Speakers: Jeff Lindsay

Session

Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

The web hooks pattern is a simple and pragmatic solution that will change the dynamics of the web as much as the adoption of web APIs. By complementing web APIs and RSS, web hooks will give us empowering infrastructure similar to Unix command pipelining, but on a grander scale. Pipes for the web have not yet been fully realized, but web hooks can change this. They also come with the added potential for allowing users to customize and extend web applications.

In this talk, Jeff Lindsay will describe the pattern in theory and by example, and explain the implications and importance of mass adoption.

Bio

Jeff Lindsay is a freelance software developer specializing in prototyping and conceptualization. Through his love of and desire to spread hacker culture, he co-founded SuperHappyDevHouse, a recurring party for hackers and thinkers that's been mimicked around the world.

Jeff spends a lot of time thinking about the power of programming in an increasingly programmable world, and how to subversively turn the world into programmers, problem solvers and designers.