I came to Berlin with high hopes this year. I was ready to be inspired, to learn new stuff, to become a better developer.
Instead of that one speaker after another is telling me about privilege, racism, discrimination and exclusionary practices. Some of the speakers use some really aggressive rhetoric and are almost throwing accusations at the audience. You are bad, you should be better.
On the other hand the quality of some of the more "technical" talks dropped significantly. Here are some of the tips I got from talk about webpage performance:
- You can open network tab to see the size of your files
- Add cache headers to cache stuff
- jQuery is 50kb
- Service workers are cool
My colleague and I could not believe what we saw. It's 2018 outside, right? Compare it to an awesome talk by Addy Osmani from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUs5yOuv-o. The amount of incredibly useful information he managed to pack in these 30 minutes.
The talk about event loop is proceeded by another talk, half of which is devoted to explaining event loop. Not the best idea probably. It feels like watching those annoying TV advertisments, where they repeat the same thing twice to get your attention.
So at the end of first day, instead of being full of enthusiasm the only feelings I have are shame and dissapointment. JSCONF, are you trying to send some message this year? Is there some paradigm shift happening? Because as it looks right now this is not the type of conference me or my colleagues would like to attend in the future.
But what do I know, that's probably my privilege speaking.
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