January 23, 2017 @ 00:23
I work at a startup, which means I have no money. But, that wasn't going to stop me attending LinuxConfAu this year. I've been using Linux machines for years now and wanted to get more involved in the community. My solution was to stay in a cheap hostel and volunteer.
The thing I was asked to do was AV stuff, so using microphones and cameras and recording tech talks.
This turned out surprisingly well. Being chained to a single room doing the AV stuff meant I was exposed to some things that didn't sound interesting, but actually I gained from watching. If you're going to volunteer at your next tech conference, I can recommend helping with AV, since doing the thing itself is reasonably interesting/fun.
So these are my favourite talks that I saw at the conference (some of which I filmed also, so I might be biased).
Also, there's a Youtube chanel where the organisers have placed all videos.
Ever wondered what's the difference between unit tests, integration tests, functional and exploration tests? This has you covered and has tips for using Haskell, Scala, Ruby, JS and other languages that I can't remember.
In an industry where it seems many great developers have impostor syndrome it's pretty great that someone can admit they stuffed a project right up. This is a look at what went wrong with Mozilla's Persona project, and what happened during the fallout.
How do we maintain privacy in a world that is increasingly making our lives better, and also eroding our privacy? Good question.
I'm constantly paranoid about my work as a developer leading to the loss of information, which users trust I can keep safe. Watching this made me realise how much I don't know, but I'm on the right path.
I was busy when this talk was on, but I've seen it before at a different event. This is so awesome, I almost want to learn how to knit (almost is the keyword) I'm pretty busy coding, but it seems knitting and coding aren't even that different!