State of Front End 2024
I had the privilege of providing my thoughts on the accessibility section, and the honour of working on this report alongside many legends in tech.
Salma Alam-Naylor
United Kingdom
Salma writes code for your entertainment. She specialises in streaming live coding, and loves helping people get into tech. After a career as a music teacher and comedian, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead for startups, agencies and global e-commerce. Active in the developer community, Salma is a GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, winner of the Jamstack Conf Community Creator Award 2021, and a partnered Twitch streamer where she builds weird websites, roasts your code, and chats about the tech industry every week. She'll also try to make you laugh with tech jokes.
Community Contributions
Entertainment as Code @ Web Unleashed
Imagine if we could blur the lines between a streamer being live and offline on Twitch. What if we could create a world where people could interact with a live stream, not just when it’s live but when it’s offline as well? What if we could create a game that people could play on a stream, and what if that game didn’t stop when the stream ends?
Taking inspiration from music, education, and the thrill of live performance, Entertainment As Code redefines Twitch live coding streams. It showcases how you can create a live coding show on Twitch that is fun, entertaining, and a little bit addictive, not just through the code you write on the stream, but through the code you write for the stream.
Entertainment as Code: Finale
Imagine if we could blur the lines between a streamer being live and offline on Twitch. And what if the game didn’t stop when the stream ends?
Part Of The Process: How Failure Shapes Success
As Adam Savage has famously said many times, “Failure is always an option.” Even very successful, thoughtful, and experienced people make mistakes. Behind every successful career is a trail of failure along the way.
I joined a panel of web experts to discuss how we failed, what we learned, and how failure has reshaped our careers and made us better at their jobs.
Work is meaningless, and it almost killed my husband
Work is an exchange of time for money.
I conducted a community survey and here’s what I learned
A look into some data surrounding my audience and tech content creation in general.
Entertainment as Code @ Middlesbrough Front End
The world tour of this talk continues.
Entertainment as Code @ React Norway
Taking inspiration from music, education, and the thrill of live performance, Entertainment as Code redefines Twitch live coding streams. It showcases how you can create a live coding show on Twitch that is fun, entertaining (and a little bit addictive), not just through the code you write on the stream, but through the code you write for the stream.
