In real life: the feature is urgent, the code is complex, and we at least need to keep things consistent, right? So, how do you stick to "good practices" -- in practice?

Well, sorting out your code is a bit like sorting out your life. If you shift your perspective, solutions tend to reveal themselves. I will show 20 real examples of React hooks, component compositions, types and interfaces "before and after" a Zen change. You will learn the 3 questions to ask when reading code that reveal how to reduce complexity, ease confusion, and relieve suffering.

The easiest thing to do is often what causes hours of debugging down the line. With LLMs becoming increasingly normalized in the industry, an overreliance on them can allow bugs to slip through the cracks.

In this talk, I'll demonstrate a practical debugging workflow: Debug first. Prompt second. I'll show how browser DevTools reveal what's actually happening faster than any AI can guess.

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AI in your codebase represents growth, but understanding your runtime state represents mastery. This talk is about balancing both and knowing which tool to reach for first.

Cognitive stress has always been a challenge when dealing with new languages, features and APIs. Oftentimes, we find ourselves experimenting with new features, rather than only reading their documentation. Either with a debugger, a REPL environment, or a thousand console.logs, we explore what these tools do. But what if there was something that will further cut the time between writing code and seeing the result? JS Eval is a tool that achieves exactly this by displaying the evaluation results of your program directly where they come from. Join me as we dive into its plethora of features and how they can help you understand the new tools you encounter!

Let's be honest, nowadays most of us see an error, copy it into ChatGPT, and hope for the best. I've done it. You've done it. We've all wasted 30 minutes going back and forth with AI when our browser could've shown us the answer in 2 minutes.

This talk is about remembering that our browsers have incredible debugging tools we've forgotten how to use. Through live demos of real bugs, I'll show you how breakpoints, call stacks, and the network tab can solve problems maybe faster than any AI assistant.

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