# Big Sky Dev Con 2025

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Podcast: [hx-pod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hx-pod-6747821)
Published: 2025-08-19T05:40:41+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4243e18b
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Duration seconds: 3476

## Resource

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy." -Lazarus, on creating conference recaps =================== CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro, Aaron Francis, Primeagen 01:19 - 01 - Carson Gross - API Design 04:40 - 02 - Stephanie Gredell - From Human To Bots 07:04 - 03 - typecraft (Chris Power) - VaaS (Vim as a service) -- How to teach vim to thousands of people with Rails and Go 10:28 - 04 - Robbie Wagner - HTML is stealing our jobs! 13:20 - 05 - Warren Buffering - Browsers are for Reads, Native Apps are for Writes 16:49 - 06 - Jon-Michael Hartway - Building things for twitter clout 20:00 - 07 - Ken Wheeler - you can just build things 22:55 - 08 - Duncan Lutz - Potatoes Go Brrr: Adventures in High-Speed Embedded Rust 25:08 - 09 - Mike Amundsen - Making Connections and Solving Problems : Hypermedia's Legacy and Future 29:22 - 10 - Barrett A Breshears - Backends?!? Where we are going we don't need backends 32:41 - 11 - Adam Stepinski - Extending vs Scripting: Lessons from building the Hyperview client 36:47 - 12 - Alex Petros - What's Left for Frontend Engineers? 41:30 - 13 - Dennis Ivy - Why good developers fail interviews 44:55 - 14 - Turner Houghton - JSX minus react plus htmx 47:23 - 15 - Tony Ennis - The Platform and a Stylesheet (A path to Platform / SPA Parity) 54:23 - 16 - Dan Vail I'm dumb and so can you! 57:27 - Closing =================== TALKS MENTIONED: Aaron Francis "Publishing Your Work" - Laracon US 2023 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YaEtaXYVtI The Primeagen on Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZnLkRBYA8 Big Sky Dev Con 2025 Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTstnhS3moc&list=PLE57lymIlIyVXwAO-pO6gvMmnd6isAFTR 01 - Carson Gross - API Design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTstnhS3moc 02…

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