As Carl Sagan once said, "If you wish to build a keyboard from scratch, you must first invent a CAD kernel."

Last time we had Brian present, he talked about writing the firmware in Rust for a keyboard he had designed and built. He will pick up where he left off, continuing the story with a case to really tie the keyboard together.

He's got a 3D printer and he's not afraid to use it. But he also wants to version control all his projects. So, naturally, instead of clicking and dragging his way through Fusion360, he turns to the arcane world of code-based CAD.

Join us to learn about what code-based CAD is all about, and what the future might be...

"I just want to do two things at the same time."

Modern computers are powerful, but it isn't always obvious how to leverage modern hardware with our languages. In this presentation, Colin Woodbury (Software Engineer at CADDi) will talk about the various situations we find ourselves in for which parallelism is the answer, how we can use Rayon and Tokio to address them, and how to know when Async isn't the answer.

Lessons are drawn from experience (*cough*, mistakes) in Production.

If you've heard of parser combinators but you're not sure what they are, then this talk is for you!

Jules Guesnon (Software Engineer at Specify) goes through the basics and theory of parsers, characterizing the different theoretical approaches to parsing, and reflecting on some of their limitations.

In the context he sets up, parser combinators can be understood as a direct way of writing parsers. Jules describes this approach in detail and touch on how it compares to generated parsers. To conclude his talk, he walks us through a simple "Hello World" parser implementation to understand the basics, and progressively review a JSON parser to show a real world use case.

Watch to learn about the different approaches to parsing and understand parser combinators in detail!