Dom Davis
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- ACCU8 editions2017–2025
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- John Nicholsononce
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- Joel Lord33 talks
- Coraline Ada Ehmke24 talks
- Heidi Waterhouse49 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| An Introduction To Go Lang | ACCU 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Quick, practical tour of Go fundamentals with concrete code: how files and packages compile with go build and go mod, use of fmt for output and gofmt for… | ||
| Mental Health in Software Development - Tanzt kaputt, was euch kaputt macht! | ACCU 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
A public confession of long-term depression, a birthday-timed autism diagnosis and ongoing self-harm appears alongside concrete practices that change teams: an… | ||
| WTF?! | ACCU 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Argues that modelling a messy electrochemical brain with digital Boolean systems fails, claiming AGI is doomed unless computation moves beyond binary to… | ||
| How to Maximize the Benefits of Neurodiversity in Software Development & Support Neurodivergent Devs | ACCU 2024 | 2024-04-17 |
Claims that autistic brains prune ~40% of synapses vs ~16% in autism and that ADHD involves prefrontal/executive network neurotransmitter differences underpin… | ||
| MOAR Submarines - Vanguard Class Nuclear Submarine | ACCU 2024 | 2024-04-17 |
Vanguard class carries 16 Trident II D5 SLBMs with up to eight warheads each (variable yield quoted 0.3–100 kt), so a full load is roughly equivalent to… | ||
| The Story Of The Code | ACCU 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Argues that code is a living narrative and gives concrete examples: running create‑react‑app pulls 1589 packages and the demo project contains 1,259,920 lines… | ||
| A Generic Talk About Go | ACCU 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Live coding in GoLand and the terminal with Go 1.19, including a working FizzBuzz, an in-place sort over a custom slice-of-structs type, and a config/flags… | ||
| Remote Is a Four Letter Word | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Argues that “remote” is the wrong word and that successful teams have long been distributed not remote, citing a 1990s support rota with offices in London… | ||
| Throwing Graphs at COVID | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Live coding builds a simple contact-tracing simulator using Go structs and pointers and a Neo4j backend queried with Cypher. Code creates 100 person nodes… | ||
| This One's for my Mum | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Claim: programming is composing, not magic — treat code as musical score that a machine interprets like a musician reads notation. Schools expect universal… | ||
| Beelzebub Has A Devil Put Aside For Me | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Claim: USB-C is a connector not a protocol and the port says almost nothing about the data that travels over the wire. Thunderbolt is a separate, faster… | ||
| Hi, I'm Dom, and I Have Depression! | ACCU 2021 Online | 2021-03-10 |
Candid account of living with clinical depression and probable borderline personality disorder, describing medicines that flatten mood swings, episodes of… | ||
| Rap Battle | Nor(DEV):con 2020 | 2020-02-27 |
It wasn't immediately obvious that the muzak was being piped into our Camera along with the microphone feeds. It has lead to some pretty amusing outtakes, this… | ||
| Introduction | Nor(DEV):con 2020 | 2020-02-27 |
Morning housekeeping and orientation for the venue with exact room locations (conference rooms, boardroom, training rooms), toilet locations including toilets… | ||
| Introduction | Nor(DEV):con 2020 | 2020-02-27 |
Five-minute opening covers logistics and tone rather than technical content: VR racing sponsor stand with prizes, cake labeled vanilla (yellow pots) and… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 5 - Dom Davis | Nor(DEV):con 2020 | 2020-02-27 |
Argues that source alone is insufficient and shows concrete fixes: runs a Go example where the linter rejects an exported function for missing a comment, the… | ||
| Outro | Nor(DEV):con 2020 | 2020-02-27 |
Projector failures in multiple rooms cause a few technical restarts but the schedule still finishes; volunteers hand out gifts and manage doors, with specific… | ||
| It’s People! Code is made out of people! | ACCU 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Argues that the hard part of software is people, not languages, and backs it with concrete examples: a tiny Go wing it function used onstage, commissioning… | ||
| If You’re Happy and You Know It (Inside the Mind of a Developer) | ACCU 2018 | 2018-04-11 |
Shows how ambiguous requirements and casual language turn into bugs by translating nursery rhymes into code and exposing real failures such as Mars Climate… | ||
| Passwords. Are. Not. Hard! | ACCU 2017 | 2017-04-24 |
Argues that complexity rules weaken security: forcing mixed-case, digits and symbols often reduces entropy from ~10^16 (96^8) to ~10^13 and GPUs (e.g. a GTX… | ||
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