I love this performance so much. in the best of days it can feel incredibly intimidating to sing a song parody at a technical conference, but then to do it well

I love this performance so much. in the best of days it can feel incredibly intimidating to sing a song parody at a technical conference, but then to do it well and have all the lyrics and slides lined up with interesting points made, that is truly art. i've met anjana enough that we're now friends. she's an incredible dev and speaker (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anjana+vakil https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anjana+vakil) and even for her this performance was extremely out there and i imagine unbelievably challenging and somewhat vulnerable to do. its sad that people (incl myself [0]) don't take more professional risks doing this kind of "talk", and instead stick to the kind of tell-em-tell-em-told-em kind of format they think is expected in a talk, rather than thinking about the most creative, memorable, worthwhile way to get their ideas across. who else does these kinds of "risky but good" talks? i can only think Bret Victor (future of programming) and Gary Bernhardt (wat) but those are usual suspects at this point. who else? [0]: this was as far as i went, directly inspired by TCO the Musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WNT5RCENfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WNT5RCENfo