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so my talk is called the purification of web development and as Divya said thanks for introduction I'm Nicholas Gallagher I recently moved to San Francisco from London and I work at Twitter on the Twitter for websites team and I'm sure you've had
like a long couple of days of like arduous tech talks and I hope you don't mind if I kind of do a non not very techincal talk if that's not really your cup of tea then they feel free to put your feet up and haven't happened with Eric Meyer my talk
is as I said about the purification web development and more specifically about how in the realm of UI development as HTML as those of us who write HTML and CSS the term best practices sometimes coupled with a tendency towards an overzealous search for absolute
truths and a purging of alternative ideas and so before I go into that I'm just going to briefly go over like why I'm here which is I work on web apps quite large web apps I worked on tweetdeck for six months which is a JavaScript weather and I rebuilt
the HTML and CSS at three deck on this built on this like layering principle which I might touch on a bit and I do a bunch of open source stuff like html5 boilerplate some style guide and normalize which I wrote with Jonathan new and that's like an alternative
to CSS resets that a bunch of people use now and despite that I'm sort of not really a software engineer I spend most of my time studying science and anthropology and up until this point I've still spend more time doing that and I have writing code
but that world was like amazing and it taught me a lot of things and despite my knowledge being really rusty in the area of anthropology there's still a few things that I'm interested in and that's the Assumption assumptions and looking at the
history of ideas so when you go back and look at where an idea was formed and what else was around at the time gives you an insight into some of the assumptions that were flying around at the time and some of those that were like coalesced into the ideas that
became dominant in the future and so when you look at the context behind how things that we take for granted and see as absolute trees came about then it can lead to reevaluation of some current approaches and sometimes expose like interesting or different
ways of doing things and so like as an anthropology student I spend a lot of time having to study the history of philosophy in the West which is kind of a bit crazy and loads of my friends like went insane studying philosophy as a proper subject and what's
interesting though is when you look back on these ideas so many of them come from over 2,000 years ago two and a half thousand years ago and so when you're exposed to those ideas in the embryonic state when there's a bunch of people sitting around
like thinking about how the world is and you see that those ideas went on to shape the rest of the worlds that we take for granted like everything about what we do from the way that we can see with ourselves to science in general then it's really interesting
to look at the ones that were kind of left behind and when or if they ever came back and there was this one point in time there particularly stuck with me and I'm going to use it as a mirror for to kind of explore some of the entrenched views that we have
in the HTML and CSS like development community so first a quick detour into ancient Greece so the first guy I'm going to talk about and there's only two don't where it's not going to be that long boring is a guy called Heraclitus and he was
a pre-socratic philosopher and he was like really lonely and had like complete contempt for humankind and his way of expressing that content for humankind was to be miserable and the Renaissance people decided to call him the weeping philosopher and you read
all this really obscure philosophy and I like to think of him a bit as their sad keanu of his time and so yeah he wrote all these obscure words and mostly have been lost to time forever and when you read back through them like only a handful of them make any
sense at all there's one that he said the Sun is the width of a foot like whatever that means and so hardly any of his work survives but before he died he only died of this really weird bizarre death where he was like 60 years old and he had edameh and
the physicians of his time or like sorry there's nothing we can do for you and he was like it's cool I've got an idea and he went and rubbed cow all over him and went and sat in the Sun until it baked because he was convinced to secure him and
then he died the next day yeah like a proper candidate for the Darwin Award but before before he died he left us with some really interesting ideas like one of them was this idea of an ever-changing world and he was like the world is always changing the only
thing that you can have as a guarantee is that everything is in a permanent state of flux and any illusion what any thing that you think of a static is just an illusion when he had this really like great kind of line that I like and I'm going to come back
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