Katie McLaughlin
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what they talk about
all 17 in the filters
where they keep going back
- PyCon AU3 editions2016–2023
- DjangoCon US2 editions2017–2018
- RubyConf Au2 editions2017–2018
all 9 in the filters
on a stage with
- Simon Willison2×
- Abby Careyonce
- Adam Fastonce
all 20 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Noah Kantrowitz16 talks
- Mario Munoz12 talks
- Christopher Neugebauer29 talks
- Raphael Merx5 talks
- Julia Evans14 talks
- Trey Hunner23 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Specialist Tracks Combined Opening Address | PyCon AU 2023 | 2023-08-18 |
Opening plenary in Hall C starts with venue rules, mask policy and a visible safety team (red badges) then quickly sketches four concrete specialist tracks: a… | ||
| Present like a pro! | PyCon AU 2023 | 2023-08-18 |
Clear, actionable rules: an 8-step plan to go from idea to timed script and slides, aim for one slide per minute and time with a stopwatch, keep text >20pt and… | ||
| Serverless demo derby | Google I/O 2021 | 2021-05-18 |
Three short demos show concrete outcomes: using Buildpacks to produce a Node.js container image without writing a Dockerfile, running that image locally in the… | ||
| What is deployment, anyway? | PyCon US 2020 | 2020-04-15 |
A clear checklist: deployment means copying code, running a production web server, migrating a real database and serving static assets — not using the… | ||
| Deploying Django on Serverless Infrastructure | PyCon US 2020 | 2020-04-15 |
Shows a hands‑on path to take a sample Django app from source and local Docker Compose to a working serverless deployment on Google Cloud: creates Cloud SQL… | ||
| Turning 'wat' into 'why' | PyCascades 2019 | 2019-02-23 |
Walks through concrete gotchas and why they happen: JavaScript uses the ECMAScript ToPrimitive algorithm so []+{} becomes "object Object" and + does string… | ||
| Lightning Talks Day 1 | DjangoCon US 2018 | 2018-10-14 |
Nine minute bursts report concrete takeaways: automated screenshots built with selenium + chrome headless + pytest and fixtures; a geojson GitHub feeds a… | ||
| ORM: The Sequel | DjangoCon US 2018 | 2018-10-14 |
An existing Django project is explored using the django shell and automatic imports from django extensions plus graphviz to generate a UML PNG of models, map… | ||
| ORM: The Sequel | DjangoCon Europe 2018 | 2018-05-23 |
A running demo of the UnicodeX app shows how to inspect schema and rows from the manage.py shell, enumerate models via Model._meta.get_fields, and run queries… | ||
| JavaScript is Awe-ful | RubyConf AU 2018 | 2018-03-08 |
JavaScript: the language developers love to hate. It is full of WATs, UGHs, and other annoyances; and yet this 22-year-old programming language is the… | ||
| The Power ⚡️ and Responsibility 😓 of Unicode Adoption ✨ | NDC London 2018 | 2018-01-15 |
Unicode adoption unlocks emoji but breaks in surprising ways: Android’s early heart and horse artwork wildly misrepresent meanings, Slack lags two years behind… | ||
| Lightning Talks Day 1 | DjangoCon US 2017 | 2017-08-13 |
Eight rapid demos report concrete work and outcomes: Yamdl: YAML-backed RRM loads text files into an in‑memory SQLite (shared URI requires Python 3.4) and… | ||
| The Power and Responsibility of Unicode Adoption | DjangoCon US 2017 | 2017-08-13 |
Argues that adopting Unicode is practical not theoretical: use UTF-8 by default, test cross‑vendor renderings, and expect surprising mismatches (Android blobs… | ||
| How to handle abandoned projects, Take Two | PyCon AU 2017 | 2017-08-03 |
A practical, experience-led runthrough of what actually works when code becomes abandoned: explains that GitHub fork is not a real fork (issues disabled by… | ||
| The Power and Responsibility of Unicode Adoption | RubyConf AU 2017 | 2017-02-09 |
Argument: default to Unicode and specifically use UTF-8 (not ASCII or Latin-1); Ruby handles emoji as characters and even as variable names while Python does… | ||
| The Power ⚡️ and Responsibility 😓 of Unicode Adoption ✨ | PyCon AU 2016 | 2016-08-12 |
Unicode adoption shows concrete tradeoffs: platform vendors implement emoji differently so a single code point yields divergent images (yellow heart, flushed… | ||
| Build a Better Hat Rack: All Contributions Welcome | PyCon Australia 2015 | 2015-07-31 |
Argues that noncode work is routinely invisible and shows concrete fixes including a five step write a list about someone else hat rack protocol a public… | ||
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