Conference talk "Houdini's Magic Trick for the Enterprise" about the eminent problem-solving utility of little web components that do one thing, but do it well.
I tried to loosely follow https://nathanbrixius.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/how-i-create-presentation-content/.
However, preparing the short essay mutated into full-blown word-by-word speaker notes eventually.
And I decided to make the slides as conventional, individual HTML web pages. This turned out to be a good decision, because it allowed me to embed live demos right inside presentation slides — avoiding all the usual hassle with switching tabs or even applications for demoing stuff.
I did not have time to share styling between slides, which is one thing I would improve. I would also standardize a skeleton of slides, use a static site generator to share fragments across pages, and use the newfangled view transitions for page-to-page animation.
I presented this talk at AXA DevCon 2024, an internal developer conference of AXA Switzerland held on June 4, 2024, in Winterthur.
- Install bun.
bun installbun start- Point your browser at http://localhost:8080
- Press SPACE to advance to next slide.
- Slides 20 and 33 benefit from switching languages by way of the language selector in the top right corner.
I got an interesting question that expressed curiousity or even doubt about slide 33. The audience member asked to see the page source.
Using View Page Source on that very slide I could demonstrate that,
indeed, there was no hidden magic or precompilation involved, just
composition of few custom elements and normal HTML tags.
I also showed that in the Elements tab of Chrome Developer Tools one can see that both the <sig-nal> and <trans-late> web components are of the self-vanishing type, as explained in the speaker notes.