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So you've decided to do a technical migration...
It seems like there’s always a hot new library or framework promising great things. But people often forget about the pain and effort required to move from an old technology to a new one. How long will it take? If you finish, will it be worth it? And if you don’t, could it leave you in a worse place than where you started?
Drawing from my experience of the Typescript migration we completed at Monzo I’ll take you through some of the different outcomes of technical migrations and the things we learned along the way.
Sophie Koonin
Sophie is the web engineering lead and a staff engineer at Monzo Bank in the UK, responsible for the web platform across the organisation and working on internal tooling that powers Monzo’s award-winning customer service.
Building websites since the age of 10, she’s passionate about creating inclusive, accessible and fun websites that people love. Sophie writes about tech & mental health at localghost.dev, builds intentionally useless web apps, and makes music.
Taste Driven Development
This talk is about the soft side of software — the intuitive, often overlooked skills that help us build products people truly love. It’s about developing your taste, learning to recognize quality, and understanding why those things matter when writing code.
It’s also about un-learning certain habits we pick up as engineers — the urge to optimize, validate, and measure — to make space for empathy, vision, and a bit of magic.
I’ll share some of my experiences trying to build great products, and offer practical ways to train your eye for quality: how to spot the difference between good and great, and how to create things that don’t just work correctly, but feel right.
Andreas Eldh
Andreas is an engineer at Linear living in Sweden. He's spent his career trying to build nice software products at startups, government agencies and big corporations. When he leaves his office, he usually brings a camera, a badminton racket or a pair of skis.
What's up in ES2027?
Yes, okay, ES2015 rules, and ES2017–2024 brought about a lot of cool things (most notably async/await, async iteration, optional chaining, private members), but a ton of cool stuff is expected to land in the next few years, too… and we can play with it already!
Christophe takes you through a whirlwind tour of the upcoming features he’s most excited about, due to become official in 2025, 2026… or 2027 ;-)
Christophe Porteneuve
Christophe has been a professional web developer, trainer and speaker since 1995. A former Prototype.js core team member and contributor to Rails, Node.js and JS itself, he now leads front-end at Doctolib. He lives near Paris with his wife and kids.
Making Fonts Like It’s 1995!
Remember WordArt and Clippy? Stretched letter shapes with textures, shadows, gradients, and 3D effects allowed a limitless way to express creative freedom.
In this talk, I will not only satisfy your ’90s nostalgia, but I will also demonstrate how to revive WordArt masterpieces with the latest font technology.
Ulrike Rausch
In 2009 Berlin-based type designer Ulrike Rausch founded her own type foundry called LiebeFonts, providing high-quality handwriting fonts with a charming personality and obsessive attention to detail. Ulrike combines her fondness for handwriting with her enthusiasm for code, sophisticated OpenType features, and latest font technology.
When Ulrike is not busy with her next font release, she enjoys teaching type design and font production at Universities or in online courses. Together with letterer and writer Chris Campe, she wrote the book “Making Fonts!”, a comprehensive guide to type design and font production.
In 2020 Ulrike decided to hit the books again in order to get her Master’s degree at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She successfully graduated in September 2022 with a great deal new knowledge about machines and technologies that reproduce handwriting.
