&gt; There are certainly talks that would be better of just presenting snippets of code, but I think there&#x27;s a time and a place for live coding examples as well.<p>Step 1. be David Beazley. He really is such an engaging speaker and I think his jokes and lightheartedness might make it look easy, but I don&#x27;t think it is. Many probably think in their heads &quot;I&#x27;ll be just like David on stage&quot; but they are not.<p>I have  see nice demos where everything is setup and they just run a command it builds or launches a VM, that&#x27;s fine. But building code from scratch, watching it compile, dealing with 1 off errors, or some hidden bug that now everyone is debugging, is usually painful to bear through.