Julia Evans
where else to find them
website:http://jvns.ca
github:jvns
bluesky:b0rk.jvns.ca
mastodon:@b0rk@social.jvns.ca
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speakerdeck:jvns
what they talk about
all 10 in the filters
where they keep going back
- !!Con3 editions2016–2021
- Strange Loop3 editions2014–2023
all 7 in the filters
on a stage with
- Lindsey Kuperonce
who talks about the same things
- Kerri Miller19 talks
- Bryan Liles42 talks
- Dylan Beattie81 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Jonan Scheffler12 talks
- Noah Kantrowitz16 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Making Hard Things Easy | Strange Loop 2023 | 2023-09-21 |
Claims why basics stay hard include hidden caches and invisible libraries, sprawling codebases (the browser has 20 million lines), and surprising execution… | ||
| Keynote: Learning DNS | RubyConf Mini 2022 | 2022-11-15 |
Claim: understanding DNS took about 16 years of tiny deep dives but yields clear wins. Tools used: dig and Wireshark to inspect packets, a live experiment on… | ||
| How !!Con came to be! | !!Con 2021 | 2021-05-15 |
Origin story traces to 2013 when colleagues invent a fake conference to get one attendee’s travel covered, then actually build it: a programming‑focused CFP… | ||
| Can we (sometimes) go back to print documentation? | Write the Docs Portland 2020 | 2020-08-09 |
Argues that some core documentation is stable enough to justify physical publishing: a solo publisher called wizard Zen condenses big topics into 24-page… | ||
| How !!Con came to be... and its future! | !!Con 2018 | 2018-05-12 |
Origin story and logistics: a conference born in 2013-14 from a joke that required a website and a CFP now reports nearly 300 proposals this year, pays for… | ||
| Keynotes 'So you want to be a wizard?' | StarCon 2018 | 2018-01-06 |
Claims that asking dumb questions is a superpower and shows concrete methods: reads source code to find mystery strings, runs experiments like 100 Python… | ||
| Systems programming as a swiss army knife | Strange Loop 2016 | 2016-09-16 |
Demos run three mysteries — missing configuration, a slow program and a French website — and resolve them with concrete observations: estrace shows which file… | ||
| Closing Keynote | RustConf 2016 | 2016-09-09 |
Argues that Rust makes systems experiments practical and teaches real systems concepts by showing actual projects: a keyboard driver wired with assembly and… | ||
| How to trick a neural network! | !!Con 2016 | 2016-05-30 |
Demonstrates that a Google‑trained image classifier can be nudged from “giant panda” to “vulture” by computing gradients and applying many tiny pixel… | ||
| Opening Words | !!Con 2016 | 2016-05-30 |
Organizers welcome a doubled crowd, name five of six organizers and note Alex Clemmer is en route, thank listed sponsors managed by Q dev bootcamp stride… | ||
| How to Trick a Neural Network | PyData Berlin 2016 | 2016-05-20 |
Implements the adversarial-examples recipe from "Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples" using GoogleNet downloaded into Caffe and runnable as a… | ||
| You can be a kernel hacker! | Strange Loop 2014 | 2014-09-17 |
Claim: kernel hacking is approachable and immediately useful, not mystical. Concrete tools shown include strace for watching system calls, perf and ftrace for… | ||
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