Calling all my lovely #gophers! Will you be in Bologna for @golab_conf next month? Do your tastes stretch to privacy & secure data handling in #golang? Come join Auntie Ellie for a half day of brain bending #crypto #architecture #code golab.io/talks/knowing-much-…

I've sketched out the topics I'll cover at @golab_conf and it's quite the list. I don't often give workshops so it'll be something special. Stuff on #networking and #crypto that no one else ever covers. Like one of my normal single session talks - only 3 hours of content.

@golab_conf in particular have been very accommodating of my weirdness over the years, whether that be the accidental 3-part series on Web Sockets I filmed for them during the pandemic, or the rambling 90 minute intro to Functional Programming in #golang.

Large (by my standards) Italian audiences have turned out for what are often little more than ADHD-driven code dumps with some random anecdotes sprinkled over the top.

This year's a bit of a change. @golab_conf has moved from Florence to Bologna, another historic Italian city I've always wanted to visit, so I'm also switching things up a bit.

I don't usually give workshops as it's much easier to write for the more conventional talk format if I'm working on other projects at the same time. However this year work's been dead so I've chosen to do something I've been meaning to do for about a decade now:

a long-form workshop on designing digital systems with privacy in mind. The stuff that for much of the past two decades has been my bread & butter.

Where normally I'd have an hour to explain how to write code for cryptography and networking, here I'll have three to explain how I use that code in real-world designs. And more importantly, why the designs end up the way they do.

There'll be theory. There'll be code. There'll be insights I've gained researching in this field that I've only ever shared with my research partner @romeks.

And now for the truly important questions... Will Bologna match the gastronomic standards of Florence? Will I be in a fit state to find out after three hours of cryptographic grandiloquence?

Which amazing #Gophers will I get to meet for the first time? and which old friends will return? Come meet me in F̶l̶o̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ Bologna next month to find out! golab.io

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