CascadiaJS 2020

I attended my first JavaScript conference, CascadiaJS, this year. It was an amazing experience and, if given the chance, I will definitely attend the next one. For future reference, here are the speakers and the talks they gave.

Highlights

• Jim Liu, for volunteering his time to organize, and for gifting our entire engineering team with tickets so that we could attend as a group.

• How welcoming and supportive the entire CascadiaJS community is.

• The Pac-Man Rule, leave space for others to join in. ᗧ

• Despite being a virtual event, feeling completely engaged and connected the whole time. Having a live slack space and live chat tables for the duration of the conference brought us all together even though physically distant.

• Talks highlighting the importance of mental health & taking care of yourself.

• The Operating System of You. Habits > anything else; it's not about discipline, but setting up your environment to make the good thing the default.

• Talks focusing on web accessibility -- I know nothing about this space.

• JavaScript has a stack & heap memory concept too. Chrome and Firefox developer tools have heap diffing/visualization for debugging purposes.

• "Data is considered to be at risk unless [you have] a dedicated plan to not be at risk"

• Digital gardens

• A 3D game created with a CSS-only graphics engine

• melody.dev, I love the look of this personal site

• pudding.cool, a data-driven journalism site

Despite being virtual, we still managed to take a group photo.