.concat() 2018
2018-03-03
Salzburg, Austria
as the organisers put it
The web development and UX conference in Salzburg. One day, two tracks, 19 amazing speakers.
who it's for
frontend developers, web performance engineers, UX designers, platform engineers, accessibility engineers, engineering managers
topics
V8 Ignition and TurboFan; Code Stub Assembler optimizations; Progressive Web Apps implementation; PRPL pattern and HTTP/2 push; Service Worker caching strategies; GraphQL gateway with Apollo; Server-side Swift frameworks; CSS Custom Properties techniques; Styled Components usage; Semantic HTML for accessibility; Browser compatibility and webcompat workflows; PHP 7.2 performance improvements
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| When Fast is Faster Than Fastest | Daniel Clifford | 49m |
V8 replaces heavy benchmark-driven tricks with a consistent baseline by adding Ignition and TurboFan and rewriting critical built-ins with a Code Stub… | ||
| Your Algorithm isn't neutral... | Ivana McConnell | 23m |
Concrete failures and fixes decide whether a product is inclusive: Apple HealthKit lacking reproductive tracking for a year, security logic that maps the title… | ||
| Server-Side Swift from Scratch | Brandon Williams | 24m |
Server-side Swift is viable now: an open-source framework at http://github.com/pointfreeco builds and runs https://www.pointfree.co, using Swift types for… | ||
| When Old meets New: Codebases | Ursula Sarracini | 20m |
A modern React/Redux web app is integrated into a 13 million line C++/XUL codebase dating to 1998, forcing concrete tradeoffs: webpack/Babel output converted… | ||
| Let's save the internet: How to make browsers… | Ola Gasidlo | 31m |
Claim: browsers still behave differently and small, reported fixes produce cross‑browser alignment. An open source webcompat project provides a two‑minute bug… | ||
| Bringing GraphQL to the Enterprise: When IBM met Apollo | Ryan Mackey | 19m |
Describes how IBM consolidates ~30 REST microservices into a single GraphQL gateway using Apollo and an open‑source Gramps library, claims 2.5x performance… | ||
| Build bridges, not walls – Design for users across cultures | Jenny Shen | 16m |
A localization process shows specific fixes and results: a big passport-name warning on a Dutch booking form tests for two weeks and fails, then a paid… | ||
| PHP in 2018 | Rasmus Lerdorf | 31m |
Claims concrete upgrades and numbers: PHP 7.2/7.3 drops memory and doubles or better performance in real sites, sometimes 3–4×; example arrays shrink from… | ||
| Designing Great Progressive Web Apps | Nicole Saidy | 20m |
Claims concrete changes: uses an app shell (inline minimal HTML/CSS/JS) for progressive loading, favors system fonts and large tappable controls, and adds undo… | ||
| Thinking PRPL | Houssein Djirdeh | 21m |
Explains the PRPL pattern with concrete tactics: push critical assets (preload/prefetch) but warns that HTTP/2 server push can slow pages if too much is pushed… | ||
| Fast. Simple. Accessible. | Estelle Weyl | 22m |
Demonstrates that swapping heavy frameworks for semantic HTML and a few lines of JS yields real wins: a carousel implemented with radio-button carousel +… | ||
| Live and let die: Untangling the web of objects | Michael Lippautz | 21m |
Chrome’s V8 and Blink interoperate via paired C++ and JavaScript object halves so DOM nodes and wrappers reference each other, leading to surprising retained… | ||
| The strategy guide to CSS Custom Properties | Mike Riethmuller | 26m |
Custom properties are dynamically scoped CSS values that inherit and obey the cascade so use preprocessors for static globals (brand colors, spacing) and… | ||
| Psychological safety: How to become a team that learns | Georg Sorst | 22m |
Asserts psychological safety is the single team factor Google links to top performance and gives concrete practices: planning poker code reviews retrospectives… | ||
| Remote device sign-in – Authenticating without a keyboard | Tiffany Conroy | 23m |
SoundCloud implements a remote device sign‑in for Xbox One that replaces controller typing with a short on‑screen code users enter at soundcloud.com/activate… | ||
| Mathematics of Animation | Varun Vachhar | 22m |
Shows the actual math and code used: polar coordinates with the formulas x = r cos θ, y = r sin θ, converting degrees to radians, and a polygon generator wired… | ||
| Styled Components | Max Stoiber | 22m |
A concrete solution: a library called styled-components that binds CSS strings to components, implemented with tagged template literals that let functions… | ||
| Lightning talks | .concat() | 39m |
Many five minute segments cover tips and claims so pick ones that give specifics like a measurable outcome a repo or demo and the exact tools used For example… | ||
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