I began writing this yesterday at RVA JS.

Today I’m at RVA JS 2018, Richmond’s second annual JavaScript developer’s conference.

I haven’t been to a conference in ages. I’ve always wanted to attend conferences for UI/UX Design and Front End Web Development, come back to the workplace with useful knowledge, and have constructive impact. Somehow, for budgetary reasons usually, I routinely missed the travel/conference/education boat.

Out of a sense of nostalgia, I googled the possibilities and was excited to see that there are options within striking distance. Since I have plenty of time on my hands these days, in theory, I figured it would be a wise investment of time and energy to check out some of the Mid-Atlantic’s tech conferences.

Since I’ve been all over YouTube and the internet reading and scouring articles, trying to nail down some sense of direction and interest in this new dev world, it’s interesting to see the difference between local, national, and international thoughts and trends. Are there a few gurus unintentionally dictating our developer lives through proclamations? Is the web dev community skeptically but too willingly influenced by the cult of personality?

Never a dull moment, but always forward.

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