HalfStack Phoenix 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| AI Your Data | William Blankenship | 33m |
Claim: AI needs root access to personal streams to be useful, so the future is local agents running on devices rather than vendors aggregating data. Implements… | ||
| Resilience | Niels Leenheer | 28m |
HTML tolerates broken pages: browsers use a tokenizer with 68 tokenizer states and a tree builder that auto‑inserts missing html/head/body nodes, fixes bad… | ||
| The Undeniable Virtue of Doing Less | Bekah, Adam | 29m |
Argues that intentionally building less produces clearer, faster value: examples include shrinking scope from large backlogs to 2–3 prioritized tasks… | ||
| Baseline- New web features you can use today | MarikoKosaka | 27m |
Baseline defines a versioned set of interoperable web features and marks them newly available when the last core browser ships and widely available after 30… | ||
| Begin | Olu Ayandosu | 15m |
Mentors a recurring problem: ideas stall before beginning, so a team at CB builds an English-to-SQL prototype in two hours using GenAI to translate plain… | ||
| Performing Laparoscopic Lockfile Surgery | Luke Karrys | 29m |
A toolchain is built to stop blind lock-file edits: a command-line dependency selector language plus a browser GUI that scans node_modules and lock files… | ||
| How to Train Your Dragon | Malak Janus | 29m |
Engineering teams create juniors fast but fail to grow them; claim backed by 16 recorded interviews across bootcamps, universities, recruiters and HR… | ||
| Cultural Heritage and AI | Jen Looper | 26m |
Builds a small pipeline that actually works: gathers images into AWS S3, trains a classifier with Amazon Rekognition on about 130 images and correctly… | ||
| JS Games on Retro Handheld Devices | Luis Montes | 21m |
Shows how to run JavaScript games on small ARM handhelds by building a minimal browser layer: a Node process with node+libSDL+Skia bindings for windowing and… | ||
| Map Along a Beat Path | Rene Rubalcava | 19m |
Uploads GPX runs are parsed to GeoJSON with Python and served by Flask, then visual stats (min/avg/max heart rate and cadence) drive audio via the Web Audio… | ||
| When JavaScript Engineers do DIY Projects | Dylan Schiemann | 12m |
A 28 square meter front-room indoor soccer arena gets built using foam blocks, a 150lb roll of turf, plywood, vinyl and a staple gun, costing about $30 per… | ||
| nothing matches | ||