Thread by @b0rk

Hello! I want to convince you (yes, you!) to submit a talk to !!Con NYC (May 9-10! NYC!). Our CFP is at bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.ht….

!!Con accepts LOTS of different kinds of talks from LOTS of different kinds of people so here are some examples of types of talks we've had!

Talk type 1: Software you think is SUPER COOL

Examples of talks like this:

Ayla Myers' "The joys of PICO-8 token crunching!!":

Evy Kassirer's "Reverse engineering your mouth!"

Talk type 2: A fun project you built!

Ahmed Abdalla's "Creating an Arabic Programming Language!"

Kate Beard's "Let’s build a live chat! From the 1800s!"

Sarah Withee's "I Built an Artificial Pancreas!"

Talk type 3: Doing unlikely, impractical, or outrageous things with computers.

Examples:

Sophie Deziel's "I built a robot to cheat at Pokemon!!"

Allison Parrish's "Lossy text compression, for some reason?! "

Talk type 4: An algorithm you love!

Examples:

Stephen Tu's "Estimating the Value of Pi with a Dartboard and (Not so Much) Luck!"

Veena Sankaranarayanan's "...you can draw an Indian floor pattern that covers an infinite area!"

Talk type 5: How a Thing Works!!

Diana Liao's "Mixing Paint! With Computers!"

Scott Vokes's "How do Keyboards Work? HIDing, in Plain Sight!!"

Mindy Preston's "DHCP's IT’S MOSTLY YELLING!!"

Talk type 6: Art projects!

Examples:

Melody Starling's "low-fi hip hop beats to npm install to!!"

Bomani McClendon's "Making Mushrooms Glow!"

Talk type 7: Stories about strange bugs!

Examples:

Walt Mankowski's "A Punch Card ate my Program!"

Persa Zula's "Tales of ⌧! Can You Tell Your Story When Your Character Is Undefined?!"

Talk type 8: Stories about cool computer systems in the world!

Ed Medvedev's "Satellites are talking to us! Let’s hear them out!"

Lisa Ballard's "Where Are All the Space Robots?!"

Talk type 9: Talks that are actually a SONG!

Examples:
Uche Ogbuji's "Yes yes ya’ll! Miles of !malloc() and free() styles!¡!"

Anjana Vakil & Natalia Margolis's "Tail Call Optimization: The Musical!!"