Brown Bag Video
Articles featuring our weekly brown bag presentations about various topics on technology and anything else we find interesting.
A Brief Intro to Ethical Hacking - Video Presentation by Pavel Přibyl Paid Members Public
Web app security and hacking is a complex topic and, while there’s a lot to learn, the more important thing is knowing where to begin. The first thing to realize is that all hackers aren’t out to steal personal info or leak nude celebrity photos. There’s another side to it—the ethical side.
Do Not Trust Blockchains - Video Presentation by Jan Mikula Paid Members Public
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are hot topics these days. Since its inception in 2008, investing in Bitcoin has been like riding a roller-coaster. Its value has been known to wildly jump and decrease dramatically, sometimes all in the same week. So why are people buying Bitcoin?
GPT-3: Can a Language Model Change the World? - Video Presentation by Daniel López Paid Members Public
GPT-3 is a language model that creates text when given a human-generated prompt. It can write poetry, code, blog posts, and more. It can be hard to tell it apart from what a human might write (see the bold section below), but can this AI replace humans? Its own answer to that is a bit ambivalent.
Strapi: The Customizable Open-Source Headless CMS - Video Presentation by Radek Zábranský Paid Members Public
As Headless CMS gains popularity, having an extensive API and a way to manage your front-end application content without writing any code becomes vital. What if there was a way to do both these things without having to spend hours at your keyboard. Enter Strapi.
Become a Rockstar Developer in 30 Minutes - Video Presentation by Dani López Paid Members Public
Rockstar is an esoteric programming language where the source code looks like lyrics for a rock song. Rockstar is heavily influenced by the lyrical conventions of 1980s hard rock and power ballads.
A Skeptic's Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness - Video Presentation by Thomas Morris Paid Members Public
Meditation has been around for a long time. And while many people attribute it only to religious practices, such as Buddhism or Taoism, it can provide many benefits for people in their day-to-day lives.
How to Build a Product Configurator in 40 Minutes - Video Presentation by Jiří Staniševský Paid Members Public
3D configurators are a great way for customers to personalize a product to their specifications and interact with it online in real time. As they gain popularity, supercharging DTC (direct-to-consumer) e-commerce through immersive visualization, more companies are looking to build their own.
Salsita's Hottest React Hooks Library: @spicy-hooks - Video Presentation by Jiří Staniševský Paid Members Public
React Hooks offer a wide variety of benefits such as a flatter virtual DOM tree and perfect TypeScript support, to name a couple. They have also simplified extraction to a matter of just cutting code and pasting it into a plain function, but that ease of use has come at a cost.
