For me, DevBeat 2013 was like a wedding. More than a year and a half of dreaming, thinking, planning, scheming, worrying, and occasional panicking went into making this show happen.

But at the end, I was more sad to see everyone go than relieved it was all over. So, like any bride, I am having lots of fun reliving the conference through the pictures.

We all had an absolutely fantastic time. The speaker lineup and learning opportunities were stellar, and it was awesome to meet so many of our developer friends in meatspace.

Plus, I got to tell, like, 18 puns over the course of two days. It was heaven.

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Check out our little picture gallery, and stay tuned for details on early-bird tickets for DevBeat 2014. It only gets better from here! (And if you want to see the full photo-dump, check out the complete photo set.)

Ali and Hadi Partovi of Code.org told some hard truths about computer science, education policy, and white privilege.
Twitter early bird Alex Payne called out a whole bunch of Silicon Valley startup nonsense, from absurd amounts of risk to racism and misogyny. Preach!
Pinterest dev Tracy Chou talked about the most funnest of tasks: rebuilding a legacy website.
Engine Yard’s security chief, Michael Brodhead, gave software devs the low-down on their biggest security mistakes.
In his second talk at DevBeat, Stallman gave a brand-new speech inspired by the NSA. Nothing but warm words, we’re sure. ;)
The Ford-sponsored Makeathon had all kinds of women and men hacking away at hardware projects throughout the night.
No one gives hugs better than Dr. Richard Stallman and VB writer Jolie O’Dell.
Lila Tretikov from SugarCRM gave attendees a good talking-to about how to direct your career once you’re no longer a beginner.
Our opening keynote from GitHub’s Tom Preston-Werner contained a lip-dub video with the song “In the Year 2525″… Guess you had to be there.
We didn’t expect that hackers would like to learn about new technologies. KIDDING. But next time, we’ll need an even bigger room for our Master Classes.
Twilio’s founder took the stage at DevBeat to talk about software people and how any problem can have a software solution.
Intern-turned-reporter Meghan Kelly flashes her signature smile.
At the Ford booth, attendees made (and took home) fun swag like these custom-printed posters.
In keeping with the hardware theme, David and Eric demonstrated OpenROV, an underwater bot designed to be your eyes and fingers in the realms of the deep.
Ruby on Rails creator DHH chose to conduct his session — a Live Ask-Me-Anything thread — via Skype. Maybe next time we’ll get him in the flesh…
Tim Bray of Google is best known as the father of XML. His talk on user security and passwords caused quite a stir in the audience!
Python Obscura was the theme of the Hackbright-led Master Class at DevBeat 2013.
Dr. Richard Stallman holds down the fort at the Free Software Foundation table. If you missed out on the GNU-themed swag, go to FSF.org for more!
Hulya Farinas, Pivotal’s data scientist, talked about how good data science makes applications smarter.
Matt is the technical mind behind smart thermostat Nest. This career-focused interview with VB’s Meghan Kelly got him talking about his start in hardware from a mobile dev background.
Adobe’s Divya Manian talked about web standards and why we should all learn to love them.
New Relic’s developer evangelist gave a wonderful talk about object-oriented APIs.
Meghan Kelly asked Susan how the agency competed with commercial space startups. “Well, we just say, ‘We’re NASA,'” she quipped. The crowd laughed heartily.
Finally, the hard-hacking Makeathon winners got to demonstrate their work on the main stage.

All images courtesy of Michael O’Donnell, an awesome guy and talented shutterbug. You should hire him.

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