About Jeffrey

Jeffrey is a frontend-developer that uses his knowledge and expertise in both art and web development to create stunning things in real life using computer code. He believes the connection between tech and art is the best its ever been and should be talked about more.

Deployment

Jeffrey talked a bit about deployment and what ways we use to show our products. He gave us some examples like:

• Localhost
• Own Server
• Free server

Toolbox

Another thing he used was the toolbox, This was a tool he created himself where he uploaded some of the things he created. This way he could reuse them later on by just copying the code. I really liked this idea since we usually have to start each project from scratch. The good part about coding is that old code will always work. There might come better ways to do the same things but the old way will still work.

Experimenting

Jeffrey liked experimenting a lot. For example: 

He tried stretching and bending elements using css untill some weird stuff happened. This way he found that when you align elements sideways on the screen on some browsers it would glitch out and start shaking the screen. This was his way of making webdevelopment fun. This was a thing he told us repeatedly: Just do what you like to do and have fun with it. Like using GSAP for animation.

Sometimes he absolutely overengineered a piece of code but that didn't matter since he enjoyed it and it might come in handy in another project.

Trial and error

Jeffrey talked about trial and error and how this is the best way to learn. He showed us a diagram that made it clear that no matter what outcome you have. You will always learn anyway

Try → Succeed → New truth

Try → Fail → New truth

Try → Reflect → New truth

Quotes

Stick to core technologie as much as possible

Create tools for your own benefit

Development ≠ Efficiency / Costs

Reflection

I dont know if i liked the presentation itself, but there were a few things that stuck with me. Like the toolbox, the trial and error and having fun in your work. The presentation itself was a bit lackluster, it didnt flow at all. He did show us some amazing things he did with three.js. 

For my selfimprovement

The things that i can take with me in my coding are probably in the future the toolbox, and now i could use the trial and error method he described to just go and build stuff without thinking too much about how it's going to end up. There are also some things i might not use like using art in coding since im not really an artist in that sense of the word.