ConFoo 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| JS Signals | Adam L Barrett | 48m |
Signals are a reactive state primitive that frameworks like Angular, Solid, Vue and Svelte adopt and a stage one TC39 proposal exists to add them to… | ||
| Shift left the right way to build secure software | Christopher Harrison | 35m |
Argues that shifting left has failed in practice with concrete stats: 70% of organizations have security debt and 47% of new flaws become tech debt, most in… | ||
| What's new in PHP 8.4 | Derick Rethans | 46m |
PHP 8.4 adds concrete features: Property Hooks let typed properties run custom getter/setter code so you can implement virtual properties and enforce value… | ||
| Oh Python! Where Did We Go Wrong | Greg Ward | 40m |
Python code quality suffers from specific, repeatable choices: top‑level modules execute network calls at import, ORMs that mimic active record hide database… | ||
| Back to Basics Why HTML Forms Still Rule the Web | Nick Taylor | 36m |
Argues that modern apps should lean on HTML forms not reimplement them, shows a live demo at formf fun.dev using Astro + Solid, demonstrates the constraint… | ||
| 10 Strategies to keep your Cloud costs under control | Tidjani Belmansour | 46m |
Ten concrete tactics and their measurable impacts: create a PhOps = engineer + analyst + leader team embedded in the Cloud CoE to align finance and product… | ||
| 6 Safe Refactorings for Untested Legacy Code | Nicolas Carlo | 42m |
Six concrete refactorings (inline, rename, extract, change-signature, distill/extract, extend/override) are demonstrated with TypeScript examples and VS Code… | ||
| Feature Flags Separate Deployment from Feature Release | Rob Richardson | 54m |
Shows a working Node/React demo that moves feature flags from config-file + env vars to a database with per-user overrides and to a SaaS provider, using the… | ||
| CSS animations are heating up! | Raphaël Goetter | 46m |
Survey of modern CSS animation techniques and how they replace legacy Flash-era effects, focusing on achieving simple, performant, and diverse animations using… | ||
| Commit like a Pirate | Sebastian Feldmann | 46m |
A tool called Captain Hook ships as a PHP and native Go binary, installs local git hook scripts (users must opt in), and enforces Chris Beams commit rules via… | ||
| RAG vs Fine tuning which one is better for your AI project | Shao Hang He | 44m |
Argues RAG wins for most apps because it retrieves fresh facts via embeddings and a vector DB (Pinecone, pgvector) while fine-tuning only buys consistent… | ||
| Technology as Fashion: Faded Fads & Flipped Scripts | Mark Heckler | 35m |
Technology trends behave like fashion but with concrete tradeoffs: microservices deliver scalability yet force complex orchestration and harder debugging… | ||
| Welcome to the AI Jungle! Now What? | Cedric Clyburn, Taylor Smith | 26m |
Demo shows a working RAG pipeline with private data in a vector database and embeddings, plus a fine‑tuning workflow using Instruct Lab that generates… | ||
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