TraversalConf 2019
2019-03-28
Austin, United States
who it's for
frontend developers, engineering managers, product designers, software engineers, educators and makers, civic technologists, security engineers
topics
Feynman technique; client-side encryption; React and Redux; WebAssembly performance workarounds; perceptual learning experiments; Kaizen and feedback rubrics; Rails Action View compilation; template-to-method rendering; color theory for interfaces; contrast-ratio accessibility; Scratch with Clarifai; civic tech procurement reform
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Learning How to Learn | Vaidehi Joshi | 48m |
Claim: deliberately applying the Feynman technique turns struggling study into measurable progress. Details: a yearlong practice of 52 weekly topics backed by… | ||
| Your Data is Showing | Madison Kerndt | 42m |
Conference claims that breaches grow because systems fragment (mobile, cloud, microservices), cites Equifax losing half of American adults and ~30 missed… | ||
| Cultivating Instinct | Katrina Owen | 28m |
Argues that intuition is teachable by perceptual learning and gives concrete experiments: Eleanor Gibson’s swivel trials show recognition without explicit… | ||
| Taking Lead | Marty Haught | 59m |
Personal leadership emerges as concrete practices not grand phrases: running a small business for 13 years, founding Boulder Ruby and rescuing legacy projects… | ||
| The View is Clear From Here | Aaron Patterson | 54m |
Rails Action View templates compile into methods so the team measures compiled method sizes (≈1,200 bytes) and shows performance improvements: naive ERB… | ||
| Mechanically Confident | Adam Cuppy | 38m |
Claim: confidence comes from rehearsed routines and triggers not years of experience. Evidence: interns trip on familiar bugs until screen layout, editor color… | ||
| TMNT Guide to Color Theory | Louisa Barrett | 41m |
A practical tour of color for interfaces that names methods and numbers: colors fall into three groups (warm, cool, neutral), use complementary split triad… | ||
| Read, Write, and Tinker with AI | Stefania Druga | 52m |
Claims that children can build and train simple AI get tested with concrete tools and results: a Scratch-based platform called cocky beats plus Scratch +… | ||
| Past, Present and Future of Civic Tech | Jennifer Pahlka | 01h 03m |
History and concrete outcomes: a civic tech pipeline launches Code for America in 2009, spins up US Digital Service and 18F, and intervenes on healthcare.gov… | ||
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