LA Hacker News Meetup
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LA Hacker News is going to switch things up by moving to a Thursday evening.
We've always held our meetups on Sunday afternoons, but a light of urging from a few of our members and it being summer, we are keen to give a week night a try.
Talks this week:
Jay Stakelon
Software product designer who codes and VP of Product Design at Fullscreen, where he previously ran product management and now focuses on UX, interaction/visual design and prototyping apps for video content creators and their fans.
Designing with code using Framer.js
Mini-summary:Framer is a Javascript framework for rapid prototyping. It lets you turn static mockups built in Photoshop or Sketch into interactive, native-feeling prototypes that run on devices. We'll cover the basics of how Framer works, look at a couple examples of prototypes built with Framer and how it fits into workflows, and go over some tips and tricks to get the most out of Framer quickly.
Philip WoodsEngineering Manager, Tradesy (www.tradesy.com (http://www.tradesy.com/))Philip is the engineering manager for Tradesy, a marketplace for women's fashion. He has focused on infrastructure, API's, and mobile apps for the company. He is passionate about building scalable systems, mobile technology, and open source software.
Redis Clusters: A Crash CourseScaling Redis beyond a single instance can quickly cause architectural road blocks for developers. In this talk, we'll look at options, both old and new, for building out Redis clusters, and common caveats and design trade offs one must consider when developing for a distributed Redis environment.
Ben Hopkins - Meaning is an act of its own creationtitle: Shaping sounds with Web Audio
What is the shape of sound? (quick waveform intro for those that don't know)
- Intro web audio sound synthesis pipeline (chaining oscillators & other AudioNodes for overtones and other effects, possibly using webaudioplayground.appspot.com (http://webaudioplayground.appspot.com/)) - Custom soundwaves (intro createPeriodicWave matrix & relevance to fourier series)
- Using bezier curves for multipoint control of non-sinusoidal wave forms (de Casteljau, DFT)
Tommi Virtanen
tv@eagain.net
Bazil: the Why, What and How
Bazil is a distributed file system designed for single-person
disconnected operation. It lets you share your files across all your
computers, with or without cloud services.
This talk will explain the motivation behind Bazil and its big picture architecture. Bazil is a new FUSE file system written in Go, still in heavy development.
Do you or someone you know have an interesting topic to cover? Have you been secretly hacking up something fun in the garage and are ready to show it to the world? Are you looking for work or have a project that is lacking a solid engineer?
Keen to meet like minded folks?
This is your meetup!
I'll bring a few adult beverages. You should come and bring an interesting friend.
Always free.
Stay tuned for more information.
LA Hacker News Meetup