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I had a telecom professor in college that said “Euuuuh” every other word during lectures. It was impossible not to notice, and I couldn’t focus on the content anymore. So I coun...

Building the Artsy Open-Source Engineering Brand, Austin CTO Summit ‘19

I gave a talk, entitled Art Market 1.0 at the The Art Market and New Tech: Smokescreens and Real Opportunities, organized by UZH in Zurich.

I gave a talk, entitled The Future is Art at the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit: Exploring Blockchain in London.

Technology, AR and Artsy, in Conversation with Andrew Russeth, ArtNews Magazine Editor, for Brunchwork

I recently had the pleasure of speaking on the State of the Art podcast.

This was a great conversation with Kickstarter Soraya Haas and Sotheby’s Noah Wunsch, moderated by Christine Kuan at Sotheby’s Institute. Much was said about learning vs. sellin...

This was an incredibly inspiring conversation and a great turnout (youtube).

I did an overview of Artsy for Coalition for Queens, C4Q, followed by a Q&A with Kana Abe (Publishing Dev Lead at Artsy), Christina Thompson (engineer and author of a viral ...

I recently gave a talk at the “ETH Meets New York” Blockchain Symposium with a catchy title of “The Platform View of the Blockchain” (video). I have been thinking about Blockcha...

In late January I had the privilege of speaking about the “Future of Art” at Worlds Fair Nano in San Francisco in front of a huge audience of technologists, futurists and hopefu...

Watch me live-code an Alexa skill in Node.js during an ArtsyOpenSource Lunch & Learn.

A Facebook Live interview during CTO Summit NYC 2016 following a talk on Inspiring Team Leads to Give Away Their Legos. The interview recording is no longer available.

I gave a talk entitled “Your First Slack Bot Service” at the inaugural New York City Slack Meetup.

My QCon 2014 talk Mentoring Engineers and Humans.

Thanks to the amazing crowd at GoGaRuCo 2014, San Francisco!

I gave a talk yesterday at the Flatiron School about the interviewing and hiring process for Engineers at Artsy and beyond. This focuses primarily on explaining to juniors, ie. ...

I’m very excited to be speaking at GoGaRuCo in San Francisco in September about taking over open-source projects, along with people like @wycats, @ultrasaurus and @pat. No press...

I had the pleasure and privilege of talking about my startup experiences in Switzerland in the 90s and more recently at Artsy in New York at a lunch organized by Swissnex. The a...

I’ve recorded a screencast during the Anatomy of a Ruby Gem meetup in New York. It’s a deep dive into Grape internals.

My slides from last night’s iOSoho talk on tiling and zooming ASCII art are here: https://www.slideshare.net/dblockdotorg/tiling-and-zooming-ascii-art-i-os-soho.

I gave a talk last week at AppNexus on building and scaling a test-driven culture.

Slides from my talk from #AgileDC 2012 here.

I had the pleasure of interviewing two New York techies, Serkan Piantino of Facebook and Ken Little of Tumblr, at QConNY a couple of months ago. We mostly discussed large scale ...

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In good company with Bitfloor, NextBigSound and Crowdtap. What do we have in common? We use MongoDB.

A recording of me speaking at MongoNYC 2012.

Last night I gave a talk on pressing the big scary red reset button at the NY CTO School. The first talk before me was by @malcolmcasey, CTO of Skillshare, another awesome NYC s...

Waffle is a native C# and Java library that does everything Windows authentication (Negotiate, NTLM and Kerberos), on Windows - https://github.com/dblock/waffle/.

I’m speaking at NYC.rb tonight @ Pivotal Labs, RSVP.

I really enjoy the conversation with software architects on how to make technology choices. I polled the members of the New York CTO club on the topic and got amazing war storie...

Me on Eye&Mind, talking about Art.sy technology, link.

En route to Boston, speaking at Mongo Boston tomorrow, Monday. I’m going to talk about our history with MongoDB at Art.sy, the challenges and, of course, about how much we like ...

I’m speaking at Mongo Boston on Monday about our experience using MongoDB for the Art Genome project.

Slides from today’s “Choosing Technology” that I gave at @gnrlassembly are here. Thank you all for coming!

I’ll be presenting at Internet Week NY on Monday, June 6th, 2pm.