Erik Zaadi

The tales of a coding manager addicted to dad jokes

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The Silver Bullet for Conference Presentations? There Is No Bullet

Ever sat through a slide deck that felt like reading a spreadsheet on stage?

Presentations are hard — but they don’t have to be painful.

You need have the magic schtick that helps you with the value you want to share.

The problem

Most company templates for presentations might be great for sales pitching on zoom,

BUT, they just don’t work for a stage and crowd.

Slides crammed with KPIs and roadmap bullet points might kill on Zoom. On stage? They kill attention.

Onboarding vim'ers Because people deserve to see the light
A Moderator and Mentor's Guide for Doing Public Talks

Intro

Finding what to talk about

CFP outline clickbait title

Working on your talk

Story
Talking
Iterating
Getting feedback
Communicating with your moderator
WIIFM
Dry runs
Slides

Slides

Whoami
Use less bullets
Typos
Correct use of screen estate
Segways
Planning for projector
Live demos, the DO's and DON'Ts
Summary / Key takeaways
bite the bullet, be the bard

Preparing for the conference

Backups
Take some time off rehersals

At the conference

How to Use Zsh and Tmuxp to Speed Up Your Day to Day Workflow Again TUI to the rescue
Pull Request Etiquette - A set of simple rules for your code review What human touches you can add to your review processes that'll make you rock
Life is short, make your CI blazing fast The short and simple tale of how a commit SHA-1 can save you time and trouble
Linting Helm Charts in Travis Because even helm deserves some CI love...
The delicate balance between coding and managing The swashbuckling adventure of an evolving manager
Sane Versioning in nodejs taming the version field in package.json
TMUX for multilangual cli addicts TMUX MÖDIFIER FTL, or simply detecting current input language from terminal