WFH Conf 2020
who it's for
software engineers, web developers, frontend developers, engineering managers, devops engineers, developer advocates, technical writers
topics
npm dependency security; GraphQL acceleration; Chrome DevTools Protocol; QUIC for Node.js; TypeScript migration; Cypress end-to-end testing; async hooks and stack traces; conversational AI chatbots; scaling distributed teams; documentation best practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Fantastic Passwords and Where to Find Them | Phil Nash | 23m |
Passwords are demonstrably broken: a 2017–18 audit finds ~25% of employee passwords weak and 1,400 as password123; a public corpus lists ~555 million breached… | ||
| Scaling data from the lake to the mesh via OSS | Luca Maraschi | 29m |
Claim: replace slow monolithic data lakes with a distributed read model that materializes entities at the edge and serves them via an API mesh. Implementation… | ||
| Remotely Succeeding: Build Your Brand & Avoid Missteps with Smart Communication Strategies | Kristi DePaul | 32m |
Remote content marketing firm that serves future of work and learning works with tech startups and nonprofits across three continents and has a distributed… | ||
| CSS in Reason/OCaml | David Sancho | 28m |
Parses CSS strings in OCaml/Reason with a ppx preprocessor that emits React components via a bs-emotion binding, implementing the styled-components API so CSS… | ||
| Public Speaking for Geeks: Work from Home Edition! | Lorenzo Barbieri | 33m |
Gives concrete, repeatable tactics for remote tech presentations: position the webcam at eye level, rehearse two short narrative beats plus one clear takeaway… | ||
| A Desk & A Phone | Khushil Dep | 23m |
Practical rules and small rituals that actually change outcomes not slogans: carve a dedicated desk and clear detritus, set start/stop times and put an… | ||
| Contemporary Documentation | Juha-Matti Santala | 28m |
A claim that documenting intent belongs in the version control and project management workflow comes with concrete practices: commit message templates, PR… | ||
| All your packages are belong to us - Protecting your npm dependencies | Chris Laughlin | 29m |
Examples of malicious npm packages inject code at build time, steal environment variables, and seed crypto‑thefts — one popular package reaches ~1M installs… | ||
| Websites Live In Homes | Kate Bolin | 23m |
Maps hosting choices to concrete tradeoffs and examples so decision is quick and specific Explains that Wix/Squarespace/Google Sites are turnkey hotels with… | ||
| Graphql. Accelerated | Matteo Collina | 21m |
Graphs suffer CPU and architecture costs, not just convenience: profiling with clinic flame shows most time goes to parsing/validation of the large query AST… | ||
| Working From Home: Our Changing World Of 'Well'ness | Lynne Ward | 29m |
Asserts measurable habits that change outcomes: one 20–30 minute workout four to five times a week spikes dopamine and serotonin and improves focus; a… | ||
| Authentic Self-Care and Wellness: Building Stress Resilience | Jeanie Chang | 20m |
Claims that acceptance reduces anxiety and gives control, with concrete tactics: label emotions out loud, expect anxious waves and ride them rather than… | ||
| Finding a balance | Lorenzo Sciandra | 28m |
Argues that sustainable open source work needs concrete boundaries: one burnout and a near second within a year motivates weekly therapy and explicit limits… | ||
| Using doodles to bring your online communication to life | Verity Harrison | 17m |
Claim: simple doodles increase understanding and engagement by turning concepts into recognisable objects and sequences. Examples include a WhatsApp triathlon… | ||
| FFS - working from home isn't new! | Hugh Sheehy | 27m |
Claim: working from home is not new and what matters is organization not Zoom or headsets. Historical specifics: Roman rule of roughly 100 million people with… | ||
| Node.js Professional Certification - Overview and Updates | David Mark Clements, Adrián Estrada | 22m |
Two professional certs exist: OpenJS Node Application Developer and OpenJS Node Services Developer, launched 2018 and updated to track Node LTS releases (10 to… | ||
| Conversational AI: Sales and Customer Service Chatbot Use Cases for Small and Medium Sized Business | Bryan Hanley | 25m |
Argues that SMEs can deploy production chatbots now to cut costs and meet customer expectations, cites concrete numbers: 50% of consumers prefer live chat, 90%… | ||
| Fun with async hooks and stack traces | Zbyszek Tenerowicz | 35m |
Uses async_hooks to capture init stacks and then counts actual Promise allocations, measures event-loop blocking by comparing before/after timestamps, and… | ||
| What I Learned From A Dress, an On-Call Nightmare | Jay Gordon | 20m |
A viral image drives 670,000 active visitors to BuzzFeed and the monolithic LAMP front end with MongoDB pixel tracking and memcache exhausts connections so… | ||
| Nothing Generic About It | Matthew Gerstman | 31m |
Explains how generics actually behave: identity functions and constrained generics, map types that implement Partial/Pick under the hood, and conditional types… | ||
| Git'ing a Good Live Blog: Facebook's Watchman & git-auto-commit | Matthew Fowle | 34m |
Demonstrates an actual system that uses Facebook's Watchman (JSON and binary protocols) to watch a project and react over a socket, then runs a Node watchman… | ||
| There Is No Front End | George Mauer | 21m |
The core claim is that “front end” is a fuzzy label and roles should be specified by skills and frame of mind not by a token title. Examples equate web UI work… | ||
| The New Work From Home Paradigm | Imani Simmons | 21m |
Uploader description says Zoom call revolutionizes sales and transcript claims $5,000–$20,000 purchases close online. Transcript reports an agency still… | ||
| Team Building : It's Social Time! | Laurent Parenteau | 24m |
Weekly ritual: one question per week posted to the company chat (uses Twist but notes Slack or email also work), a 15–30 minute company group discussion that… | ||
| The Chrome DevTools Protocol! | Bradley Farias | 31m |
Demonstrates controlling a browser over the Chrome DevTools Protocol by connecting to a WebSocket endpoint, spawning a visible browser with puppeteer and… | ||
| How to Creatively Stay Sane and Limitless (Even in Crisis) | Monica Kang | 23m |
Claims a repeatable mindset formula and concrete habits: a creativity model K = knowledge, I = imagination, E = evaluation, explicit prompts like “I notice”… | ||
| Accelerate your business results using Remote Work | Ronen Rubinfeld, Gilad Bornstein | 23m |
Argues remote work as a strategic move that accelerates business results by widening hiring to Grade-A talent worldwide, citing companies like Gitlab Elastic… | ||
| Prolific Over Perfection | Ben Junya | 23m |
Prolific people are terrible at knowing what’s going to be a hit (and what isn’t). Why not publish every silly little idea that comes to mind? With the… | ||
| How to Build a Quokkabot | Amy Kapernick | 20m |
Builds a working quokka‑identifying chatbot that receives images via Twilio WhatsApp, sends the image URL to an Azure Function, calls Microsoft Custom Vision… | ||
| Don't Get Lost in the Trees: An Intro to Cypress | CJ Joulain | 13m |
Cypress provides a browser runner for end-to-end testing and a team builds an automated Cypress suite over a few months that reliably catches regressions… | ||
| Tiny Living WFH | Carol Chen | 13m |
Shows how a tiny rental becomes a workable WFH setup with concrete fixes: balances a monitor on the bed, buys a blue light lamp to stop daytime sleepiness… | ||
| How to ensure Testing Robustness in Continuous Testing Environments | Mesut Durukal | 25m |
Claims concrete fixes for test smells and shows they work: implement polling with 1s interval up to 7s to handle asynchronous microservices and reduce flakies… | ||
| Moving to TypeScript as much as you want | Dominik Kundel | 20m |
Shows how to migrate a JavaScript Express app file by file and keep the server running: use VS Code’s TypeScript language server, install tsc as a… | ||
| Remote Skills Education and Best Practice at RoRemote | Rowena Hennigan | 22m |
Evidence claims from 250 respondents show high-performing remote workers score as excellent communicators, conscientiousness higher than general population… | ||
| Scaling Distributed Teams | Philipp Krenn | 21m |
Elastic runs as a >2,000 person work from anywhere company and shares concrete practices that scale: xcool batch onboarding with in‑person week in Mountain… | ||
| QUIC for Node.js! | James M Snell | 19m |
Node.js gains a QUIC implementation built on a modified OpenSSL and helper libraries, producing 90k lines across three PRs including 25k lines of C++ to handle… | ||
| Gaufre: a Gopher client in your web browser | Sebastiaan Deckers | 22m |
Gaufre is a browser Gopher client implemented in Node.js as a single-file SPA (~1,000 lines) that uses an gopher-over-http proxy (available on npm) to… | ||
| Free Tools Your Nonprofit Organization Needs to Work From Home | Kristie Yung, Erin Brennan | 20m |
Lists specific, battle-tested tools and how they’re used: Slack free for nonprofits to replace email and centralize channels, Asana free for 15 users to assign… | ||
| Make Music with Node.js | Lizzie Siegle | 16m |
Uses scribbletune via npm install scribbletune to generate MIDI files that drop into GarageBand; shows concrete calls for notes, patterns, scales, chords and… | ||
| Engineering with Empathy | Jossie Haines | 19m |
Argues that empathy is a learnable engineering skill with concrete practices: use active listening (turn phone DND off or on to avoid distractions), rephrase… | ||
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