Talks

“If you don’t have time to build it right, when will you have time to build it twice”
Nice Talk from @Swizec at @ReactSummit pic.twitter.com/UCOitMfEMp
— Basti (@bwalkdev) June 17, 2022

Entertaining and insightful

~ Ryan Florence about my talk at Reactathon 2022

Swizec had everyone simultaneously laughing, commiserating and applauding with his epic tale of blood, sweat, tears and rewrites. This session also featured the single best quote of the entire conference: “Editors are horrible people”.

~ Kay Smoljak about my talk at WTD Hungary 2014

First talk of the conference that made me want to close my laptop

~ lowk3y about my keynote at Drupal Alpe Adria 2014

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2025 – Incremental rewrites with React, HTMX, and TanStack Start
2025 – Leadership lessons from growing 3x in 1 year
2025 – Senior isn't about your tech skills
2024 – Scaling Fast, lessons from tech startups (updated) – React Advanced London
2024 - Scaling Fast, lessons from ~15 years in tech startups – C3Fest, TechLeadConf
2023 - Forget Bad Code, Focus on the System – React Summit US
2023 - Lessons from working as a Tech Lead – TechLeadConf
2022 - You Do Have Time To Build It Twice – React Summit
2022 - Serverless in 10min and why you should care – Reactathon
2021 - What's so exciting about React 18 – React Technical Dinner
2020 - Wormhole state management with React Hooks – ReactiveConf Meetup
2020 - UseAuth - delightfully simple authentication in React - #wwwhmb 111
2019 - The Web Got so Good You Can Build a Startup in 1 Day - Silicon Valley CodeCamp
2018 - Data Visualizations with React + D3
2018 - Using blockchain for shared UI state on the web
2017 - Modern web development: The Component is King
2016 - Reusable data visualization with React and d3.js
2016 - How to use React and d3.js to Build Visualization Components
2016 - bayd3: React & D3 - Better Together
2015 – HTML5DevConf: Reusable data visualization with React and d3.js
2014 - Wat ... are we doing to ourselves?
2014 - Why programmers work at night, keynote
2014 - What I learned writing a lousy tech book
2013 - Self-publishing yes or no
2012 - Why programmers work at night
2012 - Modern Python idioms
2012 - I don't like servers
2012 - Django SQL optimisation
2012 - Blogging, hats, stuff
2011 - Tools that get you laid
2010 - Scraping the wild internets
2010 - The future internet
2010 - LazySharer
2009 - The Synaptic Web