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Past Events
Beyond Electron: High-Performance Desktop Apps with Rust and Tauri
Merrick Young, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026In this talk, presenter Merrick Young will explore building high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps with Rust and Tauri. He will constrast it with Electron to show how one can get native feeling apps with dramatically smaller binaries.
Cover your a$$! Adding Logs to your Application
Zeke, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 (View Slides)In this talk, Zeke will give insights into the important of logging, and how to integrate it into your application to maintain accountability across all users.
IGNITE Talk!
Zeke, Cleber Rengel, Bennett Dungan, Siva Chandan, and Alex Songe, Friday, December 19th, 20252025 IGNITE Roster:
- Zeke - Perlin Noise
- Cleber - Agile is NOT Dead!
- Bennett - Make Pinball Illegal Again
- Siva - From Pi To Cloud: Real Time Sensor Data with AWS IOT Core
- Alex - Make Stuff
CSS is not your enemy
Aubrey Barnes, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025In this talk, Aubrey Barnes explains what the headache with CSS is all about, as well as how to make dealing with it easier. Aubrey also goes into detail, showing several websites and their flaws, as well as how to fix them.
Change Detection in JavaScript Frameworks and Their Tradeoffs
Caleb, Tuesday, October 21st, 2025In this talk, Caleb will go over the major web frameworks and how they keep their state synced with the dom, reviewing the pros and cons of their systems.
Intro to Data Engineering
Siva Chandan, Wednesday, September 17th, 2025This talk provides an introduction to Data Engineering and its role in turning raw data into actionable business value. We’ll explore the core concepts and tools widely used in the field, discuss real-world applications, and share practical insights on how to start a career in data engineering.
Architecting Cloud Software
Alex Songe, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025Alex will share with us lessons on how to approach building and deploying software in the cloud in a systemic way, and how to think about performance and scaling without losing your mind.
Privacy is not Dead
Danny Nguyen, Wednesday, June 25th, 2025The talk will dive into how social media platform collects and monetizes your personal data, and how privacy laws are shaping the policies that govern it all.
No Bad Talks
John Ezekiel, Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 (View Slides)Why do we give talks? And more importantly—why should you? In this session, we’ll take a step back and align ourselves with what it is we are here to do. We’ll discuss how giving talks can grow your confidence, sharpen your thinking, and even open professional doors. This isn’t about being perfect—it’s about participating. Whether you’re nervous, unsure, or just not convinced you have something worth saying, Zeke’s here to make the case: your talk matters, and the group needs your voice.
From Buttons to Binary
John Ezekiel, Wednesday, March 11th, 2020 (View Slides)Talk will be an exploration of how a button press on a website becomes 0s and 1s on the server.
Adventures In AI and JavaScript
More and more we hear terms like "Machine Learning" and "AI", but are those just terms for Fortune 500 companies and their SkyNet labs? Nope! It's cool stuff that's coming our way, and we can access it in JavaScript in the browser! Let's see some cool stuff in web pages!
Ignite Talks
Multiple, Wednesday, January 8th, 2020Ignite talks are 20 slides, auto-advancing every 15 seconds and only 5 minutes long. They can be on any topic. Ignite talks are a great chance to share ideas that wouldn't typically take up a full talk. It's also a way to dip your toe into public speaking (anyone can bomb for 5 minutes). Here's the expected lineup.
- Vulkan in 5 mins – Chris Parich
- Don’t Discount the Developer – Tales from the Technical Dark Side – Mike Miller
- Know your Audience – Brian Stanford
- Intro to –ilities – Davin Smith
- Improving Web Performance with Responsive Images – Steven Musumeche
- Avoiding Burnout – Kristin Parich
Avoiding Burnout
Kristin Parich, Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 (View Slides)Kristin Parich joked once about making this presentation and no one ever let her forget it. So, in this presentation you will learn what burnout is, how to tell if you are, or are getting burned out, and what to do to prevent it/treat it.
GraphQL for Neophytes
This talk is geared towards GraphQL beginners and will cover why and how you might use GraphQL. We will take a shallow dive into both the client and server-side use cases and implementations. We will also discuss some specific details, such as libraries, caching, and writing performant resolvers.
Intro to Vue
Raymond Camden, Wednesday, May 15th, 2019Raymond will be giving an introduction to the Vue.js framework and explain why it is so much better than React or Angular. (That's a joke.) (Mostly.)
Documentation: Nobody writes it; nobody reads it; when you need it, it doesn't exist
Jay Bienvenu, Wednesday, May 15th, 2019Jay's Laws of Documentation: Nobody writes it; nobody reads it; when you need it, it doesn't exist. Jay will present a plan to help break these rules and develop a culture of documentation in your organization.
Typescript In Anger: Lessons learned from using Typescript to tame a large legacy application
Alexander Songe, Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 (View Slides)Taming a large legacy application can be difficult. Typescript can help. But so can architecture decisions. How Typescript can enable you to implement concepts like DDD and SOLID to tame the wild excesses of a world gone mad in a large hard-to-maintain ball of mud.
Technical UX: User experience from a developer's perspective
Hunter Miller, Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 (View Slides)Creating apps, products, and services with a good user experience can be extremely difficult for developers, even with the support of UX and design teams. Basic usability isn't typically part of the developer curriculum, but it's something we encounter every day. In this talk, I'll show you basic methods for improving the user experience of your software, how that parallels refactoring code, and how that may change the way you think of development.
Consequences of Reality: Navigation in the Real World with Robot
Chris Parich, Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 (View Slides)The theory of navigation using landmarks, obstacle avoidance, feature detection, and geomagnetic heading are all well and good for simulated worlds, but everything changes once you have to rely on physical measurements to navigate. Chris will walk through the real-world problems of different kinds of sensors, and some of the ways we try to solve or reduce the errors they cause.
Ignite Talks
Multiple, Wednesday, January 9th, 2019Ignite talks are 20 slides, auto-advancing every 15 seconds and only 5 minutes long. They can be on any topic. Ignite talks are a great chance to share ideas that wouldn't typically take up a full talk. It's also a way to dip your toe into public speaking (anyone can bomb for 5 minutes). Here's the expected lineup.
- Chris Parich on “Things I didn’t know I hate about C++”
- Davin Smith on “Serverless FizzBuzz: An Infinitely scalable FizzBuzz Solution in AWS”
- Alexander Songe on “Why you should use ZFS"
- Zach Byerly on “High Performance Computing"
- Steven Musumeche on “GraphQL"
- Corey Gaudin on "Servant Leadership: What is it and why is it important?"
- Tre King on “Docker for Enterprise”
- Andy Dye on "A Resume Talk"
Creating Reusable Libraries in Angular 6
Aaron Lozier, Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 (View Slides)A common challenge for software developers is figuring out how to extract reusable code from their applications so that the same features and functionality can be used across multiple applications. In some cases, it may be desirable to release the code as an open source library or module such that the wider community can contribute improvements and bug fixes. In other cases, it may be preferable to host the code in a private repository owned by the organization, while still aiming for a similar goal: reuse and collaboration across teams or projects.
While it has always been possible to create reusable libraries in Angular, the release of Angular 6 in May of this year introduces new features that make it easier than ever before. This presentation will walk through the basic process of building a library within a project, and leveraging the features of the library in the application code. The presentation will then go a step further by discussing how this library can be deployed as a standalone npm module. Various options for deploying the module to the open source community or via a private npm repository such as Verdaccio or Artifactory will be covered.
TypeScript: Writing JavaScript Without The Pain
Steven Musumeche, Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 (View Slides)Most of today's developers have some exposure to JavaScript and some have experienced problems with creating and maintaining large applications over time. This presentation will provide an introduction to the TypeScript language and why you might use it for your JavaScript projects. Topics covered will include benefits, basic syntax, and a few advanced subjects. After seeing the presentation, attendees will have a high-level overview of the benefits of TypeScript, basic syntax, and where it fits in the web development ecosystem.
Design is CRAP
Davin Smith, Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 (View Slides)Making products "look good" can be a real challenge. Most developers lean on UI Frameworks for help, but having a library of cohesive elements is only half the battle. In this talk, we'll go over a few simple design rules that you can use to create successful products.
HATEOAS - Hypertext as the Engine of Application State
Johnathon Wright, Wednesday, May 9th, 2018Continuing his discussion of REST, Johnathon will discuss the last constraint, Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State" (HATEOAS). We'll look at how HATEOAS will "Make APIs Great Again" using ref tags, resource links, self-navigable APIs, and other mind-expanding stuff that may be too much overhead for real-life applications.
