Erin Zimmer
Community Engineering Lead Cogent
Erin is a Google Developer Expert, with over ten years experience in a variety of languages, from JavaScript to Model204 (no, nobody else has heard of it either). She is an active member of the Melbourne developer community, and has spoken at conferences around the world. She started as the Community Engineering Lead at Cogent in March 2020, right about when all community activities stopped. But if you do manage to catch her at an IRL event, she'll definitely have knitting needles in hand!
Talks I've Given
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Welcome to the Layouts of Tomorrow
Featuring Erin Zimmer
Historically, layout on the web has been quite difficult. We were basically limited to sizing elements either absolutely, or relative to their parent. And the positioning thing was even worse! As developers, we were forced to rely on hacks and third-party tools like Bootstrap to achieve the...
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Adventures with the JavaScript Event Loop
Featuring Erin Zimmer
The Event Loop underpins everything that happens in JavaScript. It’s how JavaScript handles I/O events without blocking, even though it’s single-threaded. It's responsible for executing callbacks and managing repainting.
In this talk, we'll have a look at how the Event Loop interacts...
software-development