Speaking for Hackers

About

Years ago, I started to write a book about giving good conference talks. The title was Speaking for Hackers.

Turns out I ran out of steam and didn't finish, but I think what's here is worth reading.

The book is split into three sections: before, during, and after your talk. There's also some raw notes with ideas that never made it into polished prose.

Many thanks to my employer thoughtbot for sending me to the conferences where these ideas were developed.

Feel free to copy and share this, but please don't use it for anything commercial without my permission.

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Development Instructions

This site is built with NextJS as a static site with markdown (mdx) for content.

Local Set-up

To get the site set-up locally:

1. Clone this repo
2. Run yarn to install dependencies
3. Run yarn dev to spin the site up locally
4. Preview at: http://localhost:3000

Structure

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll find.

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├── components
├── pages
   └── post
└── posts

/components/**: This directory will contain generic components needed to build out the UI, keep it group by on a block level.

/pages/index.js: This is the landing page of the site.

/pages/post/[slug].js: This is the dynamic route that builds out the single post view. It does not contain specific content, but rather dictates style and structure.

/posts: This is where our Markdown content lives. Add new pages or edit the existing pages, they would automatically be picked up in the respective chapter.

Deploy

The site is hosted on Netlify. When you push to the remote on master it will trigger a rebuild of the main site, or any pull requests against master would generate a PR preview deploy as well.