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==== 📓 Agenda📓 =====

6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrival, Food & Refreshments

7:00pm: Talks Start

🗣️ Scott Nicholas Allan Smith - Cognit-Go Have you ever jumped into a codebase (new or old!) and felt like it was resisting every attempt you were making to understand it? Do you feel pity for newly onboarded colleagues because you know it's going to take them weeks or months to wrap their heads around the code?

There are many sources of complexity in software systems. Here we'll discuss one source of complexity, a metric to measure that complexity called cognitive complexity, a tool to calculate this metrics on Go code, some real examples of how this metric can be used to push code toward being easier to understand, and some approaches to taming this complexity in both greenfield and legacy projects..

🗣️ Qi Xiao - How to test your programming language and terminal app by inventing a DSL and a VS Code plugin I'll talk about an interesting testing technique for a programming language I develop (Elvish, https://elv.sh, it's also a shell but that's irrelevant for the talk) in Go.

In order to test the interpreter, I invented a small DSL that's basically a transcript of interactions with the interpreter. The testing framework will take those transcripts, run the input and see if the output matches. To make writing those tests super easy, I also created a VS Code extension that can fill in the output from the input. A video is worth 1000 words: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDMDaEC0IYw30eWqQdt9UgYeAXmGWsjH/view?usp=sharing

\~8:30 - 9:00pm: Closing and Head to the Pub

==== 💡 Priority Queue 💡 =====

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If they join the waitlist and there is a reserved spot open they will be bumped into going!

These spots are reversed until the last Sunday before the event.

How do we define underrepresented? We use public surveys done by the tech community such as the ones linked below.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-demographics

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development

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==== 🎉 Prizes! 🎉 =====

JetBrains Raffle! - We have 3 free JetBrains Product licenses to giveaway to some of our lucky attendees.

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