Scott Davis
where else to find them
website:http://thirstyhead.com
github:scottdavis99
mastodon:@scottdavis99@mastodon.social
linkedin:scott-davis-co
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Great International Developer Summit2 editions2024–2025
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on a stage with
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- Hidde de Vries17 talks
- Larene Le Gassick6 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| AI and Ethics: Navigating the Future of Responsible Technology | Great International Developer Summit 2025 | 2025-04-22 |
Tracks the lineage from 420 lines of code Eliza that mirrors user text to modern systems trained on 2 billion pages, shows a real Google Duplex call that… | ||
| Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Accessibility Through AI Innovations | Great International Developer Summit 2025 | 2025-04-22 |
Demonstrates concrete accessibility wins: face‑aware photography on Google Pixel Guided Frame, real‑time transcription that lets a deaf man finally phone his… | ||
| Everyday AI: Practical Applications Beyond the Chatbot | Great International Developer Summit 2025 | 2025-04-22 |
Promises a hands‑on ChatGPT app using PgVector, Langchain and embeddings, but the session actually demos everyday AI: a 1960s Eliza clone (surprisingly 420… | ||
| Meet the Accessibility in Your Pocket | Great International Developer Summit 2025 | 2025-04-22 |
If you think you need to download extra apps or utilities to make your smartphone or laptop more accessible, think again! This session will introduce you to… | ||
| Visibility, Insight, and Action: Cast AI, Prom, Grafana | SREday San Francisco 2025 Q2 | 2025-04-11 |
Shows a concrete integration: a small Cast AI agent injects Kubernetes telemetry, Prometheus scrapes the Cast AI endpoint, and Grafana (or Grafana Alloy)… | ||
| Continuous Accessibility: Adding Lighthouse to Your CI/CD Pipeline | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Shows how to run Google Lighthouse from the CLI and CI/CD to produce HTML/JSON/CSV reports, throttle mobile emulation, and limit audits to accessibility… | ||
| Browser Native Web Development: No Frameworks, Just the Browser | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Claims concrete enough to act on: Netflix removes React from its landing page and records a 50% improvement in time‑to‑interactive; GitHub drops jQuery and… | ||
| Digital Modernization Through Accessibility | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Half of US users search by voice daily and three out of four Gen Z watch videos with captions, so accessibility is now mainstream; the talk demos concrete… | ||
| Accessibility in the Smart Home: Matter and Thread | Great International Developer Summit 2024 | 2024-04-23 |
Matter is an open-source smart‑home protocol backed by Amazon Apple and Google that promises true interoperability — 97% of smart speakers live in those… | ||
| Re-Decentralizing the Web and recapturing our data | XConf North America 2022 | 2022-07-27 |
Claims that the web can be re-decentralized using Solid and Pods, with personal online data stores holding linked data (JSON‑LD, RDF, RDFa, FOAF) controlled by… | ||
| Digital trust and the architecture of participation | XConf Australia 2021 | 2021-10-12 |
Demonstrates a concrete claim: move from vendor-held clouds to Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid personal online data store model, already in pilots with Inrupt + NHS… | ||
| Its Spelled Accessibility not Disability | Developer Summit 2020 | 2020-11-21 |
Claim: making sites accessible boosts SEO, mobile UX and can increase user base by 20% while reaching 1.1 billion disabled users (global market ~ $8 trillion)… | ||
| Adding Speech to your Web App_UIArchitecture | Developer Summit 2020 | 2020-11-21 |
Claims that voice reaches one in five people (over 1.5 billion) and taps an estimated $7 trillion discretionary market, then shows concrete tech: the speech… | ||
| The Wrong Kind of Fast: Embracing Evidence-Based Architecture | Developer Summit 2020 | 2020-11-21 |
Framework CLIs commonly install thousands of packages (1,684–2,500+), producing millions of lines in node_modules (Tokai: ~2.9M) and leaving 86% of JS… | ||
| Putting the Design Back in Architectural Design | Developer Summit 2020 | 2020-11-21 |
Argues that design thinking is a repeatable way to become consciously competent rather than a recipe, elevating empathy as the priority and mapping it to… | ||
| It's Spelled 'Accessibility', not 'Disability' | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Argues that accessibility is universal design with concrete wins: adding WebVTT closed captions and using the browser SpeechSynthesis API takes minutes and… | ||
| It's spelled "accessibility," not "disability" | O'Reilly Fluent Conference 2018 | 2018-06-12 |
Argues that treating accessibility as a niche tied to disability blocks practical gains and that making sites accessible directly increases SEO, improves… | ||
| Conversational UIs: Talking to Siri, Alexa, and Your Web Browser | Oredev 2017 | 2017-11-08 |
Demos show concrete claims and working code: browser text‑to‑speech needs two lines and uses Web Speech API (speechSynthesis), richer pronunciation uses SSML… | ||
| Conversational ULS: Talking to Siri, Alexa, and Your Web Browser | DinosaurJS 2017 | 2017-06-15 |
Demos show concrete tech: the Web Speech API (speech synthesis + recognition), SSML for richer TTS, and browser support notes (Edge implements SSML; many… | ||
| From Relational Databases to NoSQL | Great Indian Developer Summit 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Compares relational databases and NoSQL by linking concrete use cases to concrete stores: transactional banking favors RDBMS with ACID, email and document-like… | ||
| Testing the MEAN Stack | Great Indian Developer Summit 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Demonstrates a full MEAN testing stack that actually runs: Karma test runner orchestrates Jasmine client tests and Mocha server tests, launching… | ||
| If You Won't Test Your Code, Who Will? | Great Indian Developer Summit 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Argues that unit tests buy resilience and catch semantics not syntax, citing a $60B annual US bug cost that testing could cut by about one third, and… | ||
| Exploring Vert.x in Java, Groovy, and JavaScript | Great Indian Developer Summit 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Compares Vert.x to Node.js and RingoJS, shows Vert.x running on the JVM with Netty under the hood, and demonstrates JavaScript, Groovy and Java verticals… | ||
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