In late September, I attended Strange Loop... one of my most favorite conferences. There were lots of interesting talks this year. Here are the ones I recommend checking out. These include both talks I attended and ones I heard where phenomenal. Enjoy!

• The Hard Parts of Open Source, Evan Czaplicki
• Git from the Ground Up, Safia Abdalla
• Towards Language Support for Distributed Systems, Heather Miller
• A Little Taste of Dependent Types, David Christiansen
• A Tale of Two Asyncs: Open Source Language Design in Rust and Node.js, Ashley Williams
• Algorithms for DNA Data Storage, Ruthie Nachmany
• Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools, Max Brunsfeld
• From Papers We Love: The Future of the Grid: Policy, Technology, and Market Changes, Casey Canfield