Talk in English - US at CascadiaPHP 2024
Track Name:
Crater Lake
Checkout the code: https://github.com/omnicolor/brew-calc
View Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/omnicolor/alexa-cascadia
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/11f4f
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The future we saw in Star Trek is happening now! Instead of having to actually touch your technology, you can now use your voice to bend it to your will. In this talk, we'll go from an idea for an Alexa skill to a fully functioning voice-based assistant for a hobby that involves a surprising amount of calculations: brewing beer. No braincells will be harmed during this talk (meaning no alcohol), but you may accidentally learn how it's brewed as we build a skill to aid in it.
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Really fun to see how you can scratch an itch with the skills you have. Also your beer is amazing, Alexa has really helped you.
So much fun. I needed something light and entertaining, but now I feel as though I could actually build a simple Alexa app if I wanted to.
Nobody can show us screenshots of Amazon Wizards like Omni can!
I learned several things in this talk as a home brewer and a developer. I'm a little shocked at how easy it is to create an Amazon skill and now I just need to figure out what to build. I thought it was a well-organized talk and my only negative is I got lost in the code sample somehow but that may have been the long day taking it's toll.
Great end of day talk combining hobbies, the ridiculous developer experience of Amazon, and how a few lines of code + the devices we now live with can help make life a little simpler.