About Conferences

Lars went to ElixirConf EU. Going to a conference can be a credibly incredible experience. Elixir has more clarity than Erlang.

Lars also gave a talk, a fact he was comfortably uncomfortable with. Giving a talk also comes with benefits such as being able to talk to fish in a barrel. But why did he choose to make the whole talk a demo? What is the goal of it all?

Gotta build things! Dive in, make stuff.

Links

• ElixirConf EU
• Lars' conference report blog post
• Code BEAM
• Sverok
• Pieter Hintjens about giving talks by talking to the audience
• Windows 98 (not 95) demo fail
• Lars' presentation code
• Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway? - presentation by Emily Shea
• Hugging Face

Quotes

• Born during ElixirConf
• Less clarity to it
• Genservers and stuff
• Mainstream Elixir
• Comfortable with that discomfort
• Talking to fish in a barrel
• A buddy from the internet
• The first one I bothered to count
• Your loose coupling to anything
• What do you hypothetically know?

What is Regular Programming?

Conversations about programming. By Andreas Ekeroot and Lars Wikman, funded by Underjord.io.