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Lemon 🍋

Lemon 🍋

Does things to the internet. The internet does things to him as well.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

With a lifelong passion for the weirdness of the internet and a day job as the Front End Development Director for Savas Labs, Lemon spends his professional time making websites for money and his free time making websites for no money.

He's created a number of stupid things for the internet, like all the games on kinda.fun, the wikiHow game damn.dog, the Google Autocomplete game idiots.win, and a bunch of other things of questionable use. He also hosts a podcast that looks at some of the internet's weirder subcultures. It is not safe for your work, unless you work somewhere really cool.

Awards

  • Most Active Speaker 2023

Area of Expertise

  • Media & Information
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Arts

Topics

  • Sass
  • pug
  • Vue
  • Frontend
  • comedy
  • Game Development
  • PHP
  • Kirby
  • CSS Grid
  • CSS
  • Front End Development
  • Web Development
  • progressive web apps
  • Web Performance
  • Mentoring
  • Collaboration
  • CSS Flexbox

How To Make Your Website A Progressive Web App (And Why You Might Want To)

For years, web developers and app developers have been siloed, looking at each other with jealousy. How come these people get to do push notifications? How come these people have such a simple build process? And why can’t we all just work with the same codebase?

A PWA (Progressive Web App) marries all these needs together, starting with a run-of-the-mill website and adding features as they’re appropriate. The most interesting part: You can start with a website you’ve been working on right now.

In this talk, Lemon will take you through the process of starting with a simple HTML website add add features like caching, notifications, desktop installation and offline mode to create an app that’s as interesting and dynamic as you’d want it to be.

Designers vs Developers: Who is in control here?

The designers are creative, the developers are talented, so why are you miserable all the time? The project is a mess, there’s about a hundred tickets about the whitespace between items, and everybody is mad at each other because we’re behind schedule. How did it get like this, and how can we fix it?

In this high-energy talk focused on developers, Lemon shares a framework for effective and respectful communication between development and design teams, making sure that everyone feels appreciated and confident to provide suggestions in good faith. We’ll talk about the shifting power structure between these roles thru the lifecycle of a website, from the pitch all the way up to launch, and how every member of the team can stay engaged and feel heard at every step.

And as a bonus, we’re going to talk about the things you can do (and things you definitely *shouldn’t do*) to impress a client.

This is a talk for developers who struggle to collaborate with the designers at their workplace, it’s borne from many years of designer/developer collaboration in an agency environment. It’s fun and high-energy and focused on defining helpful parameters to build a respectful and collaborative work environment.

Solving Layout Challenges With Pure Sass

Whether it’s parallax, dialogs, interactive forms, or even a robust and responsive card layout, front end developers often find themselves reaching for a framework or tooling which can create more inadvertent side effects than meaningful, beautiful designs. And yet, CSS continues to be an ever-evolving, eternally fascinating and downright amazing language for doing just that.

In this high-energy talk, Lemon’s going to take you on a whirlwind tour of twelve different design challenges and the methods for turning that into resilient, responsive, performant code using some CSS (and Sass) methodologies to assure nothing is more complicated than it needs to be. You’ll leave with some concepts, code snippets and examples you can start playing with right away.

I'm Going To Make You Stop Hating CSS.

As a formalized language, CSS is over 20 years old and has spent much of that time being maligned by the people who use it. Browser inconsistencies, changing specifications and general weirdness have combined to create this weird pseudo-language that you'd rather avoid.

UNTIL TODAY. With modern specs and tooling, CSS has never been more straightforward and less reliant on hacks. In this talk, Lemon will show you some common traps people fall in, as well as some general strategies for making a layout grid you can proud to build and confident in releasing.

This is a high energy conference talk aimed primarily at web professionals who've experienced CSS (or Sass or Less) in the past but who never really "got" it. It's about modern standards really removing a lot of the weirdness that CSS has been famous for, while presenting real-world scenarios people can walk away with.

Shrink The Web: How To Get Happier By Removing Crap

Websites have doubled in size every three years. For reasons both understandable and idiotic, web developers continue to create bigger and more complicated web projects, and now your node folder is mining bitcoin and the average web page is bigger than the 1993 video game DOOM. This is a trend we can change.

🐁 Let's shrink the web!

In this high-energy talk, we’re going to be looking at some easy wins for performance improvements like image optimization and JavaScript concatenation, that can actually make your users’ life better. In addition, we’re going to explore some very friendly process tools for doing all of that without days of editing config files.

Because a small website is an easy website, and an easy website means you can go home earlier.

This talk is about two things at once: It's about minimizing website payload with simple tweaks to process and considerations to minimization, but it's also about cutting down on your build workflow to make your own life simpler and happier.

KCDC 2024 Sessionize Event Upcoming

June 2024 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Webinale Upcoming

May 2024 Berlin, Germany

DevSum 2024 Sessionize Event Upcoming

May 2024 Stockholm, Sweden

PubConf: Mystery Tech Theater

February 2024 London, United Kingdom

NDC London 2024 Sessionize Event

January 2024 London, United Kingdom

Wey Wey Web

November 2023 Málaga, Spain

DevConf 2023 Sessionize Event

November 2023 Łódź, Poland

Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 Sessionize Event

August 2023 Copenhagen, Denmark

THAT Conference

July 2023 Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States

DevSum 2023 Sessionize Event

May 2023 Stockholm, Sweden

Techorama 2023 Belgium Sessionize Event

May 2023 Antwerpen, Belgium

PrDC Calgary

November 2022 Calgary, Canada

PubConf: Tech In Hell

Blind Deck: I'll See You In Hell

November 2022 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

NDC Oslo 2022 Sessionize Event

September 2022 Oslo, Norway

PubConf: Armageddon

Blind Deck: Burning Production

August 2022 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

KCDC 2022 Sessionize Event

August 2022 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Webinale

May 2022 Berlin, Germany

DevSum 2022 Sessionize Event

May 2022 Stockholm, Sweden

NDC London 2022

May 2022 London, United Kingdom

NDC Porto 2022 Sessionize Event

April 2022 Porto, Portugal

NDC Oslo 2021 Sessionize Event

November 2021 Oslo, Norway

Build Stuff 2021 Lithuania Sessionize Event

November 2021 Vilnius, Lithuania

KCDC 2021 Sessionize Event

September 2021 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

NDC London 2021 Sessionize Event

January 2021 London, United Kingdom

DDD 2020 Sessionize Event

December 2020

Momentum 2020 Sessionize Event

October 2020 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

DevTalks Ro

June 2020 Bucharest, Romania

webinale

May 2020 Berlin, Germany

DevSum

March 2020 Stockholm, Sweden

PubConf London

January 2020 London, United Kingdom

NDC London 2020 Sessionize Event

January 2020 London, United Kingdom

Build Stuff Kyiv

November 2019 Kyiv, Ukraine

Build Stuff LT

November 2019 Vilnius, Lithuania

PubConf Amsterdam

October 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Techorama Netherlands 2019 Sessionize Event

October 2019 Ede, The Netherlands

Code PaLOUsa 2019 Sessionize Event

August 2019 Louisville, Kentucky, United States

PubConf KC

3rd place winner

July 2019 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

KCDC 2019 Sessionize Event

July 2019 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

NDC Oslo 2019 Sessionize Event

June 2019 Oslo, Norway

PubConf Minnesota

1st place winner

May 2019 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

NDC Minnesota 2019 Sessionize Event

May 2019 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Minnebar 2019

April 2019 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

dev up Conference 2018 Sessionize Event

October 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, United States

PubConf Sydney

3rd place winner

September 2018 Sydney, Australia

NDC Sydney 2018 Sessionize Event

September 2018 Sydney, Australia

PubConf KC

1st place winner

July 2018 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

KCDC 2018 Sessionize Event

July 2018

PubConf Minnesota

1st place winner

May 2018 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

NDC {Minnesota}

May 2018 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

NDC Minnesota 2018 Sessionize Event

May 2018

Minnebar 2018

*Literally ANYTHING But Wordpress

April 2018 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

PubConf Minneapolis

April 2017 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minnebar 2016

April 2016 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Lemon 🍋

Does things to the internet. The internet does things to him as well.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States