Presentations from 2018

Thursday October 25th, 2018 8PM

Max Harris

You Might Not Need Browser Layout

I built a library that helps you build UIs that render to pure SVG (no HTML, no CSS). It handles lay...

Fabien Lemaitre

šŸŽ¼Web Audio Visualization Applied to Speech šŸ—£

How do you leverage web technologies for visualizing speech? We'll coverĀ a bit of the theory behind ...

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Thursday September 27th, 2018 8PM

Tony Germaneri

How I made a table with 10 million rows

I had a requirement to show tens of thousands of rows of data for a client, the solution? Use immedi...

Kyle Mathews

Building Beautiful Websites with Gatsby

A little bit about the blazing fast React.js static site generator and why it's awesomesauce!

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Thursday August 30th, 2018 8PM

Hannah Howard

If You Learned FRP, You'd Never Have To Use Redux Again

At Carbon Five, we think reactive programming is a great way to build frontend GUI applications. We ...

Marina Miranovich

Serverless and React (it's just sleight of hand)

A few months ago I built a small web page, that supposed to be integrated into the existing mobile a...

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Thursday July 26th, 2018 8PM

Jeff Wainwright

Save Money and Time with CI/CD

Discussing how Dollar Shave Club employs a CI/CD pipeline for their front end to improve velocity wh...

Lara Schenck

The Algorithms of CSS

ā€œCSS isnā€™t a ā€˜realā€™ programming language,ā€ we are often reminded ā€” we donā€™t ā€˜programā€™ in CSS, we des...

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Thursday June 28th, 2018 8PM

Kylie Stewart

ML on the CL

Machine learning is everywhere, but how easy is it to get started? Could your small project benefit ...

Dave Taylor

Vector Money: Can we fix the root of most evil with JavaScript?

What if the value of every good or service was formally recognized as a million-element heterogeneo...

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Thursday May 31st, 2018 8PM

Amir Rustamzadeh

Next-Generation Frontend Testing with Cypress.io

In this talk you'll learn how to write flake-free and deterministic end-to-end and unit tests that r...

Michael Anthony

JavaScript: It's a feature, not a bug

I'd like to talk about JavaScripts large role in our studio's production process and how it's flexib...

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Thursday April 26th, 2018 8PM

James M Snell

A day in the life of a Node.js Core Contributor

A Day in the life of a Node.js core contributor. This talk will candidly pull back the curtain on ho...

Walmik Deshpande

Create Electronic Dance Music with JavaScript!

When you go to a party, what is the most common thing about the music? It's repetitive! As engineers...

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Thursday March 29th, 2018 8PM

Alli McKee

The Outsourcing Rollercoaster

I'd love to talk about what it's like to build an early stage product with an outsourced team, both ...

Erin McKean

LoopBack at Wordnik

In this talk you'll learn: how to connect LoopBack to your datasource how to create a model how to ...

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Thursday February 22nd, 2018 8PM

Greg Westneat

Render All Over the Damn Place with React Native

This talk is about the concept of "cross-platform rendering," where one set of view-layer primitives...

Alex Tamoykin

Serverless Microservices with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

This talk is about serverless microservices with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. We'll talk about pros ...

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Thursday January 25th, 2018 8PM

Ryan Bogle

Ethics huh!? What is it good for?

An everyday ethical approach to software engineering

Joe Rozner

Monkey Patching CSRF Away

Despite solutions in many modern frameworks Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) still remains an elusi...

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