Do you trust your programming tools? Maybe you shouldn't… In “Ghost in the Compiler” Manish introduces bootstrapping compilers & showcases the “Trusting Trust” attack by backdooring the Rust Language compiler! 🚪💣 📖 In a blogpost form: manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/0… #starcon

trains are cool but I’m terrible at drawing them! 🚋 learned about how trains don’t run into each other by using signalling systems #starcon

compilers are compiled by compilers which are compiled by compilers which are..... ??? how can you trust your tools? what if there’s a backdoor? Manish ran through some code to demo what that might look like! #starcon

DAG = Directed Acyclic Graph. lots of ways to figure out if a graph is a DAG! tbh I didn’t know someone could get so excited over graphs... props to vaibhav sagar for the enthusiasm #starcon

So cool! Wesley Aptekar-Cassels (they/them) #starcon

Michael Gattozzi StarCon Slides are at vaibhavsagar.com/presentations/…

LOOK AT THIS OPENING SLIDE ✨✨ #starcon

falah is such an energetic speaker 💖 #starcon

THIS IS AMAZING and so relateable the frustration of trying to get something working and encountering a bajillion errors is SO REAL and frustrating and not talked about enough and Falah actually pushed through to try to get it working!! I'm so impressed #starcon

"I hope this talk makes you excited to mess up too" ♥✨🌟 #starcon

Regular expressions - everyone's favourite go-to solution that usually results in a second really large problem #starcon

sorry can't talk too busy having fun at the best talk ever #starcon

the audience energy at #starcon is making my day 🙌

Things I didn't expect to see when I got out of bed up this morning: Hungarian words in a deep-dive on AWK in a Canadian university on a breezy Sunday at a high-energy wacky little computery conference in the middle of a very conventional Ontario snow blizzard 🙈😻 #starcon

Had an amazing time at StarCon and am leaving inspired, with a great sense of excitement for all these new ideas I didn't even know about before I arrived! #StarCon

* it *is* hard ** it absolutely is a big deal! Thank you StarCon for all your work and sweat and sleeplesness and tireless unquenchable enthusiasm. And dad jokes. 💖

From a designer: This weekend at StarCon I got to see the passion, creativity and pure joy that so many devs have with their work. You're all so endlessly curious - I couldn't respect you all more. HOW DO YOU DO IT?!

StarCon is one of the best conferences I've attended. I'll be using them as a bench Mark for all future conferences I attend!