Talks
8 talks at Sydney and Brisbane meetups and one conference stage, between 2014 and 2021. Every deck is still online.
React Sydney, 2021 · Brisbane JavaScript, 2021
Streams as a way to model the messy parts of a React app — typeahead, retries, cancellation, race conditions you only find in production. Where RxJS earns its complexity, and the point past which it stops paying for itself.
SydJS, 2020 · GraphQL Sydney, 2019
A field report from running GraphQL in production at Different: how the schema was designed and owned, what it did to the way front-end and back-end teams worked together, and the parts of the pitch that did not survive contact with a real product.
Web Directions Summit, 2017
Proxies, reflection and code that writes code — a tour of what the language will let you get away with, paired with an honest look at the maintenance bill that arrives a year later.
Canva meetup, 2017
Composition over configuration. Why the prop you add to handle today’s variant becomes next quarter’s problem, and how to build components that combine cleanly instead of accumulating flags.
React Sydney, 2017
Tests as a design tool rather than a compliance exercise. The red–green loop in practice, and how a suite you trust is what makes refactoring and shipping stop feeling like a gamble.
Node Ninjas, 2015
Drawing module boundaries in a Node codebase so the seams still hold once the app grows — small packages, explicit interfaces, and the cost of splitting things up too early.
MongoDB Sydney, 2015
Replica sets from the operator’s chair: elections, read preferences, failover behaviour, and what actually happens to your writes the moment a primary disappears.
Node Ninjas, 2014
An introduction aimed at people already comfortable in Node — the syntax, what it compiles down to, and why the readability felt worth an extra build step at the time.
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