Web Unleashed 2019
2019-09-13..2019-09-14
Toronto, Canada
[Web Unleashed 2015, Web Unleashed 2016, Web Unleashed 2017, Spotlight Vue.js FITC 2018, Web Unleashed 2018, Web Unleashed 2019]
as the organisers put it
Web Unleashed, the front-end developer event, will help developers learn the skills they need to push them ahead in their careers. Sept 13-14, 2019 // Toronto.
who it's for
front end developers, web performance engineers, serverless developers, full stack developers, data visualization engineers, engineering managers
topics
serverless functions and platforms; server-driven fidelity tiers; image loading lazy attribute; Content-Security-Policy and HSTS; Vue single-file components; DNS, TCP and packet lifecycle; Lighthouse and Stack Packs; Webpack, Gatsby and CI workflows; Azure cognitive sentiment APIs; d3-driven data visualization techniques
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ooops. I Guess We’re Full-Stack Developers Now | Chris Coyier | 41m |
Claim: front-end work now includes routing, data mutations, auth, hosting and small backend pieces so browser-focused devs become de facto full-stack. Example… | ||
| FOUC, and the Death of Progressive Enhancement | Kyle Simpson | 01h 03m |
Argues that progressive enhancement, as practiced, fails users because layering by technology creates FOUC and FOUT pain, cites webpagetest filmstrips (Chase… | ||
| Building a Serverless, Production-Ready Web App in 45 Minutes | Adam Matan | 27m |
Demo shows a concrete workflow for delivering a production-ready web app in 45 minutes using Corvid (Wix serverless platform), AWS Lambda, Glitch and Google… | ||
| Speed at Google: What's New? | Houssein Djirdeh | 22m |
Chrome adds a native loading attribute (images and iframes) since Chrome 76 and recommends feature-detection of the loading property with a data-src / class… | ||
| Let's Web Dev Like It's 1999! with Ben Ilegbodu | Ben Ilegbodu | 38m |
View-source today shows linting, transpilation, obfuscation, minification and bundling; two decades ago sites use FTP, hit counters (reaching tens of… | ||
| How a Web Request Works, Down to the Atom | Chris Zacharias | 27m |
Starts at the URL and follows DNS lookup to an IP, opens a three-way TCP handshake, sends an HTTP GET over port 80, and fragments the byte stream into… | ||
| Machine Learning for Poets: The eMiLy App | Jen Looper | 38m |
A mobile app called eMiLy scrapes about 300 Emily Dickinson poems from Poetry DB, preprocesses them, and scores each line with sentiment so a mood slider can… | ||
| An Introduction to the Vue Ecosystem | Hassan Djirdeh | 38m |
Concrete claims and working demos are the deciding details: Vue core patterns are shown with live examples of mounting, directives, props and custom events… | ||
| HTTP Headers for the Responsible Developer | Stefan Judis | 40m |
HTTP headers can force HTTPS with HSTS preload, block or report rogue scripts with Content-Security-Policy (only ~6% of 2.8M pages enable it), and save… | ||
| Data, Design, Code with Shirley Wu | Shirley Wu | 42m |
Shows how a Hamilton lyrics dataset is built by manual transcription of every line, how 4,000 travel photos yield 20,000 color swatches and how a Guardian US… | ||
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