Career advice, AI ethics and inspiring the next dev generation to care about the web at Web Unleashed

I just got back from Toronto, Canada, where I attended Web Unleashed a FITC organised three day conference with fifty talks in four tracks. Despite this size, the event felt cozy and not too spread out. There was a lot to learn and a truly stellar line-up of speakers to choose from.

Originally I was lined up to give a workshop together with Burke Holland on developer toolchain setup, but there were not enough sign-ups, so I “only” spoke on a panel about “Life as a lead developer”, gave a talk about AI, ethics and building human interfaces and the closing keynote.

“Life of a Senior Dev” @FITC #webu2018... that is just a dream to see all these people together... pic.twitter.com/aztRMhT3AT

— David Dias (@TheDavidDias) October 1, 2018

The slides of the AI and ethics talk are available here and I made a gist with all the resources I mentioned.

Excited to use @codepo8 and co.’s https://t.co/U7taVv1AiZ. It will help us create a better web. @FITC #webu18 pic.twitter.com/pIpcWzGRDV

— Marathon Consulting (@MarathonIT) October 2, 2018

The closing keynote slides are also on noti.st together with the resources mentioned in that one.

The resources mentioned in this one are here:

• Space Jam Web Site
• Creating Users, not Addicts
• European Internet Copyright Laws – link tax and upload filter
• FCC Net Neutrality ruling
• Trump Administration sueing California
• Internet cables attacked by sharks
• Former Google chief prediciting two internets: the US one, and a Chinese one
• China shutting down thousands of web sites
• China’s digital dictatorship
• Beaker Browser and Dat Project
• Tim Berners Lee’s Solid and Inrupt and the Fast Company Coverage
• Mozilla Developer Network
• Can I use
• Front End Checklist
• Visual Studio Code
• Webhint
• Webhint Visual Studio Code extension

I will write more about the subject of the closing keynote soon here.

I want to thank everyone involved in this event and hope that people learned something from my efforts. It is impressive how many great speakers were present and I had a wonderful time with some of the most relaxed parties.

I also realised that no matter how hard I try, I will never have the same presence as the devrel expert at the Shopify booth: