Thursday, June 20 - 6:30-8:30PM
University of Waterloo, Hagey Hall rm 119.
Directions to the room

Part 1: Optimizing time to first paint

Martin and Eric will demonstrate a website that loads critical CSS so that the first paint of the site happens very quickly and improves lighthouse scores dramatically. They will show how tailwind and preprocessing is used to obtain this slick implementation and any questions will be answered.

Then, since we didn't have time for it last month:

Part 2: Hacking your hosting: making things your hosting company will never support.

Liam McDermott will talk about getting around Pantheon's PHP library support using Rust. The client on Pantheon needed to fill PDF forms from user input. Usually PHP developers reach for PDFtk for this, but it's not supported by Pantheon. Liam will share how he worked around this restriction using statically compiled C and Rust binaries. And if we're lucky, we will also answer one of the burning questions of our time: Can Pantheon run Doom?

Online option

We will be posting a zoom link before the meetup starts. Check back here on the day for details.