Home on Matthew Campbell — Hyperworks

I picked up a Sony Vaio P — the ridiculous 2009 pocket laptop with the lipstick-tube hinge — and decided to actually use it again, not just put it on a shelf.

A ¥13,200 Time Crisis console turned out to ship a hardcoded AES key, no secure boot of any kind, and a licensed Namco arcade emulator.

I bought a cartridge reader in Akihabara so I could dump and play SNES games from physical carts.

kanwisher.com is becoming hyperworks.nu.

Toastmasters Thailand · ice breaker Personal ice-breaker talk — the “how to fail at retirement” framing and working-with-kids/tech anecdotes from the notes deck.

Toastmasters Bangkok · 2023 Public speaking set on AI and jobs: what computers and programmers are, demos with DALL·E / ChatGPT-era tools, and a call to action rather than doom.

Bangkok meetup · 2022 .NET 6 + WebAssembly + Avalonia for real cross-platform apps (desktop, mobile path, WASM).

Bangkok meetup · ~2020 Soft-shell crab farming × computer vision: edge ML on Jetson Nano, Fast.AI / PyTorch, YOLO, GStreamer pipelines, and why labeling is the real nightmare.

Chorus One interview · 2019 Conversation with Brendan Dillon about Loom Network’s approach to scalable DApps, sidechains, and the ecosystem at the time.

Upbit Developers Conference 2018 · Korea Same Practical Plasma: Gaming material as Devcon 4 for a Korea developer audience — Plasma Cash, Loom SDK, and blockchain game architecture.

Ethereum Devcon 4 · Prague Practical Plasma for gaming: real asset ownership, forkability, open data, and scaling NFT-heavy games beyond L1 limits.

GopherCon UK 2018 · London Blockchains as specialized databases, smart contracts, and Go’s role (Ethereum clients, Loom, consensus libraries).

GopherCon Singapore 2018 (sponsor lightning) Short Loom Network pitch for Go developers: sidechains / DApp tooling and how Loom fit the 2018 blockchain stack.

GopherCon Singapore 2018 A from-scratch mental model for distributed databases in Go.

Bangkok Python Meetup Hands-on intro for Python developers: blockchain basics, smart contracts, Solidity/EVM, TestRPC, a voting-app walkthrough, and common pitfalls — then where Python fits in the toolchain.

GopherDay / GopherCon Taipei 2017 Intro to microservices with Go bias and DigitalOcean stories.

GopherCon Singapore 2017 Go-flavored edition of Distributed Scheduler Hell: why Go fits container platforms (single binary, small deps), and how we ran a large timeseries pipeline on Mesos then Kubernetes.

SREcon17 Asia (USENIX) Same scheduler war stories framed for an SRE audience: reliability under partition, operational complexity of Mesos/Marathon/Kafka/Cassandra, and the migration toward Kubernetes.

GopherCon India 2017 Deep dive into Vulcan, DigitalOcean’s Prometheus-compatible distributed timeseries database written in Go.

microXchg 2017 · Berlin A practical tour of distributed container schedulers drawn from running DigitalOcean’s monitoring stack at scale.

Bangkok Python Meetup Same microservices curriculum as the Go talks, for a Python audience: monolith vs services, RPC vs bus, Docker, and when the complexity is worth it.

Golang UK Conference 2016 · London How DigitalOcean uses Go to build cloud infrastructure — control plane microservices, scale, and operational reality.

Velocity NYC 2016 O’Reilly Velocity conference — reliability and operations topics from the DigitalOcean era (related themes to Chaos Monkey on my Laptop).

HashiConf DigitalOcean-era conference talk adjacent to Nomad, Consul, and container scheduling — the same problem space as Distributed Scheduler Hell.

PromCon 2016 · Berlin How DigitalOcean ran a public-facing monitoring platform on Prometheus toward multi-datacenter, high-cardinality load.

Rocket Internet Conf 2016 · Berlin DigitalOcean microservices practices for a product/engineering audience — how cloud control planes are factored and operated.

O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference · New York 2016 Conference session from the DigitalOcean period on microservices and cloud architecture.

GopherCon India 2016 Go-centric cut of Cloud in your Cloud — building DigitalOcean’s platform with Go microservices, multi-DC operations, and production war stories.

GopherCon Dubai 2016 Conference talk for the Dubai Go community — DigitalOcean-era systems and Go topics.

microXchg 2016 · Berlin How DigitalOcean builds the cloud: Go microservices across many datacenters, tens of thousands of customers, and the day-to-day of writing, monitoring, and shipping control-plane services.

JSConf.Asia 2015 · Singapore Using game programming for education — including Thai typing / serious games work — and what works when teaching through play in the browser.

GothamGo 2015 · New York Chaos engineering for apps that cannot tolerate silent netsplits — from Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger experience.

GopherCon India 2015 Reliability and scale for financial instant messaging (Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger territory): hundreds of thousands of demanding users, multi-datacenter messaging, and why Go fit the problem.

Bangkok Launchpad 2014 Early Intro to Go for the Bangkok community.

Originally published on kanwisher.com, July 19, 2012.