Scott Jehl
For over two decades, Scott has worked at the intersection of creative design and front-end technology, leading projects for some of the Web’s most iconic brands. Scott is best known for his work within the web community, having worked on large open source projects, planned and landed standard features in browsers, written for a variety of publications, and presented at many conferences around the world.
These days, he is an engineer at Squarespace in New York City, where his team oversees the performance and accessibility of millions of websites.
Scott is the creator of the Web Components Demystified online course (2024), author of Responsible Responsive Design (2014, A Book Apart), and co-author of Designing with Progressive Enhancement (2010, New Riders).
Move Fast & Don’t Break Things
Wed, 26th – 3:50 PM
Performance is a high priority for any site of scale today, but it can be easier to make a site fast than to keep it that way. As a site's features and design evolves, its performance is often threatened for a number of reasons, making it hard to ensure fast, resilient access to services.
In this session, Scott will draw from real-world examples where business goals and other priorities have conflicted with page performance, and share some strategies and practices that have helped major sites overcome those challenges to defend their speed without compromises.
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- https://scottjehl.com
- On Bluesky
- @scottjehl.com
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- mstdn.social/@scottjehl