Accelerate Your Developer Career with the Power of Open Source

As the world continues to become more remote, the competition for career opportunities is becoming increasingly complex, even for seasoned techies. However, in my personal experience, I have discovered the secrets to strategically using Open source to place myself at an incredible advantage.

In this session, I'll give you practical steps and strategies to take your career to the next level and achieve career success in the tech industry by adopting a lifestyle of open source.

Inaccessible websites? It's not the Web. It's you.

It's 2022. Web accessibility is widely accepted and deemed necessary by the industry.

Unfortunately, it still seems difficult to implement and hard to understand for many developers. As a result, it's always an afterthought, resulting in websites that are not usable by many underrepresented users.

In this talk, we will break down the most common mistakes developers make that result in inaccessible websites while covering tiny incremental changes that will drastically improve the quality and accessibility of the websites we build.

Exploring the future of responsive web components

Twelve years ago, responsive web design arrived, defining new principles on how we build modern websites to adapt to the ever-changing needs of users.

It's time for the next iteration. How can building responsive layouts and components be faster and easier? What's next for responsive design?

This talk will explore the next iteration of responsive components: container queries. We'll explore current tricks and methods for building responsive components and how container queries improve things.
Container queries are the future of how we build responsive websites and layouts. So come along on this journey, and let's explore it together.

The layout of this talk will be as follows:

1. How is responsive design done today (with CSS and Javascript)
2. What are the problems with today's current responsive design techniques?
3. What are container queries and how do they solve the above mentioned problems?
4. Exploring examples of creating layouts and components with container queries.
5. When are container queries coming, and what's the progress for browser support?