Inner Peace with JS, TS for dev team leverage, What I've been up to: 2023-ed

Hi Everyone! October just sped past and bam…November BrisJS is here already! So we get to see you Monday! RSVP is essential to let us know how many seats and pizzas/drinks to get!
Thanks to all those who volunteered to be speakers this Nov and Dec already; you're providing the secret sauce to our fun community event for the masters and novices alike. You're amazing - let's hear from more of you!

Enjoy our sponsored pizza by PCCW Global | Console Connect and drinks by BLACKROC while networking with your peers, as is standard at our famous events 🍕

Let's keep up the momentum with your talk submissions now that we're back locally with the drinks and cool talks, so please do consider supporting us with your great content so we can invite everyone to attend.
Likewise, please join us and get involved with your many questions! Let's have a look at the details below...

⏱ Schedule:
6:15 PM - Arrive & mingle - wait at Gallery Level (GL) elevators for security and staff to let you up (same level as the train station)
6:30 PM - Welcome & introductions by Kevin Vanderbeken
6:45 PM - Talks begin…

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☮️ Achieving Inner Peace (with Javascript) - Adam A (Github: adam-pccw) - 25min
This talk is a tour of all the ways to write production-ready JS in the most minimalist and stress-free way possible, eliminating many of the frustrations JS developers routinely deal with.
If you ever feel annoyed or tired starting new projects or dealing with the fast-paced JS ecosystem, this talk provides an alternative route that focuses on developer happiness and maximal code longevity. This is especially helpful for those with low working memory or with many personal projects to maintain.

⏱ Intermission - Pizza and Drinks networking!

🧩 How TypeScript allows us to effectively leverage our development team - Ian Walters (LinkedIn: ian-walters-67034b25) - 25min
Ian believes TypeScript (TS) is one of the few software languages that allow for development in almost any context. While overall an excellent tool for devs, this enables his team to have one software language across their entire product and as a consequence, better use the dev resources in the team by reducing knowledge silos & increasing their ability to shift focus where needed.
In this talk, Ian will highlight what TS brings to his team's product, across multiple very interesting areas and domains across the stack.
For each area, covering how TS is applies and why it's well suited. Ian discusses how this is all brought together as a project and why modern cloud arch is an ideal target for TS dev.
The talk will also reference some tech and approaches they don't yet use but still feel are worth considering.

📖 What I've been up to (2023 version!) - Benjamin Lupton (Github: balupton) - 25min
Back in our neighbourhood thanks to CampJS; Benjamin is here to present his recap of significant work since his talk by the same name all the way back in 2015! He graces us with a demo of Dorothy - dotfiles for automated devops, a demo of Boundation, and extracts from his CampJS talk on Auto-publish JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js/Deno packages. With his trademark blend of technology and philosophy, this is a highlight to close our night!

⏱ Closing - Safe trip home folks!

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❓ Why not volunteer to speak next time? We're taking talks anytime! https://brisjs.org/#present for details... or...
🔊 You can check our Github issues page for upcoming topics: https://github.com/BrisJS/meetups/issues
🆕 Submit a new topic with a template: http://tiny.cc/new-brisjs-talk

👉 Code of Conduct
BrisJS is dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: https://brisjs.org/#conduct
We expect everyone to abide by this straightforward policy to attend in person or interact online.

👉 Accessibility
The upper and lower car parks in Toowong Village are open until 10:30 at night, leaving plenty of time for you to leave after the event. BrisJS is wheelchair accessible from the taxi rank, car parks and train station, but please note the train station is only wheelchair accessible via the street after the centre closes at 9pm.

Please get in touch for presenting your insightful discoveries in the rapidly developing frontend or backend javascript world.
You're also welcome to get in touch with me at kevinv @brisjs.org (or tweet at @brisjs) for any information or future events.