Chris Heilmann dedicated the last 20 years of his life to make the web work and thrive. As a lead developer on some of the largest web products he learned that knowledge is not enough without teamwork and good handover. He dedicated most of his time since on educating, writing and sharing, presenting on average at 30 conferences a year. He strives to make code and coders work efficiently and get more done quickly without losing the understanding of what we do. He is the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Evangelism handbook (http://developer-evangelism.com). He is currently a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft and spends a lot of time pondering how machine learning and AI can aid humans and replace jobs we're too important to do.
Back in the late 90s, I worked as a radio newscaster and used computers as a hobby. First writing pretty pointless programs, then playing games, being bad at them and analysing the games how to give myself endless lives. Then I got access to the web and everything changed. I knew, this was the medium to support for the rest of my career. Here is a recount of 25 years of professional web development. The technologies that came and went, the struggles to get the resources I need and the wonderful, wild and bonkers things and people I encountered. And you also get an outlook why some products and technologies succeeded and why others failed.
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