Is 2 weeks enough time to recover from an event?
If it's the Voxxed Days Trieste, certainly not, but it's definitely time for a post now!
Having an international event for devs in Trieste (Italy) is not everyday stuff, and I am really proud to have been a part of it!
Although historically Voxxed has always been associated with Java and the backend, this year there was also a frontend track (React) with a very high level of talks:
Maya Shavin (Microsoft) opened the FE track with her talk “Are we React-ing wrongly” explaining how to use React for REAL. A talk that I wanted so much because of its wisdom and also because Maya is an explosive mix of sweetness and expertise.
Katarzyna Dusza (Spotify) brought a talk called “Modern & secure adaptive streaming on the Web”. Her really accurate, clear and in depth presentation will surely simplify the study of these technologies for those who want to use them! As we all know, docs are never that comprehensive and one often has to study from different sources to understand how things really work; Katarzyna did that for us and even added some live coding, so there is no excuse not to give it a try!
Omar Diop (Learnn) brought “A 4-Year Retrospective : Lessons Learned from Building a Video Player from Scratch with ReactNative”. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend his talk because I was busy with “staff stuff”, but I got to talk to him during the speakers' dinner the day before, and he is a bubbly, energetic guy! We got to talk about our side projects (which I LOVE doing) and his are all really interesting!
Edoardo Dusi (SparkFabrik) with the talk “ServerComponents are React's superweapon in the Stack Wars: Can PHP strike back?” brought one of the trendiest topics of 2024, telling it like only he can. It was a “historical” talk, from the first version of php to NextJs, through the various FE frameworks we have loved and hated... So many good old memories!!!
Borut Jogan (Honeywell): “Fail your tasks successfully”, a talk that every conference (of any kind) should give space to. He brought attention to the issues of mental health and how to get out of bad situations that any of us might face at work. A talk of a simplicity but disarming power. Really a good time of sharing.
The main track talks were also interesting, but my favorite was the “Cracking the Code: Decoding Anti-Bot Systems!” by Fabien Vauchelles (Scrapoxy) who explained how you can do scraping without getting caught. I love these kinds of talks because they encapsulate the REAL experience of several years in one talk of a few minutes 😍
Let me add just a couple of words about the location: how cool is it to do a conference in one (actually two) cinema?!? WOW.
And last but not least, I can't thank Alessandra Laderchi enough for getting me involved in the program committee and asking me to be part of the staff.
I got the change to work with a great team and meet fantastic people: Borut Jogan, Enrico Giacomazzi, Federico Morsut, Gabriele Savio, Mariela Nasi, Ornela Kita, Mario Fusco and Daniele Zonca.
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