AntarctiConf 2020
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Empathy Is Your Secret Weapon | Christina Aldan | 41m |
Argues that empathy is a trainable skill that raises employee productivity, loyalty and retention (workplace empathy monitor), cites 92% of HR who value… | ||
| From Zero to Hero | Debbie O'Brien | 32m |
Seven weeks of deliberate learning turns into tangible results: six weeks of self study with an OpenClassrooms mentor produces a booking engine in React and a… | ||
| Serverless For Startups | Michael Dowden | 29m |
A startup builds a progressive web app using Firebase for hosting, auth, realtime JSON storage and cloud functions, integrates PayPal then Braintree for… | ||
| How Communities Change Lives | Tanya Butenko | 41m |
A meetup network that began with a single full-day workshop unexpectedly draws 124 women showed up when 50 were expected and evolves into Muses Code JS running… | ||
| Health: The Most Important Tech Tool | Cassandra Faris | 33m |
Claims that 70% of deaths and 86% of US healthcare costs stem from largely preventable chronic disease and that nearly 1 in 5 adults has a mental illness… | ||
| Hire People Not Skills | Shawn Wildermuth | 34m |
Argues hiring focuses on curiosity, adaptability and communication rather than specific frameworks; recommends using contractors for short fixed skills and… | ||
| Interactive Fiction | Eric Brown | 38m |
Interactive fiction is presented as computer-based literature that runs on anything and has hundreds of free titles archived at the IF Archive and indexed on… | ||
| Your Origin -- Your Super Power | Sonia Sonia | 29m |
Argues that personal origin — upbringing, trauma, faith and visible markers — becomes a practical asset when teams stop hiding and start using identity to… | ||
| Bringing Back the Blink Tag | Martine Dowden | 20m |
Recreates the old blink tag as a reusable web component built with HTML CSS and vanilla JavaScript using ES6 modules, published to NPM; it uses the shadow DOM… | ||
| Leadership From A Cat | Chloe Goya | 12m |
Shows a failed 2015 educational game studio that closed in 2016 and a later company that hits $1M revenue first year, arguing those outcomes teach leadership… | ||
| Keep Yourself Alive: Stopping the Effects of Burnout | Heather Wilde | 34m |
Claims that chronic workplace stress depletes resources and can trigger real illness including heart issues and even cancer risk, backed by a career-spanning… | ||
| The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers | Heather Downing | 33m |
Managers promoted from coder to leader confront concrete practices: run weekly one-on-ones, delegate real ownership, and schedule stand-ups that ask juniors… | ||
| How AI is Impacting our Cognitive Skills and It's Societal Impact | Sanjiv Goyal | 17m |
Presents concrete examples: AI auto-composes emails and résumé tools, niche services like AI for dating and Capsule AI, and an experiment using brain sensors… | ||
| Predicting Natural Background Radiation | Alexander Goya | 30m |
Uses aerial gamma surveys (NURE 1973 flightlines) with a sodium iodide detector mounted on aircraft to map Nebraska Sandhills background radiation, finds… | ||
| The Success of Failure | Wiseley Wong | 10m |
Compilation of mentoring cases shows that struggle builds intuition: one freshman writes wrong steps until solved after being told to try; another former… | ||
| Everything You Know About Passwords Is Wrong | Aaron Cure | 25m |
Common password rules—short fixed maxima, required character classes, forced 90‑day rotations—actually reduce security; credential stuffing uses breach dumps… | ||
| Build Your Own Video Game With Bloxels | Xander Dowden | 11m |
Bloxels EDU builder shows a full pipeline from pixel art to playable level using the app and grid editor, creating idle/walk/jump/fall animations, tilesets and… | ||
| Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Software | Matthew Renze | 36m |
Overview of modern data-driven AI with concrete examples and numbers: an autonomous Tipsy Robot bar charges by tablet and needs only one human manager… | ||
| Global Positioning System | Cliff Revoir | 17m |
Built and flown the original onboard satellite software for GPS, starting proof-of-concept launches in 1977 and full implementation in 1980; satellites orbit… | ||
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