Web Directions Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

We’ve just launched the full program for Code://Remote, as always a strong mix of leading and emerging experts, focussing on core front end technologies and practices.

As we mentioned in a recent piece on rethinking online conferences, the format for Code://Remote will be a bit different from what you might expect.

We’re not expecting you to take two entire days away from your work, and stare at a screen another 6+ hours a day. Instead, it will take place across 4 Fridays in August, around 3 and a half hours each session. Presentations will be pre-recorded, super high production value, transcribed, captioned, audio described and more, and there’ll be live speaker QA as well as other ways for you to engage with those attending the event.

What won’t change is our long-term focus on world-leading experts, and really relevant, independent presentations. Each week has a different focus on a different area of front-end technology or practice.

Week 1, the Web platform

Week 1, on August 7th will focus on the state and future of the Web platform, and the capabilities of the browser to help create rich complex experiences.

• Kenneth Rohde Christiansen, Sr. Web Platform Architect at Intel and a member of the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group will look at where the direction the web platform is headed and Project Fugu, an effort to close gaps in web’s capabilities vs. native platforms.
• Mozilla’s Marcos Caceres, who’s also chair of the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group will provide an overview of the state of the modern DOM, and where it might be headed next.
• We’ll also be covering the state of authentication and payments on the Web, take a look at where Web Components are at in 2020, and how origin trials help you experiment with emerging web features without breaking the web.

Week 2, JavaScript

Week 2, on August 14th, features JavaScript. Where we are, and where we are headed.

• Google’s Houssein Djirdeh will take an in-depth look at how we actually use JavaScript today, based on his work for the 2019 Web Almanac.
• Tomomi Imura will demonstrate the new features of JavaScript in 2020, with a little whimsy, as we could all do with some of that right now.
• We’ll also take a deep dive into asynchronous JavaScript, JavaScript debugging, the new native approach to JavaScript modules and learn how the sausage gets made with a look at how JavaScript is standardised.

Week 3, HTML and CSS

Week 3, on August 21st, focusses on the often under-appreciated technologies of Web development–HTML and CSS.  Think you know them? Well think again.

• Erin Zimmer will bring us up to speed with the latest in CSS Layouts
• Chris Lienert will show us that HTML didn’t stop at version 5 and that it continues to evolve, reviewing a number of HTML elements and attributes that are new and (somewhat!) ready to be used.
• We’ll also take a look at the latest in animation for the Web, how Houdini allows us to escape the confines of CSS for styling, and the latest in CSS techniques and debugging.

Week 4, security and performance

The final week of Code, August 28th moves from technologies to practice, focussing on performance, and security.

• Emily Nakashima considers observability for user happiness, and how the web performance community have been thinking about the best ways to measure that happiness for years. 
• Yaser Adel Mehraban will show how we can tune web performance with just browser APIs. 
• Yoav Weiss will consider the delicate tradeoffs between user security and performance, and how to strike the balance right.
• And we’ll look at Web Assembly at the edge with Tyler McMullen, and pre-fetching resources the right way for all round performance with Divya Sasidharan, and everything you ever wanted to know about image compression with Andi Tjong.

We’re also working with our partners on a series of workshops you can participate in during the month of August.

And we’ll make sure the other key component of a conference, connection and networking is supported as well. You’ll find fun, engaging and safe ways to connect with speakers, fellow attendees and partners.

What does all this awesomeness cost?

I hope you’ll agree it’s an amazing lineup, and it’s at an even more amazing price. Just $195 before June 30.

Or get access to Code://Remote, our upcoming Product://Remote, a range of other live content we have planned, hundreds of hours of presentations from our past conferences and presentations from other great conferences, and a huge library of ebooks and online courses, all for just $39.95 a month, or $395 a year.

Employment impacted by COVID19? Pay what you can

If your employment has been affected by COVID19, we feel it is important for people to continue their professional development, and connections with the industry, so we’ve got pay what you can pricing–choose the price you can afford, and get full access to the conference.