Speakers

In this talk, Zak will discuss his journey to learning Finnish fast and how he built technology to facilitate this. You will learn how language learning and technology came together as targeted design principles coupled with insights from neuroscience were applied to create series of tools to solve the mystery of Finnish language. In other words, expect to learn how technology can help you and your users to tackle impossible sounding tasks like learning Finnish.

Explore the power of TypeScript Compiler API paired with OpenAPI specs to streamline I/O code generation. Learn how to effortlessly synchronize frontend and backend with correct types and endpoints, eliminating manual updates and enhancing code reliability. Ideal for developers seeking efficient and synced workflows.

Discover how Qwik's innovative compiler transforms development by enabling automatic optimization and JavaScript streaming. In this session, I'll share my journey with Qwik, explaining how it effortlessly solves performance challenges through its Rust and SWC-based compiler. By breaking down code into lazy loadable (and lazy excuted) asynchronous packets, Qwik allows JavaScript streaming. Through demos and real-world examples, you'll see why Qwik should be an essential part of your development toolkit, aligning with the trend of enhancing performance and developer experience in modern frameworks.

Language models feel like squishy, alien minds we've organically grown inside a GPU cluster. They are unlike any of our existing computational tools. They're predictably unpredictable and break many of our pre-conceived notions of how computers work. How are we supposed to design with these messy, unwieldy, Shoggoth-like creatures?

In her talk, Maggie will cover how to balance squish and structure, why compositionally matters, and explore the potential of treating models as small, single-purpose reasoning engines.

Matt explores human-AI interaction via projects and prototypes, and makes the argument for playful sketching as a path to meaningful product invention.

See the links below for further information:

• Lares smart home assistant: A toy AI agent demonstrating emergent behavior
• Exploring AI interaction design and multiplayer with tldraw

In this joint talk, we’ll explore using edge computing to build cross-platform apps with dynamic user interfaces. We’ll take a look at concepts like server-driven UI, the importance of respecting platform specific UI conventions, the edge, DurableObjects, and using WebSockets for collaboration.

We will define a high level structure for our server driven UI, and create a light implementation layer on web and mobile to render based off the configuration data stored on the edge.

We’ll look at two use-cases for shared experiences living on the edge. The first ensures continuity across a user’s experience of your app on both web and mobile, sharing their states. The second dives into collaborative apps, like shared meeting rooms with dynamic interfaces.

In this joint talk, we’ll explore using edge computing to build cross-platform apps with dynamic user interfaces. We’ll take a look at concepts like server-driven UI, the importance of respecting platform specific UI conventions, the edge, DurableObjects, and using WebSockets for collaboration.

We will define a high level structure for our server driven UI, and create a light implementation layer on web and mobile to render based off the configuration data stored on the edge.

We’ll look at two use-cases for shared experiences living on the edge. The first ensures continuity across a user’s experience of your app on both web and mobile, sharing their states. The second dives into collaborative apps, like shared meeting rooms with dynamic interfaces.

Who decided that the best tool to build visual web applications was a text editor? Andreas explores a future where web development is on top of the web platform itself.

Designers have embraced development terminology such as ‘component,’ ‘responsiveness,’ and ‘version control,’ reshaping their workflow for success. This adoption likely began as companies increasingly encouraged collaboration between designers and developers. A collaboration that not only is beneficial to the overall digital product landscape, but also instrumental in facilitating rapid product launches and exceptional user experiences.

Along with redefining key aspects of the UX process, this dynamic partnership has also catalysed the growth of design systems and created tools that now form the backbone of every designer’s toolkit.

This talk aims to bring an insightful exploration into the various processes designers undertake to deliver user-friendly solutions and how collaboration with developers has fundamentally transformed their holistic approach to digital product creation.

In this talk, Luca describes JSR and how it can be used as a replacement for the popular npm package registry while improving package authoring and consuming experience.

In this talk, Jo will show us how to build an in-browser editor using the Deno stack.

In this talk the status of green coding is defined from the academic literature perspective as well as from the practical perspective of experiences from different universities.

What’s the environmental impact of your website? It’s a simple question, but no one seems to have a clear answer. So let’s explore the latest algorithms and heuristics to measure your carbon footprint. Then, we’ll apply JS libraries to real-world applications and test that footprint ourselves. I won’t promise a silver bullet, but you WILL walk away with tools to measure and reduce your impact for a better web. You can find the calculations related to the presentation online.

You might have heard of TC39 but do you know what it is and how it works? After this brief introduction you will understand its position in JavaScript ecosystem and how you can contribute to improve standards.

ECMA-402 brings Unicode and internationalization features to the Web platform. These features are typically data-heavy and difficult to implement correctly in userland. As the i18n space continues to evolve, new features are made available to Web developers, but it can take time before these features are widely enough available across the Web platform.

This talk will cover the i18n Stack on the Web Platform, how ICU and ICU4X fit in, and show how WebAssembly can be used to ship features before they are available in Web engines.

Modern web frameworks work with one-way data flow. What is displayed on the screen is a function of the application state, and updates to that state only update the particular part of the DOM to which it relates. Through their own paths, many other web frameworks have arrived at solutions which are analogous to each other, often called “Signals.” Now, a group of signal library authors and maintainers of front-end frameworks are working together in TC39 to standardize some of the core data structures and algorithms that will be required for JS implementations of Signals, and we could use your help pushing JavaScript forward.

Ages ago, when CSS animations were young and the Web Animations API had yet to ship in all browsers, before the time of JavaScript frameworks when JQuery could still be found on job postings, Rachel Nabors made a series of interactive, hand drawn Alice in Wonderland storybooks using polyfills and some clever hacks. Today, jump down the rabbit hole again with brand new CSS and Web APIs that bring your wildest dreams to life. Join Alice, Rachel, and the Hipster White Rabbit as they refactor Alice in Web Animation Land.

You might be familiar with tldraw but did you know an AI tool known as Make Real came out of it by accident. This talk is a rollercoaster ride of an accidental success with lessons on building your own product and betting on the web. Tune in for the ride as we try to understand what just happened and how AI is shaping product development.