August Porto Tech & Creative Events
We’re basically out of the door, and getting ready to run to the beach, but not before sharing with you what’s what for August.
If you’re not a beach person, Porto has got your back, with a lot to do, beyond soaking in the sun, so be sure to read on.
Meanwhile, we’ve finally managed to wrap up OPO.js #9 🎉 Take a moment to reminisce, or see what happened if you couldn’t join this time! You’ll find in this article all the talks, pictures, and questionable humour infused writing that you’ve come to adore (or maybe not 😅).
If you’re feeling particularly lazy, you can just watch the one minute recap:
Upcoming Porto Events
❤ Here are the events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.
August 3, 15h00–20h00
· misc · Creativity and Lateral Thinking
This is a workshop that invites participants to extrapolate the limits of their creativity through tools designed to maximize moments of catharsis.
August 5, 18h00–21h00
· misc · #HELLYES! NOMADX Digital Summer Social
Join over 100 others for an evening of incredible VIP networking, socialising and fun for the entire Porto Digital Community — Startups, Entrepreneurs, Professionals, Nomads, Remote Workers. Light food, drinks and music!
August 6, 10h00–18h00
· misc · Porto i/o Open Day
Did you ever wonder what it was like to work in a coworking space but never actually visited one? This is your chance!
August 6, 18h30–20h30
· design ·#TDKTuesdays
Atelier D’Alves will host this #TDKtuesdays edition where they’ll discuss their work, struggles and important decisions throughout their career path. This talk will be held in English.
August 8, 18h45–20h45
· dev · DevOps Porto #30: Lightning Talks with Python Porto
Welcome to the 30th meetup of DevOps, that together with the Python Porto Community, is organising an event with their traditional summer lightning talks.
August 8, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Porto Codes
Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts. The talks are recorded and published with the presenters’ consent as one of our goals is to provide programming resources to the community.
August 11, 10h00–12h00
· dev · PyCoffee in Porto i/o
A new challenge every time. If you are interested in sharpening your skills, participate!
August 17, 15h00–20h00
· dev · Design Thinking Introduction
Design Thinking is a full-featured methodology with tools that aim to empower group work and stimulate creative thinking. There are many tools that make up this method and this is a workshop that can offer a panoramic view of the process.
August 19, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Porto Freelancers Meetup
An event for Porto Freelance community to grab a few beers, meet each other and network in a nice atmosphere overlooking Santa Catarina street.
August 25, 10h00–12h00
· dev · PyCoffee in Porto i/o
A new challenge every time. If you are interested in sharpening your skills, participate!
August 26–29, 9h00–18h00
· misc · Free Coworking Days at Selina Navis
If you’re looking to test the waters of remote work, stop by Selina Navis from AUGUST 26 -29 and enjoy FREE days at their new coworking space in Porto.
August 28, 19h00–20h30
· dev · Porto.Data #53 Lightning talks
Next Porto.Data meetup we will be dedicated to lightning Talks, covering How to create a Bot Smart Assistant; Scheduler Jobs & machine learning/data sciense experiences and DevOps for SQL Databases.
August 29, 18h30–20h00
· misc · Building Successful Products with Product Vision by Farfetch Sr PM
In this talk, Marcelo Melo will explain how to build a Product Vision and discuss the importance of using this tool to build great products.
August 29, 19h00–21h00
· misc · 39th Agile Connect Porto community meetup — Open Space Summer Session
In this talk, Marcelo Melo will explain how to build a Product Vision and discuss the importance of using this tool to build great products.
August 30, 18h30–21h30
· dev · Game Dev Meet
Whether you’re a programmer, designer, artist, musician or other, join this meetup and help create a community that exchanges knowledge and experiences and support game creation.
That’s all for now but we update our calendar every week so stay tuned!
Monthly Must Read & Watch
❤ We hand picked more articles, videos and tools just for you!
TOM JOHNSON
Design tools are holding us back · design
“We need our tools to stop using manipulation methods that emphasise looks over structure. “
STEFAN JUDIS
I didn’t know that · js
Cool video compilation of small thing you might not know yet and that could make your life easier as a developer.
VITALII BOBROV
JavaScript, JavaScript…. Rocks You! · js
Want to transform the code into Kirk Hammett’s wah-wah, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s overdrive and Kurt Cobain’s distortion? Learn how to parse audio input in real-time using JavaScript and the Web Audio API in this video.
GOOGLE
Device Metrics — Material Design · design
A comprehensive resource for sizing, resolution and pixel density across popular devices.
ANANYA NEOGI
HTML can do that? · js
List of awesome things you can do with just HTML.
APHINYA DECHALERT
The Marks of a True Senior Developer · dev
“There is a wide range in the skill of developers out there — and seniority often doesn’t determine one’s caliber. So what makes some superior to their peers? What is it that separates them from the pack and sea of mediocrity?”
CHRISTINA WODTKE
Five Habits of Design Thinking — When Common Sense is Not Enough · design
What makes this different than ordinary thinking, or Agile or Lean approaches?
GOOGLE DEVELOPERS
web.dev · dev
Get the web’s modern capabilities on your own sites and apps with useful guidance and analysis from web.dev.
FRAMER BV
Framer Motion · design · dev
An open source React library to power production-ready animations. Design fluid animations for the web, across desktop and mobile.
ADDY OSMANI
The cost of JavaScript in 2019 · js
One year after sharing Addy’s conclusions, he’s at it again stating the dominant costs of processing scripts are now download and CPU execution time.
NOZBE
Nozbe/WatermelonDB · js
High-performance reactive database for powerful React and React Native apps.
VALSPLAT
7 learnings that’ll make your Google Design Sprint even better · design
This article assumes that you’re familiar with the basic principles and the outline of the Google Design Sprint methodology.
LIZ PARODY
12 Tips for Improving JavaScript Performance · js
According to Kissmetrics, 47% of visitors expect a website to load in less than 2 seconds, and 40 percent of visitors will leave the website if the loading process takes more than 3 seconds.
THOMAS HUNTER II
Introducing Osgood · js
Meet a new platform designed for building middleware / microservices, following the Principle of Least Privilege.
ANDREW MCCLOUD
Here’s what developers want designers to know about developer handoff · design · js
An Abstract Engineer teaches product designers how to create a better designer-to-developer handoff process.
ADAM POLAK
New Node.js 12 features will see it disrupt AI, IoT and more surprising areas · js
With the release of a new LTS (long-term support) version, Node.js will gain a lot of new features every Node.js developer can be excited about.
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