Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Saving a Life · LRB 16 February 2023
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City of Women London
City of Women encourages Londoners to take a second glance at places we might once have taken for granted by reimagining the iconic Underground map.
I love everything about this …except that there’s no Rosalind Franklin station.
State of the Browser 2021
The excellent (and cheap!) State Of The Browser is coming back to Conway Hall this year on Saturday, October 30th. Speakers include Rachel Andrew and Amber Case.
Everyone needs to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test to get into the venue, which is reassuring.
I think I’m gonna go!
UXLondon 2021
Here’s a great write-up (with sketch notes) of last week’s conference portion of UX Fest:
There was a through-line of ethics through the whole conference that I enjoyed. The “design is the underdog” is tired and no longer true. I think that asking ourselves “now that we are here, how do we avoid causing harm?” is a much more mature conversation.
Oh Hello Ana - IndieWebCamp London
Don’t forget—it’s IndieWebCamp London next weekend!
BBC Shows and Tours - Shows - James Burke: Our Man on the Moon
I wish I were here for this (I’m going to be over in Ireland that week)—an evening with James Burke, Britain’s voice of Apollo 11.
Here is your chance to find out what went on behind the scenes as James revisits the final moments of the Apollo mission. He’ll recreate the drama, struggling to make sense of flickering images from NASA and working with the limitations of 1960s technology. We’ll hear what went wrong as well as what went right on the night! Illustrated with amazing archive material from both the BBC and NASA, this will be the story of the moon landings brought to you by the man who became a broadcasting legend.
Mornington Crescent - Esolang
A (possibly) Turing complete language:
As the validity and the semantics of a program depend on the structure of the London underground system, which is administered by London Underground Ltd, a subsidiary of Transport for London, who are likely unaware of the existence of this programming language, its future compatibility is uncertain. Programs may become invalid or subtly wrong as the transport company expands or retires some of the network, reroutes lines or renames stations. Features may be removed with no prior consultation with the programming community. For all we know, Mornington Crescent itself may at some point be closed, at which point this programming language will cease to exist.
City life | Trys Mudford
Not only does the differentiation of terms create a divide within the industry, the term ‘web app’ regularly acts as an excuse for corner cutting and the exclusion of users.
Straight-talkin’ Trys:
We kid ourselves into thinking we’re building groundbreakingly complex systems that require bleeding-edge tools, but in reality, much of what we build is a way to render two things: a list, and a single item. Here are some users, here is a user. Here are your contacts, here are your messages with that contact. There ain’t much more to it than that.
Videos in “UX London” on Vimeo
The videos from UX London 2017 are available for your viewing pleasure.
UX London 2017 - YouTube
If you’ve never been to UX London, this short video communicates the flavour of the event nicely.
Sessions by Pusher
Oodles and oodles of videos of talks from London developer meetups.
Benjamin Parry @benjaminparry ~ Why I Volunteer And Why You Should Too
Benjamin’s retrospective on three years of volunteering at web conferences, some of them run by Clearleft.
Web Progressions
This looks a good (free!) event in London all about the latest browser goodies, all wrapped in the “progressive apps” buzzword.
Alas, I’ll be making my way back from Indie Web Camp Düsseldorf the day this is on.
Progressive Web Apps London
On the same day—and in the same city—as that Mobile @Scale event that Facebook are hosting, Google are hosting their own free event all about Progressive Web Apps, the buzziest of buzzwords.
Shame I can’t be in two places at once.
@SCALE London
I’m speaking at this event at Facebook in London on St. Patrick’s Day. I’ll be there representing the web.
It’s free to attend, but you need to request an invitation.
EnhanceConf line-up by Simon McManus
This is shaping up to be a great affordable one-day event in London on March 4th. The format will be similar to Responsive Day Out.
I suggest you grab a ticket.
Building the UX London website by Charlotte Jackson
Charlotte talks through some of the techniques she used when she was building the site for this year’s UX London, with a particular emphasis on improving perceived performance.
EnhanceConf — Call For Proposals
There’s going to be a conference about progressive enhancement. It’ll happen in London in March of next year. You should speak at it.
You’ve got until December 20th to submit your proposal. What have you got to lose?
London Accessibility Meetup #1 - London Accessibility Meetup
The inaugural London accessibility meet-up is happening on October 28th with two great presenters: Robin Christopherson and Julie Howell—that’s right; she’s coming out of retirement for one last talk!
The Nor: A Paranoid Cartography
James walks the site of London’s old wall, documenting the instruments of London’s new wall.
He wrote about his experience in “All Cameras Are Police Cameras.” It is a history lesson, a present lesson, and a future lesson, all in one.