanks to the sponsor of today's episode: Code Rabbit https://coderabbit.ai/.

Yacine: How a Rejected Side Project Turned into a Job At X
30/10/2024 | 1h 20min
We talk about how to psyop yourself into loving work, working out and respecting your users. I hope you enjoy the episode! The Yapper Himself: https://x.com/yacineMTB



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