If you’ve given the same talk the year before at the very same conference, chances are that we’re not going to accept it. Live-coding is a skill that’s incredibly hard to master, if you submit that, I wanna see proof that you can deliver. See @chriseidhof for inspiration.
@steipete
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Beyond Surface-Level: Demanding Serious Experience in Tech Talks
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If your talk is basically a “Read DOT me”, a basic introduction to a new technology – I rank it low. There’s usually a plethora of existing talks out there already. Unlike you show that you have some *serious* experience or new angle in working with X, the talk won’t be exciting.
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Tech Conference Talks: Spotting Disguised Product Advertisements
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If you work at Big Tech or $startup, and your talk basically presents tech that you build there, you are not submitting a talk, you are submitting a 40-minute-long *advertisement*. Immediate disqualification. Shame on you! Yes, that also applies if your tech is open core.
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Evaluating Conference Talk Proposals: Insights and Perspectives
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This year I had the honour to be part of the team at @swiftheroes_it that evaluates the talk proposals in their Call for Papers. A few thoughts on it. Ah, who am I kidding, rant time!
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Mac version performs well, Intel requires more RAM
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Nah their Mac version works quite well. Using it here. Intel needs even more RAM
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Messaging Apps Comparison: Signal, Telegram and Meta Platforms
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I tried, gave up. This is worse than Don Quijote, plus Signal isn’t that good, and Telegram isn’t much better than Meta.
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Decentralized Platforms Face Compliance and Data Governance Challenges
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Just sad that it has this bad vibe of all the conspiracy folks being there and not cooperating with government deletion requests.
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Modern Jailbreak Tools Are Broken and Unmaintained
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Most modern JB tools are broken/unmaintained :/