2021 Lightning Talks Speaker Info
Time: 11:05 - 11:15
Speaker: @BekahHW
Topic Title: The Joy of Dev Life: A Bob Ross Approach
Bio:
Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then she has started a consultancy specializing in front-end development, created a developer community called Virtual Coffee, stayed active on Twitter and in tech-related slack groups, spoke on podcasts and at conferences, and has continued to mom her four kids. Prior to tech, she spent 10 years teaching college English, three years organizing events and community, and fully embraces being a writer of many genres: code, non-fiction, screenplay, poetry, curriculum.
Social:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BekahHW
- Website: https://bekahhw.github.io
- Virtual Coffee: https://virtualcoffee.io
Talk Description:
Bob Ross once said "[Coders] are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.” Ok, well that's not what he said. He really said, “We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.” But it would be nice if we all were a happy bunch, right? So let's take some of that Bob Ross wisdom and apply it to dev life. And then maybe we, too, can be a happy bunch.
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Time: 11:15 - 11:35
Speaker: @Rafi
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I’m a developer who works mostly in Javascript. I build things, talk tech and write things. I do love learning human languages 🙂
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Time: 11:35 - 11:45
Speaker: @Vic
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Vic is a principal software engineer at Research Square, a preprint platform. When he’s not at his day job he works on his bootstrapped startup Everyoak - a school management system. Vic is addicted to building things.
Social:
- VicVijayakumar.com
- http://twitter.com/vicvijayakumar
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Time: 11:45 - 11:50
Speaker: @Barbara
Topic Title: Coding Challenges - not just for whiteboarding
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Barbara is currently transitioning into a new career as a full-stack developer from life as a stay-at-home parent to two wild little ones. When she's not solving coding challenges or building clients' sites she enjoys reading all the books, learning spoken languages, and picking up random hobbies like balloon animal twisting.
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I'm a beginner and want to share how participating in coding challenges like Advent of Code, Scrimba weekly challenges, and Codewars have increased my confidence, opened up communities and conversations for me, and brought focus to my study.
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https://slides.com/blawblawlaw/deck
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Time: 11:50 - 12:00
Speaker: @Mike Rogers
Topic Title: Docker For Developer Happiness
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Independent Founder & YouTuber from in the UK, who primarily works with Ruby on Rails.
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Docker allowed me to extract lots of my apps complexity by reducing the amount of dependencies I had to install. I want to share information about how to get up & going, with enough working knowledge to have fun :D
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https://talks.mikerogers.io/docker-for-developer-happiness/
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Time: 12:00-12:10
Speaker: Chris Demars
Topic Title: A11Y
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Chris DeMars is a Developer Advocate at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest lender, based in Detroit, Michigan. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks all over the world on web accessibility, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert. Chris loves coming up with solutions for all types of applications, which include modular CSS architectures, performance, and advocating for web accessibility. When he is not working on making the web great and inclusive you can find him writing blog posts, rating Detroit Style Pizza, and watching horror movies.
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Twitter: @saltnburnem Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/saltnburnem313
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Time 12:20-12:35
Speaker: @Kirk
Topic Title: Fuzz-Testing in Typescript
Bio
- A full stack developer in the Caribbean interested in Functional Programming, Domain Driven Development, and Security
Social
- @KirkCodes on Twitter
Talk Description:
This talk is a brief introduction to property-based testing by showing examples of the fast-check testing framework in JavaScript. We cover introducing both general and property based tests to a small react application.
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Time 12:35 - 12:45
Speaker: Courtney Landau
Topic Title: Breaking down coding problems in interviews
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Courtney is a software engineer currently working at an early-stage startup in the Education Technology space. Previously in the medical imaging field, she’s been working in the industry since 2019 after obtaining her Master’s in Information Sciences. She works on full-stack web applications using primarily TypeScript and JavaScript, built on a cloud platform. For fun she likes to run, play board games with her family, and (when safe) patronize local independent restaurants and breweries.
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- Twitter: https://twitter.com/sosuperc
- Website: https://celandau.com
Talk Description:
Courtney will discuss the steps she uses to break down a coding problem during an interview.
Slides Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rYkA9jQvsStPP4Ht9Gw4fVMD4rBBLW6r941QDs7dYIY/edit?usp=sharing
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Time 12:45 - 12:55
Speaker: @Glen
Glen bio:
Glen McCallum is a builder of things, sometimes software, with a Masters in Computer Science. A true INFJ, he likes helping people without drawing attention to himself. He works as an Engineering Manager for Independent Publishers Group. Ex-Oracle. Herder of goats. Proud owner of an artificial pancreas.
Glen title:
My journey from independent contributor to engineering manager
Glen links:
https://glenmccallum.com/ https://twitter.com/glenmccallumcan glen.mccallum@protonmail.com
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Time 12:55 - 1:10
Speaker: @Marie
Bio:
Marie Antons, from Cedar Rapids Iowa. I changed careers from the culinary industry to software development in 2020 after living in Bermuda for four years. I work for a small start-up called STRATAFOLIO located in Cedar Rapids,Iowa. In my free time I enjoy exploring new places, sailing, and continuing my passion for cooking.
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Time 1:10 - 1:30
Speaker: @Nerando
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This is Nerando, he enjoys using programming to solve problems. Nerando has been a community organizer for freeCodeCamp Atlanta for over the last two - three years. Most recently, he recently completed the Flatiron School's FullStack Software Engineering Immersive (completed Sept 2019) and has been a QA/ Jnr Software Engineer at WarnerMedia. He like to cook and collect Legoes.
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Twitter : https://twitter.com/nerajno Email: Iamnerandojohnson@gmail.com
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Time 1:30-1:40
Speaker: @Todd Libby
Topic Title
Start your A11y Journey: How to Become an Accessibility Advocate
Bio
Todd Libby is a web developer, designer, and accessibility advocate from South Portland, Maine with over twenty years of professional experience, over forty years of programming experience total. Having been self-taught in everything from BASIC to React, Todd is an avid developer, loves what he does, and has a passion for learning, teaching, advocating and lobster rolls.
Social
https://toddl.dev/ - Personal Site https://twitter.com/toddlibby - Twitter https://twitch.tv/toddlibby - Twitch Learning in Public code and design https://anchor.fm/frontendnerdery - Front End Nerdery Podcast: Front End Dev and other topics https://www.youtube.com/c/ToddLibby44 - YouTube https://codepen.io/colabottles - CodePen https://github.com/colabottles - GitHub https://buttondown.email/colabottles - My Newsletter about what’s up and what’s going on! https://instagram.com/colabottles207 - IG page https://linkedin.com/in/todd-libby - LinkedIn https://open.spotify.com/user/six03?si=h_wUqMMBToCc90h8HSBteQ - Spotify and the Front End Nerdery Discord - https://discord.gg/JpdV2Srvs7
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Time 1:40-2:10
Speaker: @DanOtt
Topic Title: Graceful Solutions to Tricky Layouts w/ CSS Grid
Bio:
Dan Ott has been an independent front-end designer and developer for over 15 years. He is a maintainer at Virtual Coffee, co-founder/organizer of Cleveland React, and father to two ridiculous little boys.
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Web: https://dtott.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/danieltott
Talk Description:
Layout on web pages has always been a bit of a hack. The first web pages were simply documents, and so HTML (and later, CSS) had tools simply for enhancing the look and feel of a document, as opposed to placing elements in certain areas on a page. At some point designers started trying to make web pages that looked more like magazine articles or computer applications, but had to work with document-related tools to do so. Table layouts, CSS positioning, floats, even flexbox - none of these technologies were initially meant for page layout. CSS Grid is that tool. CSS Grid is powerful and complex, and introduces syntax and concepts to CSS that have not been seen before. This can make getting started with it seem overwhelming even for an experienced developer! In this Lightning Talk, I'm going to concentrate on a small chunk of the CSS Grid spec, and show some examples of how CSS Grid can solve some common-but-annoying layouts with just a few lines of CSS, and if we have time, maybe look at some cool tricks along the way.
