A HUGE thank you to everyone who attended my DevConf session yesterday in Cape Town! The audience was incredible!! I loved the interactions and questions!
It was a bit rushed at the end, but it was great meeting everyone, even if only briefly, both during and after the session. Everyone is welcome to contact me to continue those conversations.
All that was shown is available in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/apead/devconf-2026
That includes:
Pyramid Compositor – Wayland Compositor for quadrant rendering
Hologramfan – ESP32 basd LED fan
Mauiholodisplay – Mobile app for displaying Pepper’s Ghost and pyramid holograms
Mauihud – Heads-up display for a vehicle
AvaloniaTeleprompter – Application for Windows and Linux to create your own teleprompter
LiveAvatar – Azure Speech Services Live Avatar
3D Designs
Printable templates for making holograms
You are also welcome to contact me about anything.
Learning should be fun, and that’s something I genuinely believe. Sure, coding can feel repetitive at times, and grinding through the same tasks day after day isn’t always thrilling. But that’s the beauty of tech: there’s always a way to make it exciting again. I hope this talk helped in some way to add some excitement and joy around tech. You are in control, do things that make you happy and excite you. #codingforfun
I was reading all the feedback this morning. There are truely so many amazing people in the developer community and I’m now inspired to do these types of talks even more and, following my own beliefs, have fun doing them. Not going to lie, it’s an incredible amount of work to do this, but it is definitely worth it. There is also one comment that stood out that was really helpful and practical: “Have a look at making your domes parabolic, harder to produce but will give a far less distorted image.” 🤔 THE NEXT RABBIT HOLE HAS STARTED ALREADY! Thank you for that. 😁 #continuouslearning
Hope to see all the cool things you build! #hologramsmanholograms
Also maybe show them off at Cape Town MS Developer User Group and inspire others to do awesome things with tech.
#DevConf2026 #iot #tech #mvpbuzz #developers #fun #dotnetmaui #avalonia
