Global Nerdy

Thanks to Dmitry Buterin for the find (I cleaned up the typography)!

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Here’s the scene it references…

…and here’s the mandatory Robot Chicken parody:

Now witness the power of this fully-operational Darth Vader statue
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Someone gave an old Darth Vader statue to one of my co-workers’ toddlers, and it didn’t work out so well. That’s how it came into my possession, and I plan to make the most of it. It’s now standing proudly beside my desk at the Sourcetoad office, awaiting amusing photo opportunities.

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Update: Banana for scale

George “@gortok” Stocker suggested that I include a banana in the photo for scale, and I’m more than happy to oblige:

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I’m chatting live tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube with the folks from the Thunder Nerds podcast about the upcoming DevFest Florida conference, which takes place on Saturday, January 19th at the Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World.

You can watch it below:

The Thunder Nerds describe their podcast as “A conversation with the people behind the technology, that love what they do… and do tech good.” I had the privilege of doing an interview with them at last year’s DevFest Florida…

…and I’m looking forward to chatting with them both tonight and at this year’s conference.

The Thunder Nerds, who have over 160 podcasts under their collective belt, are Jenell Pizarro:

…Brian Hinton:

…and Frederick Philip von Weiss:

They’ll be talking with a number of people who’ll be speaking at DevFest Florida 2019, including Yours Truly, who’ll be presenting to attendees who want to get in on one of the hottest fields’ (data science) hottest tools (Jupyter notebooks)…

…Betty Pierce, who’ll talk about React Native Up and Running:

…Eva Sofianos, who will present Nailing the Tech Interview:

…Michael Prentice, whose presentation will be Composing Accessible UIs With Angular Material Components,

…Santosh Hari, whose talk will be Intro to NoSQL and how to pick a cloud based NoSQL provider:

…and Siva Kumar, whose presentation will be AI Adventures with AutoML:

If you want to find out more about DevFest Florida, or if you simply want to see what’s new in the tech world, tune in tonight to this live chat!