Aaron Powell
where else to find them
website:https://www.aaron-powell.com
github:aaronpowell
bluesky:aaronpowell.bsky.social
bluesky:aaron-powell.com
mastodon:@slace@hachyderm.io
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what they talk about
all 13 in the filters
where they keep going back
- NDC Sydney7 editions2016–2026
- NDC Melbourne2 editions2022–2025
- NDC London2 editions2017–2021
all 7 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Rob Conery16 talks
- Tejas Kumar66 talks
- Chris Klug27 talks
- Josh Goldberg34 talks
- Stefan Baumgartner20 talks
- Simona Cotin38 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| From Pair to Peer Programmer | NDC Sydney 2026 | 2026-04-22 |
Argues that AI has shifted from autocomplete to chat assistants to full cloud agents, and shows concrete workflows: prompt patterns, CLI integrations, and… | ||
| Levelling up your dev workflow with .NET Aspire | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Tooling walkthrough showing .NET Aspire as an orchestrator that boots an eShop with nine services, starts Postgres, Redis and RabbitMQ in Docker, injects… | ||
| Generative AI for the .NET Developer | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
A .NET app wired to Azure OpenAI and a Postgres + PGVector store indexes ~1,000 podcast episodes (embedding vectors of ~1,536 dims) — indexing takes about a… | ||
| Minimal API +SPA, a perfect match | .NET Conf 2023 Student Zone | 2023-11-13 |
A compact demo that pairs ASP.NET Minimal API (targeting .NET 8) with Vite + React + TypeScript, building a backend that asynchronously reads and writes a… | ||
| Type safe GraphQL with TypeScript | NDC Melbourne 2022 | 2022-06-20 |
Builds a trivia API schema (games, players, questions, answers) and uses Apollo Server on Azure Functions plus React clients; runs graphql-code-generator to… | ||
| Unleash the Power of Visual Studio Code | NDC Melbourne 2022 | 2022-06-20 |
Practical VS Code tips and demos show how to stop wrestling with setups and make the editor do work: use Dev Containers or GitHub Codespaces to standardize and… | ||
| Type-safe GraphQL with TypeScript | OpenJS World 2021 | 2021-06-02 |
Shows how to get end-to-end TypeScript safety by generating types from a GraphQL schema and using them on server and client. Uses graphql-code-generator to… | ||
| Unleash the Power of VS Code | NDC London 2021 | 2021-01-25 |
Demonstrates concrete VS Code workflows: use Ctrl+P command palette to run actions and open files, enable organize imports on save to auto-sort imports, and… | ||
| TypeScript + GitHub Codespaces | TSConf 2020 | 2020-10-09 |
Demonstrates that TypeScript + GitHub Codespaces runs full VS Code in the browser, executes npm and dev servers remotely, and live-forwards ports so a React… | ||
| Unleash the Power of VS Code | NDC Sydney 2020 | 2020-08-31 |
Explains concrete ways VS Code becomes a full IDE: shows Control+P and command-palette navigation, demonstrates keyboard macros and snippets, and uses tasks to… | ||
| Being cheap with the cloud | NDC Sydney 2019 | 2019-10-14 |
Shows how a conference webapp and a personal blog move from a $60/month MVC site to a static SPA architecture that runs under a few dollars a month (personal… | ||
| The beauty of stupid ideas | NDC Sydney 2018 | 2018-09-17 |
A JS IoC is implemented by extracting argument names via regex on function.toString to wire dependencies; a handcrafted git-backed tic‑tac‑toe models positions… | ||
| Docker, FROM scratch | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Starts from the absolute basics and actually runs examples: a Docker CLI tour with 14 live demos, running Ubuntu and node containers, showing volumes, port… | ||
| Docker, FROM scratch | NDC Sydney 2017 | 2017-08-14 |
Starts from Docker basics and shows concrete commands and outcomes: running isolated Ubuntu containers with docker run -it -v and port binding, creating… | ||
| Redux, beyond React | NDC Sydney 2017 | 2017-08-14 |
Explains how Redux actually works (actions → reducers → store), shows middleware, observables via system.observable and Rx integration, and demos: a console… | ||
| The beauty of stupid ideas | NDC London 2017 | 2017-01-16 |
A string-parsed IoC container is implemented in JavaScript using Function.toString regex, proving dependency names can be extracted but offering little… | ||
| Redux, beyond React | NDC London 2017 | 2017-01-16 |
Argues Redux is framework-agnostic and shows it running outside React: demonstrates a Knockout binding that wires store state to observables, a custom JS Redux… | ||
| Beyond console.log | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Practical demo of browser devtools across Chrome, Edge and Firefox, showing concrete commands and tricks rather than theory: use console.table, console.assert… | ||
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