Keynote: Lateral Thinking with Weathered Technology: How... with Carson Gross
summary
Claim: apply Gunpei Yokoi’s lateral thinking with withered technology to web dev by sending HTML snippets not JSON. Tools: HTMX + Django, examples include click-to-edit, infinite scroll and live search. Evidence: a Django team migration reports 67% codebase reduction 96% fewer JS deps 88% faster builds 50% faster TTI and ~50% lower memory use. Rationale ties to Game Boy tradeoffs older tech buys lower cost better battery life and ruggedness and the approach demonstrably works in production cases.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:11Lateral thinking with withered tech
- 8:25Philosophy in web dev
- 12:35Hypermedia as a foundational web technology
- 15:43HTMX for modern apps
- 21:45HTMX and Django
- 27:29Yokoi's key lessons
- 32:05Community resistance
- 35:35Testing HTMX with Django
- 39:06Why HTMX beat Intercooler
- 42:36Components and scalability
- 45:05Q&A
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