DevFestMN 2025
2025-12-06
Minneapolis, United States
[DevFestMN 2016, DevFest MN 2017, DevFestMN 2018, DevFestMN 2019, DevFestMN 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Full Stack Improv | Luke Schlangen | 40m |
Creates a Next.js app named potato cannon toaster in a bathtub, uses Gemini CLI to generate an actions.ts server action, connects via Firebase admin to a… | ||
| SSR Faster with Angular & App Hosting | Stephen Fluin | 19m |
Angular SSR is now easy: the ng CLI scaffolds SSR and running ng add angular-ssr wires it into existing apps; incremental hydration and a defer on hover option… | ||
| Humans in the Loop: Hiring Software Engineers in the AI Era | Nick, Pete | 33m |
Livefront claims years of hiring data and shows concrete practices: screening through 500 applications in six hours, using a compensated modest code challenge… | ||
| Let's make an MCP Server! | Isaac Johnson | 30m |
Builds a Node.js TypeScript server that exposes /mcp, adds tools (echo, login, get user, create/list issues) wired to a Forgejo/Codeberg REST API, and verifies… | ||
| Marrying Structured + Unstructured Data | Dahtri, Jena Zangs | 27m |
Claims a majority of enterprise data is untouched and shows concrete wins: extracting transcripts into a lakehouse reduces manual review, and vision models… | ||
| Resilience Isn’t a Buzzword | Jason Erdahl | 34m |
Doctoral research plus 25+ years leading teams and an endurance background (63 marathons, Ironman races, 100‑mile ultramarathons) drives concrete claims… | ||
| Web AI: Magic or Myth | Liz Myers | 27m |
Fresh from the WebAI Summit in Sunnyvale, Liz Myers brings the debate to DevFest MN.
The Magic: Watch LingoWise—her language tutor—perform real-time speech… | ||
| Harnessing the Power of Nondeterminism for Software Engineering | Sam Kirchmeier, Adam May | 36m |
Claims that AI yields a 10x developer boost meet hard examples: token sampling and floating-point nonassociativity explain nondeterminism, and Claude and… | ||
| FreeDOS: Keeping the community together for over 30 years | Jim Hall | 40m |
Project begins on June 29, 1994 and still ships releases in 2025, including FreeDOS 1.4 and monthly test builds; development uses a public mailing list, a… | ||
| What is Serverless, and can it run agents & other genAI apps? | Wes Chun | 44m |
Explains what serverless actually does: containers plus autoscaling to zero, Cloud Run as Cloud Run with GPUs that runs containers (any language, any binary)… | ||
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