John PolacekChicago Web Developer

John Polacek is a web developer from Chicago who leads up front end at GiveSmart, runs ChicagoTechEvents.com and ships open source. Follow him on Twitter

Speaking at Front End Camp Chicago and Introducing TweenDeck

June 04, 2017

John Polacek speaking at Front End Camp Chicago

Over the weekend, I gave a talk titled “Rethinking CSS: Go Functional for Scaling, Performance & Simplicity” at Front End Camp Chicago. The event was organized by the folks at Chicago Camps who do a fantastic job of putting on conferences for a great price. Check out their upcoming events at chicagocamps.org.

In it I spoke about the various things I’ve learned as I have been working in Atomic, and provided actual stats from Gesture’s CSS dating back to when I first joined the company.

Rethinking CSS: Go Atomic for Scaling, Performance and Simplicity

You can see the slides from the talk here. Thanks to Sergio Gomez for taking the pic!

The other cool thing is that I built those slides with a new library that I created called TweenDeck. Powered by Greensock, it makes easy to add custom animations to web presentations. I have open sourced TweenDeck, check out the project page on Github here. I also built a fancy little introduction animation here.