CodeLand 2020
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What I Learned From 6 Years Of Building CodeNewbie | Saron Yitbarek | 30m |
CodeNewbie grows from weekly #codenewbie chats (Wednesdays 9pm ET) with three rules — be supportive be honest be nice — into a business: a podcast with 200+… | ||
| Changing the default branch name on GitHub | Nočnica Fee | 07m |
Shows the concrete steps to rename an existing repo default: run git branch -m master main, push with git push origin main, then update the remote default via… | ||
| Fighting Imposter Syndrome With IoT | Tilde Ann Thurium | 05m |
Live demo rebuilds a physical button-triggered SMS sender in five minutes using Node.js, Twilio Serverless Functions and a Flick button that makes an HTTP… | ||
| Why Forem is Special | Ben Halpern | 24m |
Forem is an open-source social network platform that claims to empower community by preventing data hoarding and enabling ownership; it’s built on Ruby on… | ||
| The Art of Computers | Scott Hanselman | 24m |
Thirty years of debugging yields concrete techniques: recover lost WAV files by copying the disk, inspecting 345 million bytes and repairing a zeroed file… | ||
| The Art of Programming | Erika Heidi | 14m |
Argues that programming is art built on logic, citing Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code as concrete evidence that code can change history, and noting a personal… | ||
| Live Exploiting Your Open Source Dependencies | Brian Vermeer | 18m |
Shows a runnable sample app (Goof) on Heroku and demonstrates an Apache Struts OGNL RCE that runs arbitrary bash, plus a zip‑slip overwrite that replaces the… | ||
| Printing Floating Numbers is Surprisingly Hard! | Gargi Sharma | 14m |
Computers represent decimals in binary so 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3 when printed; IEEE 754 maps many decimals to a single binary value and printing must pick a shortest… | ||
| Being Utterly Fearless in Your Pursuit of Learning to Code | Alex Morton | 14m |
An account of leaving a customer-support role to learn programming full-time in early 2020 and launching a podcast called Ladies Code Collective; cites the… | ||
| Salary Negotiation for People That Hate To Negotiate | Josh Puetz | 17m |
Rule one: never give the first number. Research market rate, set a written minimum acceptable salary before offers, then always counter. Typical counter is… | ||
| Leveling up your Interview Skills with Coderbyte | Daniel Borowski | 02m |
Coderbyte presents itself as the #1 coding challenge platform and shows a decade of development with about 10,000 developers signing up every month, an… | ||
| Flying drones with Twitter, Bananas and WebAPIs | Lucky Nkosi | 18m |
A hacked Parrot Mambo mini drone is driven from the browser using Web Bluetooth (BLE), phone sensors via the Generic Sensors API, and a Leap Motion over… | ||
| An Introduction To IoT | Joe Karlsson | 14m |
A Raspberry Pi runs Node.js to power an IoT litter box that records cat visits as time‑series documents in MongoDB. It uses a magnetic door switch to set… | ||
| Freedom of Security | Paula de la Hoz | 13m |
Red team offensive techniques meet libre tooling: live demos use nmap and testssl (OpenSSL) to check for unsafe compression / “rage” and for Heartbleed, and a… | ||
| The Whale, the Container, and the Ocean - A Docker Tale | Nick Palenchar | 15m |
Shows how a Dockerfile actually builds an image by walking a local repo through a docker build into the docker daemon and then into a container, demonstrating… | ||
| The Cost of Data | Vaidehi Joshi | 18m |
Data centers consume about 200 TWh/year, roughly 1–3% of global electricity, and the tech sector equals the airline industry in carbon footprint; data centers… | ||
| Seeing Sound | Amit Nambiar | 15m |
Builds a real-time browser pipeline that parses audio with WebAudioAPI and maps frequency and phase into a mesh to produce a volumetric 3D visualization of… | ||
| Working Smarter: 5 Steps To Getting Unstuck | Rukia Sheikh-Mohamed | 17m |
Five concrete steps for getting unstuck: reproduce and read the error, Google a specific query, inspect related files, ask a teammate with open-ended context… | ||
| Using Cognitive Services and Mario Kart to Create "Astrology" | Chloe Condon | 16m |
Uses the Azure Face API and a Python detection script to analyze cosplay photos of Mario Kart characters because the API fails on cartoons, returning emotion… | ||
| Machine Learning on the Edge | Sangeetha KP | 09m |
Explains how to run models on phones using ML Kit with optional Firebase integration removed recently so projects no longer must be Firebase apps, and how… | ||
| A Message From Github | Brian Douglas | 05m |
A MySpace-style “top friends” widget is built for GitHub profiles to forward job leads to interested developers, implemented with GitHub Actions and a profile… | ||
| You and Me Learn All About HTTP | Safia Abdalla | 15m |
Live demos use Chrome or Firefox developer tools showing requests to github.com in the network tab, revealing a 102.60 ms per-request baseline and how sending… | ||
| Accessibility Matters: How to Build Apps for Everyone | Miranda Limonczenko | 16m |
Built a public site for Guide Dogs for the Blind with measurable accessibility fixes: uses a contrast tool and spreadsheet to test brand colors and finds… | ||
| Emoji Encoding, Unicode, and Internationalization | Naomi Meyer | 21m |
Explains why '👩🏿🎤'.length equals seven: the glyph is a sequence of code points (female + Fitzpatrick skin-tone + \u200D zero width joiner + microphone)… | ||
| Welcome Message | Peter Frank | 02m |
Welcome message explains this year’s Codeland is distributed and sets up concrete next steps: create an account on dev to ask questions, visit exhibitor booths… | ||
| An Introduction to Accessibility Insights | Fernanda Bonnin | 03m |
A free open-source suite that checks accessibility for web, Android and Windows apps, with FastPass automated scans that catch the most common issues in under… | ||
| Following up with ErgoSesh | Brett Weiss | 21m |
Practical checklist and measurable claims: a five-step checkup (feet, knees, back, elbows, monitor reach) determines if furniture changes are needed; chairs… | ||
| Meditation Break with ErgoSesh | Daragh Byrne | 26m |
Guided, practical break that teaches concrete steps: sit upright, close eyelids, use belly breathing (3‑count), perform a head-to-toe body scan, anchor… | ||
| A Message From ErgoSesh | Brett Weiss | 15m |
Company ErgoSesh delivers a short practical break with concrete exercises and setup rules: do repeated lumbar extension and stand every ~30 minutes, use a… | ||
| A Message From LaunchDarkly | Yoz Grahame | 02m |
Claims that LaunchDarkly lets teams deploy anytime and flip behavior at runtime without redeploys, demonstrated by adding the SDK and creating a flag onstage… | ||
| The World We Can Shape Out of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs | Vanessa Gennarelli | 05m |
Claims that remote work and cross-border payments expand opportunity, that traditional credentials are breaking as hiring signals, and that hands-on open… | ||
| A Message From CoderByte | Daniel Borowski | 02m |
Coderbyte builds a browser-based practice site started ten years ago that now attracts about 10,000 developers per month, hosts 300+ coding and full‑stack… | ||
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