The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

Name: The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
Uploaded: 2020-02-26T14:51:50Z
Duration: 1 h 49 s
Channel: NDC Conferences
Description: Dylan Beattie's NDC conference talk is a story-driven tour of code as a creative and expressive medium. It touches on quines, live-coded music in Sonic Pi, and his joke language Rockstar, and argues that programming can be art. HN calls it one of the most captivating tech talks around, praised for its storytelling, its Sonic Pi demo and its ending.

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Dylan Beattie's NDC conference talk is a story-driven tour of code as a creative and expressive medium. It touches on quines, live-coded music in Sonic Pi, and his joke language Rockstar, and argues that programming can be art.

HN calls it one of the most captivating tech talks around, praised for its storytelling, its Sonic Pi demo and its ending.

“one of the most captivating tech talks I've ever seen”

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25 comments from Hacker News

@doodpants2022 · in “An uroboros program with 100 programming languages”

This quine is discussed (among other topics) in The Art of Code[0], one of the most captivating tech talks I've ever seen. [0]▶ this video

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@david_allison2022 · in “Overtone is live programmable music and visualization”

One of my favourite talks has a demonstration of FizzBuzz in Sonic Pi. It still blows me away ▶ this video - whole talk is worth a watch ▶ this video - timestamp

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@hans0l0742020 · in “Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)”

I watched this video recently: ▶ this 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.

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@fpsvogel2025 · in “Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook”

Reminds of Rockstar[1] and The Art of Code[2], a great talk by its creator. 1: link 2: ▶ this video

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@flobosg2025 · in “Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)”

I still remember his “The Art of Code” talk, highly recommended: ▶ this video

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@WaffleIronMaker2023 · in “Unicode is harder than you think”

I also really enjoy Dylan Beattie's work. For those with some spare time, who might like to see a true "rockstar" programmer, you may like "The Art of Code"[0]. [0] ▶ this video

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@fagnerbrack2022 · in “The Art of Code”