List of videos

This week may mark JSConf's last call, but the local communities it inspired are just getting started. In this talk, Jed will share lessons learned from joining New York's JavaScripters to create BoroJS, one of tech's most vibrant local communities.

Virtual Reality using Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard and WebRTC, let's do this!

There’s a data structure that essentially makes you a wizard and that data structure is streams. In this talk, you’ll learn more about the best data structure you didn’t know enough about and how to leverage its power in JavaScript. Expect to learn about IO streams, generators, and the latest developments in the awesome awesomeness that is streams.

There are two prevailing attitudes towards the future of the Internet of Things. It will be awesome or it will be terrible. Either our devices will accommodate us more and more, or instead they’ll reveal all of our secrets to the their corporate overlords. This talk will help the audience inch us all closer to an awesome future by enabling them to build their own Internet-connected devices or at the very least understand enough about existing IoT products to maintain a critical stance. The audience will learn how to use JavaScript, off-the-shelf hardware, and a bit of tape to connect everything they own to the Internet, things like t-shirts and dogs. I will be using an art piece I made, Plant-Bot, as a jumping off point. Plant-bot is a needy house plant that can only talk to people via text message (it doesn't have ears or a mouth), in order to get what it wants (often water). Using Plant-bot as an example, the audience will learn the basics of adding "senses" to their objects, a connection to the Web, and a way for the object to interact with its surroundings.

With the rise of native apps, native wrappers, and even standards development, the browser has taken on a more behind the scenes role in web page delivery. I’ll be discussing the implications of this, and a framework for thinking about the role of the browser in the next generation of web applications.

How we can use JavaScript on our devices such as phones to change the world. From enabling those who don't have reliable internet or phone service to still be able to communicate, to protecting those in danger and protecting their identity. This all can be accomplished with the Thali Project, bringing back the peer web with our devices.