it\u2019s 6:30-ish pm, and I\u2019m killing time waiting for my sound check for tomorrow\u2019s keynote, and thought I\u2019d do a quick brain dump of today\u2019s tutorial session.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s session was \u201cAlan Page: On Testing\u201d \u2013 which is a pretty wide open topic. For the slide handouts, I slapped together slides from a bunch of things I could<\/em> talk about, but my plan all along was different. In a perhaps risky move, I decided that I\u2019d take the first 10 minutes of the session to collect as many questions from the audience as I could, then I loosely grouped the questions and put together a few impromptu talks to cover the answers. I took questions as I went, plus a few ad-hoc questions at the end, and filled the 3.5 hour session. <\/p>\n The problem with this sort of thing is that it exhausts me. I\u2019m wiped out, and I\u2019ve lost half of my voice, but I should be good to go for my keynote in the morning.<\/p>\n The other drawback of this sort of session (and the few pieces of feedback I glanced at reflect this) is that this sort of session is polarizing, Attendees either got a ton of value, or little value \u2013 comments like \u201cLove the unstructured format \u2013 tons of great information\u201d were contrasted with, \u201cDidn\u2019t like the unstructured format \u2013 too much information\u201d. I\u2019m not too concerned, since the conference circuit isn\u2019t really my thing, but I feel a little bad I didn\u2019t set up the people in the \u201cdon\u2019t like unstructured\u201d group a little better with expectations.<\/p>\n More tomorrow after my (structured-ish) keynote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" it\u2019s 6:30-ish pm, and I\u2019m killing time waiting for my sound check for tomorrow\u2019s keynote, and thought I\u2019d do a quick brain dump of today\u2019s tutorial session. Today\u2019s session was \u201cAlan Page: On Testing\u201d \u2013 which is a pretty wide open topic. For the slide handouts, I slapped together slides from a bunch of things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","tag-starwest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}