Keynote - How To Be A Developer and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves with Mario Munoz
summary
Argument: identity as "I am a developer" is less a title than a set of behaviors mediated by community. Examples land: a mock Person AI demo that visibly breaks, a real web scraper that grows into web apps and proposals that get accepted, and tool names dropped like Django Tailwind HTMX alongside PostGIS. Confessions anchor the claims — a career described as two months as "developer", a musical release with one monthly listener — concrete mismatches between image and practice.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 8:08The mirror stage and identity
- 13:05Developer personas
- 28:27Ambition versus self-care
- 34:14Singular identity illusion
- 44:52Q&A
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