Lightning Talks
summary
Rapid-fire specifics: a quick survey of JavaScript quirks shows seven typeof returns, NaN weirdness and coercion demos with live examples; a polemic urges teams to stop using React and mentions a small “hammer react” support group; a CSS tool called Style Crawler uses Nightmare not Phantom to crawl styles, take screenshots and extract main colors for embedding; practical advice on giving talks and on hiring juniors stresses built‑in mentorship; commit message proposal uses the Angular format to drive conventional changelog automation; demos show hacking the Chrome T‑Rex by comment out collision check and flashing a Dino to Arduino with an Electron/CloudBoy flow; Aurelia skeleton and a canvas Isaac.js clone are both built and demoed.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Princiya Marina: The Good, Bad, and Tricky Parts
- 5:45Dave Brotherstone: Stop Using React!
- 7:58Mouse Braun: Style Crawler
- 10:18Michele Guido: Why Aren't You Giving Talks Yet?
- 15:22Patty Chaupis: How to Help Juniors
- 20:00Hannes Diercks: commitMESSages
- 25:18Philip: Hacking the Google T-Rex Game
- 28:03István Szmozsánszky: How to Put the T-Rex on an Arduino
- 33:42Sebastian: Aurelia
- 39:28Nicolas Brugneaux: Isaac.js








