Devine's Talk on Weathering Software Winter: Insights and Context
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Summary
The blog post is a transcript of a talk by Devine from November 26, 2022, discussing the topic of weathering software winter. It includes additional context about the presentation tools used (Adelie for slides) and a note about distancing from the hosting conference due to an event in 2025. The post also references a video version available on YouTube.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWhile we are grateful to have had the opportunity to give this presentation, an event in 2025 has resulted in us distancing ourselves from the conference responsible for hosting this talk.
Thank you to Matt Mascarenhas for providing us with an auto-transcript, it would have taken us ages to put this text together without it.
This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk by Devine on November 26th 2022. Watch the video version on (YouTube).
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