Talks

Conference talks, meetups, and presentations from around the world.

Upcoming

Stir Trek — Columbus, OH May 1, 2026

Using Spec-Driven Development for Agentic Coding

AI coding assistants are great at small tasks. But what about complex features that need upfront planning? This talk explores spec-driven development — breaking complex tasks into requirements, design, and implementation using AI assistants like Kiro.

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Boise Code Camp — Boise, ID May 2, 2026

Speaking Session

A free, full-day event for developers, hardware geeks, and the curious. Sessions on databases, development languages, mobile, AI, security, and more.

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CascadiaJS — Seattle, WA June 1–2, 2026

Talk TBA

CascadiaJS is an annual reunion of web developers in the Pacific Northwest. Two days of talks, workshops, and community.

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Past Talks

JSNation 2025 / React Summit / VueConf

Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows

AI coding assistants are great at small tasks. But what about complex features that need upfront planning? This talk explores spec-driven development — breaking complex tasks into requirements, design, and implementation phases using AI assistants.

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JSNation 2024

How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer

Cloud providers offer a lot of services — Cognito, S3, Bedrock, Lambda. As a frontend developer, which ones should you learn? This talk covers core services, tooling, and best practices for frontend devs working with the cloud.

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VueConf US 2023

Creating My First Open Source Vue 3 Library

How to create a Vue.js library from scratch, covering open source best practices, the composition API, xState, and testing strategies with Cypress and Vue Test Utils.

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