Talks
There is a YouTube playlist of my talks.
Main talks
Ideas on how reduction of cost and emissions can improve application performance and developer joy.
A panel discussion with the audience about what we can do about climate change as software developers and human beings.
Delivered at Devoxx 2022 and J-Fall 2022.
How I took Java annotations to their logical extreme by implementing a fully functioning, Turing-complete LISP dialect within them.
A fast-paced overview of a lot of different programming languages, intended to entertain and perhaps even change a mind or two.
Delivered at Devoxx UK 2021 and J-Fall 2021.
A brief overview of CS topics that are relevant in the day-to-day work of every developer.
Delivered at J-Fall 2021.
What Java would look like in a world where annotations were never invented.
Delivered at J-Spring 2019 and J-Fall 2019.
A funny anthology of tricks and hacks for the JVM.
Voted 2018’s ‘best non-Venkat talk’ by the J-Fall audience!
Delivered at J-Fall 2018, JavaZone 2018, JBCNConf 2018 and more.
How to write a good equals method, and to test it with EqualsVerifier.
Delivered at Devoxx 2017 and JAX London 2021.
The story of how my colleague and I ‘discovered’ a Scala DSL for writing complex mortgage calculations.
Delivered at Typelevel Summit Oslo 2016 and Codestar Launch Event.
How to apply principles from functional programming in older versions of Java.