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29 April 2026 @
Sia Consulting GmbH

CSS State Machine

Brecht De Ruyte
Talk in English

About the Talk

For years, managing UI state on the web meant reaching for JavaScript. But in 2026, CSS has quietly become a state machine of its own. Pseudo-classes track interaction. Media queries read environment and user preferences. :has() observes the DOM tree. Container queries respond to size, style, scroll position, and even anchor placement. Scroll-driven and scroll-triggered animations react to where the user is on the page. And with sibling-index(), CSS can now respond to what's happening next door.

In this atypical "overview" talk, you'll get a practical tour of the CSS features that let you keep and respond to state — from things you can ship today to the cutting-edge stuff landing in browsers right now. Welcome CSS, to the state machine.

About the Speaker

Brecht De Ruyte is a Belgium-based, self-taught front-end developer with a deep-rooted passion for UX and design. By day, he crafts digital experiences at iO; by night, he helps shape the future of the web as a Google Developer Expert and a contributor to the W3C Open UI community. A guest author for Smashing Magazine, Brecht shares his technical deep-dives and UI experiments at utilitybend.com

Performance over Perfection

Alaa Reuschenbach & Lucas Dohmen
Talk in English

About the Talk

Web performance is no longer a luxury—it’s a business imperative: Faster pages boost revenue, improve conversion rates, lift SEO rankings, enhance accessibility and even benefit everyday user productivity.

But the truth is that performance is a continuous discipline, not a one‑off project: Rather than chasing an impossible perfect score, the most valuable gains come from tiny, measurable tweaks that users notice instantly.

In this session we walk through a live, real‑world case study that shows how a handful of practical adjustments can deliver a noticeable speed boost without months of up-front refactoring. You’ll learn:

  • Which performance pitfalls surface most often in production code
  • How to read and interpret real user metrics that matter
  • A toolbox of quick‑win techniques that can be applied today
  • When a short‑term fix is appropriate versus when a deeper architectural review is required

By the end, you’ll have a clear roadmap for diagnosing performance bottlenecks, prioritizing the highest‑impact changes and implementing them in a sustainable, incremental fashion—so your own site can start delivering faster, smoother experiences right away.

About the Speakers

Alaa specializes in squeezing hidden speed gains out of complex e‑commerce platforms. He excels at breaking down technical concepts in an understandable way and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community. When he’s not refactoring code, you’ll find him in the driver’s seat of a racing simulator—because, just like in code, every millisecond counts. 🏎️

Lucas has 20 years of experience building and scaling heavily used web applications. Most recently he led the web team at komoot, where he spearheaded a performance overhaul that delivered measurable speed improvements for 45 million users globally. As co‑author of the The Rails Way series, conference speaker, and podcaster, Lucas is passionate about turning deep technical knowledge into practical, sustainable solutions.

Meetup Tech Talk Archive

26 February 2026 @
CHECK24 Düsseldorf

From Zero to Observability Hero

Jens Albert
Talk in English

About the Talk

Running software is a black box. Observability is how you shine a light inside. This talk covers OpenTelemetry from instrumentation to the Collector, showing how to build visibility that helps developers and ops teams alike.

About the Speaker

Jens is a Dev turned DevOps. So he remembers what it is like to debug production issues with nothing but sparse logs and prayers. Now he builds observability systems that give his teams actual visibility into their software.

Dead Internet Theory: A Practical Guide

Roland Golla
Vortrag in Deutsch

About the Talk

Deine Konkurrenz publiziert schon mit AI. Du nicht. Ich zeig dir die neue Tastatur: Open Source, sofort einsetzbar, gebaut für Content Marketing das funktioniert. Gefunden werden von Google, von Chat GPT, Perplexity von allem, was noch kommt. Starke Slides und 3 Open-Source-Systeme in der Live Demo auf der Bühne: N8N Pipeline, die automatisch ein Blog Magazin auf BloggerIo published. Das NCA AI CMS das Markdown generiert und als statische AstroJS Site ausspielt. LLM Chats die via MCP direkt ins CMS schreiben – aus Claude, ChatGPT oder Gemini. Alles komplett auf GitHub. Das hier ist kein Make-Everything-Ok-Button. Das sind Nächte mit Red Bull und böser Musik. Prompts, die mit TDD und Real Tests automatisch erstellt werden. Vibe Coding im Best Practice Auto Mode. Die ständige Hoffnung und Sucht nach “You are absolutely right i will fix this”. Aber: Jede Iteration macht es besser. Jeder Fix bringt dich weiter. Und am Ende ersetzt die künstliche dich nicht – sie macht dich schneller, präziser, gefährlicher. Der Job als Developer stirbt nicht, er wird nur…mächtiger.

About the Speaker

Roland Golla setzt sich mit Leidenschaft für Softwarequalität, Innovation und psychische Gesundheit in der IT-Branche ein und bringt über 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der Softwareentwicklung mit. Als Experte für automatisierte Prozesse ist er nicht nur Cypress.IO-Botschafter, sondern auch Gründer von TESTIFY.TEAM, einer Agentur, die sich auf automatisiertes Testen spezialisiert hat. Als engagierter YouTuber und Redner teilt Roland sein umfassendes Wissen und seine Begeisterung für hochwertige Software und psychische Gesundheit. Seine persönliche Erfahrung mit einem Nervenzusammenbruch motiviert ihn, sich unermüdlich für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen im IT-Sektor einzusetzen. Als waschechter Ruhrpott Liebhaber aus Duisburg lässt Roland den einzigartigen Charakter seiner Region in seine Arbeit einfließen. Community, Kumpels, Open Source und echte Worte.

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