I am actively trying to overcome my public speaking fears for a while. So when I saw a call for speakers for Web Directions’ What Do You Know? event, I thought I had to do this. At that time, I was fiddling with my Jekyll blog quite a lot. So I shoot a proposal to Jhon Allsopp about this and he agreed.

So what is this What Do You Know? event is all about? From the event description:

Back again for the first time in 2016, What Do You Know? brings you new, upcoming and seasoned speakers, talking about something they know well, in a lightning 5 > minutes.

So basically it’s a lightning talk series. I deicded to cover some annecdotes regarding my attempts at blogging over the years and give a brief overview of blogging with Jekyll and hosting it on Github. I took few days to prepare the slides (with the challenge of keeping everything within 5 minutes) and turned up on the day. It appeared there were a few more novice speakers like me and few experienced ones. The event started with a good talk on public speaking by Sarah Ewen from Public Speaking for Life, certainly her talk helped to steady my nerves a bit. I think I did okay, the starting was good, then in the last part I mumbled a bit to finishing everything in a hurry. Overall its a very good experience and thanks to Web Directions for giving me the opportunity. If you are inclined, you can find my slides from that night here.