CascadiaJS 2026
Talk notes, cleaned up and cross-referenced. One page per talk.
Day 1
- AX: Agent Experience Matt Biilman · Netlify
- AI Agent Swarms Are Amazing Joel Hooks · Badass Courses
- Practical Refactors with Modern CSS Colors James Steinbach · Delinea
- Keep the Main Thread Free with Web Workers Courtney Yatteau · Esri
- AI Helped Me Learn: Vue Through the Lens of a React Developer Daniel Mendoza · Storyblok
- Implementing the Web on Native with Linked Literate Programming James Ide · Expo
- Choosing the Wrong Abstraction (And What It Cost Us) Darius Cepulis · Mux
- Shared Components Beyond the Design System Jonathan Keslin · Atlassian
- How to Successfully Build a Junior Dev Team Dylan Goings · Atomic Object
- From Skeptics to Champions Jeff Otaño · Onebrief
- How to Use Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows Erik Hanchett · AWS
- The Last Mile Is Code Joe Duffy · Pulumi
Day 2
- JavaScript Won the Web. Rust Is Taking the Critical Path. Francesco Ciulla · Zerops
- Choosing TypeScript Matters More Than Ever Filip Sodić · Wasp
- Accelerating Musical Live Coding With On-Device AI Alex Hinson · Fleetio
- Teaching LLMs New Tricks Marty Nelson · Works Real Estate
- Beowulf Stroganoff: Building Economically Useless Chatbots Molly Jean Bennett · Grow Therapy
- Design Tokens: Getting Agents to Follow Brand Guidelines Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent · Design Tokens W3C CG
- Unlocking AI's Hidden Connections With Graphs Nyah Macklin · Neo4j
- Building Apps With ATProto Brittany Ellich · Bluesky
- The Request Tax: Re-evaluating 20+ Years of Web Performance Dogma Alex Moon · WP Engine
- Trust, But Verify: Human-in-the-Loop for Agents That Actually Matter Michael Liendo · Auth0
- Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza Luis Montes · Iced Dev
- It's Time to Rethink Everything Theo · T3 Chat