Dan Lew
Bio
Dan Lew has code in his DNA and has been speaking since he was two years old. He's focused these skills on software development for the past two decades, working on many large mobile apps (FlightTrack, Expedia, Trello) as well as maintaining some open source libraries and applications. Currently he works on civic tech projects at Mighty Acorn Digital.
When not speaking, he's silent.
You can contact him on Bluesky, read his website, or stalk his commit history.
Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
-
How to (Privately!) Surf the Internet
Minnebar 19 -
Things Maybe You Don't Know as a Newer Developer
Minnebar 17 -
Maintaining Software Correctness
Minnebar 16 -
Grokking Coroutines
Minnebar 15 -
What Tech Can Do About Climate Change
Minnebar spring 2020 (canceled) -
Automated Tests Aren’t Enough
MinneBar 14 -
Re-Architecting Applications (Without a Rewrite!)
MinneBar 13 -
Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming
MinneBar 12 -
The mechanics behind maximizing Guitar Hero scores
MinneBar 11 -
Reactive Extensions: Beyond the Basics
MinneBar 10
Participating Sessions
- Lessons from Two Decades of Angel Investing
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
- Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
- 50 Years of Consoles, Computers, and Handhelds: The Convergence of the Steam Deck
- Growing Up "Vid Kid"
- No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)