Tech talks (full-length and lightning talks) I've given in public, in reverse chronological order.
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29-02-2020, ClojureD, Berlin
10-10-2019, Clojure Meetup, Singapore
25-02-2018, Clojure meetup, Taipei
18-10-2018, Clojure Meetup, Denver, Colorado
13-04-2017, Clojure meetup, Berlin
29-03-2017, Emacs meetup, Berlin
20-03-2017, Berlin
Presented at the Berlin React.js meetup
22-02-2017, Berlin
Presented at the Emacs Berlin user group
11-10-2016, Berlin
Did this talk at the Clojure meetup in Berlin.
29-09-2016, Berlin
A lightning talk for Emacs Berlin
30-06-2016, Poznan, Poland
10-09-2016, Tampere, Finland
I gave an early version of this talk for the Clojure meetup in Berlin, and then
a more polished version for a broader audience at Polyconf 2016. Finally I did a
version adapted for a Clojure programmer audience at ClojuTRE.
An exploration of the concept of idiomatic code, what it means, and what it
implies.
07-01-2016, Berlin, Germany
A try-out at Rug::B in preparation of RubyConf Australia
10/11/12-02-2016, Gold Coast, Australia
19-04-2016, Brussels, Belgium
13-01-2016, Berlin, Germany
A demonstration of the new version of Chestnut.
07-01-2016, Berlin, Germany
An exploration of the concept of idiomatic code, what it means, and what it
implies. This was a showcase for RubyConf Australia.
04-06-2015, Berlin, Germany
The idea for this talk had been floating in my mind for a little
while, and when another speaker canceled it seemed the perfect
opportunity to try it out.
In the spirit of Guy Steele's
Growing a Language, I
"grow" a LISP by step by step defining concepts, starting from the
absolute basics. The talk has a bit of a performance vibe to it, with
minimal slides and a particular rhythm. Something I might push a bit
more in future versions :)
26-04-2015, Vienna, Austria
A conference-slash-hackaton where I presented Yaks, and then worked
with a small group of people on several features.
21-03-2015, Vilnius, Lithuania / 22-03-2015 Minsk, Belarus
A mirror event, I did the same talk at both places
I also did a lightning talk in Belarus about Slippery, the tool I built and use to make slides.
5/6-02-2015, Cape Town, South Africa
I did this talk in Emacs. It's mostly images and code examples. The source files are here
1/2-10-2014, Ghent, Belgium
11/12-09-2014, Helsinki, Finland
16-08-2014, Świnoujście, Poland
A live demo making music with Clojure and Overtone.
03-07-2014, Berlin, Germany
An introduction to REST and Hypermedia, followed by a demonstration of Yaks.
25-04-2014 - 26-04-204, Taipei, Taiwan
My first chance to do a full length talk on this exciting topic:
And a lightning talk on using Ruby for learning Chinese.
14-03-2014 - 16-03-2014, Wrocław, Poland
Showing off in 5 minutes some lesser known Ruby features. Both highly useful (extended regular expressions) and highly comical (flip-flops).
08-03-2014, Berlin, Germany
Lightning talk about the slippery gem. A highly hackable tool for building in-browser slide decks based on Markdown.
01-03-2014, Linz, Austria
A talk about the web, REST, hypermedia, the past, the present, and the future.
08-02-2014, Brussels, Belgium
A short talks that tries to inspire and give some practical tips for beginners.
27-11-2013 - 28-11-2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Final version of this talk about formal languages, security, and the perils of using strings plus manual escaping.
This is the most conceptual, high level version of this talk I've given. It was also the first time I drew all my slides in Inkscape.
I also did a lightning talk on functional programming in Ruby, this time live coding with some Emacs macros to guide me.
07-11-2013, Berlin, Germany
A joint talk where Ryan explains the theory, and I show how that works in Ruby.
03-10-2013 - 04-10-203, Ghent, Belgium
Adaptation of the lightning talk I did at JRubyConf. People really liked it, which sparked me to start writing a book on the subject, The Happy Lambda.
16-08-2013 - 18-08-2013, Berlin, Germany
A rewrite of the talk I did at Rulu, trying to make it more concrete and entertaining.
I also did a talk at the Rails Girls workshop, titled "Learning to Learn"
14-08-2013 - 15-08-2013, Berlin, Germany
A spur of the moment lightning talk, showing some "programming in the small" patterns that I had stumbled upon while working on Hexp, which heavily uses immutability.
20-06-2013 - 21-06-2013, Lyon, France
First iteration of my "Web Linguistics" talk, which diggs into the combination of formal languages and security. It is a call to stop using strings for structured data, especially data that complies to a formal language, and use data structures, i.e. syntax trees instead.
Of the different versions of this talk this one is the most theoretical.
01-03-2013 - 03-03-2013, Wrocław, Poland
A lightning talk summary of "YAML is the new eval" video and taking part in the security panel video.
09-02-2013, Berlin Ruby User Group, Germany
Security as an emergent property, and an in depth look into the security issues Rails had had the past months.
