Tech Talks Weekly #0: Getting started

Hello, world!

Hi 👋

This is the first issue of the Tech Talks Weekly and I’m thrilled to kick off this journey!

First, let me give a little bit of a backstory…

I’m a huge fan of watching tech talks.

For a long time, I’ve been looking for a solution to stay up-to-date with all the recently published talks.

The existing options are limited, ranging from subscribing to endless conference YT channels or following HN, Reddit, X, ...

I’ve been tired of scrolling through messy YT subscription feed to find some good talks to watch. If you’ve been there, you know what I mean.

To solve this problem, I created Tech Talks Weekly.

Every week, I’ll be delivering all the fresh talks published in the past 7 days across various Software Engineering conferences (currently +100!) into your inbox. Plus, each issue will contain a section with featured talks highlighting the most notable must-watch talks of the week to save you time.

The talks will cover all the areas of software engineering including web, backend, data, machine learning/AI, mobile, devops, product, and leadership.

With Tech Talks Weekly, my goal is twofold:

1. Building a community of people passionate about tech.

2. Helping smaller tech conference organizers, who got severely hit by the pandemic and the current macroeconomic headwinds, grow their audience.

I’m a firm believer that great tech talks offer an equivalent value to high-quality blog posts, HN discussions, or books*.

Also, these often serve as the earliest source of new insights.

This stems from the fact that emerging concepts, ideas, patterns, solutions, or frameworks are often first introduced at conferences. That is because it’s the easiest way to reach out to a broad audience in a short time frame, and putting together a talk oftentimes requires less effort than, e.g., writing a book.

Last but not least, there’s one thing that helps me with the journey: mentioning Tech Talks Weekly to your friends/colleagues, sharing via X, HN, Reddit, Lobsters, …, and/or following TTW on X or Mastodon.

Now, I’m looking forward to sending out the issue #1!

p.s. 🏆 Top Tech Talks Of 2023 is a good starting point.

*well, the might not be as comprehensive as books, but at least equally inspiring.