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If you found this essay interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out this super entertaining talk "Plain Text"[0] from NDC 2022 by Dylan Beattie. Rabbit hole warning: This video caused me to lose an entire Sunday watching Dylan's talks on YouTube, which are uniformly awesome.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo

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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] https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U

Oh wow. The Amstrad 6128 was my first machine (1985). Looking forward to watching this!

Another good talk! I also really loved "Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things"[0] which has one of the best audience participation gimmicks I have ever seen in a talk.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q

This is exactly what I came here to post, too. I believe he's unusually prolific because he's part of the organisation of these conferences - but his delivery pays off regardless. I actually sent exactly the same video to a colleague this a few days ago.

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