Jez Higgins
where else to find them
website:http://www.jezuk.co.uk/
github:jezhiggins
bluesky:jezhiggins.bsky.social
mastodon:@jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk
what they talk about
all 5 in the filters
where they keep going back
- ACCU4 editions2017–2025
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Justin Falcone5 talks
- Joe Armstrong15 talks
- Vaibhav Sagar6 talks
- Paolo "Nusco" Perrotta15 talks
- Chris Allen8 talks
- Jodie Burchell18 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| A Very Small Language Model | ACCU 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
A working tiny language model gets built in about an hour using a JavaScript Markov chain implementation: a tokenizer generator, a Chain class that records… | ||
| Typesetting With Brian Kernighan | ACCU 2024 | 2024-04-17 |
A concise tour showing that Brian Kernighan not only authors but typesets 12–15 books, moving from PDP phototypesetters to commodity laptops; he and… | ||
| Snakes Into Snake Oil - What Blockchains Are And Why They’re Terrible | ACCU 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Explains blockchains as a hash‑pointer chain plus Merkle trees and signed transactions, secured by a proof-of-work nonce lottery that yields 10‑minute Bitcoin… | ||
| A Browse Through ES2016 | ACCU 2017 | 2017-04-24 |
Covers concrete ES2015+ changes and how to use them now: let/const block scope replaces var, generators + iterators enable lazy pipelines (example: Lucas… | ||
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