Jeremy Likness
Biography
Jeremy Likness is an internationally-selling author, keynote speaker and professional coder with a personal mission to empower developers to be their best. He has worked on commercial enterprise software for 25 years and specializes in web technology. Jeremy is a cloud advocate for Microsoft and lives with his wife, parrot, and German Shepherd near Seattle, WA. In his free time he enjoys running, hiking, and shooting 9-ball and one pocket.
WebAssembly for Modern Cross-Platform Web Development
WebAssembly quietly reached stable production status in 2017 and is rapidly taking front-end web development by storm. Learn what this stack-based virtual machine can do, why it is becoming so popular, and how to build front end web experiences using a varierty of modern languages. Examples in C, Rust, Go, and C#.
Vanilla.js: Modern 1st Party JavaScript
JavaScript has conquered the world by attaching itself to the browser to deliver front-end experiences over the web. Built in a few short weeks to simply glue objects in web pages, the latest versions support modern concepts like classes and challenge traditional notions of scope. Learn how far JavaScript has come by reviewing the latest language features and seeing just what is possible to build with pure "vanilla" JavaScript. No frameworks, just code.
