Meetup #125

Aleksandra Czetwertyńska

Tech is not enough: how soft skills became 'power skills'? 

While technical skills are crucial, they are no longer enough to thrive in today's workplace. Soft skills—such as communication, adaptability, and emotional intelligence—have become "power skills" that drive leadership, teamwork, and innovation. How to develop them? We will explain using the best practices at 42 Warsaw.

Gil Fink

Mastering Task Management in JavaScript 

In modern web development, efficient task management is crucial for ensuring smooth user experiences. Long-running JavaScript tasks can block the main thread, leading to janky, unresponsive interfaces. This session will explore the importance of managing tasks and how to allow the browser to prioritize user interactions. We'll discuss how to defer non-urgent tasks, improve responsiveness, and optimize performance by leveraging the browser's built-in scheduling capabilities. Join us to learn how to elevate your JavaScript performance game and create more responsive web applications.

Bartek Legięć

Taming LLMs — How to make computers speak 01010001 again? 

LLMs are great at understanding and replying in natural language. But... it's not something that we always need. Sometimes we do require a rigid structure of data to be able to properly use it. In this talk I will show you how to make LLMs behave as we need them to!

Mikhail Korolev

Scaling your April Fools joke to 5 (Lightning Talk ⚡️)