title	conference	date
Frontier results, on device	AI Engineer World's Fair 2026	2026-06-29
A concrete pipeline uses Phoenix (Arize) to run capability and production-trace evals comparing Claude Sonnet, Gemma 4 E2B, Qwen 2.5 and Llama 3.2 3B against a… Talk on
The Headless Web	Future Frontend 2026	2026-06-08
Claim: React components become streaming UI that run inside agents; evidence: agent traffic eclipsed human traffic months earlier than predicted. Tools… Talk on
Frontier results, on device	Observe 2026	2026-06-04
Comparative evals use Phoenix and production traces from Mima to show local models replacing frontier calls: testing Gemma, Qwen, Llama 3.2 against Claude… Talk on
Stop Paying for Frontier Models	MLcon London 2026	2026-05-12
Most of us reach for a frontier model by default and pay for it on every call, in latency, in energy, in cash, and in everything that leaves their stack. For… Talk on
Introducing WebMCP: Agents in the Browser	AI Engineer Europe 2026	2026-04-08
Claim: agents can render full interactive web apps not just chat by bundling HTML/CSS/JS as an MCP app and exposing site actions via WebMCP. Demo shows a comic… Talk on
AI Agents Will Change How We Build the Web	Pixel Pioneers 2025	2025-06-20
Claim: browsers look obsolete within a decade as personal AI agents become primary clients. Evidence: Chrome holds ~70% market share yet search usage on Safari… Talk on
The Death of the Browser	All Things Open AI 2025	2025-03-17
Claim: browsers become nostalgic within ten years as agents replace them. Concrete evidence: AgentQL demonstrates how to turn any web page into an API endpoint… Talk on
Web Animations: Tools and Techniques	SquiggleConf 2024	2024-10-03
A refactor of a Flash-era demo called Alice shows concrete use of the Web Animations API to sequence and chain animations, using a copy‑paste list of… Talk on
Return to Web Animation Wonderland	CascadiaJS 2024	2024-06-19
A rebuilt interactive Alice demo uses hand‑drawn assets (≈80 hours of work) and replaces a decade of jQuery/polyfills with modern browser features… Talk on
Managing Ourselves Managing Each Other	TechLead Conference 2024	2024-06-15
“Hell is other people.” There are many talks on how to get started as an engineer and how to step into management, but there are few talks about how to be an… Talk on
Rachel Nabors' Room	TechLead Conference 2024	2024-06-15
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Managing Ourselves Managing Each Other	C3 Dev Festival 2024	2024-06-14
“Hell is other people.” There are many talks on how to get started as an engineer and how to step into management, but there are few talks about how to be an… Talk on
Managing Ourselves Managing Each Other	React Summit 2024	2024-06-14
In this talk you will learn timeless soft skills necessary to navigate interpersonal relationships with friends, coworkers, and reports. You will learn about… Talk on
Rachel Nabors' Room	C3 Dev Festival 2024	2024-06-14
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Return to Web Animation Wonderland	Future Frontend 2024	2024-06-13
A live refactor of a decade‑old Alice demo shows concrete replacements for heavy jQuery stacks: CSS animations, the web animations API, scroll timelines and… Talk on
Panel	Future Frontend 2024	2024-06-13
Panel compares arts roots with code and gives concrete takeaways: use canvas + Web Audio API not CSS animations for audio‑driven motion, edit spring curves… Panel on
Interview	Future Frontend 2024	2024-06-13
Argues that the game changer is scroll timelines and view timelines not vague CSS niceties notes that view transitions remain Chromium‑centric while timelines… Interview on
Tech Forecast: Anticipating the Next Wave of Technological Breakthroughs	DevWorld 2024	2024-02-29
Panel asserts concrete bets: three active JS runtimes—node Deno Bun runtimes—matter differently today (Bun is fast but incomplete, Deno pushes browser-like… Talk on
How to be an adult in (professional) relationships	DevWorld 2024	2024-02-29
Concrete, actionable methods: depersonalization—ask “how might this not be about me” and own only your half; apologies as a full-sentence apology followed by a… Talk on
Gateway to React: the react.dev story	CityJS Berlin 2024	2024-01-05
A pandemic-era rebuild of react.dev replaces class-first docs with a functional, visual-first curriculum and 600 interactive examples, plus in-page challenges… Talk on
Gateway to React: the react.dev story	reactjsday 2023	2023-10-27
react.dev launches with a rebuilt site, interactive sandboxes powered by CodeSandbox and Expo, and a pedagogy of tiny challenges; the site ships 600… Talk on
Gateway to React: the react.dev story	Chain React 2023	2023-05-17
A behind-the-scenes account of building documentation that actually reduces friction: a ground-up rewrite yields react.dev and a redesigned react-native.dev… Talk on
Keynote: The Human API: Building Your Project's Second Source of Truth	OpenJS World 2022	2022-06-06
Rebuilt large projects’ documentation as a deliberate second source of truth, generating API reference from code comments and consolidating community knowledge… Talk on
Your Second Source of Truth	React Advanced 2021	2021-10-22
Argues documentation must serve as docs as second source of truth alongside code and describes a concrete reboot of React Native docs driven by user testing… Talk on
Opensource Documentation—Tales from React and React Native	React Finland 2021	2021-08-30
React Native documentation reboot (2019–2020) updates API references, adds interactive sandboxes and literal context switchers to handle learners with diverse… Talk on
Vue in Motion	VueConf US 2018	2018-03-26
Shows concrete Vue animation patterns: using transition and transition-group with named CSS hooks, the FLIP move class for smooth list reflow, and JavaScript… Talk on
The Browser is not a document reader!	JS Kongress 2017	2017-11-13
Claim: the browser stops being a document reader and becomes a platform. Evidence: two years from a memo to IE4 introduces the DOM Ajax and data binding, five… Talk on
Alice in Web Animations API Land	CSSconf Argentina 2016	2016-08-07
The Web Animations API claims to unify browser animation engines with timing and animation models so animations become seekable, reversible and inherited… Talk on
The Web in Motion	Front-Trends 2016	2016-05-18
Shows that animation reduces cognitive load by offloading state changes to perception and demonstrates concrete tools: the Web Animations API (with a Google… Talk on
Lightning Talk: Creatures of the Deep	Front-Trends 2016	2016-05-18
Five-week Mozilla project commissions new illustrations and pairs art with field biology, showing a red bioluminescent flashlight used by the scaleless black… Lightning on
Animating the User Experience	beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2015	2015-05-11
Claim: animation speeds mental processing by offloading interpretation to the visual cortex and must satisfy at least two of the six principles (causality… Talk on
Rachel Nabors (Tin Magpie) Interview - OSCON 2014	OSCON 2014	2014-07-20
Started as a self‑publishing cartoonist running newsletters on Drupal and Gray Matter and using PHP mailing lists, then shifts into front‑end work to pay for… Talk on
"Storytelling on the Shoulders of Giants"	OSCON 2014	2014-07-20
Argues the browser is an infinite canvas and demonstrates interactive comics built with SVG, jQuery, CSS animations and Web Audio, using jQuery deliberately to… Talk on
Animation Studio Power Techniques with CSS	CSSConf EU 2013	2013-09-13
Demonstrates concrete techniques and working code: CSS keyframes and a steps timing function to create a sprite-based walk cycle (12 discrete steps, 1s loop)… Talk on
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