Best of Web 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Cut me some slack | Morgan Kobeissi | 31m |
Argues that deliberately reserving 20% slack in each iteration — e.g. commit to the recent minimum velocity (26 story points) and leave 3–5 story points… | ||
| How to Distinguish PWA UX from Web App UX | Caroline Besnard, Héloïse Bonan | 28m |
Examines core UX principles and common mobile app UX mistakes, then explains how to adapt a website’s UX for mobile devices. Discusses distinguishing… | ||
| Tame your service worker [...] | Maxim Salnikov | 35m |
Explains concrete service worker practices: service workers act as a network-programmable proxy and cause first-load blocks if registered too early, so… | ||
| Nuxt.js | Sébastien Chopin | 29m |
Shows how to build universal (isomorphic) web applications using Vue.js with the vue-server-renderer module, covering practical techniques for server-side… | ||
| Web Payment APIs | A.Mahdy Abdelaziz | 37m |
Covers implementing Web Payment APIs for mobile and web, explaining how they simplify and secure the checkout flow to improve user retention. Describes the… | ||
| Recommender Systems | Mathilde Lemee | 34m |
An overview of recommendation systems that explains the main types (e.g., collaborative filtering, content-based, hybrid) using concrete examples and… | ||
| Let’s Do Magic with Houdini CSS | Jean-francois Garreau | 33m |
Introduces the CSS Houdini APIs, explaining how they let developers access the browser’s CSS engine so new layout and styling features can be implemented… | ||
| Virtual Reality with VueJS and A-Frame | Victor Viale | 30m |
Describes building a web VR project using A-Frame (Mozilla’s web VR framework) together with Vue 2, leveraging WebVR/WebGL and modern HTML5 APIs to render… | ||
| Understanding Google's Strategy with PWAs | Cédric Ravalec | 24m |
Explains why Google has been promoting Progressive Web Apps (PWA) for the past two years despite Android’s dominance and native Java/Kotlin apps. Compares the… | ||
| From JavaScript to Haskell | Xavier Detant | 34m |
This talk shows how to refactor imperative JavaScript code into functional style using Haskell ideas, with live-coding examples. It introduces concrete… | ||
| From Web Developer to Brain Artist | David Nowinsky | 30m |
The talk covers using consumer EEG headbands (brainwave sensors) combined with Web Bluetooth APIs to capture and process electrical signals from the brain. It… | ||
| Rewriting redux and redux-saga | Aurore Malherbes | 27m |
Shows how to reimplement Redux and redux-saga to reveal their inner mechanics: how Redux’s dispatch, subscribe and getState work and how the redux-saga… | ||
| Bending time with Schedulers and RxJS 5 | Gerard Sans | 38m |
Shows why microtasks beat macrotasks with a concrete console example that prints 1 4 3 2, explains promises vs setTimeout, and uses RxJS to swap execution… | ||
| Innovating is not about technology, but psychology | Alyssa Nicoll | 31m |
Explains that innovation depends on psychology not just tools, showing concrete patterns: fear holds people back (examples from awkward multilingual meetups to… | ||
| Turn Your Pet into a Tamagotchi | Michel Parreno | 19m |
A developer built a Tamagotchi-like system for their pet rabbit using a Raspberry Pi and a React Native app. The talk describes the side‑project workflow… | ||
| npm Scripts and Security | Thomas Crevoisier | 35m |
Explains how npm package management runs lifecycle scripts during actions like npm install and examines what those scripts can do. Covers the npm API surface… | ||
| HTTP/2 in Practice | Alexis Hassler | 31m |
Demonstrates a split-image demo that loads much faster with HTTP/2 and briefly explains why. Shows how HTTP/2 is implemented today either directly or via… | ||
| NodeJs Event Loop | Vincent Vallet | 31m |
Explains how Node.js's event loop and the libuv library work, revisiting concepts from Bert Belder's keynote. Covers the core building blocks of Node.js… | ||
| Mutation Testing, Finally a Good Measure of Test Quality? | Loic Knuchel | 30m |
Mutation testing is presented as a practical way to measure test quality by introducing small code changes (mutants) to reveal weaknesses in existing tests… | ||
| Alexa, show me a good voice UI | Dustin A. Coates | 19m |
1 in 6 American homes have a voice device, so design decisions matter: favor narrow domains and repetitive, action-oriented flows (ordering pizza, checking… | ||
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