Benjamin Parry @benjaminparry ~ Why I Volunteer And Why You Should Too
Benjamin’s retrospective on three years of volunteering at web conferences, some of them run by Clearleft.
The last dConstruct | hidde.blog
A great write-up from Hidde on dConstruct 2022 and how the speakers tackled the theme of design transformation:
They talked about turning a series of penstrokes into art, lasers into fireworks, human experiences into novels and patient data collection into a minimal effort task.
A lot of our work in web design and technology has a power to transform and that is wonderful, especially when we manage to be intentional about the how and why.
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With great power, comes great creativity: thoughts from CSS Day 2024 · Paul Robert Lloyd
Here’s Paul’s take on this year’s CSS Day. He’s not an easy man to please, but the event managed to impress even him.
As CSS Day celebrates its milestone anniversary, I was reminded how lucky we are to have events that bring together two constituent parties of the web: implementors and authors (with Sara Soueidan’s talk about the relationship between CSS and accessibility reminding us of the users we ultimately build for). My only complaint is that there are not more events like this; single track, tight subject focus (and amazing catering).
My experience at Modern Frontends Live | hidde.blog
I appreciate Hidde’s reluctance to participate in anything that looks like a pile-on, but in this case, it’s important to call out the bad behaviour so it doesn’t happen again.
The specific issues I’ve put in this post cross the line between honest mistakes and bad behaviour. They cross the line, because they consistute fraud (the livestream) and because they impact attendees, sponsors and speakers. The front-end community doesn’t deserve this, and I’m worried for people new to the industry, who get may assume this is normal or ok. It’s not normal.
Modern Frontends
More on that shitshow of an event that Jo wrote about, this time from Cassie.
My experience of Modern Frontends Conference - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
I’ve heard from multiple people about how much of a shitshow this event was. Worth remembering in case they try to pull the same shit again.
Related posts
In person
dConstruct, Web Dev Conf, and State Of The Browser.
Hosting
No conference talks this year, but three conferences I’m hosting.
Creativity
Thinking about priorities at UX Brighton.
Five questions
I gave five answers to Oliver, who’s organising the Pixel Pioneers event in Bristol.
Redesigning UX London
Tweaking the format of the event.