Talks I attended, and thoughts

  • How to build a meaningful career- Taylor Poindexter, Scott Hanselman
    • good patter
    • “there are no professionals… every programming languge I learned in school no longer exists… except C. Maybe we should all use C ""
    • “trading social wealth”
    • “my talk had two people show up- one developer from the nebraska department of forestry, and a priest.”
    • “this is a video of me going into an empty office during the pandemic, resigning, and pouring myself a drink in teh empty office”
    • “:do you know who that was?” no words after that- that never goes well.
    • dissecting luck - opportunity + being prepared
    • “in this era, we go on beyonce’s internet and- “
  • Playing with Engineering, AnnMarie Thomas
    • I like the core concept of “play is about process not outcome” with to me a taste of “trust the process” and it influenced how I approached the rest of the conference ?
  • Is my Large Language Model a Strange Loop? - Zac Hatfield-Dodds
  • Risks and Opportunities of AI in Incident Management - Emily Arnott
  • Inside the Wizard Research Engine - Ben L. Titzer
  • Formal semantics for multi-language programs - Amal Ahmed
  • City Museum
    • it was raining so the outside was closed, but it’s glorious place to be
  • New algorithms for collaborative text editing - Martin Kleppmann
  • Computational Physics, Beyond the Glass - Sam Ritchie
    • about why & how creating language Emmy which is super cool and I want to play with
  • Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code - Pokey Rule
  • Birdsong as code - Chris Ford
    • I only saw a tiny bit of this but I do like the code-for-music genre :)
  • A Long Strange Loop - Alex Miller
  • How to Make Hard Things Easy - Julia Evans
  • Drawing Comics at Work - Randall Munroe

Talks I really want to watch the videos of basically all of them… watch party sometine?

  • Lessons from building GitHub code search Luke Francl
  • cursorless
  • Babashka: a meta-circular Clojure interpreter for the command line Michiel Borkent
  • Concatenative programming and stack-based languages Douglas Creager

Cool people I ran into

  • (by prearrangement) 2 current coworkers!
  • Excellent former coworkers Dan and Nick from Braintree :)
  • #lang-array people:
  • nabors!
  • cool booth people from (security training)
  • latacora lvh very cool
  • jane street puzzles
  • john deere is just legit good at running and staffing a booth

Other blogs about strangeloop 2023

Interesting links https://dns.lookup.dog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming

https://medium.com/@jesterxl/real-world-uses-of-tacit-programming-part-1-of-2-f2a0c3f9e00c

kareoke at Crazy Fox good, geek bar. Busy. Index of songs at – and text the DJ to get a song

city museum excellent

afterparty

https://matrix.to/#/#infinite-loopers-local-first:matrix.org