A 2025 year-in-review focusing on advocacy work for database professionals, AI integration, and practical tech leadership at conferences.
Analyzes the financial realities and motivations behind paid technical speaking at conferences, including who is the 'product' and why speakers do it.
A critique comparing two JavaScript conferences, JSNation and React Summit, analyzing their technical depth and alignment with user needs.
A developer discusses the common emotional 'crash' after tech conferences, explaining its causes and sharing personal coping strategies.
A critique of Jack Dorsey's keynote at FOSDEM, arguing billionaires and their harmful ventures are unwelcome in the free software community.
A Google developer reflects on public speaking in 2024, discussing talks on the Baseline project, CSS, and the unique value of tech conferences.
A developer reflects on a year of professional growth, including work at Meta, conference speaking, and starting a new role at WorkOS.
A developer shares a detailed guide on how to effectively prepare for, attend, and follow up after a tech conference, based on personal experience.
A calendar of major virtualization conferences for 2024, including VMware Explore, Nutanix .NEXT, and Microsoft Ignite, with dates and locations.
A review of 2023 from a full-time open source maintainer, covering conference speaking, financials, and project work.
A developer reflects on their 2023 conference speaking experiences, sharing lessons learned and analyzing specific tech talks on topics like positive communication and static analysis.
A developer shares personal experiences and advice on overcoming social anxiety to network effectively at tech conferences.
A personal 2023 year-in-review by Kent C. Dodds, covering the launch of Epic Web, numerous speaking engagements, and family life.
A web developer discusses the value of personal perspective in tech talks and blog posts, encouraging others to share their unique stories.
A front-end developer criticizes the Modern Frontends Live event for poor treatment of speakers and attendees, sharing warnings from other speakers.
A developer shares their process and answers FAQs about applying to speak at tech conferences, covering submissions, preparation, and networking.
A behind-the-scenes look at how the program committee used data and tools to select talks for the Current 2022 and Kafka Summit tech conferences.
A program committee chair shares common mistakes in tech conference talk abstracts and provides tips for writing better submissions.
A developer's monthly digest covering books, courses, and personal reflections on attending tech conferences like app.js and Devoxx Poland.
Author shares key takeaways from a Pluralsight Author Summit on interactive labs, live video, and in-person events, plus updates on upcoming tech tutorials.
