soledad penadés

As we wrap the year and my brain is kind of hazy with the extra food, and the total shock to the system caused by staying in Spain these days, I thought it would be a splendid moment to collect a few things that I haven't blogged about yet. So there we go:

Talks

In Hacks

We were brainstorming what to close the year with at the Mozilla Hacks blog, and we said: let's make a best of 2014 post!

For some reason I ended up building a giant list of videos from talks that had an impact on me, whether technical or emotional, or both, and I that thought would be great to share with fellow developers. And then the planets aligned and there was a call to action to help test video playing in Firefox, so we ended up with You can't go wrong watching JavaScript talks, inviting you to watch these videos AND help test video playing. Two birds with one stone! (but figuratively, we do not want to harm birds, okay? okay!).

Since it is a list I curated, it is full of cool things such as realtime graphics, emoji, Animated GIFs, Web Components, accessibility, healthy community building, web audio and other new and upcoming Web APIs, Firefox OS hardware hacking, and of course, some satire. Go watch them!

Mine

And then the videos for some talks I've given recently have been published also.

Here's the one from CMD+R conf, a new conference in London for Mac/iOS developers which was really nice even though I don't work on that field. The organiser watched my CascadiaJS 2014 talk and liked it, and asked me to repeat it.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out, and I'm even a tad sad that they cut out a bit of the silly chatter from when I jumped on the stage and was sort of adjusting my laptop. I think it was funny. Or maybe it wasn't and that's why they cut it out :-P

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqvEnD9mIo8[/embed]

Then I also spoke at Full Frontal in Brighton, which is not a new conference but has a bit of a legendary aura already, so I was really proud to have been invited to speak there. I gave an introduction to Web Audio which was sort of similar to the Web Audio Hack Day introduction, but better. Everything gets better when you practice and repeat ;-)

[embed]http://youtu.be/F0Iwvp_wtHE[/embed]

Podcasts

Potch and me were guests in the episode 20 from The Web Platform, hosted by Erik Isaksen. We discussed Web Components, solving out problems for other developers with Brick, the quests you have to go through when you want to use them today, proper component/code design, and some more topics such as accessibility or using components for fun with Audio Tags.

And finally... meet ups and upcoming talks!

I'm going to be hosting the first Ladies Who Code meetup at London of the year. The date is the 6th of January, and here's the event/sign up page. Come join us at Mozilla London and hack on stuff with fellow ladies who code! :-)

And then on the 13th of January I'll be also giving an overview talk about Web Components at the first ever London Web Components meetup. Exciting! Here's the event page, although I think there is a waiting list already.

Finally for-reals I'll be speaking at the Mozilla room at FOSDEM about Firefox OS app development with node-firefox, a project that Nicola started when he interned at Mozilla last summer, and which I took over once he left because it was too awesome to let it rust.

Of course "app development with node-firefox" is too bland, so the title of the talk is actually Superturbocharging Firefox OS app development with node-firefox. In my defense I came up with that title while I was jetlagged and incubating a severe cold, so I feel zero guilt about this superhyperbolic title :P

Merry belated whatevers!