ffconf 2023
2023-11-10
Brighton, United Kingdom
ffConf ·
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who it's for
front-end developers, web designers, accessibility specialists, content strategists, community builders, developer advocates, engineering managers
topics
semantic HTML accessibility; prefers-reduced-motion media queries; Web Speech API recognition; HTMLMediaElement timing; vanilla JavaScript prototypes; generative AI content agents; OpenAI Assistants API; Ada Lovelace analytical engine; Bernoulli algorithm simulation; TypeScript Express MongoDB stack; inclusive hiring accommodations
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Imposter syndrome, overworking, and working environments | Amber Shand | 27m |
Personal story traces the path from non-CS courses to a junior dev offer in Feb 2021 and a Pay It Forward award in Sept 2020 while naming specific fixes like… | ||
| The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI | Maggie Appleton | 45m |
Argues that generative AI is about to swamp the web with cheaply produced, SEO-optimized content — demos include a content-generator (Blaze) churning 700-word… | ||
| We need to talk about the front web | Angela Ricci | 34m |
Argues the front web loses its strengths—open standards, semantics and separation of content style and behaviour—to heavy JavaScript, utility class soup and… | ||
| Web accessibility - it's not just about HTML | Ire Aderinokun | 38m |
Plain semantic HTML produces accessible pages by default and about 90% of accessibility comes from using HTML correctly while 10% breaks when CSS/JavaScript… | ||
| Ada Lovelace and The Very First Computer Program | Steven Goodwin | 36m |
Translation of Menabrea’s appendix contains the concrete program that calculates Bernoulli numbers by initializing cog-like variables and applying a repeating… | ||
| Embracing Neurodiversity in Tech | Jonathan Fielding | 41m |
Neurodiversity affects far more people than assumed: the uploader cites an estimated one in seven and a UK child-assessment backlog of up to five years… | ||
| Exploring the Potential of the Web Speech API in Karaoke | Ana Rodrigues | 23m |
Built a browser karaoke prototype that uses Web Speech API speech recognition plus the HTMLMediaElement timing to match live transcripts to lyric time ranges… | ||
| Entertainment as Code | Salma Alam-Naylor | 47m |
Live streaming on Twitch becomes a learning and community build experiment: first stream on 25 June 2020, affiliate in seven days and partner by Aug 2021… | ||
| nothing matches | ||