I went to the Craft Conf with exact goals. I have written in my previous article Why Am I Attending The Craft Conf 2022 Software Development Conference? about them. I advise reading it before this writing as I will revisit my goals one by one and reflect on how much I was able to achieve from them.

Backstory

I remember I was a little nervous before the day of the conference. As I explained in my previous article, I am an introvert. The idea of being together with hundreds of software developers freaked me out a little bit.

Luckily I was not alone, as 4 of my friends came with me to the Craft Conf. I cannot exaggerate enough how much it meant for me. The idea of spending two days with my developer friends, talking about software development, and of course, about other friendish stuff made me happy and helped to reduce my nervousness.

I was not sure what to wear during the conference, but I was not alone with that problem as two of my friends also asked me about that. In the end, we decided to dress as we would go to work. For me, it meant jeans, a Hashnode T-shirt, and a shirt too which I took off in the end as it was pretty hot.

In today’s fast-paced world, where new technologies emerge yearly, it is very important to train yourself if you do not want to fall behind. By now, many companies have realized how important it is to support their employees by sending them to training or giving them conference tickets. It is important for the company not just because the new learning will benefit them too, but also because this can be a factor that motivates a developer to stay with the company. At least for me, it is an important factor.

Unfortunately, my previous company hardly ever supported me in improving myself, which was also why I did not attend conferences before. Finally, after 15 years, I moved to another company in December.

My new company is different as it provides a budget and 4 extra holidays for its employees to train themselves. I have already spent one day visiting the Future of Testing Framework conference, about which you can read my report here. So I could visit the Craft Conf using two days from my holiday budget. I am not exactly sure what will I do with my fourth day. Still, if I have to answer now, then I would say I will visit the Crunch Conf, which is also organized by CraftHub, but instead of software developers, it is targeting Data Engineers and Data Scientists.

What about the imposter syndrome? Luckily I left it behind around half a year ago. So I was excited to visit the conference, as instead of thinking, “I have no place amongst these much better developers,” I felt I would be in the right place with fellow developers who would be there to learn and have fun just like me.

That is enough about the backstory. Let’s start the conference.

Registration

We arrived quite early at the conference as luckily my friend Szabi brought me to the location by car. Our first journey led us to the registration booth. It was quite a surprise to see the registration is on the dodgem field. Look:

There were many desks where you were able to register. Almost nobody was there when we registered, but based on the number of staff there, I am pretty sure the fellow developers could register quickly too.

Catering

After the registration, we entered the building and headed directly to the breakfast area as both of us were hungry, especially me.

A few (at least compared to the total number) of the developers were already having breakfast, as you can see in the picture. There were sandwiches and other food too and even dessert. I am a meat lover, so I sadly realized all the sandwiches were vegetarian, but this sadness faded as soon as I tasted the sandwiches. They not just looked good, but they were delicious too.

This was the same place where we had lunch. Luckily lunch was not self-serving, as I think it would have been chaos if hundreds of hungry developers would have appeared in an all-you-can-eat area. So the food was served by the staff thanks to which you did not have to wait too much. There were chicken, pork, beef, fish, and vegan food so that everyone could find something for him/herself.

There were many stands where you could get drinks and coffee too. Luckily there were many glasses prefilled with drinks, so you could simply grab one when thirsty.

All in all, the food was delicious and as it was all-you-can-eat I am pretty sure no developer remained hungry.

Now that our stomach is full, let’s look around at the location.

The Location

Craft Conf took place at the Hungarian Railway Museum. I have to admit I did not look around thoroughly, but during a lunch break I went out to see the locomotives.

I have spent more than 10 years of my life traveling by train twice a week to visit my parents, then go back to school. To be honest, I did not like traveling, but I still love locomotives. I remember there was a beautiful black locomotive at the Mezőhegyes railway station. I loved that locomotive. We always jumped on it with my brother Tamás and played in the cockpit.

After checking the trains it is time for a cigarette.

The Smoking Area

I have to admit, all my friends and also myself are smokers. Thanks to this our meeting point was the smoking area. After each talk, we gathered together in front of the main entrance where the smoking area was located. During smoking, we discussed the previously heard talk and also used the time to have many friendly talks. For me, that was the best part of the conference. Of course, we heard amazing talks and had a lot of fun, but spending two days with my friends was invaluable.

Talks and Speakers

More than 70 speakers were invited to the Craft Conf 2022. Most of them were there personally and the others had an online talk. Arranging the speakers’ traveling, accommodation, local transportation, and creating the schedule must have been very difficult, but the CraftHub team did a great job, in my opinion.

Kevlin Henney opened the conference with the talk Non-Functional coding. His speech was fascinating and fun at the same time. Perfect start for the conference. I even brought a picture of one of the slides.

The Main Stage was full. You could even smell the scent of software development.

However, depression was not inside me this time, but it was pretty close to me as it was sitting right in front of me, as you can see in the picture above. I have no idea why the guy in front of me wore that T-shirt, but I was too shy to ask.

I used to love visiting meetups, as in addition to learning and networking, I always got a huge motivation boost for weeks. I am eagerly waiting for how long will the motivation boost last this time.

If you read my previous article, you know my plan was to visit Michael Feathers’, Dan North’s, and Ivett Ördög’s talk.

Michael’s talk was the first one on the list. So I went to platform 2 to listen to his talk. To my biggest surprise, there was a completely different speaker there. I suppose the talk was canceled, and I did not reload the schedule on my phone. Never mind. As a photographer, I loved Platform 2. Just look at the lights:

When I realized Dan North’s talk was a virtual talk, I decided to watch the talk from recording and visit a real-life talk instead, as that is the beauty of offline conferences. Listening to talks of top-notch developers from all around the world in person.

Luckily I could listen to Ivett’s talk, which was the last talk of the conference. She was talking about how to sell a big refactor to the management. I had expected a bit more practical advice, but the presentation was still interesting.

I found Fabrice Bernhard’s talk the most fascinating at the whole conference. I have to admit I am highly biased towards QA topics as I work as a test automation engineer. Fabrice was talking about the Dantotsu method with which you can drastically reduce the bugs in your code. I will write an article about his presentation as I would like to share the Dantotsu method with my team as I am pretty sure it would benefit us too.

To sum it up, there were many great talks during these two days, and I could only listen to a small portion of them thanks to the many parallel talks. I am pretty sure I will spend hours listening to the missed talks, and I will also watch some of the talks again as I would like to write a few articles about the ones I found most interesting.

Exhibitor Booths

Many of the conference supporters had a booth in the exhibition area. Epam, Morgan Stanley, Cloudera, Tesco, and of course CraftHub just to mention a few of them.

I believe the exhibitors knew most of the developers are there to learn and have fun and not to find a job, cause of this many of them prepared some minigames which made the booth visits quite memorable. Instead of job ads, they asked for your approval to get your contact info, so they could reach us after the conference with relevant content. I already got a few emails and I am sure more is on the way.

I have visited almost all the booths and played most of the games. You could win prizes by playing. Let’s mention the most memorable minigames.

Minigames

Epam had a smartphone slide challenge where you got points depending on how close you could slide your phone to the center of the target. Sliding the phone to the center gave access to the highest gift category. My first slide was too weak and the second one almost blocked the center, but I nailed it on the third try. Here is a pic of the game:

At adnovum, you had to play an AR game. You had to catch bugs using a phone’s camera on which either a cake or a bug appeared when you moved your camera above a symbol on the wheel. It was quite fun so I played it both on the first and second day too.

At the Tresorit booth, you had to open a safe by getting the code of the safe by answering a few questions from which you could figure out the code. Of course, we opened it and we could even get some chocolate from the safe.

At the Tesco booth, you had to decrypt a message which pointed to a location. I couldn’t solve it right there but a cigarette later I went back with the solution.

(Almost) all the exhibitors had a grand prize. You could participate in the drawing by sharing your personal info and the winners were mostly selected randomly. Unfortunately, I had not won any of the grand prizes but I was not sad about that because of the swags.

Swag Here, Swag There, Swag Everywhere

The exhibitors prepared for the Craft Conf with an extreme amount of swag. I did not realize up till now how fun it is to collect swags. There very everything you could imagine. Pens, notebooks, socks, sunglasses, t-shirts, and even rubber ducks.

I have to admit I might get too excited and collected too much swag, but I had a good excuse. I have collected almost all the swags for my son. This is mainly true, but I also gave some of them to my wife and I also kept a few. Here is a pic of almost all the loot I collected at the conference. 😊

The Staff

The CraftHub staff was very kind and helpful and we could even get mango-flavored beer from them, so it was no question whether we visited them or not. At the location, there were many people with a Staff label on their T-shirts who were there to help us if we had any questions.

Despite I had a map I had no idea where the Innovation stage was so a friendly staff guided me there. Actually, it was right behind me but I did not realize it. 😊

After the second talk on the main stage, I went to the CraftHub booth and asked them to increase the volume on the speakers’ mic as thanks to sounds coming from the lively exhibition area we had a hard time listening to the talks from the back rows. They were quite helpful and I am almost sure they increased the volume, as, from the following presentation, I had no problem with it.

Networking Party

Unfortunately, I could not participate in the networking party as I had to go home to be with my son as my wife had an important appointment, but one of my friends was there and he told me it was great. Epam supported everyone with 4 beer coupon so the mood was guaranteed. Maybe next year I can visit the party too.

Being a Kid Again

Even at the age of 40, I still consider myself a kid, as I never grew up. Especially nowadays, when I play a lot with my son I can enjoy such activities as playing lego, video games and much more without feeling any guilt of not spending my time on “useful things”. Luckily there were many activities at the Craft Conf which brought back my childhood memories.

Dodgem

I love dodgem since my childhood and for decades I never sat in a dodgem car as I thought that was for kids. Last summer and also recently I had the opportunity to realize how enjoyable it is even for an adult. I was even able to persuade two of my friends to jump into a dodgem. It was really fun.

Mini Train

As I mentioned before, the conference took place at the Hungarian Railway Museum. They have built a mini railroad at the location on which people could sit. I did not try this activity, but I saw many of the participants sitting on it. I brought you a picture to help you imagine it.

Candy Floss

I loved candy floss as a kid and I realized I love candy floss as an adult too. Luckily there was a candy floss stand right beside Cloudera’s stand so it was no question whether I tried it or not. Look at my happy face. 😊

VR game

There was a stand beside SAP where you could play Playstation games with a VR headset. As I had never tried it before, I took the opportunity. It was fun, especially as you had two handles in your hand with which you could interact with the virtual world instead of a mouse or a controller. As I learned, you can borrow these VR headsets if you have an event like a birthday party or want to have fun with your friends.

Final Thoughts

I would like to say thank you to Anna, Felhő bácsi, Médea, Károly, Barna, Vanda, Viktória, Anna, Renáta, Fanni, Bianka, Réka, Kata, Barbara, Veronika, Vivien, Marcel, Martin, Emilía, Kristóf, Gergő, László who are the people behind CraftHub the organizer of the Craft Conf. They made my first offline conference really memorable and I am pretty sure the organizers of my next conference will have a hard time outshining the Craft Conf 2022.

I would also say thank you to my friends Szabi, Fűrész, Karesz, and Laci who joined me personally for the time of the conference. I really enjoyed this 2 days and I just hope we can repeat it next year too.

A My Report About The Craft Conf 2022 Software Development Conference bejegyzés először CraftHub-én jelent meg.

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• Miki was the perfect examplar of impostor syndrome and he is also an introvert so Miki did not attend conferences for 39 years. Click here to learn more about it.
• Miki’s first conference was a disappointment. Click here to find out why.
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Who Am I?

HI!

I am Miki Szeles from Hungary, Budapest. I am a father, a husband, and a soon-to-be happy dog owner.

Software Engineer in Test (SDET)

I am a software developer with 15 years of work experience, from which 8 also included leading the dev and test team. At the moment, I am working as a Senior Software Engineer in Test using Selenide for E2E automation, Karate DSL for API automation, and Gatling for performance testing.

Agileish Human

I am developing software the agile way, but in addition to that, I made my whole life agile.

By introducing short 15min – 3 hours sprints walks with a retro at the end, my life has changed completely.

No matter what I am doing, I am improving rapidly thanks to the very short feedback cycle.

I believe learning is the most crucial skill of humans. In case we can learn fast, we can become better rapidly in anything we are doing.

Cause of this, I am focusing on improving my memory and reading skills.

You can read more about being an agile human with super learning, super memory, and super thinking superpowers in my article: How You Can Become An Agileish Super Learner AKA How You Can Become A Super Thinker AKA The Proof Of Concept (POC)

That’s more than enough about my present, but if you still want to know more, I recommend reading this Hackernoon interview: ‘I Open-Sourced My Thinking Process’: Meet HackerNoon Writer & Test Automation Engineer Miki Szeles!

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My First Contact With Computers

I will never forget the moment when a few weeks before Christmas we were jumping on our parent’s bed with my brother Tomi. We accidentally jumped so high we saw a box on top of the wardrobe. We got really excited, so we tried to jump even higher to see what was that. Then we suddenly saw it, and we couldn’t believe our eyes.

It was the long-desired Commodore 64.

I do not have to tell you we were so excited we couldn’t wait till Christmas, so we begged our parents until we did not get it.

That was the moment when I made first contact with computers.

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My First Programming Experience

In the beginning, we were only playing games. I had many favorites like Giana Sisters, Bruce Lee, Pirates, Defender of The Crown, and Ugh Olympics, just to highlight some of them.

It didn’t take too much time, and I wanted to create my own games. There was a guy in the town who could program, so I asked him to teach me programming. He gave me 3 Commodore 64 programming books called Hetedhét, so I started to learn BASIC from those books.

I remember I was drawing pixelated graphics in a notebook, trying to figure out how the hell I could display them on the computer. I have to admit I did not really understand the binary system back then, but still, I was able to draw some sprites on the screen.

That is how my software development career started.

I won’t bore you with the other details, so let’s fast forward to the beginning of 2022.

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Why I Did Not Attend Conferences

Despite attending meetups and code retreats several years ago, I have never attended a conference. When my son was born, I even gave up visiting the meetups as I wanted to spend as much time with Levi as I could.

I played with the thought of attending a software development conference, but in the end, I never went for multiple reasons:

1. I was an introvert. The thought of being together with hundreds of people whom I do not know scared me like hell.
2. My previous company did not support me in any way to attend a conference. Neither with extra free days for the time of the conference nor with conference tickets. I do believe sending your developers to a conference is an investment. It is an investment as the knowledge they get can benefit your company. If you do not support them, then 2 things can happen. a. They will simply not go to the conference. b. They attend the conference in their own time using their own money. If a developer cares about his/her future a little bit, then sooner or later, he/she will ask for the price of the extra knowledge he/she got from the conference. I guess I do not have to explain why it is better to sit down to negotiate the salary in the case in which you supported your developer to get that valuable knowledge. CraftHub, the organizer of the Craft Conf conference, even created an email template that helps you convince your employer to support you in visiting the conference. Just click here to download it!. If I wouldn’t have a ticket, I would use the reasons from the email template to convince my employer personally to support me in attending the conference.
3. I was the perfect exemplar of the impostor syndrome. I was working on neural code (almost every piece of code is connected to nearly all the others) with outdated technologies. Looking through the job ads just made me feel worthless. Seeing all those long lists of technologies in those ads ensured me that I am one of the world’s worst developers despite loving programming since I was 10. I knew I had nothing to do at a conference where great developers from all around the world were gathering together. It might sound funny, but that was my reality not so long ago. Luckily, in the end, I decided to start at another company, and since then, I have been thriving. I can do my daily job pretty well as I am using cool and very effective frameworks like Selenide, Karate DSL, and Gatling. Leaving behind my impostor syndrome, I realized no matter what level I am with programming. I can benefit a lot from visiting conferences. So at the beginning of 2022, I started to look for worthwhile conferences

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My First Contact With Conferences AKA Love at First Sight? Nope!

Well, as it might happen, the first one was not the best. It is possible I had too high expectations, but it is also possible it misled me with her kind words.

She told to me we had a great future together but in the end, I realized she was living her life in the past, not looking forward to the future at all.

Despite this, she had many values, but all in all, we weren’t a perfect match.

I will always remember her, as she was my first one.

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My Second Contact With Conferences AKA Love at Second Sight

Since February, I have been attending the data analysis course at Budapest University of Economics and Technologies (BME) as an external student. It was by accident I got aware of this opportunity.

Our tutor István mentioned a conference which is about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) including deep learning too, of course.

This conference was the Reinforce AI conference.

I got very excited, but the excitement went away pretty quickly as I realized I only had 3 days of vacation left as I had to book all my other days at the beginning of the year. As AI and machine learning are not (yet) closely related to my current job, I couldn’t ask for support from my company.

After looking at the talk topics, I still decided to invest three vacation days in this conference.

By now, I can tell you this was one of the best investments in my life. Without it, I would know almost nothing about the current state of AI, and without visiting the conference, I wouldn’t write this article now. More about that later.

Reinforce AI was a 3 days long conference featuring talks of great experts from all around the world. As I later got to know, it was organized by Felhő, Anna, Médea, Károly, Barna, Vanda, Viktória, Anna, Renáta, Fanni, Bianka, Réka, Kata, Barbara, Veronika, Vivien, Marcel, Martin, Emilía, Kristóf, Gergő and László. They are the people behind CraftHub.

CraftHub organizes conferences on various topics. I stole the short descriptions from their site. I hope they won’t be mad at me :

• Craft Conf: Craft is an inclusive conference about software craft, giving tools, methods, and practices that can be used in the life of a modern developer or company. This conference serves as a compass for new technologies and trends shared by international experts.
• Stretch Conference: An international platform and community for leaders and managers to share stories and hands-on solutions and explore new trends and ideas to lead, fail, learn and stretch.
• Crunch Conference: A conference for people working as Data Engineers, Data Scientists, or simply interested in how to utilize data to develop their business. No matter the size of the venture or job description, everyone can find exactly what they need.
• Amuse Conference: An international conference and learning platform about user experience, product design, user research, service design, creativity, and more. An event dedicated to UX practitioners, product managers, frontend developers, designers or market researchers of digital products, or anyone who is simply interested in what’s happening on the other side of the screen.
• Reinforce AI Conference: This conference brings together world-leading experts on AI and creates a platform for discourse, innovation, and networking. It provides opportunities for learning and discussing the different fields of AI, such as ethics, production, and the future of artificial intelligence.
• Impact Conference: Impact Conference brings together people who are passionate about building amazing, high-impact products. The perfect conference if you aspire to become a Product Manager, Product Owner, Product Leader, Business Analyst or if you are simply an enthusiast who is eager for knowledge, ideas, and best practices shared by world-renowned experts.

I just read the descriptions of these conferences at the time of writing this article, but I am pretty sure I will do what I can to visit all of them.

Most probably, I will have to take out unpaid holidays, but that seems a fair price in exchange for what I can get from these conferences.

However, most of them are not closely related to my current daily job (being a Software Development Engineer in Test). I believe you can achieve great things if you combine not closely related things.

As I am always looking for these opportunities, I usually find a way to combine them. Thanks to this, my water droplet photographs came to life by combining software development, hardware tinkering, and photography.

In addition to organizing conferences, CraftHub also organizes Hackathons, and Meetups.

Turning back to the Reinforce AI conference, I have to tell you this was the most eye-opening event I have ever attended. I got insights about not just the present but also the future of AI.

The first speaker was Richard Boyd, who is the CEO and founder of Tanjo Inc. His talk was the most astounding technical speech I have ever heard, and I am sure it will take some time to listen to another address that can take the first place.

If you would like to know what I have heard, just read my Would You Freak Out If You Could Talk To Dead People? – Miki Szeles’s Report on Reinforce AI Conference article.

Many other talks followed Richard’s speech on various topics like real-time sentiment analysis, synthetic data, AI singularity, responsible AI, time series analysis with deep learning, interpretable AI, AI ethics, and more.

I took notes during almost all the talks, but I am almost sure I won’t have time to write articles from them, so I have uploaded my draft to my GitHub.

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Why Am I Attending The Craft Conf 2022 Software Development Conference? AKA The Short Answer AKA Cooperation with CraftHub, the organizer of the Craft Conf conference

Three weeks after the conference Anna Dalma Kajtár sent me a message on LinkedIn.

Anna told me they had really loved my article about the Reinforce AI conference and they would like to cooperate with me.

She asked me to write an article before the conference and after the conference too.

After a few rounds of negotiation, we came up with a deal that is beneficial both for CraftHub and myself.

This is the short answer for why I am attending the Craft Con 2022 conference.

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Why Am I Attending The Craft Conf 2022 Software Development Conference? – The Long Answer

The first answer is a true story, but that was only the beginning. As soon as I got the offer, I started to think about how I could get the most out of this conference. So let’s see why I am attending the Craft Conf in reality.

Spending 2 days with my friends

During the 15 years of my professional career and during my university years, I have met many exceptional professionals. Some of them became my friends.

Unfortunately, life has carried us away, and I am meeting regularly only a very few of them.

This is why I decided to make Craft Conf the place where we will meet each year. Cause of this, I asked for conference tickets from CraftHub instead of money in exchange for my technicalish writing.

It is not easy for me to find time to hang out with my friends, but in case we can not just spend time together, but we can learn a lot in parallel, that really makes this reunion a great opportunity for meeting with my pals. Hopefully, their employer will support them with paid vacation days.

Four of my friends and hopefully my brother Tamás will come with me this time, but I hope they will come next year too and hope other friends will join.

Listen to talks of familiar faces

I have to admit I only know three names from the 70+ speakers.

My life was quite a rollercoaster ride during the last few years, and I couldn’t focus on keeping up with the continuously changing software industry.

I improved myself by Udemy courses and reading technical articles but as I was mostly interested in test automation, I did not face the speakers.

Craft Conf is the perfect opportunity to get back on track, so I will definitely listen to Michael Feather’s, Dan North’s, and Ivett Ördög’s talks.

Listen to talks about topics I am most interested in

2019 was the last time when Craft Conf was an offline event. Back then, there were 81 speakers and around 2500 visitors.

Then Covid came, so there was no Craft Conf in 2020, but one year later, CraftHub organized the event online with 84 speakers. More than 1200 software developer was interested in Craft Conf 2021.

To be honest, not all of them were Software Developers, as many Software Designer, Agile Coach, Business Developer, DevOps Engineer, Engineering Manager, Front-end Developer, Product Manager, and Software Architect visited the event too.

I am pretty sure most of the talks will be outstanding, but I still would like to highlight some of the talks:

• Dmitry Razorionov – How AI/ML shapes EPAM into the Adaptive Enterprise (Epam)
• Eric Brewer – Open Source Security: The World Needs Our Help (Berkeley)
• Jessica Kerr – Gamification without the Garbage (Honeycomb)
• Linda Rising – About trees, agility, and me (Independent consultant)
• Marian Hartman – Using Empathy to Make Tests Easy and Code Safe (Dig Deep Roots)
• Meri Williams – 5 Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner About Scaling Teams (Chromerose)
• Rebecca Allen – Making big changes feel small: technical evolution within an organisation (Liveeo)
• Matthew Lavoie – Assumptions on the Road to Success or Failure (NASA)
• Matthew Phili – No (Lab) Jacket Required: Designing Experiments for Learning (Pfizer)
• Mohammad Aboullaite – Move fast Build things… Safely! (Spotify)

Networking with other developers

Well, I am not sure about that. My friends will be there, and I am pretty sure I will see a few familiar faces, but I am still an introvert so we will see.

CraftHub is organizing a networking party on the first day, so most probably, I will give it a try. Or not. I do not know yet.

To ride dodgem with my friends

I fell in love with dodgem when I was a child. Unfortunately, I grew up, and I thought it was awkward to play dodgem as an adult, so I gave up doing that. Luckily I have an eight years old son, Levi, so I can play dodgem again without feeling wrong about that.

The good news is that there will be a dodgem at the conference, and they will borrow a kid who sits beside you to make sure you won’t feel awkward in the dodgem.

Ok, I have to admit that would be more awkward, but luckily they are not planning to do that.

Based on my experience, three common things are enough to start a relationship that might end up in a friendship.

Loving software development, being interested in conferences, and having a car accident together are more than enough to start a conversation. Especially as car accidents make people talkative, just don’t forget your neck brace at home.

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Your Craft Conf Planner

I got a Google spreadsheet from Anna Kajtár in which the complete schedule is included. I made a conference planner with which you can easily create your schedule by simply highlighting the ones you will attend. Click here to access the docu! You just have to create a copy of it, and you can start planning.

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20% Craft Conf 2022 Discount

I’ve almost arrived at the end of this article. I just want to write one last closing section in which I am providing a registration link with a 20% discount on the price. I just have to figure out what to write so that I will use the Pomodorish technique.

I’m a big fan of the Pomodorish productivity technique in which a 5min-15min smoking coffee drinking session is followed by a 15min to 2 hours long writing/programming period, depending on how long the flow remains.

If my son comes after 15 minutes to play something, then 15 minutes, but if my family is sleeping or I am at my workplace, the flow can remain even for 2 hours.

As I almost finished this article, I will go out now to come up with some witty closing words. Up till then I leave here a video about the Craft Conf 2019 conference: https://www.youtube.com/embed/thzXM0ioIu0

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Believe me! I tried it! I tried it, but I couldn’t come up with something funny. I have seen 1 hooded crow, I’ve walked 2 blocks, smoked 3 coffees, met dame Sophie 4 times, and meditated with my new Muse S for 5 minutes, but nothing came into my mind.

So here is the link. Just click here to register for Craft Conf 2022 with a 20% discount!

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Miki, NoShare: Thanks! Have a nice day!

• Minnie: Pssst. Miki! Are you still here?
• Miki: Sure. I am always waiting till the end of the movie since Marvel started to put teaser trailers after the cast list.
• Minnie: Me too. I love those teasers. Shouldn’t we create our trailer?
• Miki: That is a great idea.
• Minnie: What should it be?
• Miki: There will be a Craft Conf giveaway soon on my Hashnode powered blog.
• Minnie: Cool. How can the readers get info about the giveaway?
• Miki: The details will be out in a day on my blog, and I will also update this article when I have the link.
• Minnie: Wow. I want a ticket too. How can I participate?
• Miki: You have to write articles, but more on that later.
• Minnie: I love that. Bye for now.
• Miki: Bye.
• Miki, Minnie: Something good will happen to you today!

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