Introduction to Web Components

Presented at HighEdWeb 2019 Technical Academy, Milwaukee, WI (View Slides)

Web components work across modern browsers and can be used with any JavaScript library or framework that works with HTML. In this session, you learn why you would want to use web components, how to use them in your projects, and how to start making your own.

Around the Block and Back Again: The HAX Block Editor Plugin

Presented at WP Campus 2019, Portland, OR (View Slides)

Ah, the good old days, when the markup was semantic, developers cared about CSS, and the barrier to entry allowed accessibility experts and developers to work together. This session is nostalgia for the web we lost, part critique of where the web is headed, and part solution an introduction to HAX, an open source block editor project built with web components that work across modern browsers, and can be used with any JavaScript library or framework that works with HTML. Learn about the HAX plugin for WordPress, how you can use it, and how you can contribute back to the project.