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Cloud Developer AdvocateGoogle
Katie has worn many different hats over the years. She is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Google, and has been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics. When she's not changing the world, she enjoys making tapestries, cooking, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.
 
Talks I've Given
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Turning 'wat' into why
Featuring Katie McLaughlin
Programming languages are repeatedly touted to have strange edge cases. Footguns. Wats. The canonical ‘wat’ talk shows some of these for Ruby and JavaScript, but doesn’t go into any detail into the ‘why’.
In this talk, take a tour through a multitude of programming languages; and see not only the...
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The Power ⚡️ and Responsibility
Featuring Katie McLaughlin
Communication is difficult. Whether between humans, machines, or a combination of the two, trying to translate meaningful information is a lossy process.
Converting programming languages to use the new Unicode standard is hard, but once it’s in place, you get this marvellous feature-add:...
software-development