Brighton – 27 Feb 2023 – Tower Point
Thanks for joining us for this fully packed day and dive into an exclusive conversation with Jeremy Keith, Cassie Evans, and Arisa Fukuzaki.
Connect with peers from Brighton, take home an amazing and exclusive show bag, and to close your night, enjoy a good pizza and drinks with a bunch of incredible people.
Where: Tower Point, 44 North Road Brighton, BN1 1 YR
When: 27 feb 2023, 5pm
On this evening the following people will be presenting …
Cassie Evans
Cassie currently works in developer relations at GreenSock, tinkering, educating and getting people excited about animation on the web.
Talk: Unlocking SVG’s Superpowers
When most people think of SVG, they picture icons and illustrations, but it’s a magical language that’s capable of so much more! When you stop viewing it purely as a way to make vector graphics, a whole world of UI styling opens up. Come with me as we dig a little deeper and unlock some of SVG’s superpowers.
Jeremy Keith
He curated the dConstruct conference for a number of years as well as Brighton SF, and he organised the world's first Science Hack Day. He also made the website Huffduffer to allow people to make podcasts of found sounds—it's like Instapaper for audio files.
Hailing from Erin's green shores, Jeremy maintains his link to Irish traditional music running the community site The Session. He also indulges a darker side of his bouzouki-playing in the band Salter Cane.
Jeremy spends most of his time goofing off on the internet, documenting his time-wasting on adactio.com, where he has been writing for over fifteen years.
Talk: Declarative Design
Different browsers, different devices, different network speeds…designing for the web can feel like a never-ending battle for control. But what if the solution is to relinquish control? Instead of battling the unknowns, we can lean into them. In the world of programming, there’s the idea of declarative languages: describing what you want to achieve without specifying the exact steps to get there. In this talk, we’ll take this concept of declarative programming and apply it to designing for the web. Instead of focusing on controlling the outputs of the design process, we’ll look at creating the right inputs instead. Leave the final calculations for the outputs to the browser—that’s what computers are good at. We’ll look at CSS features, design systems, design principles, and more. Then you’ll be ready to embrace the fluid, ever-changing, glorious messiness of the World Wide Web!
Arisa Fukuzaki
Outside of her work, she is a GDE and a GirlCode ambassador. In her private time, she is a longboarder, a snowboarder, a yogi, and an Aikido fighter.
Talk: i18n was the missing piece: Let 70%+ of the users in the world access your apps
Accessibility, better DX, and performance get a lot of attention as it improves better UX significantly. Plus, it gives satisfaction to devs by seeing the significant improvements. But how about internationalisation? A fun fact: Over 70% of the users in the world access non-English content. In this talk, I’ll show you more surprising facts about internationalisation and what are scalable approaches. You’ll see examples with libraries for frameworks with a few different logic to implement different internationalisation layouts.
Phil Hawksworth
Phil is Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify.
With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common.
After almost 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness.
Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O'Reilly, 2019)
- He post thoughts at @philhawksworth@indieweb.social
- He blogs at hawksworx.com
Talk: Render time
The way we thought about delivering and displaying content used to be simpler. Webservers sent HTML down the wire and browsers displayed it. Done. Pub?
Not so fast! Now there are lots of ways content might be rendered for our users. And understanding what they all are, why you would choose what, and how they impact the development and the experience for the users is not always clear.
In this talk, we’ll learn what SSR/CSR/SSG/DPR/DSG/ISR/ODB/SPA/MPA and Edge Rendering all really mean, along with their relative pros and cons. We’ll see how we might select the right one for different types of projects. And we’ll walk through a practical example which combines a number of rendering techniques to see how a web project can use a variety of complementary technologies with compelling results.
Leeds – 1 Mar 2023 – Parallax HQ
We are arriving in beautiful Leeds for the first time. Don’t miss the chance to catch up with Harry Roberts, James Hall, and Arisa Fukuzaki.
Take home our unique swag bag, connect with same-industry peers, and close your night with delicious pizza and drinks.
Where: The Elbow Rooms, 64 Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 6DT
When: 1 Mar 2023, 5pm
On this stop you’ll get presentations served by the following people …
Harry Roberts
He is both a Google- and a Cloudinary Media Developer-Expert, and has consulted for clients from the United Nations to the BBC, General Electric to the Financial Times, and a whole host more.
When not doing work-work, he writes, teaches, and speaks about the entire gamut of front-end performance. When not doing work at all, he’s probably out riding his bike.
Talk: Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
Since Google announced their Core Web Vitals (CWV) initiative, being fast is more important than ever. However, despite being by far the easiest CWV to monitor, debug, and optimise—in both the lab and field—Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is still the one that most websites struggle with.
In this very practical talk, we’ll look at what exactly comprises LCP, how we might be working against ourselves, and how to make opportunistic optimisations to get ourselves back in the green (and beyond).
And even if none of those terms meant anything to you, don’t worry! You’ll leave this talk fully equipped to go back to your own projects and clients and make all the improvements they’ll need. Get ready to ask for a pay rise.
Arisa Fukuzaki
Outside of her work, she is a GDE and a GirlCode ambassador. In her private time, she is a longboarder, a snowboarder, a yogi, and an Aikido fighter.
Talk: i18n was the missing piece: Let 70%+ of the users in the world access your apps
Accessibility, better DX, and performance get a lot of attention as it improves better UX significantly. Plus, it gives satisfaction to devs by seeing the significant improvements. But how about internationalisation? A fun fact: Over 70% of the users in the world access non-English content. In this talk, I’ll show you more surprising facts about internationalis
James Hall
He has extensive experience in complex problem-solving and has worked with global organisations such as UEFA and NASA.
He's a tech pioneer and was recently listed in the BIMA 100 list as recognition for his achievements.
Next to this, we are delighted that Parallax was hosting this event in Leeds – thanks! 🙏
Talk: Mobile App Pipelines: Reducing the Feedback Loop
Key points:
- Mobile apps vs Web applications
- Mobile CI/CD Builds and Testing
- Reducing the feedback loop through instant app updates
Phil Hawksworth
Phil is Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify.
With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common.
After almost 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness.
Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O'Reilly, 2019)
- He post thoughts at @philhawksworth@indieweb.social
- He blogs at hawksworx.com
Talk: Render time
The way we thought about delivering and displaying content used to be simpler. Webservers sent HTML down the wire and browsers displayed it. Done. Pub?
Not so fast! Now there are lots of ways content might be rendered for our users. And understanding what they all are, why you would choose what, and how they impact the development and the experience for the users is not always clear.
In this talk, we’ll learn what SSR/CSR/SSG/DPR/DSG/ISR/ODB/SPA/MPA and Edge Rendering all really mean, along with their relative pros and cons. We’ll see how we might select the right one for different types of projects. And we’ll walk through a practical example which combines a number of rendering techniques to see how a web project can use a variety of complementary technologies with compelling results.
Space for all events is limited to ~50 people. Be quick or miss out … what you should not.
Thanks!
Huge thanks to the local communities and the generous hosts in each city! Thanks to James Hall for offering us to use their HQ for the stop in Leeds. Furthermore thanks to Jeremy Keith for suggestion a ton of lovely venues in Brighton.
Massive thanks to everybody above!
All sessions will be recorded, but obviously the real benefit of attending is meeting people in real life to exchange, meet old friends and make new friends! I will also be joining for all four stops and am very much looking forward to this.
See you there!