tretton37 usually holds regular code lunches in our offices. Now that we can’t do that, we’ve moved our knowledge sharing events online. Today it was my turn to do a talk – a repeat performance of a talk I’ve done before, but this time streamed on YouTube instead of talking to a live audience sitting in front of me.

It felt weird at first to talk to a camera instead of real people, but I got used to it pretty soon. I found a decent setup with all the screens and windows and peripherals, with my presentation notes close to the camera. And I managed to get my talk done within my allocated time, just barely. I do tend to ramble on sometimes.

I noticed afterwards that I wave my arms a lot. When I speak in front of an audience, it feels natural to move around and gesticulate, and I imagine it looks normal. On screen, it seems more distracting. If I do this again, I’ll have to try and tone down the gesticulating.

Here’s my talk about multi-tenant architecture, in case you’re interested.