ffConf 2018
2018-11-08..2018-11-09
Brington, United Kingdom
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who it's for
front-end developers, web developers, creative coders, accessibility leads, community organisers, developer advocates
topics
TensorFlow.js in browser; WebGL accelerated machine learning; PoseNet and Teachable Machine; Web Animations API usage; CSS variables for interaction; server-rendered HTML first; progressive enhancement techniques; conference accessibility and inclusion logistics; mentoring practices for developers; Web Audio API bit-level playback; typed arrays and bit shifts; Canvas with requestAnimationFrame
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Mentoring" Being the help you wish you'd had" | Jo Franchetti | 29m |
Sound quality is bad for the first 90 seconds then clears. Mentoring is concrete: three years of mentoring yields measurable gains—better confidence, clearer… | ||
| The Future of JavaScript & Machine Learning | Eleanor Haproff | 35m |
JavaScript now runs real neural nets in the browser using TensorFlow.js, the evolution of deeplearn.js, with WebGL acceleration and Node.js bindings. Demos… | ||
| Practical Web Animation | Lisi Linhart | 37m |
States that browsers composite only transform and opacity cheaply and that animating left/width triggers layout and repaints; recommends using will-change or… | ||
| Is it possible to build a truly diverse community? | Jenny Wong | 43m |
Organising makes accessibility the decision rule: widen aisles and add multi-faith, lactation and quiet rooms; set 20-minute turnover windows; put signage… | ||
| Back to the future of JS the next features and amazing proposals | Willian Martins | 39m |
Three concrete proposals arrive: bind operator, pipeline operator, and partial application. The talk demos live code composing Math and String functions… | ||
| Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You | Charlie Owen | 38m |
Argues the web is simple, robust and is breaking because teams build heavy JavaScript-first sites instead of content-first pages; cites an average basic page… | ||
| Using a Modern Web to Recreate 1980s Horribly Slow & Loud Loading Screens | Remy Sharp | 36m |
Recreates the ZX Spectrum loading experience by turning fetched bytes into audible pulses using the Web Audio API, parsing the 6k Spectrum image format with… | ||
| Weird Web & Curious Creation | Tim Holman | 41m |
A string of concrete projects and outcomes: a DVD‑logo analysis finds the corner hit time as LCM(width−1,height−1)=45 in one demo and then uses Canvas… | ||
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