DDD by Night October - Hybrid event

It's DDD but *lightning*.

The evening will be a hybrid event hosted by the DDD Melbourne crew and consist of short & sharp presentations of fifteen minutes in length on a dev related subject.

We have limited space on the night - it will be first in best dressed. If you RSVP and you can't make it, please update to give others a space!

ONLINE ATTENDANCE
You can join us online, we'll aim to get the call started somewhere around 5:45pm before we have our introductions and first speaker.

Remote audience link --> [https://atlassian.zoom.us/j/99667730148?pwd=9pwmsVUEbcIqIdJLGJ5lJhyRIKxwur.1&jst=2](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fatlassian.zoom.us%2Fj%2F99667730148%3Fpwd%3D9pwmsVUEbcIqIdJLGJ5lJhyRIKxwur.1%26jst%3D2&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1789964160000000&usg=AOvVaw1HKg1yzL5VSE_UpSAsWv7C "https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fatlassian.zoom.us%2Fj%2F99667730148%3Fpwd%3D9pwmsVUEbcIqIdJLGJ5lJhyRIKxwur.1%26jst%3D2&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1789964160000000&usg=AOvVaw1HKg1yzL5VSE_UpSAsWv7C")

You can ask questions of our speakers via Slido. We'll try to ask your questions as they come through on Slido, but we may not get to all of them.

TALKS

No Idea What I’m Doing: Shipping Software Anyway
James Westall

I spent five years at uni, racked up a healthy HECS debt… and never actually graduated. I work in sales now, and my background is in Security and Windows Server infrastructure. I’ve never written a line of code anyone has paid for. Which for many, might disqualify me from building software.

Apparently, not anymore.

This talk is a mix of introspection and light comedy, walking through what happens when someone like me starts building and shipping with LLMs. It’s about capability vs. credibility, vibes vs. reality, and what we’re all supposed to do when the rules of “who gets to build” have quietly changed.

Messy Bun, Messy Code but real Lessons - A hackathon experience
Hajra Parveen Akhtar

A light hearted look at my hackathon experience with messy buns and messier code. I would like share about team work , problems solving under pressure, remote working and decision making in uncertainty.

Every village needs a Makerspace.
Kirsten Greed

Now that Claude has sorted out my threading issues and memory leaks I no longer spend days coding in circles.
I am too old for the hero's journey, but I find myself still needing people, place and projects

From dotfile Cruft to Fully-Fledged Projects: The Cases of Moonshine and Homegit
Javier Candeira

I used to have a mess of dotfiles that just "worked for me". Now I have two repos with tooling that other people can use if they have the same needs as I do, or learn from as they build their own bespoke tools for themselves.
This is the story of how I extracted Moonshine out of a janky script called *tv-session.sh*, and Homegit (temporary name) out of alias homegit="GIT_DIR=~/data/dotfiles.git GIT_WORK_TREE=~ git"

Lessons from Making Jira's Frontend Fast at Scale
Pushyami Gali

Real stories from a multi-year performance push on a big, complex web app: how to find the real culprits behind a slow-feeling page, the patterns that moved the needle and why performance is less a project you finish and more a fire you keep putting out.

CODE OF CONDUCT
All DDD events are subject to the DDD Code of Conduct available at https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/

VENUE AND FOOD SPONSOR
Atlassian

FUTURE EVENTS
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