The 90s Called and They Want Their Websites Back
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Overview
- name: Rachel White
- Speaker Page
Abstract
No server configuration? No problem! With serverless & JAMStack becoming more and more popular, it’s like static sites never went out of fashion. Though, unlike the 90s, we don’t have to sacrifice style for performance. Let’s recreate a Japanese style photo booth with React & WebAssembly!
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From Hunter
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- Evolution of the personal website
- Works at Datadog
History of the Personal Site
- Geocities
- Angelfire
- Self expression, having fun online
- 2000s brought about messier websites
- Neopets
- Graymatter -> WordPress
- CMS Systems
- JS Frameworks
- CSS + Design
- So many different frameworks
- Purikura photobooth website.
- Made purrybooth
- Windows 97 lookin' user interface, really inspiring.
- Made purrybooth
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speaker
- tech evangelist @ datadog
- did robokitty
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history
- geocities
- angelfire
- started off as medical transcription, pivoted into personal websites
- eg
- personal diary
- cute boy sites
- tutorial on doom video
- jerry the cat page
- 2000s
- tracking with javascript
- neopets
- greyblogger(?), inspiration for word press
- wordpress/joomlal/drupal
- js frameworks
- ember, express, react, angular, backbone, etc
- html boilerplate
- sass and less
- css + design, etc
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jamstack
- decouple frontend from backend
- [j]avascript
- [a]pis
- [m]arkup
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static site generateors
- next, hugo, gatsby, etc
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demo, make a jamstack
- use create-act-app-rewired
- use photon
- use fabric.js
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deploying, netlify
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