Voxxed Thessaloniki 2018 - Opening Keynote - Taking Back The Web - YouTube
Here’s the talk I gave recently about indie web building blocks.
There’s fifteen minutes of Q&A starting around the 35 minute mark. People asked some great questions!
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Glittering Blue
Scroll around this massive video of a timelapse of one day’s footage from the Himawari 8 satellite in geostationary orbit around our homeworld.
Good Tech Conf | Using technology for social good
This looks like a really interesting two-day event here in Brighton in November. Like Indie Web Camp, it features one day of talks followed by one day of making.
After a day of tech talks from project teams using their skills for social good, you’ll have the chance to take part in workshops and hackathons to use your own talents for a worthy cause.
And you get to go up the i360.
Variable Fonts | DSType Foundry
Here’s an interesting twist on variable fonts: one of variable axes is serificity …serificousness …serifness. The serifs. The serifs, is what I’m trying to say.
One small point: it seems a bit of a shame that there are separate files for regular and italic—it would’ve been nice to have a variable axis for italicity …italicousness …ah, screw it.
Hack for the craic: David McKeown on making hackathons fun for everyone
A great write-up of Science Hack Day Dublin—the 6th iteration is coming up next month.
What struck me about this hackathon is that the only end goal is for people to have a bit of fun and make stuff. There’s no flashy big-ticket prize and no commercial agenda. They’re not looking for start-up pitches or scalable business plans, and there’s no Dragons’ Den interrogation. Just good old-fashioned, high-tech making and mingling.
Doctype Brighton
A new webby meet-up in Brighton organised by Davs Howard. It’ll be one the first Thursday of the month at The Joker. I often find myself in The Joker on Thursday nights anyway (for the wings) so I’ll be heading along to the inaugural event on February 1st.
How DIY communities are pushing the frontiers of science | Labs | eLife
A report on Science Hack Day Berlin (published on the excellent eLife website).
When I put together the first Science Hack Day back in 2010, I had no idea how amazingly far it would spread—all thanks to Ariel.
Patterns Day 2017: Paul Lloyd on Vimeo
Paul pulls no punches in this rousing talk from Patterns Day.
The transcript is on his site.
Patterns Day 2017: Alice Bartlett on Vimeo
At Patterns Day, Alice shared what she has learned from shepherding the Origami project within the Financial Times.
Patterns Day 2017: Jina Anne on Vimeo
Jina invented an entirely new genre for her Patterns Day talk—autobiographical fantasy.
Testing the accessibility of pattern libraries
Riffing on Rachel’s talk at Patterns Day:
At the Patterns Day conference last month, Rachel Andrew mentioned something interesting about patterns. She said that working with reusable interface components, where each one has its own page, made her realise that those work quite well as isolated test cases. I feel this also goes for some accessibility tests: there is a number of criteria where isolation aids testing.
Hidde specifically singles out these patterns:
- Collapsible (“Show/hide”)
- Form field
- Video player
100 Demon Dialogues – Lucy Bellwood
This is easily the most relatable 100 Days project I’ve seen:
I began posting a daily dialogue with the little voice in my head who tells me I’m no good.
Now you can back already-funded the Kickstarter project to get the book …and a plush demon.
Patterns Day 2017: Rachel Andrew on Vimeo
Rachel’s fantastic talk from Patterns Day. There’s a lot of love for Fractal specifically, but there are also some great points about keeping a pattern library in sync with a live site, and treating individual components as reduced test-cases.
Patterns Day 2017: Sareh Heidari on Vimeo
Time for another video from Patterns Day. Here’s Sareh Heidari walking us through Grandstand, the CSS framework at the BBC.
Patterns Day 2017: Ellen De Vries on Vimeo
The latest video from Patterns Day is up—Ellen’s superb philosophical presentation: Patterns in Language, Language in Patterns.
There’s so much packed into this one, it might take more than one viewing to take it all in.
Patterns Day 2017: Laura Elizabeth on Vimeo
The videos are coming! The videos are coming!
Here’s the first one: Laura Elizabeth opening the show at Patterns Day.
Patterns in language and language in patterns. – Ellen de Vries – Medium
A transcript of the superb talk that Ellen delivered at Patterns Day. So good!
Fantasies of the Future / Paul Robert Lloyd
Paul has published the slides and transcript of his knock-out talk at Patterns Day. This a must-read: superb stuff!
Design systems are an attempt to add a layer of logic and reasoning over a series decisions made by complex, irrational, emotional human beings. As such, they are subject to individual perspectives, biases, and aspirations.
How does the culture in which they are made effect the resulting design?
Coherence, Lego and how naming things is hard: Patterns Day 2017
A great blow-by-blow account of Patterns Day by Hidde.