Reject.JS 2015
who it's for
front-end developers, creative technologists, interactive artists and performers, accessibility engineers, web developers, ux designers, developer educators
topics
ES6/2015 language fundamentals; visualising neural simulations in browser; hardware prototyping with JavaScript; accessibility techniques using JavaScript; mobile-first front-end patterns from Japan; live musical performance with mobile tech; JavaScript-based cognitive modeling; developer health and wellbeing; empathy in product design; computing history through punch cards and textiles
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Get your hands dirty - play with hardware! | Ronald Jaramillo | 24m |
Demonstrates that browser folks can control real machines: uses Johnny-Five over serial to talk to an Arduino, mentions the upcoming Tessel 2 with Node.js… | ||
| Geek Health | Chris Ward | 27m |
Claims concrete fixes: brain uses 20% of energy during heavy thinking, so mental work drains; sitting too long harms circulation and posture so alternate desks… | ||
| Ukulele Hero | Lisa Passing | 31m |
A browser game uses a real ukulele as controller and stitches together Web Audio API + getUserMedia to detect notes; it pre-analyzes songs with… | ||
| Better Accessibility with JavaScript | Melanie Thewlis | 32m |
Practical fixes and tiny libraries arrive ready to drop into projects: add WAI landmark roles and a skip link, normalize tab order, and hide screen-only… | ||
| Science in the Browser – Orchestrating and Visualising Neural Simulations | Robert Kerr | 28m |
Claims a complete pipeline that lets the browser configure and visualise 3D neuron models with threejs and then orchestrate cloud-run C++ simulations inside… | ||
| Perfectly Portable – Japanese Mobile Culture Influencing the Front-End | Jennifer Geacone-Cruz | 34m |
Japan reaches a 95% mobile subscription rate with roughly 107.5 million mobile internet users, driven by carrier-controlled services like imode (introduced by… | ||
| What if your brain were ~*literally*~ JavaScript | Jenna Zeigen | 27m |
Compares three concrete claims: the parser maps to human language so ambiguity is dangerous in code and explains hoisting and this defaulting to global; the… | ||
| Why Empathy Matters | Myles Borins | 28m |
Claim: empathy is partly softwired by mirror neurons firing when a monkey watches a scientist eat a peanut, and the word itself is only about 100 years old… | ||
| Using mobile technology in live musical perfomance | Jocelyn Ho, Drew Petersen | 33m |
A working prototype maps Kinect-detected gestures to sounds on audience phones using JavaScript and Web Audio, with a distributed pub/sub model where a central… | ||
| If you wish to learn ES6/2015 from scratch, you must first invent the universe | Ashley Williams | 29m |
Claim: ES6/2015 abstractions hide core mechanics and make beginners flail; evidence: a six‑month bootcamp turns novices into employed developers, iteration… | ||
| Once upon a punch card - how textiles can explain why we have the web | Mariko Kosaka | 30m |
Converts digital images into knit patterns for an electric knitting machine, builds a physical punch-card reader out of wood and contacts, and implements an… | ||
| Impressions from | 02m | |
Five years of Reject.JS grow from a tiny overflow to JSConf EU into a sizable community-run conference, claim organizers, and this edition marks a five-year… | ||
| nothing matches | ||