Wednesday
Room 7
13:40 - 14:40
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Lightning Talks 1
Lightning talks (approx 10-15 minutes each)
Talk 1: When the code is not working for you - Helén Persson
Code can be running fine, but still not work great for us as humans. Maybe you have inherited a piece of legacy code? Maybe you are drowning in Dependabot alerts? Lets talk about how you can leave the code base better than when you found it.
Talk 2: Cognitive load is misunderstood - Sveinung Sande Dalatun
Is experiencing high cognitive load always bad? Does it make sense to talk about cognitive load on the team level? Are we better able to think about the big problems if we offload the small ones?
Cognitive Load Theory has become popular the last years, and its jargon is used everywhere. But with popularity comes misunderstandings. How can we move beyond the oversimplifications towards a vocabulary that is both more precise and more useful?
Talk 3: Reinventing the wheel considered useful - Erik Schierboom
Programmers are taught not to reinvent the wheel. This "wisdom" is rarely questioned, but there are very good reasons to go against this advice!
In this lightning talk, you'll learn why reinventing the wheel can actually make your software more secure. You'll also see how reinventing the wheel is a great way to improve your skills, which is becoming even more important with the advent of AI-assisted code generation.
Talk 4: Good enough - A love letter to failure - Elin Brusberg
This society is tough, getting tougher.
You may feel that more is required of you every day, and you are probably not wrong. I would argue though that the path to excellence lies not in perfection but in failure, and if you truly want to be better in life and work you need to switch focus and lean into the unpredictability of life.
Together we will reflect on tech failures and learn from them. What mistakes can you not come back from? When can a failure be a stepping stone to achieve your goal? What can you do to get less of the first and more of the second?
Maybe you will disagree with me and maybe you will see that failure not only is an option - it's a good one.
Helén Persson
Helén has a master's degree in High Energy Particle Physics and found the joy of programming during her time at university. Initially the plan was to become a data scientist but life took a different path and she is currently working as a frontend developer at NRK. Helén is passionate about how science and software can make the world a better place, one small step at the time.
Sveinung Sande Dalatun
Sveinung works as a consultant for Miles. He has a broad background from systems development, team leadership, technology leadership and product development. Within Miles he works with a small group keep (and improve) Miles as a learning organization.
Erik Schierboom
Erik is a software developer with a passion for teaching. He loves learning new programming languages and tries to learn one each year. He's built websites, mobile apps and open-source libraries, mostly in the education space. In the last 5 years he's worked at Exercism to build the optimal learning experience for 70+ programming languages.
In his spare time Erik likes to watch movies, play video games, read books and cook nice meals.
Elin Brusberg
Elin is a Technology Leader at Gnist Consulting
She has worked as a developer for many years, but now she focuses on helping other developers shine and deliver.
She spends most of her days supporting the team and working long term on strategy.
She is occasionally lucky to share her experience with a wider audience, such as this.