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2024 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:00:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - ffconf 2024 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show n' tell! This year's installment will be on Thursday 7th November.

A Dive from a Rusty Bridge

James Hugman — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:00:00 GMT

You: a web developer, building an app for mobile. You're using React Native, I'm guessing. In search of speed, you've looked for React Native plugins on npmjs and found specialized packages written in a variety of Java, Objective-C and C++.

Sync Different: Building Local-First Apps

Dave Pereira-Gurnell — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Update: unfortunately James Chetwood is now unable to give his talk - Design GUI: Exploring CSS Variables. Instead we will be continuing with only Dave Pereira-Gurnell's talk - Sync Different: Building Local-First Apps.

Improve your Multi-Factor Auth with Firebase and Vonage APIs

Amanda Cavallaro — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Amanda is a Google Developers Expert for Firebase, and a Developer Advocate at Vonage, which provides cloud communications APIs for Messaging (SMS, MMS, social chats apps such as Messenger and WhatsApp), Verify, Voice, and Video, Network APIs, as well as associated tooling and language-specific SDKs.

JavaScript Golf 4

Tom Parslow — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Come and join us on Thursday July 4th where Tom Parslow - long time Async attendee and chief code typer at Buzzshot.com, will task us to solve a series of challenges using JavaScript. The catch - you have to write as little JavaScript as possible. Solve each challenge in the least number of characters to win the game. Imagine the kind of stuff you’d never want to see make it into a real codebase… that’s what we’re looking for!

Real-time collaboration for COGS with Redux

Chetan Padia — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Chetan Padia will show the journey of taking COGS - an immersive theatre and escape room control system - from an single-user desktop app to a web-based multi-user collaborative app.

Particle Flow

Peter Cook — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Peter Cook will show how to create particle flow animations. These use similar techniques to visualisations such as the hint.fm wind map and Cameron Beccario's wind map.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2024

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:00:00 GMT

We're back with our popular "Ask the Brains" event. The aim is to create a friendly environment for everyone to ask their "that thing you've never understood but always been too afraid to ask" type questions, plus any other topics you feel like talking about on the night.

International Women's Day

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Today is International Women's Day. We celebrated Async's 14th Birthday yesterday and our community - and the tech industry as a whole - has become more diverse in those years. An inclusive, welcoming community benefits everyone and we still have much to do, both globally and locally.

14th Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Async is fourteen years old! A decade has flown by since we last celebrated. Come ye all for an evening of lightning talks. Tell us about a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else to do with JavaScript and its extended family (HTML, CSS, SVG, animated GIFs) or the wider world of web.

Throw Away Your JavaScript

Olly Chadwick — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Are you tired of building simple web apps using complex JavaScript frameworks? Would you like to get back to the good old days of server-rendered applications, but worried that you'll lose responsiveness and interactivity?

Inspirational demos from codebar

codebar — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:00:00 GMT

🕖 New start time! From 2024 our events will start slightly earlier at 7.00pm

Async Christmas Quiz 2023

Quizmasters Alise & Michal — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Back by popular demand, Quizmasters Alise & Michal bring a fresh instalment of the Async Christmas Quiz. Join us as we wind down on the year's final first-Thursday-of-the-month in festive December, and we reflect on another fabulous and varied year of Async meetups. Note this event will be in-person only.

2023 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - ffconf 2023 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show n' tell! This year's installment will be on Thursday 9th November (the second Thursday of the month).

Puck: the visual editor for React

Chris Villa — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Puck is an open source website builder for React that is being built at Measured. Puck aims to solve one of Measured's clients' primary pain points and put the WYSIWYG back into their content workflows, without breaking their brand.

Load Up on SvelteKit

Scott Spence — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:15:00 GMT

On the 14th of September (the second Thursday of the month) Scott Spence will be giving a Svelte and SvelteKit primer talk with a dive into data loading with practical examples.

TypeScript Tales and Tailwind Types

Jake 'Sid' Smith, Yann Eves — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:15:00 GMT

NEW VENUE: We're trialling a move to Runway East, a brand new space we think makes an even better long-term home for Async meetups. Located a short walk from Brighton railway station on the ground floor of the new York & Elder development.

Good intentions gone bad

Eva Ferreira — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:15:00 GMT

We hope for our web applications to be as beautiful, performant, and accessible as possible; but sometimes... Things get in the way and the outcome is not as good as we hoped. In this talk, I will walk you through a few of my failed attempts at developing accessible web applications. We'll go through different accessibility assumptions and myths that I wrongly believed to be true and how to avoid them by properly testing for accessibility.

AI Showcase

Everyone — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The Async community has been busy prompting so it's time we give that creativity a stage. An AI Show n' Tell.. a Prompt n' Tell!

Nodeventure: May the Fourth (Ep. 2 of 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:15:00 GMT

... be with you.

Nodeventure: May the Fourth (Ep. 1 of 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:15:00 GMT

... be with you.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2023

Everyone — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Managing complex UK Energy Interactions with EDA

Kev Baldwyn — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The UK energy industry is made up of lots of parties that need to communicate information with each other. Historically the methods used have been largely file based, with EDF needing to share the data internally between many different systems for many different needs.

Alexa to the rescue of inaccessible websites

Alex Nicol — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The Web is over 30 years old, yet some websites are still not accessible.

Silicon Brighton Big Festive Meetup

Silicon Brighton — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:00:00 GMT

As the year draws to a close, Silicon Brighton is excited to host the Big Festive Meetup! This will be a super informal event to bring everyone together across all the meetups we support and celebrate the festive season. Catch up with friends you’ve met through the year, meet new connections from different parts of the tech community, and make new contacts for the year ahead.

Async Christmas Quiz 2022

Quizmaster Alise — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Hold onto your (Santa) hats for a fresh instalment of the Async Christmas Quiz. Join us as we wind down for 2022’s final first-Thursday-of-the-month in festive December, and we reflect on another fabulous and varied year of Async meetups. This year join us in-person or follow along online.

2022 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - ffconf 2022 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show 'n' tell! This year's installment will be on Thursday 10th November.

JavaScript Golf 3

Tom Parslow — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Come and join us on Thursday October 6th where Tom Parslow - long time Async attendee and chief code typer at Buzzshot.com, will task us to solve a series of challenges using JavaScript. The catch - you have to write as little JavaScript as possible. Solve each challenge in the least number of characters to win the game. Imagine the kind of stuff you’d never want to see make it into a real codebase… that’s what we’re looking for!

10 ways the 💩 emoji can break your app

Remi Shergold — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Ever wanted to break someone’s app with a single well placed 💩?

The Speed of Write

Jake 'Sid' Smith — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:15:00 GMT

We're back at Spaces this coming Thursday for an event that we don't believe we've had anything quite like before.

How to Level-up as a Developer

Simon Downes — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Our next event will be the first held at what we hope to be our standard venue for the foreseeable future: Spaces - just round the corner from our previous long standing venue.

Ask the Hybrid Brains, Spring 2022

Everyone — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:15:00 GMT

We're back! After 2 years without human contact you will finally have the opportunity to come face-to-face with like-minded developers and enthusiasts! Can't make it in-person? Don't worry, you'll also be able to join us online.

Bringing data into your repos using Flat Data

Amelia Wattenberger, Irene Alvarado, Matt Rothenberg — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.

Svelte Extravaganza

pngwn — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Since its debut, Svelte has captured an unprecedented level of interest across the web community. Supercharged with SvelteKit, we'll learn about a framework fit for a new generation of production-ready apps.

Play them off, Keyboard App: building a virtual keyboard in JavaScript

Sophie Koonin — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Did you know your browser has a whole API dedicated to synthesizing and playing audio?

Async Christmas Quiz 2021

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:30:00 GMT

Welcome back for another Async Christmas Quiz! Despite all the challenges, it’s been a great year in Async-land, with great talks on everything from Accessibility to React Native, as well as some cracking community events such as Ask the Brains and the Show’n’Tell.

Two-Dimensional Show'n'Tell

Everyone — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:30:00 GMT

The nights are coming earlier and the wind is blowing cooler, but Async is here to take your mind off the end of "summer" with another of our world famous Show'n'Tells!

How to prevent the collapse of society by building an accessible web

Salma Alam-Naylor — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:30:00 GMT

It’s 2031. Society, as we knew it in 2021, has officially collapsed. Broken hardware and a very slow internet connection are all we have left.

Creating offline and 'instant' websites - aka Progressive Web Apps

Craig West — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:30:00 GMT

The term Progressive Web Apps can be misleading, implying some framework/library or special architecture. In reality, PWAs are regular websites that use HTML5 APIs to create offline sites that have near instant speed. Anything less than 100ms is deemed 'instant' by the brain.

Startup Patterns and Practices

Andrew Cheeseman — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:45:00 GMT

As web developers, chances are that at some point in our careers we might work for a startup, or even found one ourselves. These opportunities are exhilarating and intense, but are there ways we can increase the chances of being part of the small percentage of startups that make it big? That's the focus of August's Async.

Design systems in React Native

David Leuliette — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:45:00 GMT

David Leuliette will be taking us from zero to hero with React Native thanks to the power of design systems. No prior knowledge of React or React Native will be required.

A Night with Vue

Phil Lennon, Daniel Roe — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:45:00 GMT

We'll have two talks for June's Async, giving us a comprehensive overview of Vue.js. First up, we'll have Phil Lennon with "A Brief Introduction to Vue.js".

Ask the Online Brains, Autumn 2020

Everyone — Thu, 06 May 2021 19:45:00 GMT

We've had two Ask the Online Brains sessions since the start of this pandemic, and it's time for what will hopefully be our last one where we're all joining from our kitchen tables/bedrooms/shepherd's huts.

Testing made simple

Stefan Buck — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Testing your changes before they make it to production is crucial to ensure high-quality and robust software. When Stefan started web development in 2006, testing was not widely adopted and rather an exception.

Fullstack Jamstack Development with RedwoodJS

Anthony Campolo — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:45:00 GMT

RedwoodJS is a fullstack serverless framework for the Jamstack that combines a variety of modern technologies including React, GraphQL, and Prisma. In this talk, Anthony Campolo (RedwoodJS Core Advocate), will explain the origins and motivations behind RedwoodJS. He will also demonstrate how to create a RedwoodJS app from scratch and deploy it to the internet.

ARIA Ready to Learn About Accessibility?

Abby Mitchell — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Abby Mitchell will be giving us the low down on a crucial aspect of every web developer's life - accessibility.

Async Christmas Quiz

Pete Goodman, Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Welcome to the first ever Async Christmas Quiz! As we welcome web tech loving folk of all levels of experience, this will not be a quiz about how much JavaScript you know - it's a community quiz more in line with a traditional pub quiz. So please come along, either as a team or by yourself, and let's send off this rotten year in style!

Unifying frameworks with Web Components

Craig West — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Web Components, or Custom HTML tags, allow us to create our own custom HTML tags that are native to the browser. They can be used as a modular library for organisations, or be used to create complete applications using 'the platform'.

Ask the Online Brains, Autumn 2020

Everyone — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:45:00 GMT

2020 rumbles on and no sign of us being able to all meet up in person anytime in the near future sadly. To cheer ourselves up, we're having a re-run of the popular and successful Ask the Brains session we had back in May. For those new to the format, here's a recap:

Teaching code as a foreign language

Sophie Koonin — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:00:00 GMT

How can you set developers up for success? Think like an English teacher.

Two Dimensional Show n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:30:00 GMT

Following the success of Ask the Online Brains, and with regular programming still suspended, we have decided to run an online version of another classic Async event. On Thurs 2nd July 2020 at 19:30 we are organising a "Two dimensional Show and Tell".

Ask the Online Brains, Spring 2020

Everyone — Thu, 21 May 2020 20:10:00 GMT

What with one thing and another, and with regular programming suspended, we've decided to have a go at a virtual Async event.

How we built the web in five days

Jeremy Keith, Remy Sharp — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:15:00 GMT

The World Wide Web turned 30 years old this year. To mark the occasion, a motley group of web nerds gathered at CERN, the birthplace of the web, to build a time machine. The first ever web browser was, confusingly, called WorldWideWeb. What if we could recreate the experience of using it ...but within a modern browser! Join (Je)Remy on a journey through time and space and code as they excavate the foundations of Tim Berners-Lee's gloriously ambitious and hacky hypertext system that went on to conquer the world.

Future of AR/VR on the Web

Ada Rose Cannon — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Ada Rose Cannon will present the future of augmented and virtual reality on the web. More details to be confirmed.

Learning serverless in 60 min

Ben Smith, Senior Developer Advocate @ AWS — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:15:00 GMT

With serverless backends, front-end developers can build confidently in the cloud from prototype to production without managing infrastructure.

Why do we need Kubernetes?

Ollie Edwards — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:15:00 GMT

In 1768 Voltaire proclaimed “if Kubernetes didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent it” which was impressive as Kubernetes was still some 240 years from being invented. This talks aims to unpick this uncanny prescience by imagining a world where Kubernetes does not exist and investigating how we would solve problems with standardisation and operation of modern applications without it.

Why Frontend Needs a Standard Server Runtime

Glenn Maddern — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:15:00 GMT

For frontend developers, it feels like the tools and platforms on offer have never been better. But dig a little deeper, and you'll see that while things are pretty rosy for statically-hosted apps, there's a rapid increase in complexity when adding server-side logic or rendering. In this talk, we'll look at how that manifests, what it means for each of your apps & the open-source landscape at large, and how a new project, Frontend Application Bundles or FABs, can help solve it.

Designing Network Sympathetic Applications

Chris Tomkins — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Network specialist Chris Tomkins' talk will take you through some interesting and non-obvious characteristics of how TCP/IP networks like the Internet work, and how you can design your client-server applications to be "good citizens" and perform well in a variety of suboptimal networking scenarios.

2019 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - FFConf 2019 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show'n'tell! This year's instalment will be on Thursday 7th November. The ever popular International show'n'tell is the perfect opportunity to give a peek at your passion project, try out a lightning talk, or just share what's on your mind.

Virtual Jungle

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Come along to the Async BDF Special to help create an immersive augmented-reality jungle scene which you can view directly on your phone's web browser!

Editing the world

Julian Krispel-Samsel — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Ever wondered how to implement editors in the browser? What about repeatable and reversible changes, rich text, syntax highlighting, mixing text with arbitrary content or god forbid - editing recursive data structures as text?

The nitty-gitty

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Git is not complicated, but it is complex (and confusing). In this talk, Daniel explains the basic building blocks of git: commits, blobs, trees and refs. He then builds on this foundation, past branches and merges to remotes and rebases in an attempt to demystify the tool we all rely on.

An introduction to AR.js and A-Frame

Ed Silverton — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Ed Silverton will be presenting some of the WebAR work he has been doing at Mnemoscene, followed by a coding workshop to introduce some of the basic concepts, including how to use GLTF objects, custom markers, and animation. This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced web developers with an interest in learning AR.js and A-Frame.

An Introduction to Gatsby and Gatsby Themes

Mike Allanson — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:15:00 GMT

What is Gatsby? Learn how you can use it to build performant web apps and sites. We’ll cover getting started, sourcing data, and some of Gatsby’s built-in performance optimisations. To finish up we’ll learn about the future of Gatsby with Gatsby Themes.

Semprola, a semiotic programming language

Oli Sharpe — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Most programming languages are built on ideas that were developed in the 1950s and 1960s and yet a lot about how we use computers has changed since then. Brighton local Oli Sharpe has been researching ideas about how one would build a contemporary programming language given how we use computers today.

Ask the Brains Spring 2019

Everyone — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:15:00 GMT

After last year's successful Ask the Brains event, we'll be rebooting it for 2019.

React Hooks

Matthew McCorry — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:15:00 GMT

The highly anticipated feature of React Hooks has finally been released. We can now add state and use side effects in our functional React components.

Imposter Syndrome

Pete — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Imposter syndrome. You may have heard of it. You may have suffered from it. You might not even have realised it at the time.

govuk-react - our UI component library and CI pipeline

Alasdair McLeay, Steve Sims — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:15:00 GMT

govuk-react is a React component library for building govuk-styled web applications. We will be giving a demo of its usage, an overview of the technologies used to develop it and show our continuous integration setup including visual regression tests and preview environments.

WebGL with Dan Neame

Dan Neame — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Dan Neame will be kicking off the new Async year with a talk on WebGL. Please note that it'll be on the second Thursday of the month, to allow us all time recover from our festive hangover!

Useable, Grammatical and Readable code

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:15:00 GMT

As software developers, we all know that we need to make our code more readable - but how exactly? There is not a lot of literature out there on the subject, and what there is can be very dogmatic and contradictory.

2018 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - FFConf 2018 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show'n'tell! This year's instalment will be on Wednesday 7th November - not Thursday. The ever popular International show'n'tell is the perfect opportunity to give a peek at your passion project, try out a lightning talk, or just share what's on your mind.

Supercharged Spreadsheets

Tibor Besze — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:15:00 GMT

We all know the struggle, when a feature request sounds like the perfect job for a spreadsheet. But... there's always a tiny detail that makes us believe it's not quite enough to do the job. Or is it? In this talk, Tibor Besze will demonstrate how to utilise Google Apps Scripts (and a wide variety of Google services and APIs) to get the most out of your Google Sheets. The talk is aimed at Javascript developers of all skill levels, and includes a live demonstration.

Double bill - Electron and Unit Testing

Dan Neame, Mark Everitt — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:15:00 GMT

October will see the return of the famed Async "Double Bills".

Compression

Niall Coleman — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:15:00 GMT

I've always been amazed about how compression formats and algorithms work. Over the past couple of years, I have created a game that features a hand-rolled compression algorithm for the game maps. These consist of two 2D arrays of numbers, corresponding to the game tiles. However, this format can be applied to an integer array of any number of dimensions.

React Native

David Sharp — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Over the recent years, various attempts have been made to bring app development to the web development community, with varying degrees of success and popularity. Facebook's offering asks devs to leverage their knowledge of React and its ecosystem, but ditch the DOM, to allow for frictionless development of performant iOS and Android apps. However, with their "learn once, write anywhere" approach, is React Native really as straightforward as the marketing blurb would have you believe? In this talk, we'll cover how easy it is to get your React Native code running on a real device, offer a primer to the React and JSX way of life, and discuss some of the hurdles you might come across.

Alexa workshop

Jez Nicholson — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Amazon tutorials will help you make your first Hello World/Alexa app, but what then? Building a Voice User Interface raises questions that will apply to any app build. Jez will take you on a lightning tour of what he has learned so far. There will be slides+talk, there will be activities, there will be live(ish) coding. You should leave the session with an idea of how Alexa works and what a real-life project might involve..

Intro to Rust

Oliver Winks — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Rust is a new language developed by Mozilla which takes an interesting approach to memory management and memory safety. We'll be taking a look at Rust's "big idea" and the thing that makes it unique; ownership and borrowing. This language level feature forms the cornerstone of Rust and is a common source of trouble for people picking up the language.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Andy Hume — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:15:00 GMT

I'm fascinated by how websites are built and released in to the world. I've been doing it in all sorts of ways for over fifteen years at companies like Microsoft, the Guardian, Twitter, and currently Brandwatch in Brighton. Over that time I've got somewhat opinionated about effective ways of releasing things on the web, whether that's web frontends, APIs, or cloud infrastructure.

Show n' Tell Spring 2018

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:15:00 GMT

It's 2018 and after a few great talks, and our new Ask The Brains evening of tech discussion, we're back with another Show n' Tell! Last year we had a great range of projects and topics ranging from creative CSS animations and generating "marble flow" textures in real time, to taking a look at some emerging languages and proposals for unit testing tools. And, not to forget, we had our youngest ever speaker, at only 8 years old, showing off a javascript game they had made.

Limitation breeds creativity

Cassie Evans — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:15:00 GMT

In web dev, sometimes the sheer volume of things to learn can be overwhelming. Pair this with anxiety and a tendency to procrastinate and you’ve got the perfect recipe for doing absolutely nothing.

Ask the Brains

Everyone — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:15:00 GMT

And now for something a little different. This session, the content will be in your hands. Rather than having one speaker speaking on one topic, we'll be covering a range of topics chosen on the night, and leveraging the power of the mighty brains of Async to demystify, enlighten, and wax lyrical.

Firebase

Harry Hogg — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:15:00 GMT

We've all had that night where we get a great idea for a side project, and to make it really great it needs to have authentication, persistent state, some sort of backend to handle the stuff we can't expose to the frontend. If you think it's a really great idea you might even throw in some analytics.

Ruby rocks

Dorothy Wingrove — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Async has primarily been a JavaScript meetup since it was founded (back in 2010!). We can all learn a lot from looking at other languages though, and one of the more elegant web languages around is Ruby. Luckily, our own Dot Wingrove is a Rubyist and will be our guide.

2017 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:15:00 GMT

What's that? November already? Crikey, time for another International Async Show'n'tell! Following on from last year's success, ffconf 2017 will again be over two days, so to prevent clashing with the afterparties we'll be meeting on Wednesday 8th November - not Thursday. The International show'n'tell has become an institution in its own right, and is a perfect opportunity to give a peek at your passion project, try out a lightning talk, or just share what's on your mind.

Code, Explore, Create. Inspirational Demos from codebar

The Codebar Brighton team — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:15:00 GMT

For those who haven't heard of us, codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular programming workshops. The atmosphere at each weekly codebar meeting is pretty special – a great mix of catching-up, idea sharing and learning. In addition to meeting weekly, we work hard to offer interesting and exciting events and workshops.

Pathfinding with Snake: A Javascript Hacknight

Harry Hogg — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Pathfinding is a concept that we all encounter in our day to day lives. In software, like SatNavs planning the quickest route to a destination or utility companies installing infrastructure in the most efficient way possible. In our own brains, from a premeditated route to the train station or a split second decision of your next step to avoid a fellow pedestrian.

Getting into the Flow: Static Types for Javascript

Everyone — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Static type systems are all the rage these days. +<![CDATA[Async]]>

A Dive from a Rusty Bridge

James Hugman — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Sync Different: Building Local-First Apps

Dave Pereira-Gurnell — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Improve your Multi-Factor Auth with Firebase and Vonage APIs

Amanda Cavallaro — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT

JavaScript Golf 4

Tom Parslow — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Real-time collaboration for COGS with Redux

Chetan Padia — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Chetan Padia will show the journey of taking COGS - an immersive theatre and escape room control system - from an single-user desktop app to a web-based multi-user collaborative app.

Particle Flow

Peter Cook — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Peter Cook will show how to create particle flow animations. These use similar techniques to visualisations such as the hint.fm wind map and Cameron Beccario's wind map.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2024

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:00:00 GMT

International Women's Day

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

14th Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Throw Away Your JavaScript

Olly Chadwick — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Inspirational demos from codebar

codebar — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:00:00 GMT

🕖 New start time! From 2024 our events will start slightly earlier at 7.00pm

Async Christmas Quiz 2023

Quizmasters Alise & Michal — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:15:00 GMT

2023 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Puck: the visual editor for React

Chris Villa — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Load Up on SvelteKit

Scott Spence — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:15:00 GMT

On the 14th of September (the second Thursday of the month) Scott Spence will be giving a Svelte and SvelteKit primer talk with a dive into data loading with practical examples.

TypeScript Tales and Tailwind Types

Jake 'Sid' Smith, Yann Eves — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Good intentions gone bad

Eva Ferreira — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:15:00 GMT

AI Showcase

Everyone — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The Async community has been busy prompting so it's time we give that creativity a stage. An AI Show n' Tell.. a Prompt n' Tell!

Nodeventure: May the Fourth (Ep. 2 of 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:15:00 GMT

... be with you.

Nodeventure: May the Fourth (Ep. 1 of 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:15:00 GMT

... be with you.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2023

Everyone — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Managing complex UK Energy Interactions with EDA

Kev Baldwyn — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Alexa to the rescue of inaccessible websites

Alex Nicol — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The Web is over 30 years old, yet some websites are still not accessible.

Silicon Brighton Big Festive Meetup

Silicon Brighton — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:00:00 GMT

Async Christmas Quiz 2022

Quizmaster Alise — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:15:00 GMT

2022 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:15:00 GMT

JavaScript Golf 3

Tom Parslow — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:15:00 GMT

10 ways the 💩 emoji can break your app

Remi Shergold — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Ever wanted to break someone’s app with a single well placed 💩?

The Speed of Write

Jake 'Sid' Smith — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:15:00 GMT

We're back at Spaces this coming Thursday for an event that we don't believe we've had anything quite like before.

How to Level-up as a Developer

Simon Downes — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Our next event will be the first held at what we hope to be our standard venue for the foreseeable future: Spaces - just round the corner from our previous long standing venue.

Ask the Hybrid Brains, Spring 2022

Everyone — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Bringing data into your repos using Flat Data

Amelia Wattenberger, Irene Alvarado, Matt Rothenberg — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Svelte Extravaganza

pngwn — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Play them off, Keyboard App: building a virtual keyboard in JavaScript

Sophie Koonin — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Did you know your browser has a whole API dedicated to synthesizing and playing audio?

Async Christmas Quiz 2021

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:30:00 GMT

Two-Dimensional Show'n'Tell

Everyone — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:30:00 GMT

The nights are coming earlier and the wind is blowing cooler, but Async is here to take your mind off the end of "summer" with another of our world famous Show'n'Tells!

How to prevent the collapse of society by building an accessible web

Salma Alam-Naylor — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:30:00 GMT

It’s 2031. Society, as we knew it in 2021, has officially collapsed. Broken hardware and a very slow internet connection are all we have left.

Creating offline and 'instant' websites - aka Progressive Web Apps

Craig West — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:30:00 GMT

Startup Patterns and Practices

Andrew Cheeseman — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Design systems in React Native

David Leuliette — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:45:00 GMT

David Leuliette will be taking us from zero to hero with React Native thanks to the power of design systems. No prior knowledge of React or React Native will be required.

A Night with Vue

Phil Lennon, Daniel Roe — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:45:00 GMT

We'll have two talks for June's Async, giving us a comprehensive overview of Vue.js. First up, we'll have Phil Lennon with "A Brief Introduction to Vue.js".

Ask the Online Brains, Autumn 2020

Everyone — Thu, 06 May 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Testing made simple

Stefan Buck — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Fullstack Jamstack Development with RedwoodJS

Anthony Campolo — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:45:00 GMT

ARIA Ready to Learn About Accessibility?

Abby Mitchell — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Abby Mitchell will be giving us the low down on a crucial aspect of every web developer's life - accessibility.

Async Christmas Quiz

Pete Goodman, Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Unifying frameworks with Web Components

Craig West — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Ask the Online Brains, Autumn 2020

Everyone — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Teaching code as a foreign language

Sophie Koonin — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:00:00 GMT

How can you set developers up for success? Think like an English teacher.

Two Dimensional Show n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:30:00 GMT

Ask the Online Brains, Spring 2020

Everyone — Thu, 21 May 2020 20:10:00 GMT

What with one thing and another, and with regular programming suspended, we've decided to have a go at a virtual Async event.

How we built the web in five days

Jeremy Keith, Remy Sharp — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Future of AR/VR on the Web

Ada Rose Cannon — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Ada Rose Cannon will present the future of augmented and virtual reality on the web. More details to be confirmed.

Learning serverless in 60 min

Ben Smith, Senior Developer Advocate @ AWS — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:15:00 GMT

With serverless backends, front-end developers can build confidently in the cloud from prototype to production without managing infrastructure.

Why do we need Kubernetes?

Ollie Edwards — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Why Frontend Needs a Standard Server Runtime

Glenn Maddern — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Designing Network Sympathetic Applications

Chris Tomkins — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:15:00 GMT

2019 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Virtual Jungle

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Come along to the Async BDF Special to help create an immersive augmented-reality jungle scene which you can view directly on your phone's web browser!

Editing the world

Julian Krispel-Samsel — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:15:00 GMT

The nitty-gitty

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:15:00 GMT

An introduction to AR.js and A-Frame

Ed Silverton — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:15:00 GMT

An Introduction to Gatsby and Gatsby Themes

Mike Allanson — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Semprola, a semiotic programming language

Oli Sharpe — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Ask the Brains Spring 2019

Everyone — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:15:00 GMT

After last year's successful Ask the Brains event, we'll be rebooting it for 2019.

React Hooks

Matthew McCorry — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:15:00 GMT

The highly anticipated feature of React Hooks has finally been released. We can now add state and use side effects in our functional React components.

Imposter Syndrome

Pete — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Imposter syndrome. You may have heard of it. You may have suffered from it. You might not even have realised it at the time.

govuk-react - our UI component library and CI pipeline

Alasdair McLeay, Steve Sims — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:15:00 GMT

WebGL with Dan Neame

Dan Neame — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Dan Neame will be kicking off the new Async year with a talk on WebGL. Please note that it'll be on the second Thursday of the month, to allow us all time recover from our festive hangover!

Useable, Grammatical and Readable code

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:15:00 GMT

2018 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Supercharged Spreadsheets

Tibor Besze — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Double bill - Electron and Unit Testing

Dan Neame, Mark Everitt — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:15:00 GMT

October will see the return of the famed Async "Double Bills".

Compression

Niall Coleman — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:15:00 GMT

React Native

David Sharp — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Alexa workshop

Jez Nicholson — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Intro to Rust

Oliver Winks — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Andy Hume — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Show n' Tell Spring 2018

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Limitation breeds creativity

Cassie Evans — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:15:00 GMT

In web dev, sometimes the sheer volume of things to learn can be overwhelming. Pair this with anxiety and a tendency to procrastinate and you’ve got the perfect recipe for doing absolutely nothing.

Ask the Brains

Everyone — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Firebase

Harry Hogg — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Ruby rocks

Dorothy Wingrove — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:15:00 GMT

2017 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Code, Explore, Create. Inspirational Demos from codebar

The Codebar Brighton team — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Pathfinding with Snake: A Javascript Hacknight

Harry Hogg — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Getting into the Flow: Static Types for Javascript

Dave Gurnell — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Static type systems are all the rage these days. Languages like Typescript, Elm, and Purescript, use static types to reason about code without running it, eliminating certain classes of bugs and making code easier to understand.

Mapping with D3

Peter Cook — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:15:00 GMT

For thousands of years humans have sought to understand the physical world through the making of maps, and that is as true today as it was all those millennia ago. Countless tools now exist to help with making maps and the JavaScript world is no exception, with several libraries that make it easier than ever to create and experiment with maps. One of those libraries is D3, which contains some powerful features for making beautiful interactive maps.

GraphQL with Tom Ashworth

Tom Ashworth — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:15:00 GMT

This talk will see the long-awaited return of Tom Ashworth.