What is the point of an online conference?
I've been thinking a lot about this in preparation for the next I've been thinking a lot about this in preparation for the next HYTRADBOIHYTRADBOI..
My experience of online conferences has mostly been underwhelming. They typically borrow the form and structure of an in-person conference without considering whether those still make sense online, and whether the goals of an online conference should even be the same as an in-person conference.My experience of online conferences has mostly been underwhelming. They typically borrow the form and structure of an in-person conference without considering whether those still make sense online, and whether the goals of an online conference should even be the same as an in-person conference.
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hytradboi 2025
HYTRADBOI is coming back in 2025, this time with a programming languages track.
I have 14 speakers confirmed so far, but there is still plenty of room. Let me know who you want to see!
Smolderingly fast b-trees
(This is part of a series on the design of a language. See the list of posts here.)
Many 'scripting' languages use a hashmap for their default associative data-structure (javascript objects, python dicts, etc). Hashtables have a lot of annoying properties:
Vulnerable to hash flooding....
HYTRADBOI 2025
2025 Feb 28. Put it in your calendar.
It's been three years since HYTRADBOI. Long enough that I've mostly forgotten how stressful it was to run a conference and it's starting to seem like a good idea again.
talks
The format will stay the same. 10 minute, pre-recorded, heavily-edited talks. Asynchronous chat. Join from a different time-zone, watch talks on your lunch break, answer questions...