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28/03/2026

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Ken Wheeler breaks down the 2026 engineering shift, doing the heavy lifting so you can stop «babysitting» overconfident AI and start architecting the future 🚀

Discover the mindset shift from manual coding to «Vibe Coding» and «Personal Software» that defines high-level engineering in the AI era.

🎹 Ken Wheeler is a Staff Engineer and the architect behind the legendary slick-carousel. As the founder of WheelerDefense and a prolific Synthwave Artist, he focuses on bridging the gap between high-scale production systems and experimental hardware engineering.

🟢 The «Kenneth Law» Strategy: How to identify the moment your AI starts lying and why you must «take the reins» when it gets stuck in a loop of false confidence.
🟢 The Era of Personal Software: Why ultra-cheap AI labor allows you to build «throwaway» tools and why «Vibe Coding» is the ultimate experimental framework for 2026.
🟢 The Death of One-Shotting: Why elaborate prompts fail and how to move toward iterative, spec-driven development using scaffolds and types.
🟢 Digging Deep to the Metal: Moving past surface-level UI to understand the math and signal processing behind your tools—from low pass filters to hardware logic.
🟢 From Flash to AI Architect: Personal career lessons from the «Wild West» of Flash and jQuery that translate into surviving and thriving in today’s automated landscape.
And more!

Watch the full podcast on the YouTube Channel!
🔗 Link in Bio: YouTube | React Conferences By GitNation 💚

12/03/2026

Is true seniority the ability to explain complex concepts in the simplest way possible? 🤔 One of the JSNation attendees takes on the challenge!

How many of these could you explain to a Junior in 10 seconds?
✅ Event Loop
✅ Async/Await
✅ Closures
✅ Debounce vs Throttle
✅ REST vs GraphQL

Save this for your next technical interview prep! 📌

10/03/2026

Elevate your engineering craft from writing code to building legacies! 🚀

👉 Join the Web Engineering Summit 2026 to master high-scale architecture and build the next generation of resilient web systems.

Our deep-dive tracks focus on the core pillars of modern engineering: reliability, high-performance patterns, security, and superior developer experience (DX).

Here is what we’ll be diving into at Web Engineering Summit 2026:
🚀 High-Performance Web & Observability
🏗️ Modern Full-stack Infrastructure
⚖️ Reliability & Scalability at Scale
👥 Engineering Management & Team Productivity
🛡️ Security & Modern Web Standards
🤖 AI in Engineering Workflow

Get direct takeaways from the engineers and core contributors who are evolving the world’s most complex web platforms and setting new industry standards 🔥

🗓 June 11 & 15, 2026
📍 Amsterdam & Online

🔥 Early Bird tickets are now live! Secure access at the lowest price:
Link in Bio!

07/03/2026

Next.js isn’t slow: YOU are blocking the UI 🛑
New Podcast Alert! 🚀

We sat down with Aurora Scharff, DX Engineer at Vercel, to uncover the truth about modern React performance. If your navigation feels laggy, it’s likely not the framework—it’s your architecture.

Why you need to watch this:
✅ Mastering React 19 async primitives.
✅ The end of manual loading states (finally!).
✅ Why «unblocking» the page is the secret to 2026 UX.

Watch the full Podcast on the YouTube Channel!
🔗 Link in bio: YouTube | React Conferences by GitNation 💚

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6 days until the price rise! ⏳👉🏻 Join the AI Coding Summit!🕐 Feb 26 & 27 | OnlineFocus: AI Agents, LLM Orchestration & C...
13/02/2026

6 days until the price rise! ⏳

👉🏻 Join the AI Coding Summit!
🕐 Feb 26 & 27 | Online

Focus: AI Agents, LLM Orchestration & Code Reviews ⚙️

Expertise: Engineers from Google, Anthropic, AWS and more 🛡

Community: 5,000+ senior developers 🤝

Secure your best-priced ticket now! 🎟
🔗 Link in Bio.

12/02/2026

If AI agents talk directly to services, where does that leave the UI developer? 📉 The legend Kent C. Dodds has the answer.

At the AI Coding Summit, discover why MCP (Model Context Protocol) makes your skills more critical than ever:

⚡️ The Shift: Moving from static forms to agent-driven workflows.
🛡 The Safety: Why MCP apps need interactive UIs, not just text.
🛠 The Standard: Building interfaces that empower AI agents.

Don’t get left behind. Master the new interaction model before it’s the default! 🚀

🗓 February 26 | Online 🔗 Link in bio for tickets!

19/01/2026

🛑 Your job is NOT writing code.

Think AI is coming for your seat? Steve Sewell (CEO of Builder.io) explains why the reality is the exact opposite for Senior Engineers.

The role of an engineer is shifting from «code writer» to «problem solver» and «AI agent manager.»
👉🏻 This talk breaks down how to use LLMs to scale your output and deliver value faster without sacrificing quality.

📺 Watch the full Talk on our YouTube channel to master the new AI Workflows:
Link in Bio: YouTube | React Summit

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The best networking happens backstage 🤫Want to see how the world’s most elite tech summits are built? Step behind the cu...
17/01/2026

The best networking happens backstage 🤫

Want to see how the world’s most elite tech summits are built? Step behind the curtain at GitNation’s events like React Summit and JSNation.

As a GitNation volunteer, you don’t just attend — you join the inner circle:

🤝 Direct Access: Rub shoulders with speakers from Google, Meta, and AWS.
🎙 Insiders Only: Coordinate sessions for the creators of the frameworks you use daily.
🔓 Knowledge Bank: Get 6 months of free access to our entire library of expert talks.

Ready to influence the experience and level up your network? 📈

💫 Apply via the link in our Volunteer highlights.

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09/01/2026

⛔️ Stop silent performance regressions and unintended dynamic rendering in the Next.js App Router ⛔️
A new Technical Deep Dive by Wyatt Johnson is already on YouTube Channel!
🔗 Find it in Bio: links - YouTube | React Summit

Wyatt Johnson (Software Engineer on the Next.js team at Vercel) is focusing on moving from segment-level configurations to a code-centric caching model.

You will learn how to shift error detection from production runtime to the build phase using the new Cache Components architecture.

Key technical takeaways:
🟢 Build-time guardrails: Why Next.js 16 produces errors when dynamic data is accessed outside of Suspense.
🟢 Cache Components: Integrating Partial Prerendering (PPR) and Dynamic IO into a single configuration.
🟢 New Directives: Implementation of use cache and cacheLife for granular control.
🟢 API Deprecations: Why export const revalidate and dynamic segment configs are being replaced.
🟢 generateStaticParams: Fixing the «empty array» loophole that masks production errors.

Watch now via the link!

07/01/2026

We give engineering candidates a task that is impossible to finish in one hour. Literally impossible. Unless... they use AI.

Here is why we encourage people to use ChatGPT in interviews.

But hiring is just the beginning 🚀
In the full talk, Andy Kuszyk (Staff Engineer at Typeform) breaks down the complete strategy for democratizing AI across the whole organization:

⚡️ The Tech Stack:
How they used AWS Bedrock & internal CLI tools to give every engineer unlimited, secure LLM access.

🛠 Federated Usage:
Why they stopped prescribing tools and empowered devs to choose their own stack (Cursor, Claude, etc.).

🚀 Beyond Engineering:
How Product Managers are now using AI to build functional prototypes and bridge the gap with Design.

👉🏻 Watch the full Talk 🔗 via Link in Bio (YouTube | JSNation)

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