The beast is alive! How do you feel about ASCII-alike CSS Grid layout with polyfluid sizing and ch unit? Do you feel itchy when it comes to building responsive HTML email layouts? What about the brave new world of dynamic static site generators and JAM stack? Have you ever tried to work around nested CSS Custom Properties, untamed 3rd-party scripts, shady service workers, multi-dimensional variable fonts and painfully outdated pattern libraries? Well, let’s bring it on!
This session introduces a method for ethical decision making in design and tech. Rather than a wet moralistic blanket covering the fires of creativity, ethics can be the hearth that makes our creative fires burn brighter without burning down the house.
Everybody is talking about the latest front-end techniques, best practices and tools, but what about a show that was… different?
It seems like Static Site Generators (SSG) are all the rage. But surely static sites are nothing new, so is this just the latest example of a retro, hipster trend? Or are there good reasons why creating sites with an SSG is becoming so popular?