Sunday Lightning Talks
summary
Fourteen five-minute segments show what was actually done: a Spanish game‑dev Twitter bot (esgamedevbot with ~1,000 followers), a Python 2 SRF bypass investigation (socket decimal/octal localhost and an open 2016 bug), Meltano + dbt + Airflow pipelines, a five‑kilometre travel map using osmnx and alpha shapes, Home Assistant projects with ESP32 fish‑tank monitor and LED strips, stats (password‑manager adoption ~12–18%), Facebook failures (FTC $5B fine, $52M moderator settlement, Rohingya deaths ~25,000), CircuitPython hardware demos (CircuitPython express). Pick by the concrete tool, number, or thing built.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro 🐈
- 1:40Tisham Dhar - Coding at Home with Kids
- 6:33Juan Morais - A bot that shares game development content in Spanish
- 11:11Peter Hall - Java is better than Python
- 16:57Evan Kohilas - How did we miss this?
- 21:28Kit Darko - why not throw my devices in the sea, and go live in a cave?
- 26:32Henry Walshaw - Calculating 5km of travel distance in Python
- 32:00Allan Whatmough - Meltano: open-source data pipelines
- 37:20Matt Cengia - Event Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- 40:32Keira Paterson - Why won't they just use password managers already!?
- 45:13Jason King - The king has entered the area
- 50:33Carl Karsten - My fav answer to "How can I program?"
- 56:10Anthony Agius - 5 minutes to explain 5 ways Facebook causes harm
- 1:01:28Jared Quinn - Take Full Control of Your Smart Home
- 1:06:52Rachel Bunder - Curly boi or cake?
