Strange Loop Conference Courses

Gradual Typing of Ruby at Scale

Explore Stripe's journey in implementing gradual typing for their large Ruby codebase, including key design decisions and their impact on developer productivity and code quality.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Rebuilding Optimizing Compiler for Dart

Explore Dart's evolution from dynamic to static typing, its VM architecture changes, and the balance between language design and optimization in this insightful talk on compiler rebuilding.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Making Games for 1920s Hardware

Explore the development of "Hello, Operator!", a game using a 1927 telephone switchboard. Learn about blending old and new tech, hardware challenges, and cross-platform game engine design.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why I Chose to Modularize the Ducks in My React App

Learn to modularize React and Redux code for better state management, scalability, and maintainability using the "ducks" pattern, illustrated through a TV show ranking app example.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Making Machines That Make Music

Explore the journey of modeling and generating Carnatic music using machine learning. Discover data collection techniques, raga identification, and automatic transcription, with demos comparing machine and human music.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

From the Inside Out - Building a City Vacancy Portal

Explore how citizens built a data portal to address Saint Louis' vacant property problem, unifying fragmented data for policymakers and residents alike.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Misuser

Exploring digital art from early computing eras, revealing system limitations and artistic innovations. Discusses challenges in preserving and exhibiting these works, highlighting cultural impacts on technology.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Resurrecting a Recommendations Platform

Explore the implementation of a deep learning model for recommendations while maintaining a legacy platform, focusing on data, machine learning, and A/B testing tiers in cloud migration.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Theory of Everything

Unifying backend and frontend development perspectives to create a holistic approach to software engineering, bridging the gap between traditional computation and user interaction.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Generating Music From Emotion - and Other Experiments

Explore innovative techniques for generating music based on emotional patterns in books, videos, and films, using sentiment analysis and other non-musical data as foundations for musical storytelling.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Towards Language Support for Distributed Systems

Exploring language-level solutions for distributed systems challenges, focusing on CRDTs and serverless function compositions to simplify development and enhance reliability.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Changing the World

Explore the concept of world-changing impact and its implications with insights from Erica Joy Baker's thought-provoking conference talk.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Kotlin - Uncovered

Explore Kotlin's inner workings by decompiling to Java, examining data classes, lambdas, and delegation to gain deeper understanding and tools for further investigation.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Datafun - A Functional Query Language

Exploring Datafun: a functional query language bridging general-purpose and database languages. Simplifies data manipulation, optimizes queries, and integrates database theory with programming language concepts.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Universal Reason

Explore building universal ReactJS apps with ReasonML, a typed language compiling to JavaScript. Learn language basics, library bindings, and full-stack development for modern web applications.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk