I still canât get over that this actually happened. JSConf EU has a very special place in my heart as it was the ultimate conference for me when I first got into tech. Even though Iâm more on the design side than the coding side, I still watch their videos and follow the twitter devotedly as they have not only the best roster of speakers ever, they are serious about creating a tech ecosystem thatâŠ
JSConf Budapest is a 2-day, non-profit, for-the-community by-the-community conference about JavaScript in Budapest, Hungary. JSConf Budapest 2019 will take place between September 26-27, 2019.
The Arch: Utilizing Rust & WebAssembly to Animate 30k Coloured LED Lights
The Arch: Utilizing Rust & WebAssembly to Animate 30k Coloured LEDÂ Lights
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In June, Mozilla collaborated with an artist named Ian Brill to create an set up known as the Arch at JSConf EU in Berlin. This interactive surroundings allowed individuals to expertise the intersection of artwork and expertise in a bodily, pulsating, immersive way.
Visitors might view the larger-than-life Arch and expertise an ever-changing gentle show of 30,000 colouredâŠ
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In my last blog post, I talked about what I was trying to teach at the Uruguayan JSConf - diving in to the statistical side of things. However, mine wasnât the only talk (what a boring conference that wouldâve been!). There were a wide range of talks on the schedule over the couple of days.
I have to say, I was really excited by the whole schedule. Every speaker was amazing, and the variety was really exciting. There were some deep dives into technology, but others that touched on a non-technical subject and began to tease you into how this affects your thinking about JavaScript.Â
There were more talks that I could mention - my mind was overloaded by the end of day one - but Iâve tried to list some of the talks that captured my imagination (and thought would be interested to share) below.
Electron.js (@reverentgeek)
Electron is a framework that creates desktop applications by running an embedded browser. David Neal rightly pointed out the advantages - you get to write your familiar HTML/CSS/JS - and the disadvantages - being forced to write in your familiar HTML/CSS/JS. Electron looks very powerful and very cool, especially because it means that it means that your desktop applications can be written cross-platform. Such successful tools at githubâs text editor Atom have already been written on this and it looks like a cool tool that anyone likely to write desktop apps should add to their arsenal.
Graphical CLIs (@patrickkettner)
Patrick is a Product Manager at Microsoft Edge, but was talking about his experience migrating pet project Modernizr from a web app to a command line app. Not just any command line app, though, one that masquerades as a desktop app, and one that was written in node. Honestly? Iâm very unlikely to ever use this but itâs amazing to see just how prevalent node can be these days.
Cellular Automata (@_Irina)
Irina had an infectious enthusiasm for analysing the complexity that can quickly arrive from very simple rules. The most famous cellular automaton is Conwayâs Game of Life: you put live and dead cells (or koala and turtles) and based on how they appear near each other, they evolve into future generations. Visualising these patterns in JavaScript looks amazing, and made me want think about where else something like this could be relevant.
Debugging with Chrome Debug Tools (@MattZeunert)
Matt gave one of the most practical talks of the weekend. I donât think itâs unfair to say there was a little skepticism going into this talk in the form of âOh, weâre JS developers, we know how to debug.â However, Matt dived down a massive rabbithole to show off a really rich well of tools that many of us didnât know where there. Did you know you could blacklist files from third party libraries? Disable âdebuggerâ commands from the console? Replay history once youâve identified the method that throws the exception? I definitely did not and have a much more cool arsenal of JS debugging techniques now. His demos and tips are on his website here.
Thor Spieker, fellow Betable engineer, on his experience at JSConf 2015:
First off, let me start by saying that this was my first conference ever, and also that I am not actually a front-end JavaScript developer. Day to day, I spend my time building back-end micro-services in GO for Betable, an online gambling platform. I only dabble in JavaScript when I need to work on our externally facing API, which is written in Node.js. Needless to say, I was a little intimidated going to an all-JavaScript conference where every single person there was probably a much better JavaScript developer than I currently am.
