ffconf 2019
2019-11-08
Brighton, United Kingdom
ffConf ·
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who it's for
front-end developers, web performance engineers, engineering managers, accessibility engineers, junior developer candidates, creative coders, hardware integration developers
topics
interactive git rebasing; git add -p staging; web tracking and privacy; privacy blocking tools; Chrome DevTools performance audits; image lazy loading; font-display: swap; defer noncritical scripts; Web USB Web Bluetooth Web Serial; CSS generative patterns and plotters; ThreeJS to STL 3D printing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Engaging Empathy | Sharon Steed | 45m |
Talk claims empathy as a verb and gives concrete practices: use speech therapy, do public speaking (a 5‑minute ignite with 20 slides and 15‑second changes)… | ||
| What does it take to become a developer in 2020? | Amina Adewusi | 40m |
Argues that access, not interest, is the barrier: bootcamps cost £8,000 bootcamp plus ~£1,000/month childcare, self-taught learners rely on cold‑calling… | ||
| Getting more from Git | Alice Bartlett | 41m |
Claim: clean, atomic history and meaningful messages make debugging and future work faster. Demonstrated tools: git add -p to stage hunks, git commit --amend… | ||
| 8 Unbelievable Things You Never Knew About Tracking | Laura Kalbag | 42m |
Covers concrete claims and tools: Taboola appears on nearly 5% of popular sites and loads dozens of scripts per page; Acxiom sells up to 3,000 attributes and… | ||
| From Milliseconds to Millions | Harry Roberts | 39m |
Concrete numbers, measurable wins, and the actual fixes decide tonight. Case studies show a site dropping from ~16s to ~6s global load, a Venezuela hotspot… | ||
| Effortless Performance Debugging | Anna Migas | 49m |
Live demo uses Chrome DevTools Performance and Lighthouse audits with network throttling (Slow 3G / Slow 4G) and CPU slowdowns (6x / 4x) to find costly tasks… | ||
| Taking The Web Off The Screen | Charlotte Dann | 41m |
Demos show concrete claims and working pipelines: CSS-only generative patterns rendered as 100-square grids then printed and mounted; use of canvas2svg to… | ||
| Adventures in reinventing interfaces | Suz Hinton | 42m |
Demo shows that Web USB, Web Bluetooth and Web Serial are just vehicles for bytes not magic: ESC/P printer commands are used to print Game Boy–style selfies… | ||
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