DinosaurJS 2017
2017-06-15
Denver, CO, United States
[DinosaurJS 2016, DinosaurJS 2017, DinosaurJS 2018, DinosaurJS 2019]
who it's for
JavaScript developers, frontend engineers, performance engineers, build and tooling engineers, UX engineers, accessibility engineers, community managers
topics
V8 internals and optimizations; RxJS real-time streams; build-time compilers and Glimmer VM; prepack and tree shaking; Chrome DevTools and WebPageTest workflows; inline critical CSS experiments; Web Components with Polymer; Atomic Design and React Storybook; Web Speech API and SSML; open-source moderation processes; canvas and WebGL creative visualizations
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Get Your Head Outta the Cloud – Let’s Talk Tech | Jeremy Foster | 33m |
Argues that career progress depends on specific habits not buzzwords: intentional, voracious learning, a personal mission to choose the right work, and tactics… | ||
| JavaScript Engines: How Do They Even? | Franziska Kinkelmann | 29m |
Explains why modern JavaScript is fast: V8 uses a baseline compiler (Ignition) and an optimizing compiler (Turbofan) with speculative inlined optimizations… | ||
| Making the Jump: How Desktop Era Frameworks can Thrive on Mobile | Tom Dale | 40m |
Argues that desktop-era frameworks survive mobile by moving complexity into build-time compilers and delivering device-specific bundles; demonstrates concrete… | ||
| Perfecting Perf: Rapid, Rigorous and Reproducible Performance Experiments | Lon Ingram | 29m |
Claims that quick, reproducible perf experiments pay off and demonstrates them with concrete tools and numbers: uses Chrome DevTools and WebPageTest plus… | ||
| Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues, at Scale | Laurie Voss | 37m |
List of concrete failures and fixes: 22 concrete imaginary scaling problems with examples like putting a Node proxy in front of COBOL, slapping Docker on a bad… | ||
| Emoji, Web Components, and Art | Monica Dinulescu | 30m |
A demonstration of concrete tools and a working demo: building emoji-late that loads an image, pixelates it on canvas, maps each pixel’s average color to an… | ||
| Atomic Design as a Migration Strategy | Harrison Harnisch | 18m |
Concrete claim: Atomic Design lets a team do an asynchronous rewrite by shipping small components into a legacy app. The team migrates six years of Buffer code… | ||
| Albers as a Millenial | Billy Roh | 22m |
Recreates Josef and Anni Albers with live JavaScript examples using HSL, SVG and transforms rather than theory alone. Generates analogous vs triad HSL palettes… | ||
| Conversational ULS: Talking to Siri, Alexa, and Your Web Browser | Scott Davis | 48m |
Demos show concrete tech: the Web Speech API (speech synthesis + recognition), SSML for richer TTS, and browser support notes (Edge implements SSML; many… | ||
| The True Cost of Unmoderated Collaboration: A Story from the Trenches | Myles Borins | 39m |
An API named suicide API in the node cluster module sparks a huge moderation crisis when random users and raids from 4chan amplify debate into targeted… | ||
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