Bites and Bytes: meetup for developers and designers in Lisbon

Our agenda

• Alexander Baygeldin, Backend Engineer at Evil Martians
  Taking the edge off: demystifying edge computing using Cloudflare Workers
  What is edge computing? Just another buzzword, or a useful tool for your toolbox? We’ll look at the unique benefits edge computing provide (and the limitations and constraints that come with them), discuss real-world use-cases of edge computing with the example of Cloudflare Workers, and, finally, we’ll deploy something, with a demo showing what we’ve learned in real time!
• Elizabet Oliveira, Senior Product Designer at Xata.io (previously Elastic)
  Building a Cassette Tape with SVGs and ReactJS
  In this talk, join us on an exciting exploration of SVGs and ReactJS, where we’ll showcase how these technologies come together to build compelling audio interfaces. Discover how this powerful combination opens up new possibilities for crafting engaging and immersive user experiences.
• Olga Rusakova, Head of Communications at Evil Martians
  Overcoming imposter syndrome: promoting yourself and your Open Source
  Developers mostly don’t like promotion. It’s not just about devs’ busy schedules and everlasting antagonism between accurate tech content and “promotional b.s.”—they do have reasons. But there are formats that can bring benefits to engineers—like recognition and commercialization of your open source and other real-life values.

Lightning talks

• Roman Shamin, Head of Design at Evil Martians
  Mastering dynamic UI theming for designers
  I’ll explain an essential new principle for generating dynamic UI themes on the fly. The key is the color transformations made possible by the new OKLCH color space, and I’ll use my latest APCA Contrast Figma plugin to demonstrate how it works.
• Gleb Stroganov, Product Designer at Evil Martians
  Customizing Icons to Complement Fonts
  Even neutral-looking fonts have near imperceptible characteristics that determine their look and feel. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how to identify these font characteristics and apply them to your icons with the goal of making them complement a UI’s font. We’ll look at detailed examples, show how to sharpen your eye for doing this type of work, and discuss possible pitfalls.