title	conference	date
X-rAI Specs, Submarines & Juice	All Things Open 2025	2025-10-12
Anecdotes ground the claims: a World War II submarine U1206 sinks after a toilet flushing error leaving three dead and 46 captured because a valve mistake… Talk on
Five things in tech that matter and we have to make work	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025	2025-07-09
Overview of five practical risks and fixes: the old Yahoo Pipes and YQL era shows how fragile mashups become when APIs get closed (Microsoft shutters Bing… Talk on
"Let's make a simpler, more accessible web"	TYPO3 Developer Days 2024	2024-08-01
Let's make a simpler, more accessible web Web Development should be easy and available to all. In the last few years, however, we made it a complex mess of… Talk on
35 Years of WWW: Working as a Content Creator, Designer and Developer With the Coolest Medium Ever	C3 Dev Festival 2024	2024-06-14
Back in the late 90s, I worked as a radio newscaster and used computers as a hobby. First writing pretty pointless programs, then playing games, being bad at… Talk on
Christian Heilmann's Room	C3 Dev Festival 2024	2024-06-14
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Where Is Everything Going (Code Prospective)	C3 Dev Festival 2024	2024-06-14
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#BuildPropulsionLab at #DevoxxUK: @jbaruch with @codepo8	Devoxx UK 2024	2024-05-08
Claims that generative AI is already degrading web search by surfacing hallucinated or SEO‑generated content and that current UIs give users a single unlinted… Interview on
Centering DIVs in new and exciting wrong ways with AI?	CityJS Berlin 2024	2024-01-05
Argues that AI automates boring front‑end work but does not replace experts who understand accessibility, performance, security and cross‑device failures… Talk on
MisplAIced: Good UI Needs Good UX	HalfStack Vienna 2023	2023-09-15
AI chat interfaces often interrupt workflows, produce fluent nonsense, and fail accessibility tests with screen readers, while search engines have sacrificed… Talk on
Web Development in the Times of AI	Pixel Pioneers 2023	2023-06-16
Claims that generative AI is growing fast with about 50 new products a day and startups popping up about 200 a day, demonstrates both hype and real tooling… Talk on
Centering DIVs in new and exciting wrong ways with AI?	CityJS Athens 2023	2023-05-30
AI tools like GitHub Copilot, co-pilot X and Power Pages generate real code and automate boring tasks but also make specific, repeatable mistakes: an LLM turns… Talk on
Developer Tools That Shouldn't Be Secrets	GOTO Copenhagen 2022	2022-10-03
Browser devtools contain about 37 panels and a powerful command menu (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P) that opens features by name. Practical tricks shown include console… Talk on
JavaScript/Web tooling now and tomorrow	JSWorld Conference 2021	2021-02-22
Demonstrates concrete tooling and results: webhint runs as an npm/CI checker and surfaces 244 issues in the browser Issues panel, with fixes and links; linting… Talk on
Back to Basics Let's Code some web stuff	HalfStack Online 2020	2020-10-02
Shows a concrete workflow: inspects a legacy site, writes a small script that uses fetch HEAD to detect png vs gif, parses mangled comments with DOMParser, and… Talk on
All tooled up and nowhere to go?	HalfStack Online May 2020	2020-05-22
A rapid tour of Chromium developer tools that points to concrete, usable features: use pretty print and workspaces to edit live files, replace console.log with… Talk on
Into the web multiverse	ConFrontJS 2019	2019-12-07
Makes a concrete case: fortify where users actually fail not where returned planes show holes, measure surprising failures like offline boarding passes, and… Talk on
Develop, Debug, Learn?	dotJS 2019	2019-12-05
Argues that web development loses users and maintainers by hiding platform details and piling abstractions and shows concrete fixes: use lightweight online… Talk on
!important	JS Fest 2019 Spring	2019-04-04
Argues that code quality loses to time and budgets and shows concrete tools and findings: Accessibility Insights extension highlights tab order and missing alt… Talk on
Hinting at a better web	JavaScript fwdays'19	2019-03-16
Claims that most sites load 5.8 MB average page and that automated scans find accessibility failures on roughly 85% of homepages back the urgency… Talk on
Self replicating genies - How to democratize and ensure ethics in AI	WeAreDevelopers AI Congress Vienna 2018	2018-12-04
Argument: current ML spawns algorithms that act like "self‑replicating genies" and require ethics, ownership and transparency. Demonstrations include Microsoft… Talk on
Bringing best practices front and centre	Half Stack 2018	2018-11-16
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Opening keynote / Keynote d'ouverture	DevFest Nantes 2018	2018-10-18
Claims that the average website is 2.2 MB, costs users on slow mobile links and carries avoidable tracking and third‑party bloat. Shows a concrete tool… Talk on
Watch This Space	Web Unleashed 2018	2018-10-01
Argues the web degrades because teams trade quality for hype and convenience and offers a concrete toolchain fix: webhint.io — a CLI/NPM module plus editor… Talk on
Five ways to be a happier JavaScript developer	NDC Oslo 2018	2018-06-11
JavaScript now means language plus runtime plus ecosystem and the path to being happier is specific: focus on five core habits — treat JS as a platform… Talk on
Taking the Vile out of the Priviledge	Smashing Conference London 2018	2018-02-07
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Sacrificing the golden calf of “coding”	Beyond Tellerrand Munich 2018	2018-01-15
Argues that most routine coding will be done by machines within five years, cites Alibaba and Microsoft AIs beating humans on the Stanford… Talk on
Sacrificing the golden calf of 'coding'	Half Stack 2017	2017-11-17
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Progressive Web Apps	Oredev 2017	2017-11-08
Claims that Progressive Web Apps shrink install friction and bandwidth: a service worker acts as a scriptable proxy to cache and refresh assets, a JSON… Talk on
Keynote: Progressive Web Apps	Mobile Era 2017	2017-10-05
Progressive Web Apps claim to combine web distribution with native features by using an HTTPS-hosted JSON manifest and a controllable service worker to enable… Talk on
Keynote, Progressive Web Apps	JSPoland Conf 2017	2017-06-19
Progressive Web Apps claim that the web can behave like native apps by using service worker scripts to control caching, background updates and push… Talk on
JavaScript Is a Buffet, Not the Enemy	AmsterdamJS Conference 2017	2017-06-08
When you look at the JavaScript world these days you can get disheartened.On the one side there is an overwhelming offer of things you should know.but are… Talk on
Our role in the fourth industrial revolution	Øredev 2016	2016-11-07
Machines are already automating routine work: a BBC/Oxford tool shows legal secretaries 98% replaceable while people-managing roles stay low risk, and voice… Talk on
Progressive Web Apps - the Return of the Web?	GOTO Copenhagen 2016	2016-10-03
Progressive Web Apps add a service worker (a scriptable HTTP router) plus a web manifest and caching to make sites installable, work offline, and send… Talk on
Fixing the Image Problems of the Web using Machine Learning	GOTO Copenhagen 2016	2016-10-03
Web images bloat pages—average first-view payload is 2.2 MB with 1.4 MB of images—because people upload huge wrong-format files and sites serve full-size… Talk on
Automating the Wrong Things…	You Gotta Love Frontend 2016	2016-06-27
Claim: teams automate the wrong parts and then watch maintainers undo savings. Concrete examples: run webpage test.org to get video timings and a checklist… Talk on
Making ES6 happen with ChakraCore and Node	NodeConf London 2016	2016-05-11
Claim that ChakraCore powers Node and breaks the V8 monoculture with a new, lightweight engine that already beats original Node performance in benchmarks and… Talk on
The image problem of the web and how to solve it with AI	Jfokus 2016	2016-02-08
The web’s biggest bloat is images: the average page is ~2.2 MB and many sites ship megabyte hero images that should be constrained. Practical fixes include… Talk on
From JavaScript to ES6 - how ChakraCore changes the game	Jfokus 2016	2016-02-08
Claims that ChakraCore is now a standalone, open‑source JS runtime with a three‑tier JIT, lower memory use and faster Node.js runs than V8 in their benchmarks… Talk on
Overboard.js	JSConf.Asia 2015	2015-11-19
Argues that JavaScript is overused and costly for real users, citing concrete measurements: median page 2 MB, 170 resources, median time to interactive ~5.5s… Talk on
Responsive, Adaptive and Responsible	NEJS Conf 2015	2015-08-07
Argues that core web principles are eroding and gives concrete audits and fixes: found 4200 interoperability bugs during a modern-browser rewrite, measured the… Talk on
Components and Modules	Edge Conference 2015	2015-06-27
Panelists compare concrete tradeoffs: HTML Imports block by default but allow URL-traceable composition; ES6 modules give single-binding encapsulation and… Talk on
Advancing the web without breaking it?	beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015	2015-05-11
Argues the web is overcomplicated but repairable, claiming ES6 via transpile already runs today, that manifold.js packaging turns HTML/JS into native binaries… Talk on
No more excuses left - let's build great things	Codemotion Rome 2015	2015-03-25
Argues that excuses are gone: browsers and standards now let developers build fast, compatible sites if they stop bloating pages and copying hacks. Points to… Talk on
Intervista a Christian Heilmann	Codemotion Rome 2015	2015-03-25
Interview covers practical approach to keep the open web while using new browser APIs, outlines a workflow called planning and at work, and walks through two… Talk on
Mood Film	CSSconf EU 2014	2014-09-12
A short documentary piece that claims to capture the conference atmosphere by stitching together crowd shots, food and party scenes, and candid attendee… Talk on
The web in a mobile world dominated by native platforms.	ColdFront 2014	2014-09-04
Claim: the web can match native where it matters if browsers ship service worker support and developers adopt an offline-first approach. Evidence: comScore… Talk on
Setting Disruptors to Stun!	HTML5DevConf 2013	2013-04-01
Key claim: shipping HTML5 as an OS and platform unlocks new users and real apps for low-cost markets. Firefox OS ships an app store that indexes mobile… Talk on
Panel 6: Privileged access	Edge Conference 2013	2013-02-09
PhoneGap shows packaged web apps can ship to stores, run from file://, and call device APIs (camera, GPS, contacts) but battery polling in one PhoneGap… Panel on
Community JS reloaded - how to rock as a movement	JSConf EU 2011	2011-10-01
Community work actually moves search and docs: badges link blogs to MDN badges and calling out bad sites forces fixes; a canvas demo gets rotated with CSS and… Talk on
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