Later this week in Sydney I’m MCing From Paint to Pixels: AI & The Creative Industries, a discussion with Jessica Priebe – Art historian and lecturer in emerging technologies at the National Art School, Jamie Sissons – Founder of Absolutely AI, and Jesica Edwards, creative technologist at Canva. I’ll ask them their thoughts about the professional challenges […]
How we architect our front ends is complex. So at Code we’re going to take a longer look at modern front end architectures. Kenneth Rohde Christiansen will take us beyond the front ends of today, and look at the capabilities coming, or already here in the Web Platform–from Web Neural Networks to Web GPU, Web […]
Front end developers have probably long been a little guilty of thinking about security as essentially “back end” problem. And many of the most significant issues we’ve seen with recent security breaches are definitely issues on the back end. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a front end responsibility as well. So at Code, we’ve […]
There’s little doubt that every aspect of front end development has become more complex–but perhaps none more so, more quickly, than performance. Less than a decade ago, when developers first started to pay real attention to performance we’d minify, concatenate, then gzip all our assets, to minimise the number of files to download, perhaps play […]
I spend a lot of my time keeping up with what’s happening in front end development–so you have to spend less time doing so.You’d think this might get easier, or the pace of innovation might have slowed now we’re well into the web’s 4th decade (sorry if that makes some of us feel old!) but […]
Yes, yes, I promised I’d focus less on AI after a flurry of posts late last year. But honestly, I can’t–I think it is that significant. As we put together the program for Code in June, and Summit later this year, submission after submission across dev, product, design, content is focussed on the impact of AI […]
The term ‘disruption‘ has become so overused as to be essentially meaningless. But it comes originally (in the sense we use it) from Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma*, who gave considerable though to the nature of technological innovation and its impact on businesses and industries. In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen describes “disruptive innovation [as creating] a […]
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Ezra Klein, the early blogger turned New York Times pundit and podcaster recently described the time we are living in now as ‘exponential time‘. He’s particularly referring to the experience in particular of the early weeks and months of Covid, […]
Today we’re also announcing the first half dozen of what will be nearly 30 speakers in total, experts who’ll help ensure you and your team are at the top of your game. Now double the content with two big tracks!The always popular front end development focussed Code returns with not one but two tracks. Front of […]
The launch of the iPhone was in some ways the high water mark of the Web. Apple’s long rumoured phone was launched as 3 devices in one “a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an Internet communications device”. There were no native apps, the way Apple expected developers to build apps for […]
Off the back of a truly fantastic return to in-person events with Web Directions Summit late last year, we’re well into planning even more for 2023! And here’s your chance to be involved as a speaker across several events and the whole front end landscape. The Return of Code On June 8th and 9th Code […]
Late last year, in the first part of this wrap up of technology in 2022, I looked at the fall of Twitter and rise of Mastodon? This week, to round out 2022 and kick off 2023, let’s focus on a second significant transformation taking place now that it feels will resonate for some time to […]
A dictum of Lenin’s we’ve all probably seen too many times the last few years “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” seems particularly apt for technology in late 2022 for two unrelated reasons, that will likely reverberate for a long time to come. To round out 2022, today […]
In my teens I read the classics of science fiction copiously–Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, Le Guin. Among the many tropes (space travel, galactic empires, to a lesser extent time travel) common to those stories was what we now term Artificial Intelligence–though while that term initially applied quite narrowly (more for less things that might pass the […]
We’ve just announced the full schedule for Code Leaders ’22, and if you’re an engineering leader or manager (experienced or aspiring) then we’d love you to consider attending
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
