Romeu Moura
Absurdism lobbyist
Endless conversation - with friends, compilers - on art, symmathesy, methods, absurdism, dialectic, paradigm jumps, serendipity.
Past Activities
Code Mesh LDN
10.35 - 11.20
Bourdieu's social theory applied to tech
Obscure though it may seems, the sociologist Bourdieu and his social theory tell us a lot about what is happening in the workplace and society around us. By understanding what he meant by "symbolic violence," "cultural capital," "hexis," etc, we see how each of us influences and is influenced by the people around us, in ways that we wouldn't expect.
From this talk, a vulgarised and easy to understand version of Bourdieu's ideas, each of us can seek how to improve the ambience immediately around us.
THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS
Invert
Symbolic
Violence
OBJECTIVES
Raising our conscience about our unconscious participation in oppression.
TARGET AUDIENCE
People that believe merit exists, people that want new ways to explain it does not.
Code Mesh LDN 2018
10.30 - 11.15
Property based tests for the masses
Use property based tests to challenge your knowledge of the domain, to create smaller, fewer tests that: test more, are more readable & document the problem. Use them even (specially) in horrible eldritch codebases written in awful languages, use property based tests to ask questions to your codebase.
OBJECTIVES
Get people to try property based tests in their own codebase monday within 20 minutes.