Decoded Chats – second edition featuring Monica Dinculescu on Web Components

At SmashingConf Freiburg this year I was lucky enough to find some time to sit down with Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) and chat with her about Web Components, extending the web, JavaScript dependency and how to be a lazy but dedicated developer. I’m sorry about the sound of the recording and some of the harsher cuts but we’ve been interrupted by tourists trying to see the great building we were in who couldn’t read signs that it is closed for the day.

You can see the video and get the audio recording of our chat over at the Decoded blog:

I played a bit of devil’s advocate interviewing Monica as she has a lot of great opinions and the information to back up her point of view. It was very enjoyable seeing the current state of the web through the eyes of someone talented who just joined the party. It is far too easy for those who have been around for a long time to get stuck in a rut of trying not to break up with the past or considering everything broken as we’ve seen too much damage over the years. Not so Monica. She is very much of the opinion that we can trust developers to do the right thing and that by giving them tools to analyse their work the web of tomorrow will be great.

I’m happy that there are people like her in our market. It is good to pass the torch to those with a lot of dedication rather than those who are happy to use whatever works.