The 90s Called and They Want Their Websites Back

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Overview

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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!

Notes

  • 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.

Notes

  • speaker

    • tech evangelist @ datadog
    • did robokitty
  • 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
  • jamstack

    • decouple frontend from backend
    • [j]avascript
    • [a]pis
    • [m]arkup
  • static site generateors

    • next, hugo, gatsby, etc
  • demo, make a jamstack

    • use create-act-app-rewired
    • use photon
    • use fabric.js
  • deploying, netlify


Children
  1. Hunter
  2. Kevinlin

Tags

  1. jamstack
  2. react-js
  3. webassembly
  4. canvas

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