A presentation at C3 Festival in in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Chris Heilmann
35 YEARS OF WWW Working as a Content Creator, Designer and Developer With the Coolest Medium Ever CHRIS HEILMANN (@CODEPO8), C3DEVFEST, AMSTERDAM 06/2024
Christian Heilmann @codepo8 đ VP DevRel at WeAreDevelopers đ Wrote a few books and hundreds of articles đ Worked on some of the biggest web products đ đ đ đ ex-Yahoo(4y), ex-Mozilla(4y), ex-MSFT (8y)⌠Presented at 100 conferences Trainer LinkedIn, Skillshare⌠Worked on Firefox, Microsoft Edge, VS Code and Chromium DevTools No university degree No finished job education
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MAN, I WAS AWESOME! (I GOT A BIT BETTER)
IT ALL STARTED WITH A FLOPPYâŚ
I SUCKED AT PLAYING GAMES AND IT WAS FRUSTRATING.
TCS â RUN â ENDLESS LIVES!
THOSE CRACKERS MUST BE SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL!
OPEN SESAME!
FREEZE GAME â EDIT SCREEN â FIND LIVES COUNTER ADDRESS (F.E. $0410) â HUNT MEMORY FOR CE 10 04 (DEC $0410) â REPLACE WITH EA EA EA (NOP NOP NOP) â ENDLESS LIVES!
THE DOOR WAS OPEN, AND I TOOK ONE STEP AT A TIME AND KEPT EXPLORING! LETâS GO
THINGS I LEARNED
⢠Nothing can hold you back when you are good at analysing and repeating THINGS I LEARNED ⢠Everything you see on screen came from somewhere - it is never set in stone ⢠It is much more fun to explore and tweak than to get something handed to you
⢠Working in a limited/unknown environment is a wonderful challenge THINGS I LEARNED ⢠You donât need to feel limited by the environment you target you can use whatever you want to create for it ⢠The more people do this, the more best practices can be shared.
160 Ă 200 PIXELS (ON A 320 Ă 200 PIXELS DISPLAY) 16 PREDEFINED COLOURS 1 SCREEN-WIDE BACKGROUND COLOUR. 3 COLOURS IN EACH 8 Ă 8 (4 Ă 2) PIXEL SQUARE
160 à 200 PIXELS (ON A 320 à 200 PIXELS DISPLAY) 16 PREDEFINED COLOURS 1 SCREEN-WIDE BACKGROUND COLOUR. 3 COLOURS IN EACH 8 à 8 (4 à 2) PIXEL SQUARE ⢠MUCH BETTER TOOLING ⢠EXPERIENCE ⢠SHARED TRICKERY AND KNOWLEDGE ⢠LOVE FOR THE PLATFORM
HELLO, WEB
⢠A big part of my success on HELLO VIEW SOURCE the web was using view source and reverse engineering ⢠We all did, donât let people tell you otherwise ⢠The lack of distance between creation and consumption was really down my alleyâŚ
⢠You learn best by teaching ⢠Sharing and making people THINGS LEARNED IN MY CAREER⌠grow with you is the best feeling ever ⢠If you feel down and ânot good enoughâ, create something - anything!
⢠Languages, platforms and tools come and go⌠THINGS LEARNED IN MY CAREER⌠⢠The main goal is to build things people can use, regardless of setup and abilityâŚ
⢠Analysing, fixing and THINGS LEARNED IN MY CAREER⌠optimising code is much more important than writing it⌠(especially in this GenAI world) ⢠Clever solutions get you famous/promoted but hurt you in the long termâŚ
⢠Closed platforms â they move fast and die young THINGS I SAW FAILING ⢠People fixing the current web by patching it instead of contributing ⢠Products built in a hurry promoted to be fully useful
VIEW-SOURCE ON STEROIDSâŚ
⢠Developer Tools have replaced view source DEVELOPER TOOLS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE⌠⢠We have incredible insight into what our code does in the browser ⢠Of course, not everybody is ready for thisâŚ
Open sesame! WELCOME TO CYBER SPACE, HELP THE CYBER POLICE!
⢠We are at the forefront of web media HERE IS WHERE WE COME IN. ⢠We are creators and makers - not consumers ⢠We have the privilege of open tools, an open platform and openly available documentation.
⢠Use GitHub to host your code, GETTING STARTED HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER⌠collaborate, execute your projects, write collaborative documentation and books⌠⢠Use social media to promote these products, share knowledge and invite people to learnâŚ
⢠Donât start from scratch - YOUâRE BUILDING ON EXISTING SOLUTIONS⌠contribute to existing projects. ⢠You donât even need to code. Help with UX, or document, or herd communities.
USE YOUR FRUSTRATION, ANGER AND YOUR DEVIOUSNESS FOR GOOD⌠⢠What we need more than ever right now is education ⢠Traditional education is encumbered by privilege and costs ⢠Weâve been lucky - it is time we give back
THE WEB IS THE MOST VERSATILE AND NON-ELITIST PLATFORM. GO AND MAKE YOUR MARK!
Thanks! Chris Heilmann christianheilmann.com @codepo8 wearedevelopers.com/about/newsletter
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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