Big Sky Dev Con 2025

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy."
-Lazarus, on creating conference recaps

=================== CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro, Aaron Francis, Primeagen 
01:19 - 01 - Carson Gross - API Design 
04:40 - 02 - Stephanie Gredell - From Human To Bots 
07:04 - 03 - typecraft (Chris Power) - VaaS (Vim as a service) -- How to teach vim to thousands of people with Rails and Go 
10:28 - 04 - Robbie Wagner - HTML is stealing our jobs! 
13:20 - 05 - Warren Buffering - Browsers are for Reads, Native Apps are for Writes
16:49 - 06 - Jon-Michael Hartway - Building things for twitter clout
20:00 - 07 - Ken Wheeler - you can just build things 
22:55 - 08 - Duncan Lutz - Potatoes Go Brrr: Adventures in High-Speed Embedded Rust 
25:08 - 09 - Mike Amundsen - Making Connections and Solving Problems : Hypermedia's Legacy and Future 
29:22 - 10 - Barrett A Breshears - Backends?!? Where we are going we don't need backends 
32:41 - 11 - Adam Stepinski - Extending vs Scripting: Lessons from building the Hyperview client 
36:47 - 12 - Alex Petros - What's Left for Frontend Engineers? 
41:30 - 13 - Dennis Ivy - Why good developers fail interviews
44:55 - 14 - Turner Houghton - JSX minus react plus htmx 
47:23 - 15 - Tony Ennis - The Platform and a Stylesheet (A path to Platform / SPA Parity) 
54:23 - 16 - Dan Vail I'm dumb and so can you!
57:27 - Closing

=================== TALKS MENTIONED:

Aaron Francis "Publishing Your Work" - Laracon US 2023 Nashville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YaEtaXYVtI

The Primeagen on Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZnLkRBYA8

Big Sky Dev Con 2025 Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTstnhS3moc&list=PLE57lymIlIyVXwAO-pO6gvMmnd6isAFTR

01 - Carson Gross - API Design 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTstnhS3moc

02 - Stephanie Gredell - From Human To Bots 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sd_09Ci2cM

03 - typecraft (Chris Power) - VaaS (Vim as a service) -- How to teach vim to thousands of people with Rails and Go 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfH-hzl3al8

04 - Robbie Wagner - HTML is stealing our jobs! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdocEPDlwYM

05 - Warren Buffering - Browsers are for Reads, Native Apps are for Writes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojy5pQLJ_RQ

06 - Jon-Michael Hartway - Building things for twitter clout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQzpyIXdzcE

07 - Ken Wheeler - you can just build things 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WcV7LdnvU

08 - Duncan Lutz - Potatoes Go Brrr: Adventures in High-Speed Embedded Rust 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu0hUxz6cJ0

09 - Mike Amundsen - Making Connections and Solving Problems : Hypermedia's Legacy and Future 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-GQhQs671k

10 - Barrett A Breshears - Backends?!? Where we are going we don't need backends 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4CECgmr96s

11 - Adam Stepinski - Extending vs Scripting: Lessons from building the Hyperview client 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJdgZsnihnM

12 - Alex Petros - What's Left for Frontend Engineers? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7M2inHiT4Y

13 - Dennis Ivy - Why good developers fail interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uWfmFCwmII

14 - Turner Houghton - JSX minus react plus htmx 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x51t1pQ_gAg

15 - Tony Ennis - The Platform and a Stylesheet (A path to Platform / SPA Parity) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknX6xq8Vfg

16 - Dan Vail I'm dumb and so can you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmsRmarXA0
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