Ask HN: What are the best conferences you've been to for your growth?
What are some of the best conferences you've been to for your own professional development? I have a $5000 a year professional development budget but I don't know how to spend it.
Both Reasons to: (https://reasons.to) and beyond tellerrand (https://beyondtellerrand.com/) are very much about broadening you horizons. These conferences cover a wide range of design- and technology-related subjects from down-to-earth pragmatic matters like particular JavaScript or CSS techniques, to more conceptual design topics, typography, social issues related to design and more artistic endeavours like calligraphy, generative art or even performance art.
All of these very different aspects often have surprising and delightful ways of connecting with each other and inspiring ideas.
We're like an extended unconference that pops up in different cities around the world, and more fun / in-depth if you can get away for a bit. We do weekly talks and other workshops for professional development, and you get to connect with people from the local tech scene as well as those from around the world.
That'd use up $5000, depending on travel costs.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17
Excellent training for system administrators.