Let's Make a Progressive Web App (PWA)

In this session, Ray will cover what PWA is at a high level, what capabilities it offers, and build a simple example of one using a basic one page web page as an example.

Adding an API to Your Web App (Part 2)

In this session, Ray continues building an application that consumes data from an API, making it easily accessible to your client-side JavaScript code.

Going Angular with Analog

Nick explores building a web app with Angular using the Analog full stack JavaScript meta framework that supports hybrid SSG/SSR outputs.

Broadening Access to Opportunities with Jay Miller

Erin and Brian are joined by Jay Miller, developer advocate at Aiven, to discuss their work towards advancing the careers of individuals historically excluded from developer roles and opportunities.

Step Into SaaS

4 AWS experts will cover everything you need to know about using step functions on AWS to handle a variety of use cases within a SaaS application.

Adding an API to Your Web App

In this session, Ray walks through the steps needed to take an old XML based interface and make it easily accessible to your client-side JavaScript code.

WYSIWYG: Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions

Mrina Sugosh will take a look back at the history of and misconceptions around WYSIWYG tooling to better understand how these tools can help developers and designers in content creation.

Playing Games with Alpine.js

In this session, Ray introduces you (quickly) to Alpine.js, an incredibly light weight simple JavaScript framework that's quick to pick up.

Even More Astro

Nick continues his explorations of the Astro full stack JavaScript framework, digging into some of the more advanced features and capabilities.

Evangelism vs Advocacy with Colin Loretz

Erin and Brian are joined by Colin Loretz, developer advocate at Discord, to discuss the differences between evangelism and advocacy as a developer relations professional.

Shall we play a game?

In this session, Ray will talk about the high level basics of building a web-based, text game. He'll talk about the easy parts, the hard parts, and why he has started way more games than he's actually finished.

CSS :is(.awesome)

Martine Dowden explores some of the new properties, pseudo-classes, and techniques that have recently become available in CSS.

A Developer's Essential Tools and Stack

Raymond Camden shares the essential tools and tech stack powering his development. Join us to explore the key elements that drive his coding workflow.

Blasting Off with Astro

Join Nick for some live coding as he explore how to build web apps using the increasingly popular Astro full stack JavaScript framework.

TheJam.dev 2024

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building modern web applications using full stack JavaScript, static site generators, serverless and more.

Developer Events with Jon Gottfried

Erin and Brian are joined by Jon Gottfried, co-founder of Major League Hacking and former devrel, about developer events and how to run successful hackathons.

Code Smarter, not Harder with GitHub Copilot

Kedasha Kerr will explore the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant and show you ways that you can use it to accelerate your workflow.

Exploring Deno's Fresh Framework

Join Nick for some live coding as he digs into the Fresh full-stack, edge-rendering JavaScript framework for Deno.

Full Stack DevRel with Nnenna Ndukwe

Erin and Brian are joined by Nnenna Ndukwe about her work with Girl Develop It and Black Girls Code about how we can improve representation in DevRel and software in general. - devrel - community

On Wednesdays We Use Web5: A 'Mean Girls' Guide to Data Sovereignty

Rizèl Scarlett will go over what web5 means, why it is worth paying attention to and how to get started building applications using it.

Even More Bleeding Edge Next.js

Join Nick as he live codes his exploration into some of the features that were recently released in Next.js 14.

Fostering Developer Communities with Jake Ward

Erin and Brian are joined by Jake Ward, CEO of Data Protocol, to talk about best practices in developer relations for creating thriving developer communities. - devrel - community

7 Ways to Build an API that Developers Will Hate

Lauren Schaefer has some fun with bad API design by showing us what are the common worst practices and how to avoid them.

Haunted DevOps 👻

Join 5 fantastic speakers this Halloween as they reveal why DevOps isn't as scary as it may seem.

Bleeding Edge Next.js

Join Nick as he digs into trying some of the features just announced the day before at Next.js Conf to see what's new in Next.

Content Creation and Data Science with Megan Lieu

Erin and Brian are joined by Megan Lieu, a data advocate at Deepnote, who'll discuss how she approaches content creation and what is it like to move from finance to data science to DevRel. - devrel - data science

Taking It To The Edge

Nick Taylor will explore how to get started building, deploying and using serverless and edge functions.

Flavors of DevRel with Kevin Whinnery

Erin and Brian are joined by Kevin Whinnery of Deno who'll chat about the six different flavors of developer relations.

Sign-in Sessions

Dev Agrawal will explore how the session can be a powerful tool in authentication that can unlock security and UX capabilities.

CodeWord Conf 2023

Content is a fundamental part of the web and almost every developer building for the web has to deal with content. CodeWord Conf is focused on how developers interact with content in their code.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Passwords

Vinicius Campitelli will show us options for building passwordless authentication into your applications and how to get started.

DevOps and DevRel with Matt Stratton

Erin and Brian are joined by Matt Stratton, director of DevRel at Aiven, podcaster and global organizer of the DevOps Days conferences.

WTF: What the Form?

Nick Taylor will show all the aspects of form development and the form APIs that can make building forms less painful.

Building Your Front-End with Intention

Chad Stewart will help front-end developers address that complexity by building your front-end Architecture with intention by leveraging component-driven design.

Automating Image Workflows with Photoshop APIs

Raymond Camden explores how to add automations around your application's image management and image editing via Photoshop's APIs.

The Future of Software in the AI Age

Explore how AI and LLMs are creating new opportunities and even new business models for software in order to prepare you for the next generation of AI driven software.

Full Stack Debugging

Nick Taylor explores debugging fundamentals and tips and tricks for full stack web application developers.

From IC to Management in DevRel with Tessa Kriesel

Erin and Brian are joined by Tessa Kriesel, Head of Platform Developer Relations at Snap, to discuss moving from an individual contributor (IC) to management in developer relations and hwat makes a successful DevRel team.

DevRel and Community with Brittany Walker

Erin and Brian are joined by Brittany Walker, Senior Developer Advocate for Contentful and local tech community organizer.

The Ultimate Web Framework is a DSL

In this talk, Wasp's CEO, Matija Sosic, explains what Wasp is, how it works and why they built it by creating a Domain-Specific Language (DSL).

Localizing Your Remix Website

In this session, Harshil Agrawal will explore Remix and how to use it to build a localized site using Contentful.

Streamlit 101: An Intro to Building Web Apps with Just Python

Caroline Frasca demonstrates how to rapidly build web apps with Python using the open source Streamlit library.

Trends in Developer Relations with Mary Thengvall

Erin and Brian are joined by Mary Thengvall, author of The Business Value of Developer Relations and editor of DevRel Weekly, to talk about trends in DevRel.

What Developers Need to Know About JWTs

Dan Moore will show you what JWTs are, how they work and everything you need to know to use them properly in your applications

Open Source and Advocacy with Rizel Scarlett

Erin and Brian are joined by Rizel Scarlett, a developer advocate at GitHub, who'll discuss her path into devrel and working as an advocate for open source communities.

What The Federated Content? with Bryan Robinson

The modern website has become an art of composition. It's a rarity that a website will only pull content from a single source these days. Sean and Bryan discuss the challenges and solutions to composable content.

Trust and Ethics in the Workplace

Vitaly Sharovatov will discuss how trust and ethics relate to our careers as software engineers and how fostering them can create more satisfying and productive work.

Building an Open-Source Company with Eldad Fux

It's no small feat to grow a startup from concept to a successful company. Sean and Eldad discuss what it takes to build an open-source company.

Getting Started With Apache Kafka for JavaScript Devs

Lucia Cerchie will show how Apache Kafka can handle and process streams of real-time data, and demonstrate how to get started using it.

What It Takes to Lead DevRel Teams with Cassidy Williams

Erin and Brian are joined by Cassidy Williams who'll discuss her path into developer relations, including leading it at multiple companies.

What the Heck is Edge Computing?

Austin Gil will explain what the term really means, when it's applicable (and when it's not) and how to get started.

Building Effective Developer Communities with Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Building developer communities is hard. You don't just have to get someone's attention — you also have to give them a reason to stay. In this episode, Sean and Bekah explore what it takes to build and find effective developer communities.

Playing with Fire: Serverless PWA with Firebase

Michael Dowden will walk through building a serverless progressive web app (PWA) that will cover how to use database to cloud functions, hosting, and authentication in Firebase.

The Best JavaScript Framework with Salma Alam-Naylor

You're ready to build your next project for the web, but how do you go about choosing the right JavaScript framework? Sean and Salma work together to answer that question.

Introducing DevRel(ish) - a show about Developer Relations

Join Erin Makail Staples and Brian Rinaldi as they introduce a new show all about careers in Developer Relations (aka DevRel) and DevRel adjacent roles.

Better REST through GraphQL

Alex Patterson will show how you can wrap existing REST APIs in GraphQL to give you the benefits of GraphQL without requiring a major rewrite of existing REST APIs.

Why Web Performance Matters with Henri Helvetica

Keeping a website performing at its best means hitting a moving target. Why and how we do this is what Sean and Henri explore.

TheJam.dev 2023

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on how to build modern web applications using Jamstack, serverless and more

Practical Testing for the Modern Website with Mark Noonan

Mark Noonan joins to talk front-end testing web applications and what tools can help developers test efficiently.

The Challenges of the Modern CMS

Tiffany Janzen will explore common challenges with content-driven architecture, and how to choose a CMS that balances both flexibility and productivity.

Framework Agnostic Web Components with Evan Sheehan

Sean will work with Evan Sheehan to try to understand why didn't web components catch on right away? Why are they back _now?_ Are they here to stay? And how can you get started working with them today?

Solving Search for Static Sites

Liam Bigelow shows how the new, open-source Pagefind library helps developer add fast, low-bandwidth search to static sites.

Effective Developer Documentation with Ember Stevens

Writing documentation for developers means answering a number of questions: How do we organize the content? How should navigation reflect that organization? How do we render code snippets? What application and format do we use for writing? How do we maintain docs over time? Ember Stevens joins to discuss.

CSS is for Everyone! with Stephanie Eckles

Server-side Rendering Web Components with Enhance

Simon MacDonald walks through how to get started building dynamic web applications that are based upon web standards using the Enhance framework.

The Perfect Content-Editing Environment for Developers with Knut Melvær

Building Multi-tenant SaaS Applications on AWS

Anubhav Sharma of AWS will give you a template you can use to architect a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application using AWS serverless services

Running Developer Communities with Discord (Workshop)

Join Erin Mikail Staples as she walks you through the using Discord to manage developer and technical communities.

30 Tips for Navigating Your Developer Career

James Quick will share tangible advice he's learned over the course of his career that can help you bring your career as a developer to the next level.

Front-end Foxes Day 2022

Join 12 fantastic women speakers for exciting talks on web development, JavaScript, tech culture and career development.

Using Containers Responsibly

Melissa McKay will explore the different tools available for packaging software into containers and how to use them efficiently and securely.

Interview with Brian Rinaldi

Moar Serverless!! 2022

Moar Serverless is a 1-day conference exploring how real-world applications are built leveraging serverless.

Interview with Peter Cooper

The Truth About GitHub Copilot

Rizèl Scarlett will share how she believes is GitHub Copilot's biggest value is in helping you level up your software engineering career.

Interview with Gift Egwuenu

Interview with Benjy Weinberger

Jamstack and Databases?!

In this session, Taylor Barnett will show how relational databases are still important and relevant to today's Jamstack applications.

Interview with Suze Shardlow

Mission Impossible: Browser Testing with Cypress

Bekah Hawrot Weigel will show us how to get started using Cypress to build and run automated browser tests.

Interview with Kelly More

Getting Started with the Svelte Framework

In this session, Brittney Postma will walk you through how to get started building JavaScript web applications using Svelte.

Interview with Eduardo Bouças

A Developer's Guide to Successful Speaking

Oscar Santolalla will share tips and guidance on what makes a great session and how to get started speaking at tech conferences.

Interview with PJ Hagerty

An Introduction to Containers with Docker

In this session, Shy Ruparel of Docker will give you all the details you need to get started creating containers using Docker.

Interview with Jen Looper

Interview with Raymond Camden

The Rise of the Developer Community

Bryan Robinson will explain how ideas around developer community have evolved and how we can best optimize our efforts at building developer communities.

The Ultimate WordPress CI/CD Pipeline

Maciek Palmowski will show you the ideal setup for everything from setting up a Wordpress site in Git to deploying it to production

Building Better Development Teams Virtually

Jessica Cregg explores how we can better organize how remote teams work and collaborate by taking lessons from video games.

Modeling Application Logic Visually

In this session, David Khourshid will how state machines and statecharts can help developers make even the most complex of app logic clear.

TheJam.dev 2022

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building real-world applications using the Jamstack.

Managing Remote State in React

Jarel Fryer shows how React Query library can simplify managing remote state in React web and native applications.

What It Takes to Build a Developer Platform

Learn the lessons of building a developer platform from Romaric Philogène. He'll share how he and his team built Qovery, both from a technical and business sense.

Releasing in Secret with Feature Flags

Kathleen McMahon will show how using feature flags can allow a developer to launch an entire site rebrand in secret!

Stateful Serverless

Leon Stigter explains why statefuless is important and how to leverage stateful patterns in your serverless applications.

Astro from the Ground Up

Despite being new, Astro is already changing the game for building Jamstack applications with its focus on deliverying better performance through less JavaScript. Cassidy Williams shows you how to get started.

The Future of HTML Controls

In this session, Stephanie Stimac, Program Manager for Developer Experiences on Microsoft Edge, will talk about the history of native form controls and some proposals being considered to improve them.

An Ideal WordPress Development and Deployment Workflow

Nate Finch covers everything you need to know about building and deploying Wordpress in a headless/static ecosystem.

Working with Documents on the Web

Raymond Camden will show us how to manage documents as PDFs on the web like a pro.

Moar Serverless!! 2021

Moar Serverless is a 1-day conference exploring how real-world applications are built leveraging serverless.

Better Video on the Web

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is a video delivery technique that adjusts the quality of a video stream in real time according to detected bandwidth and CPU capacity.

Databases Made Easy

Rob Sutter shows how new algorithms enable databases that provide consistency, relations, scale, distribution, and speed without sacrificing the developer experience.

Getting Traction with GitHub Actions

Brian Douglas walks through how you can leverage action packed workflows to supercharge your repos on GitHub by building them with containers to run arbitrary code, run CI, and even automate portions of your developer workflow.

4 Trends to Watch in Backend Development

Monarch Wadia looks at how serverless platforms, powerful APIs, subscription-based developer tools, and one-stop-shop cloud hosts are changing backend development.

Design Eye for the Developer

Tracy Osborn shows developers how to train their design eye so that they can feel more confident picking out good and bad design.

The Evolution of Jamstack

The definition of Jamstack is evolving quickly and in this free session, Ishan Anand will look at what is driving this change and share a unifying theory of what Jamstack is.

Decoupling Frontends and Backends with GraphQL

Anant Jhingran will explore whether GraphQL can bridge the divide between the backend and frontend developers by meeting the needs of both.

The State of Modern Ecommerce

Francois Lanthier Nadeau will explore monolithic, Jamstack, and headless commerce and how to pick your e-commerce stack.

Deploying Your First Kubernetes Cluster

Dave Nugent will walk through how to architect and deploy a machine learning application to a Kubernetes cluster.

Supercharge JavaScript with WebAssembly

In this session, Tamas Piros will show how you can leverage WebAssembly to extend the capabilities of the browser and JavaScript.

Personalizing the Jamstack

Adam Lamarre will explore a solution to adding personalization to a Jamstack site.

The Case for Web Accessibility

Obinna Ekwuno makes the case for prioritizing web accessibility based upon our sense of self and of empathy.

TheJam.dev 2021

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building real-world applications using the Jamstack.

Introduction to Redis for Data

Simon Prickett explores what Redis is, why developers like it so much, and when to use its unique capabilities.

The Developer's Pandemic Survival Guide

Dawn Parzych talks about dealing with remote work and Peter McKee covers how to deal with burnout.

Getting Started with GraphQL

Daniel Phiri introduces GraphQL concepts and how to utilize them in building a web application.

Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy

Joel Varty will show you how to get started building Jamstack sites using JavaScript and Eleventy.

Jamstack 101: Using Next.js with Vercel

Joel Varty will show how to get started using Next.js to create Jamstack websites using React.

Build a Smart Slack Bot in Node.js

Dave Nugent will walk you through a hands-on workshop building a Slack bot using Node.js.

Jamstack 101: Using Gatsby with Netlify

Joel Varty will show how to get started using Gatsby to create blazing fast websites using the Jamstack.

Build a Virtual Agent in JavaScript

Dave Nugent will demonstrate how to build a smart agent using natural language processing.

Getting Started with the DOM

Edidiong Asikpo explains the DOM, it’s tree-like structure, and how to target and manipulate it.

The Power of YES Against Imposter Syndrome

Hiro Nishimura will share how saying "yes" to opportunities can help overcome the fear associated with imposter syndrome.

How Machine Learning Works

Matt Dupree will walk through how gradient descent can be used to form predictions in a machine learning models.

Scaling a Live Battle Royale Game With No Budget

Em Lazer-Walker shares the trials and tribulations of building a multiplayer game on the web and how to ultimately overcome them.

Introduction to Apache CouchDB

A hands-on virtual meetup with Apache CouchDB, a NoSQL database, with Upkar Lidder of IBM.

Moving from Native Mobile to Web Development

TJ VanToll explains the things he learned when he returned to web development after spending years deep in mobile app development.

Building Web Applications with Vue.js

A hands-on workshop for anyone interested in getting started with the Vue JavaScript framework featuring Raymond Camden.

Getting Started with Kubernetes Using OpenShift

A hands-on virtual workshop on enterprise application deployment, scaling, and management using Kubernetes.

JAMstack FTW

Gift Egwuenu shows how to use the Gridsome static site generator and Vue.js to build JAMstack web applications.

Falling in Love with the Command Line and GitHub CLI

Andrea Griffiths shares some useful tips, ticks and tools that will supercharge your CLI experience.

Get Started with Serverless Using OpenWhisk

A free, hands-on workshop featuring Upkar Lidder of IBM who will walk you through building three serverless applications using the open source Apache OpenWhisk platform.

Demystifying PWAs

Lee Warrick will offer an introduction to PWAs and show you what you need to know to start building one.

Getting Started with Serverless

Upkar Lidder of IBM Developer will introduce the concept of serverless, practical use cases and the key concepts that you need to know to get started.

Flashback Conference

Flashback Conference is a 2-day front-end web development focused conference in Orlando, FL

Improving Website Performance

Henri Helvetica looks at the rules that have guided us in web performance for the last decade and how they have evolved.

Is Visual Development the Future?

Amanda Loftis explores the impact of visual development tools on web development.

Understanding Machine Learning

Jen Looper explores the possibilities and limitations of machine learning and natural language processing.

Building IoT Apps with Azure & Particle

Paul DeCarlo and Brandon Satrom show how to build IoT applications using Particle devices and Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central for cloud intelligence.

A Guide to Professional Networking for Developers

Wesley Faulkner shares advice on how to be successful at professional networking as a developer.

Sextech: The Good, the Bad & the Bias

Alison Faulk gives an overview of the field of sextech and why it isn't what you may imagine.

Exploring Blazor

A look at how Blazor lets you develop front-end web apps using C# with Jeremy Likness.

Why DevRel Matters

A discussion of the importance of the practice of developer relations by Mary Thengvall.

An Introduction to Vue

A gentle introduction to the Vue.js framework by Raymond Camden.

Exploring Mixed Reality

Ayşegül Yönet takes us through virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

A Chatbot Crash Course

Sebastian Witalec covers the fundamentals of building a chatbot.

Serverless Go!

Hands-on training with Johnny Boursiquot covers how to build scalable serverless applications with golang.

Dealing with Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome & Anxiety

Jo Franchetti discusses how to understand your fears and learn to be kind to yourself.

JavaScript for Enterprise Development

JavaScript is enterprise ready - Rizchel Dayao and Simon MacDonald show how.

Has Web Development Become Difficult?

Jory Burson and Raymond Camden explore whether we've made web development difficult to learn.

Going Great with Go

Building serverless and data-driven applications with the Go programming language.

The Future of Web Payments

A deep dive into the new browser Payment Request and Payment Handler APIs

Ethics in Software Engineering

This month we're not discussing how we build it, but should we.

Building IoT Apps: From Device to Cloud and Back Again

Brandon Satrom from Particle and Burke Holland from Microsoft will lead you through the IoT stack.

Bots, IoT and AI, Oh My!

The ways that we interact with devices and the internet keeps changing.

Vue Vixens Master Class

Natalia Tepluhina talks GraphQL and Apollo.

Tools for the Modern Web Developer

A look at some tools that can improve your development process.

Modern Web Development with the JAMStack

Phil Hawksworth of Netlify will show how to get started with the JAMStack.

KnowJS 2018

Lean JavaScript fundamentals through hands-on, online training.

Developing Success

Learn the skills it takes to become a better developer.

Demystifying Machine Learning

What is machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Improving Your Apps - Performance and Debugging

New technologies like serverless and bots are changing the face of development.

The Future of Development

New technologies like serverless and bots are changing the face of development.

Oh No You Didn’t: Conflict Management in Today’s Tech Industry

Strategies and techniques to resolve conflicts in the workplace.

Going Serverless

Serverless is more than just a buzzword - learn why.

Exploring JavaScript Frameworks

A look at new frameworks making an impact in JavaScript.

IoT for Fun and Profit

Simple and practical ways for getting started in IoT - from basic electronics to smart home integration

Developing in JavaScript in 2017

A look at recent developments in the world of JavaScript.