title	conference	date
Keynote: Meditations on Software	RailsConf 2022	2022-05-17
Narrative ties software work to a 67 mile walk on the Wildwood Trail and claims burnout lingers long after leaving a job, not just a bad week. Rails console… Talk on
Navigating engineering leadership through the pandemic and beyond	LeadDev New York 2022	2022-04-05
Argues that Jane Jacobs' urban rules map directly onto codebases: shorter “blocks” (more touchpoints) increase collaboration, mixed-use surroundings… Talk on
The Science and Magic of Debugging	RubyConf 2021	2021-11-08
Debugging maps to higher cognitive work: the talk claims bugs are found by iterating a hypothesis cycle that mirrors the scientific method and climbs Bloom's… Talk on
The Cost of Data	RailsConf 2021	2021-04-12
Data centers consume an estimated 200–500 TWh/year, about 1–3% of global electricity, with the UK using ~303 TWh for comparison. AWS pledges 100% renewables by… Talk on
The Cost of Data	CodeLand 2020	2020-07-23
Data centers consume about 200 TWh/year, roughly 1–3% of global electricity, and the tech sector equals the airline industry in carbon footprint; data centers… Talk on
"The Cost of Data"	RubyConf Au 2020	2020-02-20
Cloud data centers consume roughly 200 terawatt‑hours per year (about 1–3% of global electricity) and the sector equals ~2% of greenhouse gases; major… Talk on
What we talk about when we talk about the JavaScript object model	Nordic.js 2019	2019-10-10
Pins down the actual engine: every property has a descriptor with keys value, writable, enumerable and configurable so data properties differ from accessor… Talk on
Inside Rails...	RailsConf 2019	2019-05-01
Explains exactly how an HTTP request becomes a controller method: DNS → TCP/HTTP → web server → use and run in config.ru → Rack ENV hash → middleware chain →… Talk on
Learning How to Learn	TraversalConf 2019	2019-03-28
Claim: deliberately applying the Feynman technique turns struggling study into measurable progress. Details: a yearlong practice of 52 weekly topics backed by… Talk on
Learning How To Learn	StarCon 2019	2019-01-19
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Learning how to Learn	RustFest Paris 2018	2018-05-26
A yearlong self-study produces 52 weekly posts and a public content pipeline — blog → podcast (basecs) → video series on devto — that aims to turn opaque CS… Talk on
Nobody Knows What Time It Is	ScaleConf Colombia 2018	2018-04-27
Starts with sundials, hourglasses and atomic cesium seconds, then shows why clocks drift and NTP fails in distributed systems using a concrete ticket‑booking… Talk on
Re-graphing The Mental Model of The Rails Router	RailsConf 2018	2018-04-17
A concrete claim: the Rails router is implemented as a graph engine (Journey) that tokenizes URLs with a scanner, parses them into syntax trees, then composes… Talk on
Closing Keynote	EmberConf 2018	2018-03-12
A community-building experiment turns into concrete results: a weekly CodeNewbie Twitter chat reaches its 208th session after 207 Twitter chats, a Base.cs blog… Talk on
Goldilocks And The Three Code Reviews	JSConf Budapest 2017	2017-10-26
Surveyed research ties three concrete review types to outcomes: inspections (30–60 minute checklists), short reviews (catching small changes and dropping error… Talk on
The (Non-Perfect) Mathematics of Trust	Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017	2017-09-29
Königsberg’s seven bridges become a clear claim: no path crosses each bridge once, proven by reducing landmasses to nodes and counting degrees. The same… Talk on
Goldilocks and the Three Code Reviews	Red Dot Ruby Conference 2017	2017-06-22
Code reviews catch bugs earlier: formal inspections historically catch ~60% of defects and reduce defects 20–30% per 1,000 LOC, while short reviews drop error… Talk on
Goldilocks and the Three Code Reviews	RedDotRubyConf 2017	2017-06-22
Research shows formal inspections catch ~60% of defects and cut defects by 20–30 per 1000 LOC, while short reviews drop error rates from ~55% to ~2% (others… Talk on
Goldilocks And The Three Code Reviews	RailsConf 2017	2017-04-25
A practical postmortem: a big merged PR causes staging to crash because a duplicate controller slips through review, prompting a ~500 responses survey that… Talk on
A Machine State of Mind	Ruby on Ales 2016	2016-03-31
Argues that mutable state becomes manageable when modeled as explicit states and events, illustrated with an e‑commerce order lifecycle: unplaced → submitted →… Talk on
Debugging Ember With Empathy	EmberConf 2016	2016-03-28
A small CRUD Ember app — a recipe tracker with a grocery-list feature — exposes three concrete bugs and fixes: intermittent missing data because of model hook… Talk on
Experience of Flatiron School	Rails Girls Singapore 2015 (RDRC Edition)	2015-06-05
Bootcamp experience: a cohort of mostly beginners goes through a 12-week immersion centered on Ruby and Rails with daily labs (often 9am to 8pm), pair… Talk on
Q & A with Vaidehi	Rails Girls Singapore 2015 (RDRC Edition)	2015-06-05
Flatiron School bootcamp requires 150 hours of pre-work (Codecademy Ruby track, Rails tutorial, Git/GitHub, SQL), charges about $15,000 tuition, and offers… Talk on
Lightning Talk: Refactoring of Self	RedDotRuby 2015	2015-06-04
Claim: programming practice is literally practice in refactoring of self, not just code. Uses Ruby’s notion of self and a concrete eye‑catching demo of… Lightning on
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