Public speaking of all sorts remains an important part of the work I want to do — writing and speaking are complementary, rather than replacements for each other — and 2022 was a decent year for speaking for me.

I set out with a goal of giving two conference talks, and I was on track to do just that… and then Russia invaded Ukraine, leading to the cancellation of TypeVille in Poland. I was quite disappointed about that cancellation — that trip would have been a ton of fun — but it was 100% the right call, and that mild disappoint is of course nothing compared to the horrors of war faced by Ukrainians. I would still like to find a venue for the talk I was prepping for TypeVille, “Types as Tools for Thought”: I think the material is good and worth getting out into the world.¹ I did still give one talk at EmberConf: The Road to TypeScript.

I hosted no podcasts this year, but I did appear on two podcasts this year:

• Whiskey, Web, and Whatnot: Bringing Types to Ember with Chris Krycho, in which we had a nice discussion about some of the same themes as my EmberConf talk… and also a solid whiskey I have slowly enjoyed through the rest of the year.

• Rustacean Station: New Rustacean with Chris Krycho, in which I chatted with one of the hosts of the Rustacean Station podcast about what I have been up to in and around Rust since wrapping up New Rustacean a few years ago. We talked about Volta, the possibilities afforded by and challenges presented by WebAssembly, where Rust is and is not a good fit and why it has not been a large part of my day job lately, and also some details about how I did podcasting. It was fun to podcast about Rust again!

Finally, I also published a number of videos to YouTube — something more or less totally new for me! Some of those came out of work: whenever I’m doing or explaining something for open source that I think can benefit others, I am trying to record it and publish it, like in Wacky Tricks We Use in Publishing TypeScript Types (in Ember.js) or some of the streaming I have done.

The biggest video I published was Work tracking with Obsidian embeds, a complement to my post Writing Down What I Do  —  In Obsidian. It’s small by YouTube standards (about 3.4k views as of this writing), but that is pretty decent traction given I have very few subscribers and no regular posting habit. I plan to do more of both of those kinds of things in the future: again, they complement the writing work I do here.