Forty tabs open. Back-to-back meetings. An AI coding assistant quietly wiping your context every twenty minutes. If that's your day too, you already know what it feels like to walk into a room mentally exhausted and without the one thing you need to make a decision.

I built a Slack bot to fix that for myself. I'll show you what it does and how to build one for yourself.

We often add animations to "delight" users, but at what cost to our Lighthouse scores? As a solo developer, I need UIs that look high-end without the maintenance overhead of heavy libraries. In this talk, I’ll break down my "Animation Decision Matrix, a three-tier strategy for choosing the right tool for the job. We’ll explore Vue’s <Transition>, how the Web Animations API keeps the main thread free, and exactly when it's worth using the 30kb involved in GSAP. Expect a pragmatic look at the browser rendering pipeline.

I know, I know - another AI talk. But hear me out: this one isn't about prompts, it isn't about replacing developers, and ChatGPT won't be mentioned once. It's about what happens when you stop using AI as a fancy autocomplete and start wiring it up with tools, memory, and the ability to orchestrate other agents. We'll look at how Claude skills and plugins actually work, build a small agent pipeline live, and be honest about where it breaks. You might leave with ideas you can actually use on day-to-day bases.