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AI UnconferenceReact Summit US 20252025-11-18
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Generative UI Beyond Calling Premade ComponentsReact Summit US 20252025-11-18
GPT5 is a better frontend coder than me, and Cerebras Code is a 10x faster coder than me. But "generative UI" is mostly still stuck in a paradigm of function…
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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 - Day 1 Keynotes & MCP track ft. Anthropic MCP teamAI Engineer World's Fair 20252025-06-03
Explains why MCP exists: a protocol for model agency that Anthropic open‑sources (November launch) so LLMs can call real tools. Covers concrete work shipped at…
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Software 3.0 and the AI Engineering LandscapeCascadiaJS 20242024-06-19
Argues that foundation models and hosted model APIs shift ML from bespoke training to product-first workflows so companies build MVPs, collect task data, then…
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AI Training Orchestration Evolution with Serverless Building BlocksSystems @Scale 20242024-06-12
Meta describes replacing a monolithic workflow engine with composable serverless pieces that cut ML training friction: a decoupled Action Service launches CPU…
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Software 3.0 and The Emerging AI Developer LandscapeInfobip Shift 20232023-09-18
Argues that an emergent "AI engineer" role is already forming, focused on composing foundation models, not training them, because GPUs and expertise are scarce…
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What Singapore JS devs should know about AICityJS Singapore 20232023-07-26
Argues that AI is shifting right so JavaScript developers can become AI engineers without PhDs by wiring foundation-model APIs into products, not training from…
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Paradigm LostCascadiaJS 20222022-08-30
Argument: the old front/back CRUD model is breaking and four concrete shifts matter: local‑first (edge functions plus embedded DBs like SQLite or DuctDB to…
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The Radiating Circles of DevXDevX Conf 20222022-05-02
Presents a concrete mental model: a core product as the drill head and concentric circles of integrations, docs, content, community that must be coherent…
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Temporal: React for the BackendReact Miami 20222022-04-18
Claim: Temporal provides durable workflows that let backend logic sleep, retry, signal and resume reliably across crashes. Implementation details: open‑source…
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Temporal: React for the BackendReact Day New York 20212021-10-05
Temporal uses a central orchestrator (Temporal server + devtools + SDK) and event sourcing to make long-running, multi-service processes reliable; the…
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The Third Age of JavaScriptInfobip Shift 20212021-09-07
Argument that the web is entering a new decade: IE11’s market share falls from 3.6% to 1.6% and corporate support is dropping, enabling a shift to ES Modules…
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The Third Age of JavaScriptJSNation Live 20212021-06-09
This talk presents the Third Age of JavaScript, covering the evolution and future of the language. It explores the adoption of ES modules and the decline of…
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Panel Discussion: Next Gen Build ToolsJSNation Live 20212021-06-09
Excited to be at JS Nation with a panel of experts discussing next-gen build tools like Astro and Rome, browser-native technologies, and simplified tooling…
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Lessons To Outlive ReactReact Summit Remote Edition 20212021-04-14
React ages like jQuery might have, so the video extracts seven concrete lessons: the reconciler and scheduler pattern and the fact React split out the…
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Third Age of JavascriptJSWorld Conference 20212021-02-22
Claim: the Third Age centers on ES Modules and polyglot tooling not the topic of modules alone. Evidence: esmodule usage triples to ~3.5% in 2020, node 10…
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The Operating System of YouCascadiaJS 20202020-09-01
Frames developer performance as an operating system and gives concrete fixes: prioritize sleep, ergonomics, exercise (use ergonomic keyboards, wrist braces, or…
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Growing a Meta-LanguageReact Rally 20202020-08-14
Argues React is a language whose success depends on its meta‑language split into dialects, distros, devtools and shows concrete work: an MVP single‑file…
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The Operating System of YouJSConf Belgium 20202020-07-09
Argues that daily habits — the “firmware” — explain big performance gaps and gives concrete fixes: prioritize sleep and ergonomics (RSI can pause careers for…
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Day Two (stream crashed)Byteconf React 20202020-05-01
A small CLI framework is explained with templates commands modules core showing how templates bootstrap projects, modules install into a project folder without…
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The Rise of JAMStackØredev 20192019-11-06
Argues that the web shifts from server-rendered LAMP/MEAN assumptions to a CDN‑served architecture where JavaScript, APIs and markup are prebuilt: JAMstack…
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Panel: WebØredev 20192019-11-06
Panelists debate concrete tradeoffs: micro frontends lacks a shared definition so applicability varies; run sites through webpagetest and Lighthouse to see…
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A Skeptic’s Intro To The JamstackAll Things Open 20192019-10-13
Argues that shipping prebuilt HTML/JS from a CDN plus selective serverless APIs (e.g. AWS Lambda serverless functions) reduces running‑server complexity and…
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Getting Closure on HooksJSConf.Asia 20192019-06-14
Builds a working React Hooks clone in 29 lines of readable JavaScript, using plain closures, a module-wrapped hook store, and an index-based hook array to…
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I Can Babel Macros (and So Can You!) - Shawn "swyx" WangJSConf Hawai 20192019-02-07
Babel isn't just for transpiling anymore! Shawn "swyx" Wang uses Moana to explain how Babel macros can help you with code generation and analysis.
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JSParty Live on the Future of JavaScriptJSConf Hawai 20192019-02-07
Panelists debate concrete changes: TC39 pipeline and pattern proposals, a binary AST proof of concept shipping only in SpiderMonkey so far, and a claimed…
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Immutability is Changing: From Immutable.js to ImmerForwardJS 20192019-01-24
Compares Immutable.js (2015) and Immer (2018) and shows how Immer uses ES6 Proxies to give immutable semantics by mutating drafts and returning…
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Lightning talks from Erin Fox, Shawn Swyx Wang, Christina Keelan Cottrell and Autumn GraceReact Boston 20182018-09-29
Featuring:Erin Fox,Shawn Swyx Wang,Christina Keelan Cottrell,Autumn Crossan
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Why React is not ReactiveReact Rally 20182018-08-16
Functional-reactive libraries like RxJS make it easy to understand how data changes, giving us tools to declaratively handle events and manage state. But while…
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