Speaking
I really enjoy sharing my experiences and talking in public, so I try to do it as often as possible.
"The Upsidedown Stack: React on the Server and Postgres in the Browser" – a talk at React Miami 2025 about React server components, and local-first tools like pglite and ElectricSQL. Will we flip the full-stack upsidedown?
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A lightning talk at a "Fork it!" meetup about MCP Servers and how to write evals (tests) for MCP servers.
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I gave a talk about building apps with a "SQL from the Frontend" architecture. I talked about what this enables, and how it could work despite the various concerns (mainly security, but others too).
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I gave a talk about building apps with a "SQL from the Frontend" architecture. I talked about what this enables, and how it could work despite the various concerns (mainly security, but others too).
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Private talk I gave for 100+ Bosch Digital employees. The title was "SQL & NoSQL Databases in 2024", and I dived into the history of databases, scaling DMBSs, and self-managing vs. using managed providers.
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"Neon Proxy" — a talk about the Neon Proxy I gave together with Stefan Radig.
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"Databases Can't Be Just Databases Anymore" — a 40 minutes talk about how databases can't be just databases anymore.
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"Running Node.js Database Drivers in the Browser" — a 40 minutes talk about the challenge of running database drivers built for Node.js inside the browser. This talk was given at iJS Conference.
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"Statically Typing JavaScript" — a 30 minutes talk about the challenge of adding a statically typed system on top of the JavaScript programming language. This talk was given at React Advanced.
"Statically Typing JavaScript" — a 30 minutes talk about the challenge of adding a statically typed system on top of the JavaScript programming language. This talk was given at Fullstack Porto.
"Statically Typing JavaScript" — a 30 minutes talk about the challenge of adding a statically typed system on top of the JavaScript programming language. This talk was given at JNation.
"Lessons learnt while migrating from Flow to TypeScript" — a 30 minutes talk about some of the lessons learnt while transitioning 2 codebases (one of them with 30K+ LOC) from Flow to TypeScript. This talk was given at require('lx').
"Let's talk about Flow" — a 45 minutes talk about statically typing JavaScript with Flow at require('lx').
A 20 minutes talk (in Portuguese) about Reason's interop with JavaScript at ReasonML Lisbon Meetup.
A 20 minutes talk about GraphQL Servers in the Client at React Fest.
A 35 minutes talk about Bucklescript's Interop with JavaScript at the ReasonML Munich Meetup.
A 30 minutes talk about how databases work and the different kinds of databases that are available.
A 30 minutes talk about Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem at UNIX Dei.
A 15 minutes talk about Games With A Purpose at Coimbra.codes.
A Meteor workshop at the National Informatics Engineering Students' Meeting.
A talk about Meteor called "What's the deal with Meteor?" at Codebits in 2014.