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The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie's NDC London talk on code written for art, fun and curiosity rather than utility. It includes quines, live music programming with Sonic Pi, and a memorable closing.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN regularly names it among the best programming talks ever, praising the storytelling, the demos and the ending.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- NDC Conferences
- Topic
- creative coding
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I watched this video recently: [VIDEO] - and it's one of the best programming related ones I've seen in recent times. Really well presented as well - and he talks about various Quines - I won't spoil it for anyone.
hans0l074 on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)For me, it was Art of Code by Dylan Beattie, but mostly because that talk has the best ending[0] I have seen. Also, introduced to me a side of programming that I instinctively knew existed but never sought out. [0]: [VIDEO]
akritrime on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?One of my favourite talks has a demonstration of FizzBuzz in Sonic Pi. It still blows me away [VIDEO] - whole talk is worth a watch [VIDEO] - timestamp
david_allison on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Overtone is live programmable music and visualization
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