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Highlights from EmberConf 2021, including Octane, Embroider, TypeScript, accessibility, testing, template imports, and Ember’s future direction.

Highlights from EmberConf 2020, covering Ember Octane, autotracking, FastBoot, accessibility, performance, testing, and build tooling.

Highlights from EmberConf 2019, including Ember Octane, Glimmer components, tracked properties, Embroider, TypeScript, and tooling.

Highlights from EmberConf 2018, covering Ember 3.x, Glimmer, WebAssembly, accessibility, JavaScript modules, and performance.

My reaction to the Ember 3.0 plan, including compatibility, deprecations, browser support changes, and incremental framework evolution.

A walkthrough of Ember’s route lifecycle, from willTransition through model hooks, setup, redirects, and didTransition.

Highlights from EmberConf 2017, covering Glimmer 2.0, FastBoot, Engines, TypeScript, progressive web apps, and Ember’s roadmap.

Highlights from EmberConf 2016, including FastBoot, Glimmer 2.0, Engines, Ember CLI, performance, and the evolving Ember ecosystem.

An introduction to Ember closure actions and how they improve function passing and action handling compared with traditional action bubbling.

Improve web font loading with FontFaceObserver and the Font Loading API to reduce FOIT and make text rendering more predictable.