I Wanna Be An Engineer
Design Coding
This one is a very technically profound rap song about how to design web sites properly!
Code Monkey
Jonathan Coulton, live in Seattle
I absolutely love this song. It's a rock song from a former Software Engineer about what it's like to write software for a living. A friend at work sent this to me for fun, but I found it to be an amazingly inspiring song. Paired with the tale of the artist himself, it goes to show how important it is to follow your passions in a career rather than just to stick with a job:
Here Comes Another Bubble
The Richter Scales
This is a song famous between younger techies about the risks associated with the big dream of founding a VC-backed technology start-up. It's great in that it shows you that your idea isn't the only one out there and that you shouldn't trade your youth for it if all you care about is the cash:
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