The Folly of Chasing Demographics - YouTube
I just attended this talk from Heydon at axe-con and it was great! Of course it was highly amusing, but he also makes a profound and fundamental point about how we should be going about working on the web.
The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good - YouTube
I wasn’t able to tune into this live (“tune in?” what century is this?) but I’ve enjoyed catching up with the great talks like:
- Hints & Suggestions (First, Do No Harm) by Miriam Suzanne
- Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Own by Henry Desroches
- Come to the light side: HTML Web Components by Chris Ferdinandi
Related links
The Cost Of JavaScript - 2023 - YouTube
A great talk from Addy on just how damaging client-side JavaScript can be to the user experience …and what you can do about it.
Jack Franklin – Abstractions, complexities and off-ramps – All Day Hey! 2023 - YouTube
This is a terrific talk by Jack on how to deal with the tooling involved in modern front-end development:
- Maintaining control,
- Dependency awareness,
- Lean on browser primitives,
- Have an exit strategy.
Rich Harris: Hot takes on the web 🌶️ - YouTube
I don’t agree with all of these takes-of-varying-spiciness, but Rich Harris is always worth paying attention to.
Video Interview Series #10: Caring about the World Wide Web, with Jeremy Keith - Skip To Content
Here’s a short fifteen minute video (and transcript) of an interview I did about accessibility and inclusive design. I quite like how it turned out!
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Three magnificent days of design knowledge.
The complete line-up for Patterns Day …and a workshop!
Eight fantastic speakers, and one unmissable full-day workshop with Vitaly Friedman.
The audio from dConstruct 2022
Have a listen on the dConstruct Archive.
Democratising dev
How do we share the means of the web’s production?
Speaking at CSS Day 2022
I’ve prepared some links to go with the talk.