Chris Ward
where else to find them
website:http://chrischinchilla.com
github:ChrisChinchilla
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mastodon:@chrischinchilla@mastodon.social
linkedin:chrischinchilla
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what they talk about
all 10 in the filters
where they keep going back
- droidcon Berlin2 editions2022–2025
all 12 in the filters
on a stage with
- Alex Saalfeldonce
- Markus Gillesonce
who talks about the same things
- Lorna Jane Mitchell46 talks
- Cecy Correa8 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Andrew Knight34 talks
- Ryan Macklin8 talks
- Kevin Murphy9 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Systems Design interviews for people who hate Systems Design interviews | droidcon Berlin 2025 | 2025-09-24 |
Practical checklist for surviving a systems design interview: focus on structuring a timebox to 45 minutes with a high-level diagram first, then one deep dive… | ||
| Systems Design interviews for people who hate Systems Design interviews | TechLead Conference 2025: AI in Orgs | 2025-09-18 |
Explains why system design interviews are replacing live coding and gives concrete tactics: timebox and high-level first then deep dive, ask about offline… | ||
| A short guide to creating interactive fiction | Heapcon 2022 | 2022-11-03 |
History-to-modern claim: interactive fiction resurges in niche web and indie spaces and ships as plain HTML or inside engines. Tools named and used: Twine (web… | ||
| Coding for Good: Achieving social change with an app | droidcon New York 2022 | 2022-09-01 |
An app is built in a week using a hacked WordPress front end, a from‑scratch PHP web API, MySQL and jQuery on £2.99 hosting; emails are queued and throttled by… | ||
| Green Tech Development & Social Responsibility | droidcon Berlin 2022 | 2022-07-06 |
Panel traces concrete wins and tools: a grassroots app once sends 15,000 emails led to Lords passing by 250 votes; Klima offers Klima: personalized CO2… | ||
| Concurrency for Imposters | droidcon Berlin 2022 | 2022-07-06 |
Explains why Kotlin coroutines beat ad-hoc threads for UI responsiveness, showing coroutines compiled to a simple state machine that suspends blocking work and… | ||
| Automate your API to perfection | Apidays LIVE Paris 2020 | 2020-12-08 |
Shows an API-first workflow using an OpenAPI spec (the m3 example) and live tooling rather than theory: imports to Swagger Editor, Postman, Paw and Insomnia… | ||
| An introduction to developer experience, and the role of a documentarian | Write the Docs Australia & India 2020 | 2020-12-03 |
A d-x-p-o-s-e livestream shows 45–60 minute experiments building developer-focused projects and records concrete failures and fixes: form-gated downloads and… | ||
| Documentation beyond words | Write the Docs Prague 2017 | 2017-09-10 |
Uploader notes a technical error so the video is shorter than advertised. Claims images and interactive media beat verbose restatements and shows concrete… | ||
| Explain Yourself! Documentation for Better Code | LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europe 2016 | 2016-10-04 |
Explains concrete steps: write a one‑line elevator pitch, use Markdown stored with code in git, and version docs per releases; prefer short active sentences… | ||
| Developer Health | Voxxed Days Vienna 2016 | 2016-03-16 |
Developers sit 8–12 hours a day which links to major health risks, so a mixed approach of sitting, standing and short movement breaks works better than… | ||
| Geek Health | Reject.JS 2015 | 2015-09-24 |
Claims concrete fixes: brain uses 20% of energy during heavy thinking, so mental work drains; sitting too long harms circulation and posture so alternate desks… | ||
| Documenting your Story: Crafting a good presentation | Write the Docs Europe 2015 | 2015-08-31 |
Limit slides to five meaningful points, use high-contrast readable visuals and copyright-cleared high-res images, and put supporting detail in notes so the… | ||
| Understanding Databases for Distributed Docker Applications | Berlin Buzzwords 2015 | 2015-05-31 |
An open source distributed DB built on Lucene and Elasticsearch with a custom SQL planner uses Docker plus Weave to spin clusters across hosts; a live demo… | ||
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