With UX Australia coming up this week and our new Engineering AI conference about three weeks away not to mention the programmes for our Developer Summit and Next and Enqueue conference being finalised (to be announced next week), we’ve not got a lot to add this week to our links below. I hope you find […]
The naive understanding of evolution is that species are continually evolving. This idea held sway for the first century or more after Darwin first published his theory of evolution. But the orthodox view of evolution today is of punctuated equilibrium—the idea that for most of their existence, species remain remarkably stable, punctuated by periods of […]
In the next week or two I’ll publish our 1,000th ‘elsewhere‘—which is what I call the annotated snippets I’ve been posting since early 2024 over at Conffab. This milestone finally formalized something I’ve been doing for decades: reading countless blogs and other sources, then amplifying the articles, talks, and ideas I found valuable and hoped […]
Before we get started, a couple of quick announcements. This week, we announced the full programme for two upcoming conferences: UX Australia (end of August in Melbourne) and Engineering AI (September 12th in Sydney). So if either of those sound valuable to you, take a look at the full lineup now, and both are in-person […]
UX Australia 2025: Professional Development for Design Professionals and Leaders August 27-28, 2025 | ACMI Melbourne and OnlineIn-person & Streaming | 21 Sessions | 2 Days UX Australia 2025 brings together Australia’s leading design practitioners for two intensive days focused on the most pressing challenges shaping our industry. The program is carefully curated by Steve […]
First up a quick announcement–the program for our new Engineering AI conference is now available. Engineering AI is our new one day conference for software engineers, regardless of their area of focus or the languages they use, and engineering leaders focussed on the impact of AI and LLMs on the practice of Software Engineering. It takes […]
Engineering AI is our new one day conference for software engineers, regardless of their area of focus or the languages they use, and engineering leaders focussed on the impact of AI and LLMs on the practice of Software Engineering. It takes place in Sydney, and on Conffab our streaming platform, September 12th. Read on for our […]
It’s a little quieter this week, with the Northern Hemisphere summer seeing less being published. But still a bit of reading to bring to you. Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 WebGPU After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to […]
This week a random assortment of recent pieces I found valuable. No strong themes seemed to emerge, but plenty of excellent reading to keep you up to date. CSS Day now on Conffab We also released the CSS Day talks on Conffab. Over a dozen really in depth and engaging talks on my favourite programming […]
The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy—roughly speaking, disorder—in a closed system only increasesover time. Perhaps there’s an analogous law for complexity in software systems, both at the micro and macro level. Over the 30 years I’ve been building things for the Web, this seems to hold true for the things we build and the […]
A quick note–the Australian Financial Year ends June 30, so if you have training budget to spend, please keep in mind our upcoming conferences, and our streaming platform Conffab we’ve got you covered whatever your budget, from $20 a month and up. I had hoped over the last few weeks to keep up my unbroken […]
Once again a slightly smaller roundup than some weeks have been this year, but still some great reading and viewing to tide you over. From a milestone implementation of the new Date and Time API for JavaScript, Temporal, to news on a brand new browser engine, and much more, these are the things that have […]
Another somewhat quieter week this week–looking back at this time last year it doesn’t seem to be a seasonal thing. But then again the last week has seen both Microsoft’s Build conference and Google’s I/O, with plenty of announcements–so they may have taken the oxygen out of the room somewhat? But we’ve stayed busy at […]
It should be clear we’re very interested in the implications for software engineering of large language models here at Web Directions. Last month we hosted an unconference in Melbourne on the topic (you can find our writeup here) and this week we hosted a similar event in Sydney. Each had surprisingly different areas of focus. […]
Join the legendary CSS Day Conference on Conffab This June! We’re genuinely excited to announce that Conffab will be streaming the renowned CSS Day conference live from Amsterdam on June 5th and 6th, 2025! This focused, advanced CSS conference brings together the brightest minds in web development for two days of deep insights and cutting-edge […]
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Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
