/W4 /WX: How hard could it be?

This article reflects on a talk given at ACCU On Sea 2026, discussing the content and audience engagement during the presentation. The author shares insights on the challenges faced and lessons learned from the experience.

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This was the second time I gave this talk. You can read my reflections on my first outing at BeCpp 2026 here . As a guesstimate, there were probably about 50 people that attended. Maybe a little less. Other than the Shading Languages Symposium (which only had about 60 attendees), I think this would be my smallest audience that I have given a talk to.

This time, I had a 90 minute slot so I put a lot more content into the talk, and during practice sessions I did tend to take between 85 and 90 minutes to get through it all. However despite this, I managed to get through everything in 67 minutes. This was a tad deflating because I clearly went through it too fast despite my best efforts to not do that! There are also some parts of my talk which need to be corrected:

The good news though is…

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