Interface Incantations

Featuring Jo Hanna Pearce

According to the witches of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, most magic is simply headology. This talk will mix literary references and outline the headology of interface design, from basic charms and illusions that fool and entice us to the unforgivable curses that can shape our thinking and...

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Keynote: Better Together: Building Social Experiences for Immersive Technologies

Featuring Liv Erickson

The ecosystem around virtual, mixed, and augmented reality presents opportunities to fundamentally change the way that you think about technology - and its impact on you. Never before have you had the access to meet instantly with people around the world and collaborate in shared spaces, step...

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React Native at Skyscanner: The Good Parts

Featuring Karan Thakkar

This talk takes a look at what the React Native setup at Skyscanner looks like and how they maintain and scale it from an infrastructure point of view. Here are some of the things that are involved and questions that Karan plans on sharing the answer to:

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Keynote: Bringing WebAssembly Outside The Web With WASI

Featuring Till Schneidereit and Lin Clark

Earlier this year WASI - the WebAssembly system interface, was announced. With this system interface, WebAssembly can be used outside the browser in a portable and safe way.

As Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker, said, "If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, you wouldn't have needed us to...

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PWAs on Steroids

Featuring Trishul Goel

PWAs bring the best of both mobile and native apps to user. PWAs equipped with service workers provide features like offline availability, push notifications etc. Now with modern webAPIs, PWAs are beyond the browsers; in Hardware. Consider turning bulb on/off with your PWA, sounds cool? Lets...

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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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State Management in Angular: From Facades to NGRX And Back

Featuring Cornelia Rauch

Unlike classic web applications, single page applications have an application state – and this must be managed to avoid inconsistencies and data binding cycles. That’s why developers of single page applications must deal with state management. In this session, you’ll learn more about this topic...

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Lightning Talk: Lessons Learned Converting Snyk Codebase to TypeScript

Featuring Liliana Kastilio

Over the past 6-8 months, Snyk has been converting their entire codebase to TypeScript, Lili would like to share the reasons, motivations and lesson learned with others thinking to do the same.

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Merging Realities : Using the Web to Bring the Internet of Things to High End Augmented Reality

Featuring Philippe Coval and Fabien Benetou

What is real? What is virtual? What is augmented? What if none of that mattered but only how you could merge all those for your need?

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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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