#devstories

The not-so-glamorous behind-the-scenes of giving my first ever #tech talk
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#DevStories at Github HQ:And the lessons I’ve learnedDerpy cat“I can’t do this! This is too much pressure!” I shouted and reverted to a five year old phase.It was the evening before my first ever tech talk. I was mechanically staring at my powerpoint presentation for hours, constantly adding things, yet nothing gets added.As the clock ticked towards midnight, my anxiety came to a boiling point.The powerpoint sucked. There was no cohesion. And I had no idea how to present my topic.Feeling I needed a change of pace, my boyfriend suggested I put away the computer and start talking.Though it was only an audience of two, comprising of people I’m closest with, I felt like a deer caught in headlights.I opened my mouth, but words couldn’t come out. After a mild anxiety attack, some sweat and tears, I (...)

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#security, Obscurity, Openness
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And making open source alternatives — #DevStoriesThis is a transcript of a talk I gave at the Hacker Noon #devstories @Github event, with minor modifications to improve readability. I wanted to call out the irony that security calls for openness, but security is also the reason for obscurity and proprietary implementations, especially in the hardware world. Making security more open is what motivated us to found SoloKeys, and make open source hardware security keys.▻https://medium.com/media/6a0e0d8f7709f7937cc7221c95a19eaa/hrefWhat I think is really fascinating about security is the duality that I tried to capture in the title between openness and obscurity.Borrowing a definition from cryptography:A (crypto)system should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is (...)

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#robots, Emojis, #blockchain, and Enterprise
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But first, shoutouts to our investors of the week: Jawad Ayaz, Louis Lautman, & Zibeh Zakka.Catch up on the latest episodes of the Hacker Noon Podcast, plus a 5-minute #DevStories presentation by Hacker Noon Chief Product Officer Dane Lyons at the GitHub SF HQ.Express Yourself with #emoji Reactions and Hacker Noon CPO Dane LyonsBuilding the Impossible with Blockchain and Cameron Chell, the person behind Kodak CoinProgram Your First Robot Overlord with Eva Li and HEXABringing Blockchain to the Enterprise with Alpine IntelA New Solution for Decentralized Apps with Brian Platz of FlureeDon’t Forget to Subscribe to the Hacker Noon Podcast. Available on iTunes, Google Podcast, and YouTube.P.S. Shoutout to our investors of the week! Cheers to those who make it possible for us to build a better (...)

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#DevStories @ GitHub HQ, and Officially Oversubscribed Crowdfund!
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But first, shoutouts to our investors of the week: Nader Azad, Ben Forgan, and George Georgallides. We hit the max!Hey Hackers,Two great things happened last night:Firstly, 120+ developers showed up to our Hacker Noon #devstories @Github event, which was the first time 3 of our 8 speakers (all veteran developers btw) gave a dev talk.And secondly, our equity crowdfunding is now officially fully subscribed! Woohoo! Regardless, there’re still chances to invest some more. I’ll explain in a bit.Thank you Stefan!Hacker Noon #devstories event @ GitHub HQHacker Noon’s humble start as a tech blog was a place for the overqualified and under-glorified engineers to share their stories, from the first-person perspective. We’re a place to publish how they do they job: what they’re building, why it’s cool, (...)

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