Talks

I've been giving talks at conferences and user groups since 2008, covering a huge range of topics related to software development, the web, and the relationship between technology and society.

If you'd like to invite me to speak at your conference or meetup, please drop me an email to dylan@dylanbeattie.net and let's chat.

Here are the talks and topics that I'm currently doing at conferences and meetups. I'm always developing new ideas, and if you'd like to hire me to deliver a talk on a specific topic for your conference or company event, please get in touch.

2024

• How To Be a Rockstar Developer
• Open Source, Open Mind: The Cost Of Free Software

2023

• Analogue Evolution, Digital Revolution: Tipping Points in Technology
• Email vs Capitalism: A Story About Why We Can't Have Nice Things
• From Hot Metal to HTML: The Story of Typography

2022

• It's So Shiny! Building a Pure JavaScript Ray-Tracer
• Sockets, Sparks and Magic Smoke
• WhatsApp, Web3 and Wordle: Evolving a Digital Society

2021

• Failure is Always an Option
• Fractals, Factories and Fast Food
• Friends, Facts and FaceTime: Which Bits Can We Trust?
• From ACK to ZOI: The Story of Software in Three Letter Acronyms
• iPuzzler: Building a Pure JavaScript Web Component
• The Human Touch: Reconnecting with Reality
• Why Do We Code?

2020

• Computational Creativity
• Keep Talking
• There's No Such Thing As Plain Text
• The Problem with Little Programs

2019

• Architecture: The Stuff That's Hard to Change
• The Art of Code
• The Cost of Code

2018

• Apps, Algorithms and Abstractions: Decoding our Digital World

2017

• Ctrl-Alt-Del: Learning to Love Legacy Code
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of APIness: The Secret to Happy Code

2016

• From Amdahl to Zipf: Fundamental Laws of the Physics of People
• Domain Architecture Isomorphism and the Inverse Conway Manouevre

2015

• Real-world ReST and Hands-on Hypermedia
• The Web That Never Was