Futurice Tech Weeklies

User-defined stylesheets allow users to make customizations to websites with CSS to better accommodate their needs and preferences. For example, users can add back removed focus styles or redefine how sticky elements behave on different zoom levels to help make sites more accessible, when they are otherwise less so.In this talk, Fotis walks you through how to create and use user-styles and showcases an example of his own user-styles written for Duolingo's website.

Presenter: Fotis Papadogeorgopoulos

User-defined stylesheets allow users to make customizations to websites with CSS to better accommodate their needs and preferences. For example, users can add back removed focus styles or redefine how sticky elements behave on different zoom levels to help make sites more accessible, when they are otherwise less so.In this talk, Fotis walks you through how to create and use user-styles and showcases an example of his own user-styles written for Duolingo's website.

Presenter: Fotis Papadogeorgopoulos

Observablehq.com is where you can create, collaborate, and learn with data — all in the browser. Observable increases data exploration and visualization by opening up the toolset, the skills, and the access to empower a diverse user community.

Tom is an Observable Ambassador and will give a whirlwind tour of the platform, including what features are useful for non-dataviz applications. Observablehq is built from the ground up around reactivity and thus offers the tightest development loop in the business. Furthermore, it pushes literate programming to the next level with the addition of interactivity. All-in-all, it's a new development paradigm with potential for significant productivity boosts.

 

Presenter: Tom Larkworthy

Observablehq.com is where you can create, collaborate, and learn with data — all in the browser. Observable increases data exploration and visualization by opening up the toolset, the skills, and the access to empower a diverse user community.

Tom is an Observable Ambassador and will give a whirlwind tour of the platform, including what features are useful for non-dataviz applications. Observablehq is built from the ground up around reactivity and thus offers the tightest development loop in the business. Furthermore, it pushes literate programming to the next level with the addition of interactivity. All-in-all, it's a new development paradigm with potential for significant productivity boosts.

 

Presenter: Tom Larkworthy

Progressive Web Apps or PWAs are web applications that offer native-like functionality for mobile devices. Coined in 2015, PWAs share a few traits with modern web development like responsiveness, linkable and safe but add their own unique aspects with connectivity independence and re-engageability.

 

In this talk, Graham walks you through what PWAs are and how they are made. He also talks about the pros and cons you can weigh when you're making a decision between a native app and a PWA.

 

Presenter: Graham Daw

Progressive Web Apps or PWAs are web applications that offer native-like functionality for mobile devices. Coined in 2015, PWAs share a few traits with modern web development like responsiveness, linkable and safe but add their own unique aspects with connectivity independence and re-engageability.

 

In this talk, Graham walks you through what PWAs are and how they are made. He also talks about the pros and cons you can weigh when you're making a decision between a native app and a PWA.

 

Presenter: Graham Daw

When Juhis started blogging in 2013, he used to look up to other bloggers as authorities and definite experts on their fields. This led to a lot of "I don't know enough to write about this", "Someone has written this better already" and "I don't have anything to say" thoughts that self-censored a lot of his potential blog posts.

 

More recently, he's taken a different approach with blogs and talks: learning in public. By documenting his own learning journey and experimentations and sharing what he has learned about software development, he has ended up in a lot of great discussions with fellow developers. These discussions have further helped him become better at writing software.

 

In this talk, Juhis highlights how he approaches learning in public, shares inspirational moments of improvement with community and hopes to inspire you to start learning in public.

 

Presenter: Juha-Matti Santala (Juhis)

When Juhis started blogging in 2013, he used to look up to other bloggers as authorities and definite experts on their fields. This led to a lot of "I don't know enough to write about this", "Someone has written this better already" and "I don't have anything to say" thoughts that self-censored a lot of his potential blog posts.

 

More recently, he's taken a different approach with blogs and talks: learning in public. By documenting his own learning journey and experimentations and sharing what he has learned about software development, he has ended up in a lot of great discussions with fellow developers. These discussions have further helped him become better at writing software.

 

In this talk, Juhis highlights how he approaches learning in public, shares inspirational moments of improvement with community and hopes to inspire you to start learning in public.

 

Presenter: Juha-Matti Santala (Juhis)

In programming, everything is a trade-off. This first session of our Programming Language Theory series highlights how various languages differ from each other on multiple axes like programming paradigms, memory management etc. — and what kind of tradeoffs are made while designing programming languages.

 

Presenter: Jan van Brügge

In programming, everything is a trade-off. This first session of our Programming Language Theory series highlights how various languages differ from each other on multiple axes like programming paradigms, memory management etc. — and what kind of tradeoffs are made while designing programming languages.

 

Presenter: Jan van Brügge