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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 10/09/2026

It’s time for September’s SeattleJS! To kick things off, @cmgriffing.bsky.social asks: “is MCP dead?”

Chris is standing at the podium in front of his laptop. Behind him, the projected slides read: "any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no"

SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/08/2026

Have a lot of terminals, browser tabs, and ai apps running on your desktop? @caidan.dev is showing us @terminalgraph.com, a spatial canvas to organize all your windows and build pipelines between them. It's building a website to view WSDOT ferry data 🛳️

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/08/2026

Here. We. Go! @allandeutsch.com is kicking off our August meetup!

A group of people sitting in chairs facing a speaker who is presenting tonight's meetup agenda

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 11/06/2026

Up next we’ve got Jon from comment.io showing us what a future without writing or reading code could look like - with both humans and agents collaborating together in markdown files.

Jon polling the room to understand who is working with AI to write code. Projected on the screen is an early view of Word.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 11/06/2026

Nathan Lie from @interledger.org is kicking us off tonight with a talk on open payments for the web!

Nathan is in the front of the room speaking to a full audience of web developers at SeattleJS. His slides are projected in the middle of the frame with a talk titled “Payments & Protocols”

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 14/05/2026

Next up we’ve got Jordan Bain from Forge AI talking about how to survive the AI slopocalypse. These slides have got some cool cyberpunk vibes too!

Jordan introducing his talk to the group.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 14/05/2026

Our first talk of the evening is by @kaelig.fr on design tokens! Tired of duplicating values across tailwind, swift, css, figma, and all your other front end surfaces and design tools? Design tokens are the solution!

Kaelig is presenting a slide with big bold text “THERE IS A NAME FOR THIS. DESIGN TOKENS”

He’s in front of the room and the audience is listening with rapt attention.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 14/05/2026

It’s a full house tonight at Just The Tap! @drewigg.bsky.social is kicking things off with our opening remarks before our talks start.

Andre in front of a room of people seated for the meetup. The room is dark with bright neon art on the walls.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 09/04/2026

Finally we’ve got part 2 of @cmgriffing.bsky.social’s double feature on AI: how devs are using AI. Chris is diving into data and how dev work is changing.

Chris with a title slide “how devs are using AI” presented to an audience at SeattleJS

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 09/04/2026

Next up we’ve got @cmgriffing.bsky.social with an AI brain dump from what he’s learned building AI into a product over the past few months.

Chris is in a red beanie with a title slide “my AI brain dump” projected behind him. There is an audience in front of him

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 09/04/2026

First talk today we have Jordan Lee from @digitalocean.com demoing AG-UI - using agents in the browser to generative produce UI!

Jordan Lee is in the front of a room presenting to an audience of people at SeattleJS. There is a view projected of a web page showing some controls like a radio button, checkbox, and slider. On the right side there is a chat where he asks the agent to interact with the page and it makes changes for him.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 12/02/2026

It's February! And after celebrating the Seahawks win this afternoon, we're back learning some useful programming practices that work well with ADHD 📝

Paige Watson standing in the front of the room presenting a slide on Quality Practices that Work Well With ADHD to a room full of people

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 15/01/2026

2026?! Ready or not it's here! And our panel on using AI in your dev flow is kicking off :)

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 15/05/2025

Next up Sergei from @nolock-social.bsky.social is telling us about FunctionalScript, a purely functional subset of JS. One of the conventions is that test.f.js files are tests, and if they export a function it is treated as a test. Super easy to get started!

Sergey is standing by the podium showing VSCode with his functionalscript tests running.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 15/05/2025

Another exciting month of SeattleJS talks! Starting us off today is Evan from GenSX telling us about durable execution for AI workflows. Unlike other durable execution approaches, GenSX uses JSX!

Evan is in front of a massive tv with his slides containing a diagram talking about Durable Execution.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 10/04/2025

SeattleJS is in session and it is PACKED! Great to see everyone here in person.

A crowd of ~60 people for a presentation. All the seats are filled and another dozen are standing in the back of the room

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/03/2025

Wrapping up the night is Kenny Daniel, founder of Hyperparam.app. Kenny is here to tell us about pushing the limits of big data in the browser and some of the open source solutions he’s built to make it possible to work with massive data sets in the browser.

Kenny presenting his title slide for the talk “pushing the limits of big data in the browser”

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/03/2025

Up next we’ve got @willm62.bsky.social telling us about writing DRY code without getting parched!

Will is presenting at the front of the room. His title slide shows SpongeBob looking very dehydrated

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/03/2025

And we’re off! Starting us off is Matt Jennings talking about WordPress ❤️ React

An audience of ~60 people watching with rapt attention as Matt tells us about using react with Wordpress

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 06/03/2025

We'll wrap up the night with Kenny Daniel of Hyperparam.app (our food sponsor for the meetup!) talking about Pushing the Limits of Big Data in the Browser. Kenny will share a radical new take on how to architect large data applications using JavaScript in the browser with Hyparquet and HighTable.

Black and white portrait of Kenny with a serious expression in a black t-shirt. The background is matte gray and Kenny's hair is styled up.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 06/03/2025

Next up is @willm62.bsky.social on some software engineering best practices. Will's lightning talk is going to share a tale from the trenches about making code _too_ DRY and how it ended up parched instead.

Will smiling excitedly with his mouth open and a big thumbs up. Will is laying sideways and has a couch behind him.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 06/03/2025

1st talk is a full session on marrying Wordpress and React using blocks, presented by Matt Jennings! Matt will discuss how he integrated his WP plugin with the WP admin and front-end and will briefly talk about other WP and React-related topics.

Matt Jennings smiling wearing a blue collared shirt in front of a blurred white and gray background.

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

Don't what a realm is in JavaScript? Ask @mhofman.bsky.social ! He is talking all about them :)

Mathieu speaking to a room of people about realms in JavaScript

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

Next up is Ashley is talking about ts-blank-space, a library you can use to speed up your dev builds!

Ashley in front of a group of developers talking about ts-blank-space

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

Shane just finished a run through of all the great internationalization features in JS. Thanks for helping make our apps accessible to everyone!

Shane speaking over a slide describing some common misconceptions about internationalization

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

Nicolo shared with us about import defer to make loading your apps faster!

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

The new feature that has been the talk of night is getting the spotlight! Philip is talking about the Temporal API 🕜

Philip in front of a room presenting a slide titled "Temporal: modern dates and times in JavaScript"

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

Linus is next up giving an overview of updates from this week's TC39 plenary meeting

A speaker presenting slides about ShadowRealm

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 21/02/2025

Here we go! Our TC39 meetup is happening now! Join the livestream at the link below. @robpalmer.bsky.social is kicking off our full house telling us about what TC39 is all about how JavaScript is created. docusign.zoom.us/j/94134179467

A room full of people facing a speaker at a podium presenting slides on a screen about JavaScript features

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/02/2025

Next up is Lito, breaking down and rebuilding Git for us, showing all the subtle design decisions that went into what we use today

A room full of people watching a presenter talk over a projected slide with the words "Why is Git Like that?"

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/02/2025

Full house for February! Trevor is kicking us off showing us some nifty JavaScript, using just brackets and plus signs to spell words 😱

A room full of people facing a presenter talking about JavaScript

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 09/01/2025

We are starting off 2025 with a full house! Thanks to Elastic for sponsoring us this month ❤️

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