Conference Talks

linux.conf.au

Write a Single Library to Handle All Input Devices, It'll Be Easy They Said

A tour of libinput’s design tradeoffs in building one userspace input stack for mice, touchpads, tablets, and touchscreens.

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

linux.conf.au

TPM Based Attestation - How Can We Use It for Good?

A practical look at using TPM remote attestation to protect network access, verify enterprise SSH host keys, and support system recovery while preserving user privacy.

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

linux.conf.au

Zero Trust SSH

Replace per-user SSH key distribution with short-lived SSH certificates issued by a self-service certificate authority.

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

linux.conf.au

An Introduction to Penetration Testing Using Kali Linux

Practice finding devices, testing for vulnerabilities, and attempting access on vulnerable systems while learning the mindset and complexity of penetration testing.

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

linux.conf.au

The ZFS Filesystem

See how ZFS uses checksums, copy-on-write transactions, storage pools, and snapshots to protect data and recover from disk problems.

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

ACCU Conference

Modern C and What We Can Learn From It

A look at how Modern C’s data-oriented design, initialization, and memory-management ideas can improve code and inform newer systems languages.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ACCU Conference

Keynote - It Depends

Experienced developers examine how context shapes programming rules and why hidden software dependencies complicate what teams know, model, and test.

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

ACCU Conference

GPU Programming with Modern C++

Learn to extend modern C++ parallel patterns to heterogeneous devices by using SYCL to implement them on a GPU.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ACCU Conference

What Do You Mean?

A talk on how developers uncover, shape, and communicate meaning through software concepts, names, code, and practices.

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

ACCU Conference

Windows Native API

Trace how Windows Native API calls reach kernel services, from argument validation and handle arguments to access checks and the object namespace.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ACCU Conference

Scheme Lisp - Feel the Cool

Scheme reveals how Lisp’s lists and functions collapse into one idea, with recursion and code-as-data showing how its design shaped modern languages.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ACCU Conference

Procedural Programming - It’s Back? It Never Went Away

Reconsiders procedural programming as a context-sensitive paradigm, tracing its influence on language design and its relationship to functional and object-oriented approaches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ACCU Conference

Linux User - Kernel ABI - The Realities of How C and C++ Programs Really Talk to the OS

Explore the hidden Linux user/kernel ABI beneath the C library, including system-call paths, signal behavior, pthreads, ptrace, and /proc.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ACCU Conference

C++17 - The Best Features

A personal selection of C++17’s most useful improvements, spanning changes to both the core language and standard library.

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

ACCU Conference

Lock-Free Programming with Modern C++

An accessible introduction to lock-free programming in portable modern C++, centered on using atomics and building a lock-free queue.

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