Recap: WebCamp Zagreb 2017

As the proud lanyard sponsor of WebCamp Zagreb 2017, ReversingLabs gained significant exposure and attracted plenty of visitors to the conference booth. A colorful group of employees represented ReversingLabs at the conference by answering questions, generously giving out promo materials, and just generally being awesome.

The first day of the conference opened with a keynote by Anjana Vakil of Mapbox and Mozilla. Anjana combined her knowledge of philosophy with the theory of programming paradigms. The result was an intriguing talk that invited us to rethink the ways in which we understand and write code. The key takeaway was that there is no single best programming paradigm, and that we shouldn't try to force ourselves to use a particular paradigm if it's not suitable for the problem we're trying to solve.

The keynote was followed by a series of talks divided in two tracks. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about designing for users from different cultures, find out what it's like to test software on two-year-old children, and face the second hardest thing in computer science. 

Meanwhile, the ReversingLabs booth got swarmed by waves of attendees. 

The reason? Our fidget cubes. 

As soon as we started stacking them up, people began to notice and crowd around the booth. At first they were confused ("what's in the box?"), but when we explained, it was impossible to stop them. Some even asked for extra cubes for their friend, sister, child, or cat... And while our developers are merciless when it comes to cleaning up bugs in code, they couldn't just say "no" to people, so we quickly ran out of fidget cubes to give away.