Crafting Comics for Literally Everyone

Featuring Jessica Jordan

Remember loving to read comics on a Sunday afternoon when you were a kid? Maybe you don’t. In the past, traditional print comics have made it impossible for blind and visually-impaired readers to experience their heroes’ adventures first-hand. Today an increasing number of initiatives like comic...

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We Need to Talk about the Main Thread

Featuring James Milner

JavaScript is known for its single threaded nature; in the browser this means much of your code you write as developers runs on the same thread. This includes everything from input handlers, to fetch requests to updating the DOM. This is a lot of things to keep up with!

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What I Learnt by Building the Exact Same App in Kotlin (Native Android), Nativescript and Flutter

Featuring Arnav Gupta

In this talk, Arnav will go through the journey of building a blogging app (Medium clone) using Kotlin, Nativescript and Flutter. He will discuss the differences in developer and user experience for the apps built using all these platforms.

Arnav took the famous realworld.io project (which is a...

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What Tamagotchis Can Teach You About ES6 Generators

Featuring Jennifer Creighton

What do Tamagotchis — everyone’s favourite digital pets from the 90s — and ES6 generators — pausible functions for async tasks — have in common? Both are really fun to play with. As a recent side project, Jenn built a web-version of a Tamagotchi. But she struggled with one key element: how to...

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Lightning Talk: Distributed GraphQL for Enterprise Systems

Featuring Siddharth Sampath

As many of you know GraphQL has replaced REST API. You have adopted GraphQL to build your platforms service using GraphQL.

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Lightning Talk: I Can Write My Webscript With No Alpha Chars

Featuring Rael Sasiak-Rushby

Learn why the letters A-z are unnecessary in the javascript language.

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Lightning Talk: Streamline: A super-efficient branching and CI strategy

Featuring Joe Devine and Jonathan Irving

Streamline is a combined approach for branching, continuous integration, and (optionally) continuous deployment. It starts small to get development teams up and running as fast as possible and can grow when the project grows.

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Lightning Talk: Server Side Rendering with React.js and Node.js

Featuring Matt Long

React.js is an awesome web client-side library. Everyone is using it. Using SSR learn how to benefit from web performance and search engine exposure without losing the benefits of running React.js client-side.

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Lightning Talk: Coding: You Either Love Or Hate It, Or Why You Should Open-Source For Real.

Featuring Evgeny Poberezkin

Coding is hard but you still love it. But you also hate it on some days. Humans are unpredictable so you chose to work with code and computers. But code outcomes are becoming increasingly unpredictable and to succeed with coding you need to succeed with other humans. Open-source contribution is a...

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How to build X in 3D – A short Introduction to BabylonJS

Featuring Christina Zenzes and Anna Backs

Who has not dreamed of creating something in 3D, or even better: 3D running in a browser?! Anna and Christina also had this dream, and during a hackathon in early 2018 together they finally fulfilled it by using BabylonJS. They started to build an interactive control panel for managing all IoT...

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