A huge thank you to everyone who attended #DevConf2025 in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Your support makes it possible for us to continue this journey year after year. The South African developer community is incredible!

Just in case you missed my talk about zapping the flakes at DevConf.cz - here's the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xLEaZs2hcU&list=PLU1vS0speL2bCGfDl6lCckdCzXb_gopJV&index=40

Hey @kirschner , hope you had a safe trip home back from DevConf.cz!

Really enjoyed chatting with you - and since you asked, here's the link to "Spaceballs - The T-Shirt": https://www.qwertee.com/shop/tees/the-t-shirt

I’ve attended some amazing sessions
(official and hallway) at @devconf_cz so far, but this is definitely the best yet

Lucas Lasota @llas of @fsfe talking about taking on #Apple in favor of the EU #DigitalMarketsAct

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Heard at #Devconf2025 (maybe paraphrased, I can't remember the exact words): remember, #VibeCoding was *not* intended for people to use to produce production-ready software; it was intended for developers to use to quickly play around with and learn new tech and new techniques, etc. And you were *certainly* never meant to just take what your favourite LLM spat out, paste it as-is into your IDE, run it and deploy it into a mission-critical application. You're supposed to tinker with it, understand it, modify it, use it to practice and learn.

And for that purpose, it is perfectly fit.

But it's the same thing with StackOverflow, right? How often do you copy code out of a SO answer and just use it as-is without giving a thought to how it actually works? And how many times, as a young developer, have your seniors told you that you should *never* do that? :P

Craig Risi talks about "Unlocking Code Confidence" #devconf2025

Donald Graham: "Who's afraid of Continuous Delivery?" #devconf2025

Rory Preddy about to deliver Sarcasm as a Service #devconf2025

#devconf2025 @dale_nunns is about to go Duck Hunting! :-D

Robert Bravery presents, "SOLID is a lie" #devconf2025

Johan van Rooyen asks, "Why did Turing study fish?" #devconf2025

Ryan Brown presents The Art of Delivery #Devconf2025

Welcome! #devconf2025

Me and the #OfferZen monster at #Devconf2025

Here we go! @DevConf #Devconf2025

80's gaming nostalgia meets modern tech! Join Dale Nunns at #DevConf2025 as he recreates the classic Duck Hunt with 3D printing, custom controllers, and contemporary development techniques—all on a "wife approved" budget with impossible deadlines! #RetroGaming #MakerCulture

Can AI understand South African sarcasm? Join Rory Preddy at #DevConf2025 as he revisits his hilarious "Sarcasm as a Service" experiment five years later. See how far NLP has come (or hasn't)!

Let's talk about how you've screwed this up too!" Join Donald Graham for a refreshingly honest session on Continuous Delivery. Bring your war stories and learn from shared failures at #DevConf2025 #DevOps

The classic 'It runs DOOM' meme comes to life! Join Cayden de Wit, our youngest speaker for a fascinating journey through the technical wizardry that lets this legendary game run on... well, pretty much anything! #DevConf2025