Entries published on May 5, 2016
Things and stuff
I’ve been awfully busy lately, but also thinking about a lot of stuff. Since microblogging is no longer really a thing I have access to (Pownce, I miss you), that means doing periodic brain dumps, yay!
Conferences and costs
Over the past few months there’s been a pretty significant conversation starting about tech conferences and “paying” speakers (where “paying” typically means at least providing a free ticket to anyone giving a talk). Which is a topic full of complicated thoughts for me.
On the one hand, the obvious argument: there’s significant overlap between people who would give interesting talks and people for whom …