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Conferences.
Talks I show up for, and what I bring back.

A running log of the events I attend — preparation notes, photos from the venue, and the takeaways worth sharing with the team. Up next: two back-to-back days in Amsterdam, JSNation followed by React Summit.

01 — Upcoming · Amsterdam, June 2026

JSNation & React Summit 2026.

Two days, two conferences, one city. Below — the official attendee badges and links to the full schedules.

02 — Before the trip

From ticket to badge.

A short walkthrough of the GitNation onboarding flow — useful for anyone on the team heading to a future edition.

  1. 01

    Buy the conference ticket

    Tickets are sold per event on reactsummit.com and jsnation.com. After purchase, the invoice and ticket PDF arrive by email from the GitNation team.

  2. 02

    Create a GitNation profile

    Sign up on gitnation.com with the same email used for the purchase. The profile becomes the public identity used across every GitNation event — talks attended, badges, and certificates all live under it.

  3. 03

    Link the ticket and generate the badge

    Associate the purchased ticket with the GitNation profile. Each event then generates a public attendee badge — a shareable URL that doubles as the on-site QR pass. Examples: JSNation badge · React Summit badge.

  4. 04

    Read the attendee guide

    GitNation publishes a single attendee guide covering venue, schedule, pre-event meetups, after-parties, workshops, and badge pickup hours. Worth reading end-to-end before flying out.

03 — Day 1 · JSNation 2026

Sessions I attended.

A focused pick from the full JSNation 2026 schedule — the talks I actually sat in for on day one. Full schedule on jsnation.com.

  1. 10:15

    MCP Apps — the Next Web — Liad Yosef

  2. 10:30

    The State of AI for Web Development — Sacha Greif

  3. 10:50

    Designing a Migration to Micro-Frontends — Luca Mezzalira

  4. 11:50

    Creating a Design System for 1B+ Users in the Age of AI — Noah Yamamoto

    Track A

  5. 13:00

    Autonomous AI Agents in Action With the Ralph Wiggum Method — Eddy Vinck

  6. 15:05

    Dead Code Shouldn't Exist: How We Removed 28k Lines of Code, One Knip at a Time — Dominik Dorfmeister

  7. 15:30

    How We Used AI to Build TanStack AI — Alem Tuzlak

  8. 17:40

    Agentic Interfaces: Tools, Skills, Generative UI and Web MCP — Wes Bos

    Closing keynote

04 — Day 2 · React Summit 2026

Sessions I attended.

A focused pick from the full React Summit 2026 schedule — the talks I actually sat in for on day two. Full schedule on reactsummit.com.

  1. 09:30

    The State of AI for Web Development — Sacha Greif

  2. 10:10

    This Component Could Have Been A Class

  3. 10:45

    TanStack Start and How It Supports React Server Components

  4. 11:45

    A Guide to React Compiler Rendering

  5. 12:20

    How I Use AI as a Technical Educator

  6. 12:25

    How I Taught LLMs How to Svelte

  7. 12:55

    Designing for Failure: The Senior React Dev's Production Toolkit

  8. 14:25

    The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End

  9. 14:30

    How We Used AI to Build TanStack AI — Alem Tuzlak

  10. 15:00

    We Need More Than Prompts

  11. 15:35

    Lightning Talks

  12. 16:25

    Panel Discussion: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt?

  13. 17:05

    Speed, Quality, and AI: You Can't Have It All (Or Can You?) — Gaauwe Rombouts

    Zed

  14. 17:40

    From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering

    Closing keynote

05 — On the ground · Day 1

JSNation, in pictures.

A few frames from the main hall — keynotes, talks, and a stop by the Tether QVAC booth.

  • Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon on stage presenting MCP Apps — the Next Web at JSNation 2026

    MCP Apps — Liad Yosef & Ido Salomon

  • Packed main hall at JSNation 2026 watching Sacha Greif

    Main hall · Sacha Greif keynote

  • Noah Yamamoto opening Creating a Design System for 1B+ Users in the Age of AI

    Design System for 1B+ — Noah Yamamoto

  • Eddy Vinck on stage with a slide reading Do not use Anthropic's Ralph Plugin

    Ralph Wiggum Method — Eddy Vinck

  • Luca Mezzalira presenting mfe-skills.md during Designing a Migration to Micro-Frontends

    Micro-Frontends — Luca Mezzalira

  • Vladis Markin at the Tether QVAC booth at JSNation 2026

    At the Tether QVAC booth

06 — On the ground · Day 2

React Summit, in pictures.

Photos from day two — keynotes, talks, and moments from the React Summit floor. Coming soon.

Photos will be added after the conference.

07 — Takeaways

React Summit & JSNation 2026: Core Takeaways

The Interface Shift

Content consumption is moving from traditional websites to agentic, chat-based interfaces. Sessions on Model Context Protocol (MCP) outlined a near-headless web where autonomous assistants orchestrate tasks directly, reducing browsers to edge-case fallbacks.

Vibe Engineering Over Syntax

The creator workflow is evolving. The focus has shifted from writing code to orchestrating environments, reasoning about architecture, and managing agent execution loops.

Spec-Driven Development

The standard prompt-and-check loop wastes time and tokens. High-quality LLM generation depends on front-loading context—using detailed specs, clear rules, and structured instructions rather than vague, iterative prompts.

Agent-Native Tooling

IDEs are adapting to the agentic workflow. Companies like Zed are building editors that natively balance AI-driven development speed with strict performance and code quality standards.