Bottom Line Up Front: In my time as a software developer I have attended many conferences and have never found an event that is more dear to my technical heart. You will probably be better served by skipping my own interpretation and finding something you love in the archive of StrangeLoop talks. If you are still reading then it is officially [past time] for a quick write up of some of the highlights.

Welcome to my third endeavor running a personal place on the internet. My first attempt was a previous version of this website. That site maybe garnered four or five posts before the server it ran on was repurposed for my subsequent project. I built the second site back in 2015 for my wedding. It used a MEAN stack and included all of the standard song-n-dance you would expect on such a site as well as a simple RSVP form.