ScotlandPHP 2017
4 Nov 2017 at Edinburgh International Conference Center

Awesome talk by an awesome speaker. Loved the cat gif, but seriously some really interesting points raised and lots of things to consider. We are all privileged in some way and it was great of Meri to use her personal experience of privilege and of how privilege was used to hold people down to show that we should be using our privilege to create a better culture and environment for everyone instead of creating toxic environments. We need more people pushing these subjects the way Meri does in order to get the tech industry to be a shining example of diversity and inclusivity. Well done to the organisers for choosing such an amazing closing keynote.

Enjoyed the talk, good energy and lots of info about a subject I'm not too familiar with.

Overrunning by 15 mins kinda screwed the schedule for the rest of the day.

Overall I didn't really like this talk. However, I feel for junior developers this would be an amazing talk to hear in your first year of programming.

I feel that it oversold the importance of coding style. Also, I feel that it would have been better if it was clear this talk was going to be such a basic level talk.

Really great - covered a lot of ground in a relatively short talk, and gave lots of references to follow up with later.

Busting preconceptions is always great in a keynote; really glad to see these topics being discussed at a tech conference.

Really enjoyed this talk. I'd forgotten about CSP after we had a bad experience a year or so ago when someone just "turned it on" after getting the results of a security review and it broke everything!
Seeing how simple it is to turn it on in a "reporting only mode" has given me the confidence to st it up properly on any new sites I work on.
I was interested in a Symfony bundle and came across https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioSecurityBundle which has CSP and more, I may give it a try!

I enjoyed the talk although I did not agree fully with a lot of the management style conclusions. Having worked with a lot of teams, each seem to behave quite differently so finding that silver bullet has always been a unicorn quest for me. I would have enjoyed it a bit more if the final bit didn't turn into a rant. It made the entire ending quite awkward and uncomfortable which imho is not the feeling you want to give your audience as the closing keynote: it reflects poorly on the conference, its organization and truth be told, the rest of the talk.

Good talk, might benefit from a but more energy

The talk showed that GraphQL is not as scary as it sounds, and made the benefits very clear.
I like the self documenting feature it can provide, and liked how you can flag what is deprecated and let the GraphQL consumers know directly.
It would be fun to mix in some PHP Promises in a GraphQL server implementation.

Really interesting talk, I liked how much you can get for free with some of the tools.
I'd give it a five if I saw some screenshots of dashboards and charts :)

I really enjoyed the style of delivery of this talk, and it was really interesting to see how many people don't upgrade their software libraries, unless the upgrades require zero changes to the code!