In 2010, Wired Magazine published one of its periodically famous mis-takes (older folks will remember the 1997 “Pray” cover predicting Apple’s imminent demise, and even older folks their prediction that push technologies would kill off the web–”kiss your browser goodbye“). In 2010 it was not Apple that was dying, rather the web was already dead! […]
The CFP for our Summit 2023 (and Code Leaders!), in Sydney late October closes May 31st (so in about a week). And not only do we have not one, but two front end development focused tracks a product design track a product management track a content strategy/design track We’re adding two new tracks for 2023! […]
Some weeks my notebook of links to share fills up, other weeks seem slower–like this one, though I could have sworn I read as much or more than usual. So just a handful of links this week, but all high value. Conditional CSS with :has and :nth-last-child Ahmad Shaheed is one of our favourite CSS […]
Let’s set the effective starting date of the Web as 1993 and the release of Mosaic, the first graphical browser that gained any sort of widespread adoption. 30 years. A lifetime ago or more for many, though I remember it well. What was the technology landscape at the time? Windows dominated the consumer computing landscape […]
TL;DR; Today we’re announcing Web Directions AI A 1 day event focussing exploring the technologies, opportunities & impact of generative AI, taking place in Sydney, July 21st. It’s amazing value already (early bird tickets are just $395), but if you get a gold or silver ticket for Web Directions Summit by June 30th we’ll give you a free ticket […]
This week’s reading is all about generative AI. And whether you’re a designer, developer, product manager, content strategist, whatever your role, take a look at our brand new conference, Web Directions AI, coming to Sydney very soon. Agents on the Brain Autonomous agents’ traction is undeniable. On the other hand, it’s unclear how useful these […]
One of the analogies people all over have been using to try and distil what this moment feels like for AI is ‘the X moment for AI’. This is “the iPhone moment for AI“, or “the Web/internet moment for AI”. Bill Gates speaks of AI in as analogous to when he very first saw a […]
Modern frontends are complex and large. They involve coordinating resources across front and back end, and across networks. They utilise numerous different technologies and resources, and typically involve teams of people performing different roles and potentially contributing to a code base with others they have never met scattered around the globe. Frankly it’s a marvel […]
I’ve had to good fortune to see up close, and be involved in my own little way, in four transformative moments in technology over the last four decades. As a young teenager, the early PC era (we called them microcomputers back then) like the Apple II, Apricot, Acorn and TRS-80 (my own first computer) In […]
The Web platform is constantly evolving, and what we can build in the browser becomes more complex and sophisticated by the day. We’ve long covered these capabilities at our conferences and Code will be no different, with a range of talks to help you get up to speed with what browsers are capable of today […]
We use it day in day out, but how much time do we invest in keeping out knowledge of JavaScript up to date? We get it (we’re developers too)–it often feels like a full time job just keeping up with what’s happening in front end technologies. That’s what drives the programming at all our conferences–at […]
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 […]
Thanks for an amazing few days Web Directions. So many great themes of empathy, inclusion, collaboration, business impact through design, and keeping our future deeply human.
Laura van Doore Head of Product Design, Fathom
