Conference Program
Timezone: Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -7).
All times in 24h format.
View the schedule Day-by-day or as a Table
Events
Keynote - Our keynote speakers give a 30-40 minute talk!
Session - A series of 10-minute lightning talks!
Unconferencing - A make-your-own-session time!
Hallway Track - Chat with other attendees in Skittish!
Party - Our closing party!
Syncwatch - Rebroadcast of an earlier session!
Table
| Sat 15th | Sun 16th | Mon 17th | Tue 18th | Wed 19th | Thu 20th | Fri 21st | Sat 22nd | |
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| Sync 8 | ||||||||
| Sync 1 | Session 9 | |||||||
| Sync 3 | Sync 4 | Session 6 | Sync 5 | Sync 7 | Keynote | |||
| Keynote | Sync 2 | Hallway | Hallway | Hallway | Hallway | Hallway | Unconf | |
| Session 1 | Hallway | Party! | ||||||
| Hallway | ||||||||
| Session 2 | ||||||||
| Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Sync 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Sync 9 | ||
| Hallway | Hallway | Hallway | Hallway | Unconf | Hallway | |||
| Hallway |
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Schedule
Saturday, May 15
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Stream Begins | |
| Opening remarks • Keynote talk: Angie Jones |
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| Break! | |
| Session 1: • Learning to code with Doom! (Now I’m even more confused!) (Phil Salvador) • From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon: 50 Years of Text Games! (Aaron A. Reed) • Cursorless: keyboards and mice are sooo last year!! (Pokey Rule) • Making a pixel-y circuit design language and then building circuits in it! (Lynn Pepin) |
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| Break! | |
| Hallway Track | |
| Session 2: • pwintln!(): teaching an ELF to uwu!! (Jade Fink) • Bang Bang!! Hacking Switch Controllers to Play Rhythm Games Using A Real Drum! (Nathan Kiesman) • Crocheted! Computer! Graphics! (Patrick Stefaniak) • Beware the Dreaded Dead End!! (Richard Schneeman) |
Sunday, May 16
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 1 | |
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 2 | |
| Hallway Track | |
| Session 3: • Night of the living GIF: Making interactive multiplayer experiences on a static webpage! (Andrew Sillers) • Building Weird Things With With The National Hockey League Using Ruby! (Wade Minter) • Mojibake! What the h—ck happened to these strings? (Robyn Speer) • Save Icons! In Real Life?! (A Joyous Look at the Floppy Disk!!) (wilkie) |
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| Hallway Track |
Monday, May 17
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 3 | |
| Hallway Track | |
| Session 4: • Tropes! Cliches! Made-Up Slang! It’s the Data-Sitters Club! (Quinn Dombrowski) • GoLlURM! The Game of Life (limited) Unlimited-Register Machine! (Nicholas Carlini) • Let me at my data! Pulling pictures out of an undocumented file format (Alex Pounds) • NetMonster: A trip through early 2000s internet and the monsters hidden inside websites! (Rocky Kev) |
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| Hallway Track |
Tuesday, May 18
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 4 | |
| Hallway Track | |
| Session 5: • Numeric Data Types in the Wild; or: Things I Learned From Last Night’s Dinner Receipt! (Michael Woods) • Nifty Weaving Tools: A Different Kind of Color Picker! (Rebecca Ravenoak) • It’s my party and I’ll build my own virtual social platform if I want to! (Sara Farquharson) • [Removed by request of speaker]] |
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| Hallway Track |
Wednesday, May 19
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Session 6: • Eyes hurt? All you need is cardboard and motors!! (Dasha Ilina) • Changing a Single Byte Saves Me Seconds Every Day! (Sven Dahlstrand) • It’s like you’re actually there! Mouse pointer synchronization in an online tabletop game (Paweł Marczewski) • tzdata: Back to the Future! (John Feminella) |
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| Hallway Track | |
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 6 | |
| Hallway Track |
Thursday, May 20
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 5 | |
| Hallway Track | |
| Session 7: • Oh, no! The Lowest-level Programming Language is Unicode-aware and I have no excuses?!* (JeanHeyd Meneide) • Enter the Minus World! Nintendo Cartridges Share Secrets! (Paul Pollack) • Option hack that 30 year old oscilloscope! (Tom Verbeure) • compilers HATE him: use this ONE WEIRD TRICK to hide a message in your x86 program!! (William Woodruff) |
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| Hallway Track |
Friday, May 21
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 7 | |
| Hallway Track | |
| Session 8: • Dithers of the Error-Diffusion Kind! (Daniel Temkin) • It’s a picture! It’s a program!! It’s Piet!!! (Anjana Vakil) • The Brave Little Database! (Alicja Raszkowska) • Making Music! In Emacs?! (Zachary Kanfer) |
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| Hallway Track |
Saturday, May 22
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 8 | |
| Session 9: • Geometric derivations of RGB colorspace! The strange eyeball science that is messing with your LEDs (Laura Kurup) • How layers upon layers of hacky abstractions turned Doom II into the best kart racer!! (Kimberly Wilber) • Ride on Model Railway Signalling using Kubernetes! (Jon Kingsley) • making our own napster so we can party like it’s 1999! (Martin Gaston) |
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| Break! | |
| • Closing keynote: Kate Temkin | |
| Break! | |
| Unconferencing session 2 | |
| Break! | |
| Closing party! | |
| Syncwatch: Rebroadcast of Session 9 | |
| Hallway Track |