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Google DevFest Almaty 2023

Me with a microphone

I had a significant event here today, I spoke live for the first time in my life to a fairly large audience.

Very interesting spectrum of impressions. From the feeling that I'm telling some uninteresting nonsense, to the fact that they didn't let me go for coffee, because someone constantly hooked me after the talk and we chatted in the corridors. I understand people who get hooked on this, because it's pleasant, at least some public validation of your experience. At the same time, as far as I understand, it's very difficult in principle to get rid of the feeling that you're telling something uninteresting, since you've already memorized this text by heart several times and it's not very interesting to you specifically anymore, and not to those who will listen.

It seems for the first time it turned out pretty well. And to my surprise I hit the timing (on rehearsals this never happened even once), and didn't read from slides, and didn't freeze too much, it even turned out quite lively. The support group that came threw good reviews, thanks to everyone, thanks to the company for the opportunity. I thought I'd be more nervous, by the way, but almost all the slight nervousness disappeared as soon as I started talking. There was already a feeling that once you started, now you, bro, will have to talk to the end. If only I hadn't looked at the floor half the talk, I would have been completely great.

The main downside of our developer track here was that we were mixed up completely, someone's a front-ender, someone's a mobile developer, and so on. So it was a bit scary in general to go into some specifics and I had to cut some corners, leaving disclaimers that the talk is quite high-level. But, a full lecture hall where people stood and sat on the steps in the aisles - that's wow.

Well, I'll leave links for history: