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Re: Build Impossible Programs

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Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides?

I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior and still get something from most of her articles.

Anecdotally; Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of my male counterparts would speak with less jargon/acronyms for the sake of new starts/non-engineers.

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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I can't tell if she's nervous or awkward or excited but it reminds me of myself when giving talks, even to small groups. I get so flustered that my mind races and then the rest of my body tries to catch up so I'm now talking really fast and moving and jumping all over and being very fidgety with things. Anyway the difference is that she managed to get her points through while mine often gets lost. I still don't know…

Practice, practice, practice. I used to be unable to do presentations, unless I had practiced them out loud twenty times in the days before the presentation. I wouldn’t write a script and stick to it word for word, I’d make slides and general points and then practice them out loud until I got them right. After a few years of doing this, I only had to practice a few times. Today I can stand up anywhere and talk about…

> Today I can stand up anywhere and talk about anything to anyone without notice.

You can be comfortable doing it, but doesn't mean some practice wouldn't make it more enjoyable for the listeners.

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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post #31

Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides? I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior and still get something from most of her articles. Anecdotally; Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of m…

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Re: Build Impossible Programs

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Thanks but that doesn't work for me, I can't figure which extension is blocking me. I get this when opening that link: TypeError: "play" is read-only player.js:2:3975 VimeoPlayer https://f.vimeocdn.com/p/3.3.17/js/player.js:2:3975 https://f.vimeocdn.com/p/3.3.17/js/player.js:2:260 TypeError: VimeoPlayer is not a constructor 290376045:1:9150 https://player.vimeo.com/video/290376045:1:9150

Putting the link in youtube-dl and watching offline works for me.

Thanks I got this, playable with VLC for example: https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1537357126-0x19388e9cb2a5d6095b...

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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post #31

Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides? I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior and still get something from most of her articles. Anecdotally; Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of m…

Julia uses Squid for Android for her zines:

https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/#tools-that-make-it...

Presumably, she uses the same to do the slides. Here she talks some more about her tools:

https://usesthis.com/interviews/julia.evans/

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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post #33

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Practice, practice, practice. I used to be unable to do presentations, unless I had practiced them out loud twenty times in the days before the presentation. I wouldn’t write a script and stick to it word for word, I’d make slides and general points and then practice them out loud until I got them right. After a few years of doing this, I only had to practice a few times. Today I can stand up anywhere and talk about…

> Today I can stand up anywhere and talk about anything to anyone without notice. You can be comfortable doing it, but doesn't mean some practice wouldn't make it more enjoyable for the listeners.

Very true, and I do still prepare for presentations.

For me though, the side effect of practice has been how I can now naturally put my thoughts to speak and deliver the points I want the way I want. Both of these things seemed almost like magical abilities to me 10 years ago.

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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post #31

Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides? I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior and still get something from most of her articles. Anecdotally; Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of m…

Julia uses Squid for Android for her zines: https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/#tools-that-make-it... Presumably, she uses the same to do the slides. Here she talks some more about her tools: https://usesthis.com/interviews/julia.evans/

Thank you very much Tomas!

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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post #31

Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides? I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior and still get something from most of her articles. Anecdotally; Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of m…

Julia uses Squid for Android for her zines: https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/#tools-that-make-it... Presumably, she uses the same to do the slides. Here she talks some more about her tools: https://usesthis.com/interviews/julia.evans/

Julia's now using Ipad with pencil and the Notability app. She previously used a Samsung Chromebook Plus with Squid.

She actually wrote a blog post about reverse engineering the file formats when transitioning between them: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/03/31/reverse-engineering-notabili...

(btw, if you go through her drawings over the years, they got better and better. I think a lot of what makes them great nowadays is practice, practice, practice)

Re: Build Impossible Programs

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Julia uses Squid for Android for her zines: https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/#tools-that-make-it... Presumably, she uses the same to do the slides. Here she talks some more about her tools: https://usesthis.com/interviews/julia.evans/

Julia's now using Ipad with pencil and the Notability app. She previously used a Samsung Chromebook Plus with Squid. She actually wrote a blog post about reverse engineering the file formats when transitioning between them: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/03/31/reverse-engineering-notabili... (btw, if you go through her drawings over the years, they got better and better. I think a lot of what makes them great nowadays is…

Oh that looks like an interesting read, i've previously missed that post.

I'll check both out, going to give that presentation style a try.

Cheers for the links.

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