In my day job, I work with programs that write, analyze, and transform other programs. You can't do this unless you have some special insight into how programs work. Much of my night job is finding these insights and making them accessible to non-specialist programmers. A few months ago, I spent a week in St. Louis, where I gave my first industry conference talk, at Strange Loop on this topic, as well as my first academic conference talk at ICFP: Capturing the Future by Replaying the Past.
