Talks and workshops

These is an incomplete list of the talks and workshops I have given or am scheduled to give.

2018

• 17 Sept

  PyCon UK 2018: A Plumber’s Guide to Git.

  A repeat of my PyCon UK workshop from 2017, but for a fresh audience. This uses the same notes as previous versions of the workshop.”
• 16 Sept

  PyCon UK 2018: Assume Worst Intent (Designing against the abusive ex).

  A refined version of my talk about online harassment from April (Anti-Social Media). How do we design services and platforms to reduce the risk of harassment and abuse from other users?

  You can read my slides and a transcript, or you can watch the video.

  

• 15 Sept

  PyCon UK 2018: Building Trust in an Age of Suspicious Minds.

  I was invited to give the opening keynote at this year’s PyCon UK. In a world where people are less and less trusting, how can we take steps to make ourselves more trustable?

  I’ve posted the slides and a transcript, or there’s a recording on YouTube.

  

• 18 May

  Oxford Python: A Plumber’s Guide to Git.

  Another repeat of my PyCon UK workshop, held in the Oxford Centre for Innovation.

  

• 18 April

  Bournemouth University: (Anti-)Social Media.

  A lecture for students on the Cyber Security Management course about online harassment – identifying some of the ways services are often used for harassment, thinking about common threat models, and some good practices for building safer services.

  You can read my slides and rough notes.

• 6 Mar

  CamPUG: A Plumber’s Guide to Git.

  A repeat of my PyCon UK workshop. Since this workshop was unexpectedly over-booked, I wrote up my notes and diagrams so everybody can use them.

2017

• 5 Dec

  CamPUG: An ode to docopt.

  A lightning talk about the docopt library. You can read my slides and transcript.
• 27 Oct

  PyCon UK: Using privilege to improve inclusion.

  A talk about the tech industry, and how we, as people of privilege, can do more to build environments that are genuinely inclusive. You can watch the video on YouTube, or read the slides and transcript.
• 27 Oct

  PyCon UK: A Plumber’s Guide to Git.

  How does Git work under the hood? A workshop that uses low-level Git “plumbing” commands to reconstruct a Git workflow from scratch, and see how Git stores data internally. There isn’t a video, but you can read my notes.
• 26 Oct

  PyCon UK: Let’s talk about (a)sex(uals).

  A lightning talk about asexuality, as the conference happened to coincide with Asexual Awareness Week. You can watch the video on YouTube.
• 8 Mar

  QCon London: Property-Based Testing In Practice.

  You can read slides and links.

2016

• 18 Sept

  PyCon UK: An introduction to property-based testing and Hypothesis.

• 7 June

  CamPUG: Introduction to property-based testing.

• 17 Feb

  Queens’ College Maths Society: Colossus.