Carolina Code Conference 2024
2024-08-23..2024-08-24
Greenville, United States
as the organisers put it
The Carolina Code Conference is a welcoming and community-driven “polyglot” and cybersecurity conference that’s set to take place in beautiful Greenville, SC on Friday and Saturday August 23rd and 24th, 2024. This conference invites coders of all experience levels to attend, plug into the development community, share their experiences and have a great time as well.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Your next favorite programming language: Gleam | Dillon Mulroy | 01h 02m |
Gleam claims a practical, production 1.0 language (Mar 4) with sound Hindley-Milner types, exhaustively checked pattern matching, and built‑in Result/Option… | ||
| Ash Framework: The Power of Declarative Design | Zach Daniel | 27m |
Ash Framework claims to turn application intent into data: resource-oriented declarative design that drives schema, migrations and runtime behavior. It uses… | ||
| Modern Web Development in Perl | Jason Crome | 43m |
Argues that Perl is actively maintained (Perl 5.40 released 2024) and emphasizes stability and backward compatibility, then builds a small database-backed web… | ||
| Shared Nothing Architecture - How to Scale to Infinity | Sam Ruby | 34m |
A scheduling app built in Ruby on Rails runs isolated per-event deployments on fly.io, with one-VM cells, separate SQLite/Postgres databases, Redis for… | ||
| {JWT}.{Misuse}.&Abuse | Tim Tomes | 59m |
Shows concrete failures: a missing signature verification lets a forged ID token grant admin access; substituting a code token for an access token works even… | ||
| Building Products Full-Stack with Dart and Flutter | Ryan Edge | 45m |
Shows how a single-language stack actually ships: front end in Flutter, backend options include Dart Frog for file‑based REST routes with hot reload, Serverpod… | ||
| Learning Functional Programming Through Construction: First Principles | Cameron Presley | 25m |
Builds a TypeScript emulator for a two‑axis Rover in ~25 minutes, using discriminated union types for Direction and Command, immutable Rover type (readonly… | ||
| Explaining Lambda Calculus through Plain JavaScript | Vlad Patryshev | 53m |
Claims that Lambda Calculus maps directly into JavaScript implementations of lambda terms, shows concrete encodings: Church booleans, Church numerals, pairs… | ||
| A Developer’s Guide to Open Source Web Mapping Libraries | Courtney Yatteau | 27m |
Compares Leaflet, MapLibre GL JS and OpenLayers with concrete demos: Leaflet for simple points plus many plugins and client clustering; MapLibre as a Mapbox… | ||
| Running K8s in the Browser. Yes, Really. Well, Not Really. Kind of. | Nate Abele | 13m |
Claims a working proof of concept that reimplements Kubernetes-like orchestration inside the browser by running WebAssembly modules with WASI and BEAM/Elixir… | ||
| End-to-end secure ML Development | Mihai Maruseac | 21m |
Demonstrates concrete defenses: Sigstore short-lived signatures for gigabyte‑scale models, a model‑signing library that hashes checkpoints deterministically… | ||
| What Online Dating Taught Me About Algorithms | Diana Pham | 28m |
History of dating services starts with St James and Operation Match using mailed questionnaires, punch cards and outputting six names and phone numbers… | ||
| The Seven Principles for Making a PostgreSQL DB Work Fast | Andrew Thompson | 11m |
Seven practical rules: ground schema in the real business model to avoid leaky abstractions; run PG stat statements and auto_explain to surface slow queries… | ||
| The Value of Prototypes | Jake Hennett | 07m |
Shows how a quick 20-hour prototype — a small semi-functional UI with hardcoded values and static validation — uncovers mismatched requirements and coaching… | ||
| Bridging the Gap: Developing Accessible Anti-Phishing Solutions | Lydia Stepanek | 09m |
Built a browser/plugin called Too Phishy (free and open source) that reaches the Google Workspace store and earns 15 5-star reviews while making a Product Hunt… | ||
| Durable Code Execution With Temporal | Seth Williams | 28m |
Temporal runs workflows on a durable server with task queues and workers that poll independently, persisting state so retries, timeouts and compensations… | ||
| Accelerating Secure Innovation: AI/ML Strategies for DevSecOps Excellence | Pratik Thantharate | 13m |
Shows how to embed static application security testing (CEST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST) into the CI pipeline using rapid 7 and Swagger… | ||
| Intellectual Property Considerations for Developing and Licensing Software | Hunter Freeman | 32m |
Compares protection routes with concrete tradeoffs: patents take 2½–3 years, last ~20 years and block competitors’ functionality, while copyrights are quick to… | ||
| Mentoring as a Leader with Limited Time | Rod Roth | 15m |
Argues that mentoring under time pressure works by shifting work to the learner using a coach approach, not by lecturing: use short, time‑boxed conversations… | ||
| When You're a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail | Liz Alvarez | 10m |
Argues that language shapes thought via Sapir–Whorf and gives concrete evidence: Japanese drops pronouns linked to collectivist cultures, Hebrew’s gendered… | ||
| Speaking Planely for the Grounded Professional | Justin Nash | 09m |
Commercial aviation safety methods map to concrete practices: origin of checklists after the 1935 B7 accident, the mnemonic PAVE, and rules like personal… | ||
| Embracing Failure: A Path to Success | Steven Wade | 10m |
In a world where success is often glorified and failure is stigmatized, it is important to remember that failure is not the end, but the beginning of a journey… | ||
| Strategies for testing Authentication and Authorization Flows | Kevin Old | 10m |
Practical steps for reliably testing auth: use programmatic login with the Stytch Node SDK and Cypress tasks so tests skip slow UI OAuth flows, generate and… | ||
| Scratch, Dent and Data: Engineering A Used Appliance Information Advantage | James Shockley | 27m |
Moves from manual calls to a data pipeline that scrapes 70+ used-appliance inventories across SC NC and GA, uses Google Maps/Places to build nodes and a 21x21… | ||
| Bacon, Eggs & React: Real-World Analogies for Engineering | Yvette Johns | 09m |
Claim: creating personal analogies makes React and Remix concepts stick by mapping concrete items to architecture. Uses Remix and React components, ties routes… | ||
| DIY Usability Testing When You Have No Time and No Budget | Bekah Rice | 28m |
Eight practical steps for low‑budget qualitative usability testing that fit into a day and use prototypes, paper sketches or an existing site, with a live demo… | ||
| Rethinking Remote Access in a Remote First World | Allen Vailliencourt | 11m |
Shows replacing legacy VPNs and IP whitelists with a WireGuard-based overlay using Tailscale; demo connects to a Vultr server that has only the home IP allowed… | ||
| Teach them well and let them lead the way | Sean Reid | 16m |
Argues that being a senior engineer does not equal being a mentor and that mentoring means teach people to swim — deliberate pairing, showing how things work… | ||
| Ignore the Doubters: Why Technologists Make Great Business Leaders | Stephen Borengasser | 29m |
Argues that technologists excel at modern leadership by using curiosity, experimentation, quantitative reasoning and empathy to build learning organizations… | ||
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