Denys is a frontend developer living and working in Norway. Being 2-in-1: an art school graduate and an engineer, Denys is passionate about psychology, physics, history, drawing. In his day-to-day job, he enjoys getting to the heart of the matter of things and processes. Originally on “CSS side” of development, for the last years Denys has been building javascript applications, still breaking CSS, abusing HTML and working with performance optimisations of pretty much all aspects of the fronted toolset at Digital Garden AS (fastname.no and uniweb.no).
What’s common for Meryl Streep, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein? All of them suffered from different problems in their professional lives despite their success. This talk is not about development. Instead of code, this inspirational and motivational talk will set debugger on ourselves as humans to analyse the bugs most of us face in our day-to-day jobs as developers. Among others we will be talking about:
Perfectionism
Imposter syndrome
Burnout
But these are not limited to developers and are applicable to much wider audience. It will be about psychology, neuroscience, work-life balance, work quality and… us
“_A website should load in less than a second; we should reduce the number of server requests; keep your javascript and CSS files merge and compressed under 50 kilobytes._”
These are just a few of technical solutions and recommendations we are getting in the industry to tackle the performance issues. But there is one catch – your users don’t care about kilobytes, milliseconds and number of requests. Performance is not about Mathematics.
Performance is about Perception. Thereby user’s perception of your website’s speed is the only true performance measure.