Marcus Noble

For the third year running I attended Hackference again. Once again, a 1 day conference followed by a 24 hour hackathon and as always a really great weekend.

The line between the web and native applications is becoming more and more blurred. One of the latest goodies to land in browsers that gives our users a consistent, seamless experience is the Web Share API currently only available in Chrome.

Adding offline support to your site is easier than ever these days thanks to service workers.

Have you ever wanted to run your own call center, but, like, a really small one? No? OK, do you know of any small groups of people that could benefit from all being contactable with a single number? Imagine a conference or meetup with a phone number you can call to report code of conduct violations that will put you through to the first available organiser.

I'm going to show you how you can do this with the help of Twilio and a small Node.js application.

This past weekend I have attended Hackference for the second year running. Just like last year it was a 1 day conference followed by a 24 hour hackathon, and just like last year I've learnt a lot I'd like to share.