C&S Lightning Talk night returns! The evening's presenters and their presentations:

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Phil Pennock On systemd

systemd: much-maligned but with many features you'll start to miss when on systems without it; what it offers which you should know about.

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Colin Dean Classifying work tickets with SEI issue classification

Learn a simple classification system for your JIRA or GitHub tickets straight out of one of the Software Engineering Institute's best books, Software Architecture in Practice. You'll learn how to classify user stories, architecture stories, defects, and technical debt and use these new labels to power your backlog refinement sessions.

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Tiemoko Ballo Safe and Portable Data Structure Design

This talk will explore Rust patterns for low-level control of memory. Specifically techniques for simultaneously maximizing provable memory safety and bare-metal portability. Concepts will be visualized - you won't need extensive Rust experience to follow along.

Though the content generalizes to any graph/tree data structure, it's derived from an API-compatible alternative to part of Rust's standard library: https://docs.rs/scapegoat/latest/scap...

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Teal Larson Front End Dev (SASS)

Why people used @import. Benefits of shifting your sass from @import to @use. How @use supports modular sass. Limitations. A brief example either from a codebase I've been working on or in a small sample project.

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Yvette Menase C&S sponsorship pitch for comp survey and comp survey promo

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Sarah Withee Easily building web crawlers for data gathering (and fun)

For a recent work project, I determined one of the easiest ways to get data from 20k+ pages was to build a web crawler and scrape data. I ended up using Scrapy, a Python framework, to build some super simple spiders/crawlers to traverse the sites to get a lot of data we needed. I can show you how to use it, why you might, and example code.

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Bruce Adams Formatting JSON, oh my!

A very quick survey of existing JSON formatting tools, (such as jq and Python) and some ideas (maybe with implementations) for a better tool.

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Bryce Allen GPU programming for science

Why GPUs are increasingly used in scientific applications on supercomputers, with a simple example in Julia that you can run on your laptop.

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The event on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-Cod...