Lightning Talks
summary
Claim: cutting social media to weekly posting produces more blog posts last year than in an entire prior career, improves code review tone, and lets one spot log-patterns and diagnose bugs faster. Keyboard segment shows buying a Ducky Zero, custom keycaps and building a handwired board drives learning shortcuts and command-line use and raises day-to-day productivity. Web history segment rebuilds the homepage as pregenerated HTML refreshed by AWS Lambda to S3 behind a CDN so 98.2% served by CDN, yielding near-zero dependencies. Testing advocates a top-down blend of UI + API + DB using tools like Selenium and SoapUI. Drone demo wires an Arduino as a USB-to-PPM bridge, sends a four-number serial protocol from a laptop to fly a $200–$600 racer and integrates video/OpenCV prototypes; the prototype demo flies successfully.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Reducing social media helped me become a better developer - Raphael Haddad
- 9:57The key(board) to workplace happiness - Chris Lewis.
- 19:21Back to the future: Taking a history lesson from the Web - Dom Wenden
- 42:05Droning on about drones - Ken Faulkner
