In the land of the JavaScripters

A 10-sonnet series that celebrates the people and the culture of JavaScript, and looks at the influence of JSConfs on the web development community and its evolution. Told from the perspective of a digital immigrant who doesn't write code, though I have lived and worked among JavaScripters for the last twenty 20 years.

Transcript

1. JS In the land of the JavaScripters Havi Hoffman | Mozilla 2 June 2019 JSConfEU | Berlin https://2019.jsconf.eu/sonnets
4. I The Beginning
5. When I consider JSConf EU, and wonder what it is I have to share -
6. Visualization of Lorenz’s strange attractor, or butterfly effect, in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
7. Petrarchan Sonnet
8. Shakespearean Sonnet
10. II The Origin Story
11. The times have changed with JavaScript’s ascent, Since @voodootikigod 10 years ago
13. https://2019.jsconf.eu/sonnets
14. III JavaScript World Domination
15. Trajectory is best viewed in retrospect. The JS singularity was never inevitable,
17. IV The Code of Conduct
18. At our events we will not tolerate Harassment of participants in any form. Photo: Hopper Stone, Detroit Free Press , a scene from “Hidden Figures”
20. V A digital immigrant reflects on Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
21. The sonnet is a poem of fourteen line, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...”
23. VI What’s not lost in translation
24. The immigrant who puts down roots but never learns the language. That’s JavaScript and me.
26. VII A Sonnet for Mozilla
27. You may know Mozilla as the dinosaur That birthed a browser - open source - out of
29. VIII Angus wrote a book about JavaScript
30. “Doctrine and dogma: these are the enemy Of good javascript,” writes Angus Croll,
32. X Tech Speakers & Strange Attractors
33. Mozilla Tech Speakers is a program designed Like Global Diversity CFP Day
35. xo “When a number of people come together, and if these people are harmonized in a certain way, excluding some who make for disharmony - we have what we call an event. “ Idries Shah, “The Story of Mushkil Gusha” thank you | danke @freshelectrons https://medium.com/@freshelectrons havi@mozilla.com
36. Appendix
37. Resources & image credits • @jsconfeu - #42 JSConf very nearly didn’t happen https://twitter.com/jsconfeu/status/1099945357620981761 • An introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets — The British Library - public domain https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-shakespeares-sonnets • Day 2 “Expert Panel” by Aaron Gustafson - 2006 - CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/aarongustafson/278796471/ • Petrarca Queriniano incunable https://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/petrarca-queriniano-facsimile • Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter - TEDEd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4 • Jan Lehnardt: JSConf History - JSConf US Last Call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XmTjeIk5k
38. • Chris Williams: Disconnect, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7LchINN7lU • Michael van Meer. Album Amicorum / Stam Boek Paintings of London in the friendship album of Michael van Meer, c. 1614-1615 https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/a-virginian-indian-in-st-jamess-park-from-the- friendship-album-of-michael-van-meer • Photo from Hidden Figures from Hopper Stone, Detroit Free Press https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/01/14/hidden-figures-film- has-lessons-educators/96416028/ • The Jewish Woman Who Gave Life to Lady Liberty by Chen Malul https://blog.nli.org.il/en/emma_lazarus2/ Resources & image credits
39. • Nothing Fails Like Success: https://alistapart.com/article/nothing-fails-like-success/ • Carole Cadwalladr - Facebook’s role in Brexit - TED 2019 https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_thethreat _to_democracy • If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript https://anguscroll.com/hemingway/ • John McCarthy https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/science/26mccarthy.html • Everyday Chaos by David Weinberger - https://everydaychaosbook.com/ • JSHeroes photo by Istvan ‘Flaki’ Szmozsanszky @slsoftworks • Global Diversity CFP Day - https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/ • The Lorenz Attractor, a thing of beauty http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lorenz/ • Lorenz attractor - created for Wikimedia Commons by User:Wikimol and Image:Lorenz attractor.svg by User:Dschwen (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) Resources & image credits
40. • Slide design by Mike McFarland Design • Robot mascot by Virginia Poltrack • Resources & image credits
41. IX Big Data, Big Picture an epilogue
42. John McCarthy was not trolling when he said these are We’d need to program to talk to the servants.
44. The End