Self.conference 2016

Resources from Self.conference 2016!

• selfconference.org
• sessions
• schedule
• @selfconference
• #selfconf

Friday 5/20

Keynote

Reproducibility

Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt

10am

Intro to Azure Machine Learning: Predict Who Survives the Titanic

Jennifer Marsman @jennifermarsman

Anatomy of a Great Pull Request

Sean Griffin @sgrif

Pairing IRL

Mark Yoon @wimyoon

• Slides

11am

Coding in the Dark

Matthew LaForest @mudetroit

• Slides

30 minute byte-loss challenge; essentials for delivering the lightest iOS apps

Jake Payton @JakePayton

A Call to Arms: Challenging & Democratizating Algorithm Development

Liz Rush Twitter, Website

• Slides

1pm

git gone wild: how to recover from common git mistakes.

Magnus Stahre @magnusstahre

• Slides

Better Data Persistence on Android

Eric Maxwell @emmax

• Slides

Design for Non-Designers

Tracy Osborn @limedaring

• Slides

2pm

Feedback and Challenging Conversations

Alex Harms @onealexharms

• Video

Improve your Bash command line fu

Jarred Olson @JarredOlson

• slides (pdf)
• code

Truths Universally Acknowledged: Swift Design Patterns as Jane Austen Heroes

Anne Cahalan

3pm

Becoming Less Horrible at Diversity

Katie Miller @phedinkus, Todd Kaufman @toddkaufman

• slides

Inclusion & Accessibility on the Web: Harnessing Dev Power for Good

Alison Stanton @alison985

• Slides

The Human Context: Exploring Google’s Nearby APIs

Stuart Kent @skentphd

• video
• slides

4pm

Let’s Build a Tamagotchi! A Live TDD Walkthrough

David Case, James York @kroysemaj

• Slides

Continuing Education at Work

KWu @kwugirl

• Blog post with resources and slides

Debugging Diversity

Anjuan Simmons @anjuan

Saturday 5/21

Keynote

The Bait and Switch of Open Source

Katrina Owen @kytrinyx

• Slides
• Resources

10am

Programming for Human Interactions

Liz Abinante @feministy

• Slides

API Design Through the Lens of Photography

Bryan Hughes @nebrius

Exploiting Swift for Fun and Profit

Jon Shier @jshier

• Video - Exploiting Swift for Fun and Profit on YouTube

11am

How to Build a Compelling Watch App

Kristina Thai @kristinathai

• Slides

Redefining Culture Fit

Casey West @caseywest

Tech Education D-Coded

Brandy Foster @bcwf, Kyle Ofori @KyleOfori

1pm

Some Things I've Learned About Color

Cate Huston @catehstn

• storify

A Primer on Functional Programming

Sarah Withee @geekygirlsarah

• Slides
• Video - Will be posted shortly

Your App in Spotlight: Harnessing the Power of the Search APIs

Tobi Adebisi @Olorun_Tobi

2pm

The Open Source Survival Guide

Coraline Ada Ehmke @CoralineAda

Frameworks for Feedback

Rebecca Miller-Webster @rmillerwebster

• Slides

Web Accessibility: How to Be an A11y

Aisha Blake @AishaBlake

3pm

A Family That Hacks Together, Interacts Together!

Daniel Davis @daniel_davis

• Slides

Hiring and Mentoring Junior Developers Remotely

Katherine Fellows

Estimates that Don't Suck

Nell Shamrell-Harrington @nellshamrell

• Slides

4pm

Package Management as Harm Reduction

Sam Boyer @sdboyer

Maintaining Continuous Learning Under Pressure: How not to let design slip with tight delivery deadlines

Rosemary King

Composing Music in the Cloud

James Weaver