A dozen years ago (how can it be so long? How can he have been so prescient?) Anil Dash wrote “the Web We Lost“. This isn’t our web today. We’ve lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we’ve abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To […]
Most frontend tooling talks seem to focus on adding things to your project. There’s no problem that can’t be solved by adding more bits to your build, right?! But when I looked at our UI library, I realised all those bits *were* the problem. Solutions that had been standard had fallen into disrepair in just […]
A quick note that super early bird pricing for Code our front end developer conference in Melbourne (and online) June 20th and 21st ends next Friday May 3rd. Honing intuitions about things that are novel Brace yourself, today it’s all about AI. I hear the sighs and groans. Like when I was 14 in the […]
This week we launched the full programs for our Code and Code Leaders conferences in Melbourne in June. It’s a really fantastic program if I do say so myself, so hope to see you there (in Melbourne or via the stream). Interview with a Senior JS Developer 2024 The satirical interview series from Programmers are also […]
A couple of weeks back we announced the first round of speakers for the 2024 edition of our long running Code conference (Melbourne June 20th and 21st, tickets available now). Today we’re announcing the full program and schedule. Every event we work hard to put together a better program than the last, but this one […]
No themes this week, in our roundup of some recent things that have crossed our desk. Elsewhere Just a reminder, these and many other ‘elsewheres’ can be found at Conffab. Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A […]
Today we’re announcing the first round of our speakers for Code in Melbourne in June. This is a detailed post about the thinking that went into our Code conference program–if you just want to see what’s lined up, why not jump straight there? But if you’d like to know why what’s there is there, read on! The coming vibe […]
Well the year is well and truly under way, and we’ve been hard at work programming our conferences for 2024. After some, let’s say bumpy, years, we’re back to a similar schedule as we had before 2020, but with some adjustments as well. The TL;DR; is in 2024 we have 4 events lined up for […]
Way back in 2008 or 2009 (maybe even earlier) we first started using Twitter in association with our conferences. We’d encourage folks to tweet with associated hashtags, and had big tweet walls, built our own aggregators–and were a globally trending tag a couple of times. Hundreds of people would tweet thousands of times collectively at […]
Mosaic wasn’t the first GUI web browser–the very first browser, Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT based WorldWideWeb browser (a web based recreation of the UX of which I was involved with at CERN a few years back–you can try that here) was. NeXT, for those under the age of about 50, was the company Steve Jobs founded […]
🙈 As builders of digital products it’s easy to forget the impact of your work. It’s the little things, like the lazy, sloppy interface choices on a banking app that make a user’s day just that little bit more annoying. 😭 And it’s the big things – grab the tissues and check the latest Apple […]
Attending Web Directions is super exciting & packed with opportunities to learn & connect. ❤️ But those two days in October can be gone in a heartbeat! ⚙️ A bit of preparation ahead of time can go a long way 🆘 We’re here to help: here’s a simple 4 Step Guide so you can make the most of your […]
This week in my ongoing years of transformation series, I looked at the start of the Web–whether you want to call that 1989, 1990 or early 1991 (all have a claim to make as I discussed). But 1989 was among the more momentous years in the 20th century due to an event which was far […]
Just exactly when do we choose to decide the Web began? Perhaps 1989 and publication of “Information Management: A Proposal” by Tim Berners-Lee, a proposal by for a distributed hypertext system (a document I’ve held in my hand, with it’s ‘vague but exciting’ annotation by Mike Sendall hand written in red pen at the top). […]
🗽 What are the must-have skills of a great engineering leader?🏆 How do you build a world class culture amongst engineers building digital products? That’s what Code Leaders is all about! Leading a team of engineers and product people can be daunting when it’s first thrust upon you. It’s not an easy thing to get […]