Talks

Computer, build me an app (v2026)

In 2018 Rich Harris did a talk called "Computer, build me an app" introducing the foundation of what would become Svelte 3. A lot have changed since then but the most substantial change is probably in our perception of the title: back then the computer that was building an app w

Svelte, Svelte Everywhere!

Recently I've been working hard to bring the custom renderer API to svelte! This will unlock the ability to render a svelte component to something other than DOM: be It a native app, a PDF or even a terminal application. Let's explore the challenges we faced while working on it,

ATScience afternoon

How I taught LLMs how to Svelte

It's undeniable that LLMs are slowly (and not even that much) but steadily changing the way we write code. But they have a problem: once you start using something outside their training set, the performance quickly degrades. Releasing Svelte 5 (with a pretty big syntax rewrite) r

npmx

Practical impact of AI on today’s Engineering Management

Gleam and the value of small

TMCP: a new way to build MCP servers in TS

The typescript SDK provider by the official model context protocol organization is nice and has a lot of features baked in. But it also has a few problems that makes it difficult to use with modern frameworks. TMCP is a brand new alternative sdk, fully featured with an aim to a l

Unconference session: Sifa ID

Panel - Chat with Gleam Core Team

You Don't Need an ORM

Functional Domain Modeling with Gleam

This presentation demonstrates how Gleam's powerful type system and functional programming paradigm excel at domain modeling within Domain-Driven Design (DDD). It showcases Gleam's ability to create highly accurate domain representations through structs to represent data, union

A Code Centric Journey Into the Gleam Language

Full-Cycle Geospatial AI: From Risk Assessment to Resource Deployment in the Cloud

Use Satellite Embeddings to train a wildfire risk ML model, find hotspots and run a mathematical optimization to allocate resources to cover such risk - all within the cloud and CARTO platform.

Enhance!

One of the key features of SvelteKit is how much is focused on progressive enhancement. It's easy to build a website that works without Javascript and get's 100 times better with it. That said there are limitations, mainly based on the limitation of "The platform". What if you wa

Spryker EXCITE host

I've been the chairperson-of-the-day for 4 consecutive Spryker EXCITE events, which was the main yearly Spryker-organized conference.

Supercharge Your Tests With Snapshot Testing

What's new in Gleam 1.11

Surprise! Svelte Secretly Sending Signals

Svelte 5 brought a brand new paradigm on the table of svelte users: Runes. Under the hood Runes uses a popular pattern for fine grained reactivity called Signals. While signals are just an implementation detail for svelte, understanding how they work and why they work and what go

Organizational Cartography and You

Information architecture both *can* and *should* play a more essential role in organizations. The key, I propose, is in our interface with software developers, because they're the ones who have the final say in what the user interacts with. What we need to do is get better at pro

Scaling Geospatial Techniques to Cloud-Native Platforms

Adapting traditional techniques to run efficiently and scale correctly to massive amounts of data.

Herd your async tasks!

Asynchronous code is a PITA but it doesn't have to be...follow along to learn about how a sheepdog can help you herd and juggle all your async tasks!

Runtime Scripting for Rust Applications

Rust is a statically typed, ahead of time compiled and memory safe programming language. But sometimes, the restrictions Rust puts on us developers can be a hindrance, for example when prototyping new application ideas or when you want your end users to be able to change your app

IoT with HARDWARIO 2025 3/4

IoT with HARDWARIO 2025 4/4

2021-06-25 timing test for methodology talk

I did this timing test for a talk last year but I got pulled into something else before I could make the deck. Since it's been almost a year (minus what, eight days?) and I haven't budged on it, I'm just putting it up as-is. Note that around 13:55 I make a mistake: I should say

A cosmic conversation about the advantages of communities of practice

During this cosmic conversation, Drew and Kulas delve into the concept of Communities of Practice (CoPs) and its significance in fostering collaborative learning and professional development. together, they explain how CoPs enable individuals to share knowledge, enhance skills

Building your optimization technology stack

When starting out with a program around optimizing the conversion rate (CRO) or - a bit broader - the customer experience (CXO), you will inevitability run into some challenges around the technology stack you’ll be using. Let’s talk about that.

Conversion optimization

Five Stages Of Grieving-Databases in Infrastructure as Code

You enter the call (or conference room) where you are greeted by some higher level executives and members of your Infrastructure team. They have been tasked with bootstrapping the company's IT Infrastructure and start building new resources with IaC. Luckily for you (or not), you

Forget Passwords UI Demo

This short video demonstrates the login flow using Forget Passwords, a stand-alone Web authentication module that replicates the "forgot my password" process, minus the password.

Grow Smart or Die Fast: 5 Guidelines to Navigate the Recession

Build for the customer journeys of tomorrow and prepare your commerce platform for fast changes in customer and supplier demands. I offer you 5 guiding principles to get ready for the near future and discuss Composable Commerce and (B2B and B2C) marketplaces.

I Needed Something Sturdier Than a Spreadsheet — Dorian Taylor

This video was originally supposed to be a talk for CONFAB 2020, however due to other contractual obligations, themselves perturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic, I finished this just in time to miss the conference. So here it is. The vocabulary showcased in the video can be found at

IBIS prototype demo (UPDATE IN DESCRIPTION)

(THIS IS NOW CALLED SENSE ATLAS: https://youtu.be/BJsiZ-kT8Y8) This is a demonstration of a prototype IBIS (Issue-Based Information System) tool I created in October 2013 to test a protocol I designed to facilitate the development of Semantic Web/Linked Data applications. • http

Intertwingler: Retrofitting the Web

Covering some of the challenges that led me to write Intertwingler (https://intertwingler.net) for my Summer of Protocols (https://summerofprotocols.com) project. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Perhaps a history lesson is in order 02:57 - The importance of URLs 04:24 - What did the Web l

Learnings van 9 maanden conversie optimalisatie

Sanoma Breeze sessie over de learnings van 9 maanden conversie optimalisatie bij Kieskeurig.nl

Linked Data is a Political Agenda

This video stems from a number of conversations I've had around linked data (RDF, knowledge graphs, Semantic Web) and specifically why an organization would elect to adopt it. The answer reduces to a bias toward sharing data rather than hoarding it.

Structured Argumentation: An Old, New Method of Design and Resource Planning

We argue incessantly about the definition of information architecture, the extent to which Agile is compatible with comprehensive user experience design, what (if any) is the role of the product manager, and just who does and does not count as a designer. I submit that this is b

The BEAM-Rust Sandwich

The BEAM is the perfect tool for building distributed systems that are resilient, maintainable and fun to implement. However, there are certain areas where the BEAM lacks, like computation heavy and graphically intensive applications. In this talk I will demonstrate why Rust is

The Future of Community: Where Psychology, Tech and AI Collide

As communities continue to evolve, the intersection of psychology and technology is becoming increasingly critical. I will explore the future trends that are set to redefine how consumers interact with online platforms. From AI-driven personalization to the psychological triggers

The Illusion of Control

We as human beings find comfort in control. We crave a sense of balance in the world - if I am competent and capable of completing a task then I should get the result I expect. What goes around comes around, and if I do good things and I am a good person then good things will com

The Specificity Gradient (Rough Cut)

FULL-LENGTH CONFERENCE TALK VERSION: https://youtu.be/iiRdzSVKUeI . SEE ALSO https://doriantaylor.com/the-specificity-gradient . Here I suggest there is a set of "shearing layers" (aka "pace layers", à la Stewart Brand) that arise in the process of developing software, and advoca

Why Marketplace is Your Next Big Initiative

Togetehr with Marnix Dekker from our partner SQLI I disucss why starting a marketplace can be a huge multiplier for your business, and why you need to start with that TODAY.

pgFirstAid

Have you ever been asked to take a look at database in your company and just "improve performance" without any context? Or maybe walk into an "all hands" meeting to resolve a critical production issue with everyone pointing fingers at your database? I am sure we all have and use