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-[POPL 2018](https://popl18.sigplan.org/home), the conference where I will present our [RustBelt paper]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2017-07-08-rustbelt %}), is doing a series of interviews with senior and junior people from the community: [People of Programming Languages](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~popl-interviews/).
+[POPL 2018](https://popl18.sigplan.org/home), the conference where I will present our [RustBelt paper]({% post_url 2017-07-08-rustbelt %}), is doing a series of interviews with senior and junior people from the community: [People of Programming Languages](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~popl-interviews/).
They also asked me if I wanted to be part of this, and of course I accepted.
This was the first time I was asked to give an interview, so needless to say, I was super excited!
I got the opportunity to talk about how I came to do research in PL, what my research is about, and ramble a bit about why I think Coq is great.
(Though, as you can see, I had to send them a picture, which was certainly the least pleasant part of this. ;)
PS: It seems I have consistent bad luck with my POPL talk slots, because my talk
-is [again](http://popl.mpi-sws.org/2015/program.html) in the very last session
+is [again](https://popl.mpi-sws.org/2015/program.html) in the very last session
of the conference. This time, in fact, it's the
[very last talk](https://popl18.sigplan.org/program/program-POPL-2018?date=Fri%2012%20Jan%202018)
of the main track. Maybe some people read this interview and consider staying