Tagged “talks”

I'm a keyboard nerd. I think if you are spending most of your days sitting at a desk, you may as well make it nice. For me, its all about ergonomic forms and layouts, but in this talk I get into the world of keyboard styling, meetups, hacking, competitions, and history. Its a very visual talk and somehow I managed to deliver these ~120 slides in 1 hour. Slides and source here. Key takeaways... [read more]

At Udemy we had a two day workshop/game given a couple times a year for anyone who wanted to join. It was a fun way of introducing penetration testing to web application developers. As a developer we may know to use the right database library that prevents things like an SQL injection, but do we really ever get to experience a real SQL injection? So we review the top 10 web vulnerabilities, put on... [read more]

When I was working at Udemy, there was a new charter for all services to communicate internally via grpc, and all for public facing traffic to use GraphQL. Some teams were using these technologies a bit, but for most of them these were both new technologies to learn. Since I had GraphQL experience from previous jobs, I was tasked with doing this work for my team, Adaptive Assessments. This was one... [read more]

In 2018, my buddy Jory John was nudging me to read and listen to some personal finance stuff that was going around. I enjoyed it, and it was a wake up call for me to get my ducks in order. I made plans to aggressively pay off our debts, learned how to methodically save, consolidated my accounts, and figured out index fund investing for retirement (which I had always felt daunted by). After... [read more]

This is a presentation I seem to give every couple years. It can be 30 minutes to an hour depending on the venue, and if there is a hands on juggling lesson at the end. In 2015 I went to see a friend do a presentation at Nerd Nite East Bay about Native Bees. There were some other interesting talks and one was about competitive dodgeball leagues. The audience was very entertained with the idea... [read more]

When I was living in New Haven there was a thriving Pecha Kutcha group, so I gave a couple talks. Here is my 6 minute introduction to free/libre software, for non-technical people. ... [read more]