Talks and workshops

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

2018

18 May

Oxford Python: A Plumber’s Guide to Git.
Another repeat of my PyCon UK workshop, held in the Oxford Centre for Innovation.

Image: Radcliffe Camera, Oxford. Wellcome Collection.
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 an use them.

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.