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Web Directions Summit Team Offers

Over the years we’ve had many many teams attend our conferences together–treating it like an offsite, with amazing speakers, coffee, and more. Some come back year after year (well, they did until Covid). And now we’re returning, bigger and better than ever, we’re keen to make it really worth your while to attend together. So […]

Prediction is difficult, especially when dealing with the future

“Prediction is difficult, especially when dealing with the future” is a phrase attributed to physicist Neils Bohr, but also Samuel Goldwyn, Yogi Berra and (of course) Nostradamus. Humans love predictions, as the ongoing fascination with Nostradamus attests. Thinking about the future is something we all do, but predicting it is something fewer of us do with […]

Summit ’22 Super Early Bird Offers

Late last year we announced that Web Directions Summit will be returning to Sydney, December 1 and 2. And the response has been incredibly enthusiastic, for which we are really grateful. If you missed the news, in addition to our legendary product, design, and front end development tracks, we’ve added 3 new tracks for this […]

Web on the edge

The first electronic computers, like ENIAC, were entirely centralised-no networks, indeed not even peripherals. Over time, computing power shifted toward peripherals, until peripherals were in fact computers themselves, and a whole new architecture, of client/server computing was born. Over the decades, this architecture of client/server has remained the dominant paradigm of computing–with sometimes the bulk […]

Announcing our Global Scope 2022 curator, Shawn (swyx) Wang

We were working on the idea for what became Global Scope, our JavaScript focussed conference for years, and in 2021, as part of our approach to online conferences (creating a series of focussed in-depth events around different aspects of front end engineering including CSS, Web performance, PWAs, accessibility and more) we held our first Global […]

We’d love you to Speak at Web Directions Summit in Sydney late 2022

Late last year, (just literally as the omicron wave hit Australia) we announced our annual Summit (along with our Code Leaders conference) would be returning late 2022, to Sydney. When we return it will be over 3 years since our last in-person conference. So much has changed in the world and our industry since then. […]

Reports of the Web’s death have been greatly exaggerated

One of the side effects of running several focussed conferences into various aspects of front end development as we do with our series of online conferences is you really do get a good understanding of what’s happening with the Web platform–the technologies themselves, in browsers, developers’ perspectives, and more broadly still the place of the […]

Some recent reading on performance

To coincide with the launch of the full program of our front end performance focussed conference Lazy Load, I’ve rounded up some recent reading on performance for this week’s links. I hope you enjoy them. Reflections on software performance Nelson Elhage is an engineer and researcher at Anthropic, working on reverse-engineering large language models. He recently […]

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