Alex Worrad-Andrews conatus

Speaker Rider

Last updated 14 April 2021

What is a speaker rider?

As speaking comes with immense privilege, I have crafted a speaker rider to set expectations and boundaries around my engagement. I am grateful to all the conference organisers who have brilliantly hosted me. I would love to continue to exercise this privilege to speak at conferences, and use this privilege to make the landscape more accessible and beneficial to tech's most historically excluded and marginalised communities.

Considerations

😫 I provide a lot of explanations for those of you who never had to consider these things. Most thoughtful conferences I've attended check most of these boxes intrinsically, particularly when conference runners are experienced speakers. They get it.

We don't use that word here

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mynearestmarginal.com stats

Some stats from mynearestmarginal.com.

I've shared this because it gives an unfiltered insight into what devices and browsers are used by Momentum's demographic. I would assume that this matches the demographic a lot of startups also target. That's an assumption on my part though.

Uses Node, Express, Handlebars for backend. jQuery and Google Maps for front end. MongoDB for database (and crucially geospatial search). Cloudflare and Heroku for hosting / scaling.

Browsers

'Include' in Sequelize: The One Confusing Query That You Should Memorize

When querying your database in Sequelize, you'll often want data associated with a particular model which isn't in the model's table directly. This data is usually typically associated through join tables (e.g. a 'hasMany' or 'belongsToMany' association), or a foreign key (e.g. a 'hasOne' or 'belongsTo' association).

When you query, you'll receive just the rows you've looked for. With eager loading, you'll also get any associated data. For some reason, I can never remember the proper way to do eager loading when writing my Sequelize queries. I've seen others struggle with the same thing.

Eager loading is confusing because the 'include' that is uses has unfamiliar fields is set in an array rather than just an object.

So let's go through the one query that's worth memorizing to handle your eager loading.

The Basic Query

Setup:

# set CONTRIBUTORS file to mailmap to remove duplicate emails for the same name
# see: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog#_mapping_authors
$ git config mailmap.file CONTRIBUTORS

Top 10 contributors (all):

	# Kinsta Deployment through Github Actions for Bedrock/Sage.
	#
	# Placed at: .github/workflow/deploy.yml
	#
	# Process should be studied from code, but some quick brief:
	# - runs composer / sage installation
	# - moves correct `.env.*` file for multiple configs
	# - uses rsync to sync files, uses /.rsyncignore file to exclude whatever should not be there
	# - symlinks uploads folder and symlink release folder to kinsta public hostname
	# - if you want to clear cache, please uncomment the last job

	name: Build and deploy

	on:
	push:
	branches: [master]
	pull_request:
	branches: [master]

	jobs:
	build:

	'use strict';
	class Abstract {
	// A static abstract method.
	static foo() {
	if (this === Abstract) {
	// Error Type 2. Abstract methods can not be called directly.
	throw new TypeError("Can not call static abstract method foo.");
	} else if (this.foo === Abstract.foo) {
	// Error Type 3. The child has not implemented this method.
	throw new TypeError("Please implement static abstract method foo.");

	function deleteSavedItems() {
	var query = document.querySelectorAll("#sc-saved-cart input[value=Delete]")
	if (query.length) {
	query[0].click();
	}
	if (query.length > 1) {
	setTimeout(deleteSavedItems,100);
	}
	else {
	console.log('Finished');

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#
	# Script to encrypt the contents of an entire S3 bucket
	#
	# This works by copying each object in the bucket onto
	# itself while modifying its server_side_encryption attribute
	#
	#
	##############################################################