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• Don't do live coding.
• Don't do live coding, ever.
• If you do live coding and it works well, developers will love you.
• If you do live demos, make sure your talk is fine if they don't work and that they don't need internet.
• Slides should be high contrast and easy to read from far away.
• Try to make your talk a story.
• Focus on messages, don't do tutorials.
• Focus on a few points rather than squeezing in everything.
• Don't put bullet points on your slides.
• One statement, maybe two, per slide, not more.
• Entertainment is at least as important as content. This does not always mean just adding memes or cat pictures.
• Sometimes just content is also pretty amazing, if you can be sure to not lose the audience.
• Pictures, pictures, pictures. For illustration, for entertainment.
• Engage the audience, ask questions, make them stand up. Don't make them feel stupid.
• Talking fast is fine, if your audience is good at English or you are being live translated. Make sure to speak clearly though, so people understand you.
• Be nervous, but don't let that keep you from giving a kick-ass presentation.
• Always be excited.
• Don't apologize for your slides.
• Don't apologize for skipping a slide or telling things out of order.
• Don't apologize for finishing early. Actually, try to finish early.
• Take off your lanyard before starting your talk.
• Disable notifications.
• Make sure your display settings work beforehand.
• Use a presenter view whenever possible. Having a timer, notes and the slides there really helps me not to panic.
• If you use the browser of terminal, bump up the font size to what you think is appropriate for the room and then a little.
• If you run into technical issues during your talk, do not stop talking to the audience. They losing interest is the worst thing that can happen.
• Make sure there is a display adapter for your computer.
• Bring a remote for going through slides.
• Make sure your laptop won't go to sleep. On Mac, install Caffeine from the app store.
• Drink something during the talk. I constantly forget that and regret it later.
• It is always better to have someone introduce you rather than introducing yourself. However, that is obviously up to the conference.
• When you have a say in the time slots, 25 minutes is usually better than 45.
• Make a reference to the country you're in, people love that.
• If you reference something, make sure people know the reference. If you quote a TV show, maybe make sure people in the country you're in actually know the show. Don't speak of "soccer" in South America, don't speak about "football" in the US.
• Don't be condescending. Don't make fun of people unless it's Nick Sutterer. Don't make fun of programming languages, etc.
• Don't be sexist, racist, etc. Should be pretty obvious.