ffconf 2024
2024-11-08
Brighton, United Kingdom
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as the organisers put it
ffconf / 2024-11-08 / A full day of eight carefully curated sessions for an audience that cares about the future of the web, and who want their ideas challenged.
who it's for
web developers, community organisers, accessibility engineers, ux designers, engineering managers, open source maintainers, developer experience engineers
topics
community-governed networks; IndieWeb practices; solar-powered servers; accessibility overlays failure; real-time scene description; WCAG AA compliance; Figma dev mode; small resilient CSS; volunteer-run community growth; digital preservation and grief tech; cognitive biases in debugging; end-of-day reflection practice
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Build Better Webs | Olu Niyi Awosusi | 19m |
Argues for plural "webs" rather than one monolith, urging community-governed networks that are built and run together, not single-owner platforms. Points to… | ||
| AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks | Léonie Watson | 34m |
Covers what actually works and what fails: demos with Seeing AI and iOS18 give real-time description and five‑minute video audio descriptions, Meta/Ray‑Ban… | ||
| Get the core right and the resilient code will follow | Andy Bell | 33m |
Argues that better, smaller CSS comes from nailing planning, async communication and feedback with designers rather than chasing new syntax; shows concrete… | ||
| 0 - 25,000 people! Growing a global community over 10 years | Kimberley Cook | 36m |
Codebar grows from a single London workshop in 2013 to 27,000 people across ~45 chapters and two virtual hubs, running roughly 2,500 workshops with one-to-one… | ||
| It all means nothing in the end | Amy Hupe | 38m |
Chronicles an existential burnout that starts with journaling the thought "it all means nothing" and traces a concrete recovery: defines a core perspective via… | ||
| Debugging the Mind: A Programmer's Guide to Critical Thinking | Mike Hall | 35m |
Examples and concrete failures expose what to watch: cognitive traps like confirmation bias and anchoring show up in unit tests, planning and hiring… | ||
| Death, and how tech forgot about mortality | Michael Kibedi | 35m |
Most people have no plan for their digital afterlife—3 in 5 UK adults lack a will—and platforms routinely disappear (Bebo died twice, Twitter purged inactive… | ||
| The art of reflection | Imran Afzal | 34m |
Claims that just 15 minutes of end‑of‑day reflection makes people more productive, happier and less burnt out, backed by experiments; uses concrete tools like… | ||
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