Fluent 2016
who it's for
front end developers, javascript developers, web developers, ux designers, engineering managers, security engineers, localization engineers
topics
WebAssembly binary format; progressive web apps; service workers and manifests; responsive SVG animations; Angular 2 framework patterns; npm monolith to microservices; real-time machine translation; server side universal rendering; design principles for interfaces; web app security protocols; compile-time checks with Babel
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Javascript in 2016, Beyond Harmony | Brendan Eich | 03m |
Claims that WebAssembly grows from asm.js DNA, proved by Alan Zakaï cross‑compiling C++ games and fast implementations from Luke Wagner and others. All four… | ||
| Globalization Pipeline: Translations at cloud speeds | Steve Atkin | 04m |
IBM Bluemix Globalization Pipeline combines real-time machine translation (Watson MT) with persistent human postediting, REST APIs and open-source SDKs plus an… | ||
| How npm split a monolith and lived to tell the tale | Laurie Voss | 01m |
Argues that early architecture choices rarely matter and that the team first builds what delights users not a scalable final system, then faces a scaling… | ||
| Progressive Web Apps and What's Next for Mobile | Alex Russell | 02m |
Argues that distribution is the real bottleneck for mobile software and that the web wins because URLs deliver the actual experience instantly. Proposes… | ||
| The Entire History of Design Principles, 1322–2016 (abridged) | Tracy Osborn | 01m |
Claims that the quickest path to better interfaces is to prioritize function over form, summarized as design is how it works and not just how it looks… | ||
| Complex Responsive SVG Animations | Sarah Drasner | 03m |
Demonstrates scalable SVG animations that stay responsive at any size and remain stable across resolutions and mobile browsers. Builds animations as… | ||
| A Speaker's Notes | Kyle Simpson | 01m |
Seven years of conference experience condenses into concrete guidance: the central claim is that imposter syndrome is a perceived barrier not a real one; the… | ||
| Angular 2 and the Future of HTML5 Apps | Brad Green | 03m |
Angular 2 targets large cross‑platform apps with concrete claims: the ecosystem grows to 1.3 million developers and the beta already shows 300,000 using… | ||
| The Seif Project | Douglas Crockford | 03m |
Seif is an open source project started at PayPal that aims to transition the Web from a brittle document system into a real application delivery platform by… | ||
| Interview with Cory House | Cory House | 11m |
React gives rapid feedback through compile-time checks and a tight edit→save→console loop, reducing the runtime typos common in Angular and Knockout. Using… | ||
| Interview with Heather O'Neill | Heather O'Neill | 06m |
First step is know target audiences with research that proves design choices, not assumptions; frequent half-truths fail—early testing often shows most beliefs… | ||
| Interview with Matt Creager | Matt Creager | 08m |
Explains why single‑page apps move work to the client for faster, more interactive UIs and why that prompts use of frameworks like React, Angular or Ember… | ||
| Interview with Yao Morin | Yao Morin | 08m |
Argues that a data-driven UX learns from live user behavior to deliver unique experiences per user rather than designer guesses, and requires three concrete… | ||
| What is multimodal design? An interview with John Alderman and Christine Park | John Alderman, Christine Park | 17m |
Multimodal design treats senses as input channels and claims the web is already multimodal but narrowly constrained, with IoT and driverless cars shifting… | ||
| Interview with Jono Bacon | Jono Bacon | 08m |
Director of community at GitHub says the aim is to ship concrete community tools and guides so the average repo maintainer can build an inclusive project… | ||
| Interview with Doris Chen | Doris Chen | 05m |
Argues the web is evolving not dying, with service workers bringing push notifications and offline support so sites behave like apps, and cross‑platform… | ||
| Interview with Aaron Frost | Aaron Frost | 09m |
Domo describes a business management platform that pulls data from 15 data sources (dozens to hundreds at larger companies), stitches them into a virtual data… | ||
| Interview with Simon St. Laurent | Simon St.Laurent | 11m |
Argues the web now simultaneously scales to millions and billions of users on the back end and down to tiny mobile screens on the front end, and that… | ||
| Interview with Sara Drasner | Sarah Drasner | 05m |
Manages a no‑CSS component library with jQuery and a migration to React, documented with Hologram. Shows SVG techniques that embed assets as CSS sprites with… | ||
| Interview with Rachel Andrew | Rachel Andrew | 14m |
Compares legacy CSS hacks to Flexbox and CSS Grid and shows why Grid actually reduces common layout work by giving elements real relationships rather than… | ||
| Interview with Ike DeLorenzo & Matt Creager | Ike DeLorenzo, Matt Creager | 08m |
Heroku describes a prescriptive continuous delivery workflow called Heroku Flow built from three concrete features: GitHub deploys (deploy straight from… | ||
| Interview with Tracy Osborn | Tracy Osborn | 03m |
Focuses on teaching designers and nonprogrammers to build interactive web apps via a book series and hands-on tutorials that simplify programming into… | ||
| Interview with Steve Atkin & Steven Loomis | Steve Atkin, Steven Loomis | 08m |
IBM builds a Bluemix service called Globalization Pipeline that wires Watson language translation, a Cloudant store, a Swaggered REST API and a dashboard into… | ||
| Interview with Neil Manvar | Neil Manvar | 07m |
Selenium automates real browser actions for functional tests across desktop and mobile and runs suites in parallel on a grid; Selenium starts in 2004 and… | ||
| Interview with Laurie Voss | Laurie Voss | 10m |
npm evolves from a command‑line package tool into a platform as Node tooling for asset pipelines spreads into front‑end workflows, producing 250,000 modules… | ||
| Interview with Kyle Simpson | Kyle Simpson | 12m |
Frameworks often mask the bare metal of JavaScript so teams ship faster on the happy path but have no way to diagnose failures when behavior breaks; real work… | ||
| Interview with Kent C. Dodds | Kent C. Dodds | 09m |
Compares Angular and React as mutually influential communities and calls out toolchain pain points: webpack, browserify, Babel create power but too much… | ||
| Interview with Jonathan Kaufman | Jonathan Kaufman | 07m |
IBM breaks Watson into 15 discrete APIs and runs them on Bluemix over SoftLayer so developers can bind Watson as a service to apps. Recent work ingests patient… | ||
| Interview with Jonathan Stark | Jonathan Stark | 07m |
Argues that general purpose browsers give way to special-purpose web containers like Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Netflix YouTube and predicts a next wave of… | ||
| Interview with Jon Bruner | Jon Bruner | 09m |
Hardware costs fall into the single digits with $5 Raspberry Pi Zero and $9 CHIP, enabling developers to treat physical devices like software projects… | ||
| Interview with Brad Green & Chris Bannon | Brad Green, Chris Bannon | 10m |
Angular 2 positions components as the default building block so apps are written as reusable components, with Wijmo integrating by subclassing grid and chart… | ||
| Interview with Bob Spencer | Bob Spencer | 07m |
Crosswalk packages a Chromium Blink runtime so web apps bundle Chromium/Blink runtime and run with the latest features on devices back to Ice Cream Sandwich… | ||
| Interview with Asim Siddiqui | Asim Siddiqui | 06m |
StrongLoop is acquired by IBM in late 2015 and remains open source with core contributors moving into IBM and helping establish Node governance. Focus stays on… | ||
| What's inside the term 'progressive web apps' | Alex Russell | 11m |
Argues that progressive web apps are a concrete package: keep URL deployment while gaining OS presence and offline reliability by using service workers to… | ||
| Quality, Equality, and Accessibility | Laura Palmaro | 12m |
Argues that improving web accessibility raises overall quality and equality by showing concrete practices: scanning textbooks + OCR + text‑to‑speech restored… | ||
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