DomCode 2016
4 Nov 2016 at Centraal Museum

Great topic, but the presentation felt a bit shallow. If you've been following the discussions around privacy or PPNL then most of the presentation is not new. It's a good introduction to those who are unknown to the topic, but I hope everyone in the venue knew this already. I personally would've liked some more hands-on suggestions or in-depth studies or tips on how we as developers could improve our workflow to better prepare and think of privacy implications while building.

The choice of some images did scare me a bit though. They really felt as if they were plucked of a site like Niburu or some other conspiracy-theory site. I was starting to fear PPNL was just another tinfoil-hat community because of it.

You'll still have my vote, but a change of imagery would serve you well imho.

Great way to present code implementations, with very nice examples.

Perfect example of short but impactful: Short story, but very inspiring to try out!

Good topic, but would have been improved with more concrete examples (not only does this help any average techie think harder about their own work and companies, but comes across as more factual because, well, case studies are factual).

I thought it was a good closing keynote for DomCode. The speaking tone was also good for the echo-y venue: even in front of the speakers, she was easy to understand and I noticed the schrijftolken easily kept up with her on the screen.

This talk seemed mostly about what you can do with Lambda and its advantages rather than chat bots (the bots were merely the means an end), but honestly Lambda is more interesting. Looked like a great tool in developers' toolbox, price was talked about, and how fast it was to use.

Good overview, though the speakers in that room all needed to speak much more loudly due to the fact that the room seemed to dampen all sound (would have been great to have the schrijftolken in that room!).

Too bad there wasn't time for a quick screen reader demo, people are always curious about those, but it was great that it showed easy tests any developer can do even if they don't read the WCAG.

Great to hear a talk on security, one which lists practical steps for John Q Startup to implement.

I didn't agree with the "ex-employees, cut them off as soon as possible" in all instances, as I work for a company that does exactly this and it has caused much lost work, servers where nobody has access to anymore, and lost ability to get information from the ex-colleague because their email account is gone within the day.

Unlike last year's (awesome) bee talk, I found less connection to tech in this talk, even though of course drones are controlled via software. I fear I might be biased a bit against this talk due to the speaker being very quiet, in a room that seems to dampen all noise, meaning I had to work very hard to follow all the sentences, and was mentally exhausted at the end.
The speaker was also extremely optimistic about stopping killing-by-drone. I feel with countries who typically don't play by the rules like the US already doing it for 20-odd years that there's no turning back.