April Event at In The Pocket

Dear members,
For our April event we'll be visiting the new offices of In The Pocket in Antwerp. In The Pocket is so kind to provide food and drinks for the evening.
Kwinten will talk about Nostr. Bramus will speak about "Scroll-Driven Animations with CSS".
We hope to see you soon,
Dries, Rias & Freek
PS: Please remember to change your RSVP if you cannot attend.
SCHEDULE
19:00 Doors Open
20:00 Start Talks

TALKS
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It by Kwinten
Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, and therefore it works. Oh and obviously it does not use a blockchain at all.
This talk will give an overview of the features, the philosophy, the history of the protocol, and a live coding session to demonstrate how it works.
Speaker: I’m Kwinten, born in 1994, physicist-turned-software-engineer from Ghent, Belgium. I develop backend software and infrastructure. I quite like writing things in Go and YAML, although I have worked with many languages, frameworks and technologies. I enjoy working with managed Kubernetes, Lightning Network nodes, and automating cloud infrastructure integration and deployment.
I am a founding engineer of Alby, a wallet and platform for Bitcoin Lightning Payments on the web. My main area of expertise is the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
In my free time I enjoy reading, participating in quizzes and bouldering.
Length: 30min
Scroll-Driven Animations with CSS by Bramus
A new and upcoming addition to the Web Platform are Scroll-Driven Animations. With it, you can control the playback of an animation through scrolling. This means that as you scroll up and down, the linked animation will move forward or backward. This can either be based on the scroll offset of a scroll container (ScrollTimeline) or on the relative position of an element within its scroll container (ViewTimeline).
By dissecting a bunch of demos and tools, this talk practically approaches the features this spec has to offer, teaching you all the intricacies of ScrollTimeline and ViewTimeline along the way.
Note: while the APIs defined in the Scroll-Driven Animations specification work in conjunction with the existing Web Animations API (WAAPI) and CSS Animations API, this talk will mainly focus on the CSS aspect.
Speaker: Bramus Van Damme is a web developer from Belgium. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since.
As a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google, he spreads the word on CSS, UI, and DevTools. Before joining Google, Bramus worked as a freelance developer in various front- and backend roles. For seven years he also was a College Lecturer Web & Mobile, educating undergrad students all about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — in that order.
Length: 30min