Sebastian Golasch

👨‍💻 Biography

Sebastian works as a “Specialist Senior Manager Software Developer” at Deutsche Telekom, after some time developing backend applications with Java and PHP he became a citizen of the JavaScript world. Recently he´s getting his hands dirty with Python and Rust. For the last seven years Sebastian tries to improve our lives, working on Deutsche Telekoms Smart Home platform Qivicon.

👥 Social Channels

• 🐦 Twitter @asciidisco
• 📧 Email public@asciidisco.com
• GitHub asciidisco
• 🗣 Speakerdex asciidisco
• 🎯 Colloq asciidisco
• 🌀 LinkedIn
• 💈 Xing
• 🐞 Stack Overflow

💚 Misc.

• 💖 To Rachel for making some amazing Pokemon Prof. out of me
• 😂 Punked by Böhmermann
• 🤖 Dalek.js My failed attempt to make UI testing accessible for everyone
• 🐰 List of Web Conferences 2018 I curated

💬 Current Talk Topics

• WebRTC: Serverless, this time's for real | JavaScript, WebRTC, Decentralization, Browser APIs
• The Intranet of Things | IoT, Privacy, Smart Home
• The Universal Serial Web | JavaScript, Browser APIs, IoT
• EME? CDM? DRM? CENC? IDK! | JavaScript, Browser APIs, Web Video

🗣 Upcoming Events

• The Intranet of Things @ FrontManiaConference | 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands | Friday, November 15 2019 - 1pm, Track 1
• WebRTC: Serverless, this time's for real @ Web Tech Bonn | 🇩🇪 Bonn, Germany | Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 7pm
• WebRTC: Serverless, this time's for real @ CT Webdev | 🇩🇪 Cologne, Germany | Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 5:15pm, Track 3

💻 Open Source Projects

• audit-badge | Creates a badge that sums up all your vulnarable JS dependencies | 🄹🅂
• cfp-magick | List conferences with open CFPs fron within your terminal | 🄹🅂
• deepspeech-demo | Demo (Web)App for Mozillas DeepSpeech project | 🄹🅂
• plugin.video.netflix | A native Netflix streaming plugin for the Kodi Media Center | 🄿🅈🅃🄷🄾🄽
• plugin.video.telekom-sport | A native Telekom Sport streaming plugin for the Kodi Media Center | 🄿🅈🅃🄷🄾🄽
• kodi-release-helper | A changelog & release generator for Kodi Medai Center Plugins | 🄿🅈🅃🄷🄾🄽
• require-po-plugin | A require.js plugin for loading & transpiling Gettext files | 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• sloccount | A lines of code & comments counter for JS, CSS & HTML| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• serveit2 | A static webserver cmd utility for quickly spawning a HTTP-2 capable webserver| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• node-homeland | A usb driver & protocol abstraction for the HomeMatic BidCos Smarthome protocol| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-qunit-istanbul | Running code coverage analysis with Grunt, QUnit & PhantomJS| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• awb2ics | Module & Webfrontend to genrate ICS calendar files for garbage collection in Cologne| 🄹🅂
• fhem-discovergy | FHEM Homeautomation Addon for Discovergy smart meters | 🄿🄴🅁🄻
• grunt-imagine | Grunt plugin for image optimization & sprite genration| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-requirejs | Grunt plugin for building optimized projects with Require.js| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-sloccount | Grunt lines of code & comments counter for JS, CSS & HTML| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• Backbone.Marionette.Handlebars | Easy to use Handlebars templating integration for Backbone Marionette projects| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• Backbone.Mutators | Dynamic getters & setters for Backbone| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• Backbone.Rpc | JSON RPC plugin for Backbone| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-jquerybuilder | Grunt plugin for building optimized jQuery versions for your project | 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-patternprimer | Grunt based adaption of Jeremy Keiths Patterprimer| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-documantix | Grunt documentation generator| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• bower-pi | Bower dependency version checker & updater| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• Backbone.Chosen | Use different models in your Backbone collections| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• require-messageformat-plugin | A require.js plugin for loading & transpiling Messageformat JSON files| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-backbonebuilder | Grunt plugin for building optimized Backbone versions for your project| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• grunt-lodashbuilder | Grunt plugin for building optimized LoDash versions for your project| 🄹🅂 ⚠️
• firefox-element-screenshots | Instrument Firefox from the terminal to take screenshots of specified elements from a webpage| 🄹🅂 ⚠️

• ⚠️ = Unmnaintained

🗣 Past Presentations

🎤 Interviews

• 🇬🇧 Interview for Amsterdam JS
• 🇬🇧 Interview for DevExperience
• 🇬🇧 Interview for lawless.tech

📻 Podcasts

• 🇬🇧 TalkScript - Episode 40: Beyond JavaScript
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 370: Internationalisierung und Lokalisierung
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 335: EME? CDM? DRM? CENC? IDK!
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 181: Module, Events, Verlosung
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 161: Too Easy, Didn’t Learn
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 153: Typecsset und die Web Speech API
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 132: Rund ums Testen
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 108: asm.js, UA Sniffing und Operas Wechsel zu WebKit
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 105: CSS-Performance, Web Workers und ein paar Links
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 90: .mobi-Gate, Persona und TypeScript
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 86: CAS und Object.observe
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 84: jQuery, Git, Informationsverwaltung und jede Menge Links
• 🇩🇪 Workingdraft - Revision 76: Testen, Dokumentieren und Abhängigkeiten verwalten

📽️Webcasts

• 🇬🇧 Smashing Webinar: The Web of Things — The Story Of A Browser Escaping Into The Physical World
• 🇬🇧 DalekJS Screencasts

✏️ Technical Writing

🌐 Online

• 🇬🇧 The Open Sourcerer's Magic Spell Book | January 28, 2018
• 🇬🇧 Our productivity is in a constant state of flux | December 22, 2017
• 🇩🇪 Acht Wege zur stetigen Qualitätskontrolle – Teil 2 | December 16, 2014
• 🇩🇪 Acht Wege zur stetigen Qualitätskontrolle – Teil 1 | December 15, 2014
• 🇬🇧 Webdriver tutorial for Webplatform | June, 2014 (seems to have gotten lost when Web Platform went down)
• 🇬🇧 Recap of WebDev conferences 2012 | December 31, 2012 (Former employers blog, they unpublished it)
• 🇬🇧 E2E JavaScript Video Streaming | December 1, 2012 (Former employers blog, they unpublished it)
• 🇬🇧 10 things you didn't know JavaScript could do | June 24, 2012

📰 Print

• 🇩🇪 Unschöne neue Welt | iX Sonderheft: Entwickeln für das Internet der Dinge, December 2015
• 🇬🇧 Use Dalek.js for UI testing | net Magazine, February 2014
• 🇩🇪 Dalek.js | PHP Magazine #17, January 2014
• 🇩🇪 Roboto Arduino | Screenguide #17, March 2013