Front-Trends 2016
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Front-Trends 2016 | 03m | |
Brief, enthusiastic roundup of Front-Trends 2016 that highlights the venue vibe and program mix rather than technical depth. Notes the futuristic Space Club… | ||
| The Web in Motion | Rachel Nabors | 46m |
Shows that animation reduces cognitive load by offloading state changes to perception and demonstrates concrete tools: the Web Animations API (with a Google… | ||
| Static Sites go all Hollywood | Phil Hawksworth | 32m |
Argues that static site generators plus hosted services actually replace heavy stacks for many sites and give faster, cheaper, more secure publishing with… | ||
| Working with the web and the future | Sally Jenkinson | 31m |
Examines concrete strategies for future-proofing web projects: a UK energy system stuck on 20 years old platforms with six months to roll out changes… | ||
| RxJS: destroy the state machine! | Stenver Jerkku | 26m |
SaleMove replaces a sprawling state machine with RxJS observables, turning UI events, AJAX and server streams into composable asynchronous collections so code… | ||
| Untangle your code with yield | Staś Małolepszy | 35m |
Generators in ES2015 are used to build custom iterables and to control async flow by passing values back into paused functions; the talk shows a working… | ||
| Once More with Feeling | Tim Kadlec | 34m |
Claim: perceived speed matters more than raw bytes. Users feel anything over 100 milliseconds and revenue moves — Amazon/Walmart report ~1% gain per 100ms… | ||
| Leadership in an Ever-Changing Industry | Meri Williams | 23m |
Argues that leadership’s job is to create space where people can be excellent, grounding advice in Gallup’s team predictors and Dan Pink’s motivation model… | ||
| First Class Styles | Mark Dalgleish | 34m |
History and tools that produce a concrete result not slogans CSS Modules plus webpack and a postcss local scope transform convert component CSS into locally… | ||
| Our Eternal Digital Afterlife | Alberta Soranzo | 30m |
Claims that everyday lives span dozens of accounts backed by hard numbers — 12.5 billion social accounts, 2.3 billion active users (about 5.4 accounts per… | ||
| Demo Reel & Tiny JavaScript | Mathieu Henri | 37m |
Covers making tiny JavaScript demos that actually run: shows a 900-byte demo, techniques to shave bytes (template tag functions, nesting commas), numeric… | ||
| Syntax Highlight Everything | Kenneth Ormandy | 28m |
Shows how OpenType features (20 years old) let designers mark content beyond color using CSS and a tiny JS/CSS library called utility-opentype available on… | ||
| Computer Assisted Arts and Crafts | Mariko Kosaka | 36m |
Builds a 64-stitch DSL to generate knitting patterns, hacks an 80s knitting machine by rewiring a USB cable, and prototypes a miniature punch-card feeder that… | ||
| Taking over the web platform with Angular 2 | Todd Motto | 47m |
Shows how Angular 2 breaks a monolithic app into component architecture with explicit stateless, stateful and routed components, demonstrates a chat example… | ||
| Exploring the Universal Library | Szymon Kaliski | 25m |
Uses Clojure and Karsten Schmidt’s geometry libraries to build 2D/3D forms that move straight to 3D printing and scanning, a 20-line GLSL analyzer that… | ||
| Pixel Bonding | Tammie Lister | 27m |
Pixel bonding argues for designing interfaces that create emotional, trustworthy connections rather than cold, robotic flows. Concrete examples: the Wapuu… | ||
| Modern Websites for the Modern Web | Patrick Kettner | 36m |
Modernizr 3 becomes a modular build system (about 262 modules) that generates custom bundles client‑side or server‑side; font loading uses the CSS Font Loading… | ||
| CSS for Software Engineers for CSS Developers | Harry Roberts | 33m |
Argues for stealing classical SE patterns for CSS and gives concrete techniques: use preprocessors and mixins to enforce a single source of truth (e.g., $unit… | ||
| Can't You Make It More Like Bootstrap? | Alice Barlett | 32m |
Origami is a five‑person front-end component system that unifies FT styles and cuts duplicated work; it serves CSS and JS via the origami build service and… | ||
| Building an Offline Page for The Guardian | Oliver Joseph Ash | 26m |
Built a production offline page for theguardian.com using a service worker, Cache API and a dated cache-versioning scheme; prototype completes in less than a… | ||
| The myth of the “Real JavaScript Developer” | Brenna O'Brien | 27m |
Argues that the “real JavaScript developer” myth is false and gives concrete alternatives: pick tools that solve a problem not trends (example timeline… | ||
| Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game | Tim Holman | 29m |
Builds an npm module called the internet that pulls in 2,000 dependencies and gets rejected by the registry, a joke elevator-scroll library that triggers… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Think Flex | Oleksii Kachura | 11m |
Claims that modern browsers all support flexbox (some with older specs) and recommends autoprefixer and Modernizr for compatibility and fallbacks. Explains… | ||
| Lightning Talk: 50 Shades of #0089FF | Gabriel Agu | 13m |
Booking.com runs continuous A/B experiments to turn design hunches into measurable outcomes, with a design team that has grown from about 12 to over 100… | ||
| Lightning Talk: – Language in язык in שפראך in 語言 | Gunnar Bittersmann | 12m |
Shows how to render nested multilingual text correctly using HTML lang attributes and CSS rather than extra span wrappers or classes. Explains using the CSS… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Front-End is an Art | Maciej Korsan | 03m |
Claims that front-end work belongs with artists and proves it by turning tooling and history into a comic song that mixes concrete details with bravado… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Redux Principles in Plain JavaScript | Ramon Victor | 09m |
A homemade Redux-like store is implemented from scratch and used to build a multiplayer tic‑tac‑toe demo that synchronizes two browsers. State is a single… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Creatures of the Deep | Rachel Nabors | 07m |
Five-week Mozilla project commissions new illustrations and pairs art with field biology, showing a red bioluminescent flashlight used by the scaleless black… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Is This Thing On? | Keith Madden | 05m |
Lightning-fast list of concrete coping tactics for tech addiction when signal drops: treat airplane mode as a forced experiment, reread old tweets and calendar… | ||
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