Decompress AU 2016
who it's for
front end developers, JavaScript developers, web developers, mobile developers, accessibility engineers, UX designers, Elm developers, web audio developers
topics
async/await in JavaScript; advanced fluid typography techniques; mobile device APIs; community sociolinguistics in JavaScript; future web communication trends; CSS gradient techniques; Elm for frontend architecture; WebAudio API programming; accessibility in single page apps
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Dude, where's my Tricorder | Laura Summers | 17m |
Presents a practical survival guide: tenders are prescriptive and exclude startups, so network before the tender, partner with big players like teler Health or… | ||
| The Promised Path to Async, Awaits | Michael Robinson | 14m |
Shows a concrete refactor path: callback code from a production example dated about three years ago becomes a promise chain and then an async/await reads like… | ||
| Advanced Fluid Typography (and more) | Mike Riethmuller | 18m |
A practical method for true fluid typography using calc and viewport units replaces many breakpoints with continuous scaling, demonstrated with concrete… | ||
| Enhancing Mobile Experiences with Device APIs | Jessica Claire Edwards | 13m |
Claims that mobile UX improves when sites use real device APIs backed by numbers and demos: 35% of time goes to social apps, 16% to entertainment, ~10% to… | ||
| The JS community and sociolinguistics: A love story | Harriet Lawrence | 09m |
Claim: applying sociolinguistics makes the JavaScript community measurably easier to join. The argument comes from a masters paper now being prepped for… | ||
| The future of communication on the web | Adam Ullman | 17m |
Shows concrete WebRTC capabilities: videoElement.captureStream, canvas.captureStream and MediaRecorder combined with getUserMedia to record or send live media… | ||
| Gradient Circus | Gilmore Davidson | 15m |
Shows concrete, testable claims and tools: browsers convert stops to RGBA and interpolate, the transparent keyword equals rgba(0,0,0,0) causing mid‑gap… | ||
| Elm as an antidote to front-end fatigue | Francesco Orsenigo | 16m |
Claim: Elm replaces a big JavaScript toolchain with a small compiled stack so setup drops from nine tools to three or four; the slides are written in main.Elm… | ||
| Mars Needs Guitars.... and the WebAudio API | Cathy Lill | 27m |
Live guitar input runs entirely through the WebAudio API: a media stream source -> waveShaper with Float32Array sized to context.sampleRate -> low‑pass tone… | ||
| Accessibility in Single Page Applications | Rick Giner | 17m |
Shows concrete fixes: update the browser title on route change (Angular/React examples) and set document title on route change; restore focus by giving the H1… | ||
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