Sustainability by Design
An application, IT system or website is considered DIRTY if sustainability has not been taken into consideration when building and running them. To lower the climate footprint from data and IT systems, we need to empower the ones creating these systems: the software developers.
The Truth about Working from home Working from home (WFH) or telework is something that, until COVID-19, has been considered voluntary and often exceptional practice in the workplace. Remoters were looked at with scepticism. However, the forced working-from-home experiences have appeared to be better than expected. Coupled with the investments enabling remote work during the pandemic have caused many knowledge workers to rethink their return to the offices. They now favour working from home occasionally, primarily or indefinitely. In response to the growing demand for remote working, companies are experimenting and quickly adjusting their work policies to allow more flexibility. But do we know enough about remote working on such a large scale to make informed decisions? In this talk, you will hear about the impact of remote work on software engineers' productivity and work habits based on two detailed industrial cases. Further corporate surveys of employee preferences for remote work suggest that WFH is here to stay and marks the rise of hybrid work arrangements. We will also dive into the current status of office presence and the strategies companies take to deal with emerging changes in the workplace. The experience comes from studying 20+ new work policies from companies in Scandinavia, Europe, and Asia.
just curl it curl is a ubiquitous Internet transfer engine. An open source client-side library for doing internet transfers specified as URLs. Created for the fun of it in the 1990s, it has gradually found its way into virtually all Internet-connected devices on the globe. "The created economic value cannot be overstated". How did this happen?
Maximizing your context Have you ever wondered why some people make the most of a situation? The same question applies to companies, communities and even countries. I have tried to answer this question by looking at my own life and work - the circumstances under which I made decisions that worked out better or worse. And I tried to answer the question again for people with whom I have interacted over a significant period. There is something about maximising the variables in specific contexts that leads to success. In this talk, I share my thoughts on maximising the context in which we find ourselves, and when we do so, we maximise value for others too.
Virtual machines in history Join Erik for a historical view of his work on virtual machines, regular expression engines, garbage collection and language development that empathises with the users. We start the journey with the V8 JavaScript engine (with surprising anecdotes from the early days). Then we move on to Dart VM and end the talk with Toit VM, the new tiny VM that makes embedded devices feel like real computers. During this, he will talk about how your tools should not hate you, rant more about tools that stab you in the back, especially Golang, and end up with how the Toit GC manages your memory without stealing your memory.
Investing in the Next Generation of Tech Talent South Africa has the highest level of inequality in the world. At WeThinkCode, we encourage young innovators to believe in the possibility that a line of code can make theirs a more egalitarian society. In this talk, I reflect on building a training academy that celebrates diversity and inclusion to create maximum value. By training young South Africans as software developers, we are maximising the value of our country's human capital and unlocking the innovative capacity of the next generation of geeks.
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