Schalk Venter

Almost done with @devconfza technical checks. Looking forward to meeting some of you in person tomorrow!

Streaming right now with Justin Slack and Dominic Günther Bauer: youtube.com/live/6rbWJyUHE…

Streaming right now with myself, Dr. Lizette Spangenberg and Liesel Bester. 💚 youtube.com/live/mTPqEUuw-…

Streaming right now: youtube.com/watch?v=yvKscU…

Inspired by @schalkventerdev's wonderful talk at WordCamp Cape Town 2024 (@WPCapeTown), this blog post explores the new CSS View Transitions. Learn how to easily add smooth, engaging animations to your WordPress and WooCommerce sites! fooevents.com/css-view-trans…

Recording is up with timestamps: youtube.com/live/cGbKAqrul…

The first tech conference I every attended was Wordcamp back in 2013. Now 11 years later, in 2024, I'm happy to confirm that I will be speaking on the history of CSS animation and the upcoming "CSS View Transition" API at the very same conference! ✨ capetown.wordcamp.org/2024/session/c…

Latest mhit.org.za (Mental Health in Tech) episode where Schalk Neethling and myself talk to Kai Katschthaler about the mental health strain associated with looking to get hired in the current super-broken tech market podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cul…

Join myself, Liesel Bester and John Van Schalkwyk tonight on YouTube, where we will be live-streaming a discussion on "Approaching Inclusive Design" 📺 youtube.com/live/oZfXqMj-e…

Fixed the illusive bug and add example code from last week's "Web Components in React 19" session to Github: github.com/schalkventer/r… For anyone curious, the bug was that I destructured "value" from the HTML element, thus breaking the in-memory reference.

Added some timestamps to last night's talk: youtube.com/watch?v=RzsVzQ…

Was recently interviewed by Pieter Schreuder for "Kode vir Khakies". Super interesting experience talking about software engineering in Afrikaans. 💛 open.spotify.com/episode/7kYRNx…

@NikSpyratos @brendt_gd @pronskiy @NikSpyratos go wild. 🤙

"It's PHP, baby 😎 🔥" - @pronskiy youtube.com/watch?v=p_6ewd…

If you are in the Cape Town area, join myself and the ZAPD (South African Product Design) team in person at 10:00 AM for a free workshop. 💙

It's been close to a decade and two major releases since I opened a .php file, however it's time to buckle up! Nik Spyratos and myself will live-stream "Laravel for Front-end Developers" tonight at 18:30. Join us at youtube.com/watch?v=2LaXC4…

@_jessie_belle Thanks for the share @_jessie_belle :)

"1.The tech hiring space is a dumpster-fire at the moment. We need to start with the acknowledgment. It is not that you are not good enough, or doing something wrong" tips for junior front end developer applications, after reviewing 300,by @schalkventerdev gist.github.com/schalkventer/f…

youtube.com/watch?v=xkbTq6… 🌌 00:02:30 - Angular and Wiz 📡 00:14:00 - Signals vs Observables 📻 00:24:00 - Analog.js ✨ 00:29:00 - Astro DB 🚛 00:40:00 - JSR 🤖 00:48:30 - Native Signals API 📦 00:53:00 - React 19 📰 01:05:00 - Various Update

Streaming right now 📺: youtube.com/watch?v=tm63JF…

Join us this Saturday for a free in-person workshop covering various concepts and skills associated with #designops. Whether you are a Head of Design Ops or know nothing about the topic - you are welcome and encouraged to join. meetup.com/zapd-community…

Streaming right now with @zeorin📺 youtube.com/watch?v=_GfEot…

Streaming right now 📺 with Justin Slack and Liesel Bester: youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8z6n…