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The Zen of Python - Read by the People Who Built Python

Written by Tim Peters in the late 1990s, the Zen of Python is a playful but profound set of guiding principles that shaped the way Python is written and understood. It captures the philosophy behin...

2,354 views • 124 likes • 4 comments • April 30, 2026

The creator of Apache Storm spent 10 years building this new programming paradigm

Meet Nathan Marz — the engineer who quietly shaped how the modern internet handles data at scale. He created Apache Storm, one of the world's most widely used real-time stream processors, wrote the...

2,228 views • 71 likes • 1 comments • April 29, 2026

C++: The Documentary TRAILER│COMING JUNE 4th

In 1979, Bjarne Stroustrup arrived at Bell Labs. What started as a small personal experiment became one of the world's most used, most controversial, and most powerful languages. The is the trail...

52 views • 6 likes • 2 comments • April 29, 2026

Paul Graham, Lisp, and Clojure

A lot of the early Clojure community will tell you their entry point wasn't a framework or a job requirement. It was an essay they read from Paul Graham that made them feel like they were missing s...

3,165 views • 86 likes • 3 comments • April 23, 2026

Moving to Lisp from C++ felt like freedom

Rich Hickey's love of Lisp inspired him to create Clojure. Hear directly from Rich about the magic of Lisp. This is an outtake from our Clojure documentary. Watch the full film here: https://www.y...

4,012 views • 116 likes • 3 comments • April 21, 2026

Why one of the world's largest digital banks chose Clojure and Datomic

Explore why one of the world's largest digital banks chose Clojure as its primary backend language — and how it has enabled them to scale effectively since 2013. We dive into how the "Out of the Ta...

16,616 views • 734 likes • 39 comments • April 19, 2026

How one programmer's pet project changed how we think about software

This is the story of how one programmer's obsession with simplicity quietly reshaped how the software world thinks about time, immutability, and what it means to write code that lasts. From a sabba...

186,286 views • 3,606 likes • 185 comments • April 16, 2026

Spring: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] Coming May 7th! 🚨

🚨 Spring: The Official Documentary premieres May 7th! Spring didn’t start as a framework — it started as a reaction to complexity. What began as a challenge to enterprise Java became a global mov...

86,298 views • 498 likes • 26 comments • April 16, 2026

Clojure: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming April 16th! 🚨

🚨 Clojure: The Official Documentary premieres April 16th! From a two-year sabbatical and a stubborn idea to powering the engineering stack of one of the world's largest fintech companies — this is...

46,286 views • 1,126 likes • 55 comments • March 26, 2026

IntelliJ IDEA vs Eclipse: How JetBrains Survived the Odds

This is the story of how IntelliJ survived the era of Eclipse by staying true to its users, and proved that a paid product could still win. This clip is taken from IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary, ...

2,487 views • 79 likes • 0 comments • March 20, 2026

Java: The Documentary is Coming Soon

A first look at the Java Documentary. Coming Summer 2026. 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 — the story of how a small team at Sun Microsystems, convinced the world was about to change, built a langu...

11,942 views • 722 likes • 57 comments • March 17, 2026

IntelliJ's early struggle & Microsoft's persistent pressure

Watch the entire IntelliJ IDEA documentary, out now on our YouTube channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

2,866 views • 75 likes • 3 comments • March 14, 2026

The Secret to Seamless Development Flow with IntelliJ IDEA

Watch the full IntelliJ IDEA documentary, out now on our channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

4,358 views • 107 likes • 2 comments • March 12, 2026

Jetbrains' Big Bet: IntelliJ powers the Android studio

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2,307 views • 58 likes • 0 comments • March 10, 2026

IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | An origin story

This is the IDE that changed everything. This documentary traces the 25-year journey of one of the most beloved tools in software development. Through rare archival footage, intimate interviews, a...

42,460 views • 1,514 likes • 92 comments • March 05, 2026

IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | TRAILER | Coming March 5th 🚨

🚨 The IntelliJ IDEA Documentary premieres March 5th. This documentary traces the 25-year journey of one of the most beloved tools in software development. Through rare archival footage, intimate ...

4,321 views • 170 likes • 5 comments • March 01, 2026

A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++

In this portrait, we meet Bjarne Stroustrup where we talk about his childhood, his accidental entry into computer science (what is "datologi" anyway?), and the ideas that shaped one of the most inf...

269,485 views • 11,667 likes • 590 comments • February 18, 2026

Is Local-First software the future of the web?

Hear from the builders and early adopters of Local-First software in our latest mini-doc, now on our channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.co...

5,285 views • 107 likes • 1 comments • February 06, 2026

Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc

Most modern software assumes your data lives in the cloud. As long as you’re online, everything works. When you’re not, it often doesn’t. Local-First software starts from a different idea - that y...

104,353 views • 4,591 likes • 316 comments • January 30, 2026

IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | OUT NOW!

🚨 The IntelliJ IDEA Documentary premieres March 5th. The IDE That Changed Everything – 25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA From a tiny team of visionary engineers in early 2000s Prague to a global product...

21,710 views • 913 likes • 50 comments • January 19, 2026

Why Did Guido Name Python “Python”?

Long-time Python users already know the lore behind its name... But for those who don't: it didn’t come from science, mythology, or even a snake. In this short story, Python's creator, Guido van R...

4,893 views • 207 likes • 7 comments • December 17, 2025

So, what exactly is FastAPI? The creator explains...

Sebastián Ramírez explains what exactly FastAPI is and how it works, just in case you weren't sure yet... The Rise and Rise of FastAPI mini-doc, featuring Sebastián, is out now! Follow us: X: x.c...

4,933 views • 146 likes • 4 comments • December 11, 2025

The Rise and Rise of FastAPI

FastAPI has rapidly become the #1 most-starred backend framework on GitHub, surpassing not only Python giants Flask and Django, but frameworks across other languages, including Gin, Laravel, Spring...

174,611 views • 4,107 likes • 152 comments • December 04, 2025

"I thought it was too late for me to learn programming..."

It's never too late in tech. Our latest mini-doc features Rita Codes, and she tells the story of her uncoventional journey into tech. Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social ...

7,524 views • 158 likes • 6 comments • December 01, 2025

The Unconventional Path of Rita Codes: Art, Code & Community

Rita didn’t start in tech, and she didn’t follow the “right” path. At 28, she left behind theater, music, and a patchwork of jobs to stay afloat and teach herself programming from scratch. Today ...

9,551 views • 318 likes • 31 comments • November 27, 2025

Flask started as an Aprils Fool's joke | with Armin Ronacher

Before Flask became one of the most popular Python frameworks in the world, it started as… a joke. In this video Armin Ronacher, the creator of Flask, tells us how an April Fool’s prank turned into...

26,988 views • 739 likes • 31 comments • November 23, 2025

"[Webpack] is designed to be as flexible as possible"... but...

Evan You explains how Webpack shaped modern frontend development... and why it became a victim of its own success. Evan features in our Vite Documentary, out now on our YouTube channel! Follow us...

2,358 views • 73 likes • 0 comments • October 26, 2025

Why Webpack changed everything, and why it had to change | with Evan You

For nearly a decade, Webpack was the foundation of modern frontend development. Every major framework at the time relied on it. In this video, Evan You explains how Webpack’s flexibility and power...

3,928 views • 163 likes • 3 comments • October 23, 2025

Evan Builds Vite Prototype

Vite began as a frustrated response to slow build times with Webpack, but no one could foresee the impact it would have on the frontend landscape forever. Vite: The Documentary is now live on our...

2,594 views • 107 likes • 2 comments • October 20, 2025

Evan's frustrations that led to Vite...

Vite began as a frustrated response to slow build times with Webpack, but no one could foresee the impact it would have on the frontend landscape forever. Vite: The Documentary is now live on our...

3,252 views • 102 likes • 1 comments • October 17, 2025

How Vitest Was Born: The 4-Hour Prototype That Changed Vite Forever

When early Vite adopters struggled to get Jest working, the Vite team knew something had to change. In a casual meeting, someone half-joked about creating a “Vite-native” test runner. A few hours ...

3,719 views • 136 likes • 3 comments • October 16, 2025

Thoughts on Webpack...

Vite began as a frustrated response to slow build times with Webpack, but no one could foresee the impact it would have on the frontend landscape forever. Vite: The Documentary is now live on our...

1,884 views • 58 likes • 0 comments • October 15, 2025

"No one was taking Javascript too seriously until..."

Vite began as a frustrated response to slow build times with Webpack, but no one could foresee the impact it would have on the frontend landscape forever. Vite: The Documentary is now live on our...

4,306 views • 143 likes • 6 comments • October 13, 2025

Vite: The Documentary

"If you're using a JavaScript framework, you're probably using Vite." Created by Evan You (the mind behind Vue.js), Vite began as a frustrated response to slow build times with Webpack. What start...

151,920 views • 5,907 likes • 353 comments • October 09, 2025

The Remix moment that changed Vite forever

When Remix faced performance bottlenecks, the team asked themselves a tough question: should they switch to Vite? What followed was a turning point: experiments, prototypes & unexpected collaborati...

5,183 views • 192 likes • 7 comments • October 06, 2025

Making the web fast again: the Qwik + Vite story with Angular creator Miško Hevery

Tired of clicking the BUY button five times before anything happens? In this video, Miško Hevery (AngularJS creator) tells the story of how Builder.io and the team behind Qwik tackled one of the w...

4,899 views • 163 likes • 8 comments • September 29, 2025

"Data engineering became incredibly entrenched in Python."

Watch the full Python Documentary on our channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

3,512 views • 118 likes • 0 comments • September 27, 2025

"I begged my mother to take me to PyCon and I met all my online heroes."

Watch the full Python Documentary on our channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

2,604 views • 108 likes • 1 comments • September 25, 2025

The Origins of PyCharm | 15 Years with PyCharm

Do you know how PyCharm was created? What challenges the development team faced? And how it earned its name? In this special anniversary video, you’ll meet the creators behind PyCharm and discover...

8,528 views • 271 likes • 18 comments • September 25, 2025

Python is full of grassroots movements... things grow from the bottom up.

Watch the full Python Documentary on our channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

1,465 views • 55 likes • 1 comments • September 23, 2025

When Python almost died, and who saved it…

Python: The Documentary is out now on our YouTube channeL! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

1,813 views • 61 likes • 2 comments • September 20, 2025

Zen of Python

Python: The Documentary is out now on our YouTube channel! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

3,106 views • 178 likes • 1 comments • September 19, 2025

The first ever in-person Python conference.

Python: The Documentary is out now! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

2,645 views • 133 likes • 2 comments • September 12, 2025

Why is Guido called the “Benevolent Dictator for Life”?

Python: The Documentary is out now! Follow us: X: x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/cult.repo

1,795 views • 69 likes • 0 comments • September 10, 2025

Python: The Documentary | An origin story

This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data sci...

1,080,181 views • 33,472 likes • 1,646 comments • August 28, 2025

The early days of scientific Python with Travis Oliphant

Most people know Numpy and Scipy as cornerstones of modern data science and machine learning, but fewer know the open-source story behind how they came to be. In this mini-documentary, Travis Olip...

50,671 views • 2,070 likes • 85 comments • August 21, 2025

What Makes Python So Good for AI/ML? | Peter Wang at Anaconda

Why does Python dominate the world of AI and machine learning? In this clip, Peter Wang breaks down the reasons why Python remains the go-to language for AI, why AI researchers love Python, its rol...

5,421 views • 239 likes • 17 comments • August 14, 2025

Behind Instagram's bold move to Python 3 (before it was cool)

It’s easy to forget now but in 2017, Python 3 was far from the industry default. While many companies stuck with Python 2, Instagram decided to lead the way. At the time this was a monumental tech ...

14,252 views • 509 likes • 18 comments • August 07, 2025

Vite: The Documentary | [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming October 9 🚨

🚨 The Vite Documentary premieres October 9th at ViteConf in Amsterdam "If you're using a JavaScript framework, you're probably using Vite." Created by Evan You (the mind behind Vue.js), Vite bega...

75,429 views • 1,381 likes • 82 comments • August 04, 2025

“Migrating Facebook from Python 2 to 3 was both a challenging technical & people problem."

Lisa Roach led one of the largest Python migrations in the world, transitioning Meta (formerly Facebook) from Python 2 to Python 3. She thought it would be straightforward, but the following two ...

5,739 views • 184 likes • 1 comments • August 02, 2025