REFACTR.TECH 2023
2023-10-27
Atlanta, United States
[REFACTR.TECH 2019, REFACTR.TECH 2021, REFACTR.TECH 2022, REFACTR.TECH 2023]
who it's for
software engineers, engineering managers, technical leads, frontend developers, backend engineers, developer advocates, people managers
topics
ethics for deployed models; resume screening bias; production observability for models; career-as-data projects; early and midcareer burnout interventions; personal operating manuals; ChatGPT API integration and streaming; time travel debugging and record-replay; testing to demystify code; TypeScript adoption and best practices; Angular single-page web apps
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ethics in AI Panel | Noble Ackerson | 47m |
Panel argues urgent, practical harms: deployed models at companies like SiriusXM, Pandora and AT&T routinely encode biases; a resume-screening model that… | ||
| Career Stories | Mekka Okereke, Erich S. Lee | 35m |
Built a DoD PKI for BlackBerry, launched the Amazon Appstore and AWS mobile dev services, then reworked Google Play while marking 10 years at Google. Claims… | ||
| From Data to Destiny | Teneika Askew | 29m |
Argues that career progress is driven by treating personal goals like data projects: define a clear objective, collect and clean evidence, iterate with… | ||
| Straight No Chaser Advice Office Hours | Kim Crayton | 13m |
Argues that failed DEI and inclusion work stems from inability to have uncomfortable conversations and lists five failure modes with concrete fixes: missing… | ||
| Python vs Hip Hop | Jay Miller | 35m |
Draws a timeline linking hip hop milestones (1994, 2000) to Python releases (Python 0.9, Python 2.0) and web tech (PHP, CSS, Netscape/Skype confusion) to show… | ||
| The Business Case for Human Decency | Valarie Regas | 20m |
Argues that adopting human decency in hiring, leave policies, and day‑to‑day management costs nothing, reduces turnover, and increases innovation by preventing… | ||
| Heated An Honest Conversation on Early Mid Career Burnout | Allison Higgins | 17m |
Early and midcareer burnout presents as exhaustion, inefficacy, and cynicism and often follows layoffs, excessive workload, and lack of control; a list of 12… | ||
| It's Dangerous To Go Alone Lesson From The Tech Wilderness | Mike Hartington | 14m |
Seven concrete career rules with anecdotes and a real outage: adapt to change by swapping tools as needed, share early and often to catch feedback (example: a… | ||
| You Market Fit | Cecelia Martinez | 24m |
Practical career plan that treats yourself like a product: define yourself as a product, then analyze target markets, run small MVP experiments (one resume… | ||
| Personal Operating Manuals | Jana Hart | 13m |
Personal operating manuals list six staples — work style, values, pet peeves, preferred communication, common misunderstandings, and how to help — and claim… | ||
| Unleash the Power of AI Craft Your Magic with ChatGPT API! | Martin Rojas | 26m |
Shows a working backend + frontend demo that calls the ChatGPT REST API, sends JSON arrays of system and user messages, and streams responses via server‑sent… | ||
| Time Travel Debuggers | Toby Ho | 25m |
Describes three working approaches and what actually breaks or scales: a transpiled language that snapshots full program state objects to enable… | ||
| Demystifying Code Through Testing | Cecili Poole | 24m |
Three scenarios cover practical tactics and outcomes: when a code base has no tests the plan is why buy setup — justify with a quantified outage cost, get… | ||
| The Joy of Typescript | Adrianna Valdivia | 11m |
Practical notes on adopting TypeScript: use Total TypeScript and a Code Snippets extension to read errors and scaffold interfaces, enable strictNullChecks… | ||
| Build the Next Generation of Web Apps With Angular | Mark Thompson | 23m |
Claims that Angular is easier to learn backed by a 10,000+ user survey and a 70,000‑student SoloLearn course, plus 70% of orgs staying within the last two… | ||
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