April 2025 Meeting
The April 2025 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 14th of April, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).
This month we’re hosted by the lovely folk at Board intelligence in their offices, near Bank. Full venue and registration details are given below.
Agenda
From React to Hotwire – An Unexpected Journey
Maciej Korsan says:
For years, React has been the go-to choice for building frontend applications — but is it always the best solution? In this talk, I’ll share my journey from working extensively with React to discovering Hotwire, a radically different approach that enables dynamic applications without heavy JavaScript or complex state management.
Rather than a theoretical comparison, I’ll walk through real-world examples, demonstrating how I’ve implemented interactive features using Hotwire. I’ll also discuss my experiences, the challenges I faced, and some surprising discoveries along the way.
AI has many applications in our industry, we are just getting started
Mario Gintili says:
AI has many applications in our industry, we are just getting started.
In this talk, I’ll explore an approach to AI-powered observability tooling that knows everything about you and your codebase.
I’ll demo some of the most recent tooling in AI-assisted development, show you how to enrich an LLM with highly relevant contextual information and display a little workflow that shows how to use AI to fix bugs faster as they happen in production.
Space for more talks
You, maybe?
Afterwards
When the talks come to an end we’ll decamp to a local pub for some food, some drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
Venue & Registration
Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README paying close attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees.
Secure your place
Hopefully you all remember that physical meetings involve finite space and so to be guaranteed entry you need to register via ticket tailor.
Venue
The address of the venue:
Board Intelligence
24 Cornhill
City of London
London
EC3V 3ND
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The venue has a hard limit of 50 people. If you register and realise you can’t come, please use TicketTailor to give up your ticket so someone else can come in your place. We might be able to let in people on the night who haven’t registered, but we can’t guarantee it.
Accessibility info for the venue
Stay tuned for more information about this.
Posted by Alessandro Proserpio on Mar 12, 2025