Starting the day at @liberty_js! Come say hi, I brought stickers.

Attending @liberty_js today! 🥳 It's nice to have a conference at home. Travel is fun but exhausting. And there's a great lineup!

For the folks attending the conference, it's lunch time!! Feel free to take a walk, enjoy the weather and support our local businesses! Recommendations in the link below. Talks resume at 1:50p docs.google.com/document/u/0…

On stage @chrisrng presenting "Road to Zero Lint Failures: Tackling Code Quality Challenges at Scale" and @haltersweb presenting "Accessible Web Solutions with ARIA and Javascript" #LibertyJS2023

Here is @christophrjbakr presenting "Simplify Micro Frontend Architecture Using React to Web Component" and @kilianvalkhof presenting "Stop using JavaScript for that: moving features from JS to CSS and HTML"! #LibertyJS2023

Loving @kilianvalkhof’s session on how to avoid JS at @liberty_js. We’re learning about CSS and HTML features that can replace JS and importantly how to do so with accessibility in mind too.

Our first set of speakers are up right now!! Chris Lorenzo, Ruben Restrepo and Martin Snyder are kicking us off!! #LibertyJS2023

Opening Remarks start in 5 MINUTES!! Head up to the ballroom if you haven't already!!

IT'S CONFERENCE DAY!!!!! Registration is open!!! Make sure to stop by and check-in, grab your badge and head to the 5th floor for breakfast!! We'll get started at 9:30!! Make sure to use the hashtag #LibertyJS2023 when posting so we can check out your wonderful photos!!

🚨🚨🚨SPEAKER ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Our last speaker (but most certainly not least) is @Codeworldco Toni Darden!! Toni is a passionate Software Development Engineer specializing in building robust and scalable cloud applications. With a diverse background in both the corporate world and entrepreneurship, Toni brings a unique perspective to her work. During her time building her former company, Gas Hoppers USA, she was dedicated to helping businesses save on fuel costs by eliminating middlemen. Through their innovative mobile app, companies could monitor usage, achieve savings, and experience unmatched reliability, quality, and communication. Her journey continued at Lambda School's rigorous 18-month Computer Science & Software Engineering Academy, where industry giants like Y-Combinator, Google Ventures, and Stripe provided support. There, she immersed myself in full-stack web development, mastering Python, Django, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, and other cutting-edge technologies. She built intricate applications and embraced modern JavaScript environments and tooling. Now, as a Software Development Engineer, she thrives on tackling complex challenges and empowering others in the tech industry. Toni is thrilled to connect with the LibertyJS community, sharing her expertise and insights. Her goal is to embark on an exploration of the captivating world of building scalable and resilient apps with AWS and CI/CD pipelines. Toni's workshop is "Unleashing the Power of Cloud: Building Scalable and Resilient Apps with AWS and CI/CD Pipelines" on Friday, October 13th from 10:40 - 11:20am. Do not miss Toni on stage!!! We are SOO excited to see everyone live tomorrow!!!

🚨🚨🚨SPEAKER ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Introducing @degrammer Ruben Restrepo!! Ruben has more than ten years of professional experience creating software, seven years working remotely, with a product-focused mindset, and is obsessed with delivering value. Ruben is a Native Spanish speaker, community builder, and speaker. Ruben has worked at a successful startup, Auth0 (acquired by Okta). Worked at another startup (Fusebit) and has views of being in multiple environments and betting on a third startup (Stateful) building an excellent VSCode extension (Runme). Ruben's last "big" talk was at Revo.js in Romania. Ruben's talk is "Let's build the LibertyJS VSCode extension together!" on Thursday, October 12th, 9:50 - 11:20a. Make sure you don't miss Ruben!! See you all tomorrow when LibertyJS is back!!!

🚨🚨🚨 SPEAKER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Next up, is @philnash!!! Phil is a developer evangelist for Sonar and a Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He loves working with Ruby or JavaScript to build web applications and tools to help developers. He once helped build a website that captured everyone's favourite sandwich fillings. He has too many GitHub repositories. Away from the keyboard, Phil listens to ska punk, hangs out with his miniature dachshund (also called Ruby), and is on a mission to discover the world's best beers. Phil's talk is "CSS Between the Pages" on Thursday, October 12th, 2:40 - 3:20p!! Sooo looking forward to having Phil speak!

🚨🚨🚨 SPEAKER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Today we'll round out introducing our speakers, starting with @chiefcll Chris Lorenzo!! Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007 -- currently as a Distinguished Engineer. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects using the latest patterns and web primitives. Outside of Comcast he likes speaking, hiking and chilling on the beach with his family. Chris' talk is "Hands on Performance Tuning Progressive Web Apps" on Thursday, October 12th, 9:50 - 10:30a. We really appreciate Chris coming through and speaking for us! He is live TOMORROW!! See you all then!

🚨🚨🚨 SPEAKER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Our next speaker is Mrina Sugosh!! Mrinalini(Mrina)has been 'hacking' away at tech projects since the age of 14! Her first project was programming her TI-84 calculator to be able quickly find the hypotenuse of a right triangle. Since then she has been in constant pursuit of employing CS to enable her curiosity; be it was building a text messaging COVID bot or a motion detector for her pup's sleep.She is a UC Berkeley Alumnus and currently works as a Developer Relations Manager at TinyMCE. Mrina's talk is "ChatGPT as an AI Assistant" on Thursday, October 12th, from 1:50 - 2:30p. Don't be the one that misses Mrina live!! We're only two days away from LibertyJS! Sign up if you haven't already!!

🚨🚨🚨SPEAKER ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Next up, is @Schoonology Michael Shoonmaker!! Before Michael got a "real job", Michael made video games. Micheal works as a CTO for a social mobile app, Squad, using React Native, Node, and Postgres to deliver real-time audio messaging and JavaScript-powered delight. Michael's session is "We're Snaking it Live!" from Thursday, October 12th, 3:30 - 4:30p. Who here hasn't played Snake growing up?? How can you miss this?? Don't!! Sign up for tickets if you haven't already. We're only two days away!!

🚨🚨🚨 SPEAKER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Next up on the speaker list, @lorendsr Loren Sands-Ramshaw!! Loren is a developer relations engineer at Temporal. They worked on Temporal's Node runtime, wrote a book on GraphQL, and did consulting, startups, and open source. Loren's talk is "How to build distributed systems in JavaScript" on Friday, October 13th, 11:30a - 12:10p. Make sure you don't miss Loren!! We're only two days away!!!

🚨🚨🚨 SPEAKER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Everyone, introducing our Keynote Speaker, Leslie Chapman!! Leslie Chapman is an Engineering Fellow at Comcast. She was one of the technical leads for the X1 platform, which serves over 35 million customers. Currently, Leslie leads a team that is building backend systems that drive consistent user experiences across Comcast's suite of video streaming products. She is passionate about encouraging young women to enter the tech field and spends a lot of time volunteering with organizations that teach coding to young women. Leslie's Keynote will be on Thursday, October 12th from 4:20 - 5:00p titled "How to be the most Productive developer on your team". You definitely don't want to miss this!!! Make sure to purchase tickets for LibertyJS to catch Leslie and all of our amazing speakers!!