Building a Better Web
June 11–12, 2018: Training
June 12–14, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Aimee Knight

Aimee Knight
Software Engineer, Built Technologies

Website | @Aimee_Knight

Aimee Knight is a Nashville-based full stack software engineer at Built Technologies. Currently, she specializes in JavaScript, React, and CSS but has worked extensively in Angular, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails as well. As a former professional figure skater, she has a tremendous amount of energy and grit. Outside of work, Aimee is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies, a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an international keynote speaker. She has been a weekly panelist on the Angular Air podcast, a co-organizer for CharmCityJS, and a mentor for Baltimore NodeSchool and Rails Bridge.

Sessions

9:00am–9:40am Thursday, June 14, 2018
It's not dark magic: Pulling back the curtains from your stylesheets
Web Foundations: CSS, HTML, JS, Node
 Location: 210 A/E
Secondary topics:  Best practice, Developer Experience Track: Tools, Platforms, and Techniques, Technical
Aimee Knight (Built Technologies)
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All too often developers are left completely puzzled when the browser renders CSS in ways they didn’t expect. But it’s not dark magic; we know that computers are just parsing our instructions. While many talks discuss how to fix common bugs, Aimee Knight focuses on the reasons behind them, leading a deep dive into browser internals to see how our styles are parsed and rendered. Read more.