Heydon Pickering
where else to find them
website:https://www.heydonworks.com
website:https://briefs.video
github:Heydon
bluesky:heydonworks.bsky.social
mastodon:@heydon@front-end.social
devto:heydon
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- CSS Day2 editions2014–2023
- Inclusive Design 242 editions2014–2024
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on a stage with
- Ana Tudoronce
- David Barononce
- Ethan Marcotteonce
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who talks about the same things
- Vitalii Bobrov16 talks
- Bruce Lawson30 talks
- Kyle Simpson24 talks
- Stephen Hay10 talks
- Stefan Judis23 talks
- Christian Heilmann58 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Making HTML Make Music – Heydon Pickering | Pixel Pioneers 2026 | 2026-06-19 |
Hyperlam is a set of tiny Web Components that turn HTML into a sequencer, sampler and effects rack using the Web Audio API: Hyperlam, a 2KB custom element… | ||
| The Folly of Chasing Demographics | Inclusive Design 24 2024 | 2024-09-12 |
Argues that designing for imagined demographics fails and urges designing for tools and equivalent modalities instead. Shows concrete failures: using empty alt… | ||
| The Folly of Chasing Demographics (*Content Warning) | axe-con 2024 | 2024-02-20 |
Argues that chasing demographics fails and instead teams should design for the tool — ensure inputs and outputs work with screen readers, not guess users’… | ||
| Why Doesn't CSS Have Scope? | CSS Day 2023 | 2023-06-08 |
Argues that CSS already scopes (selectors and the lone global asterisk), demonstrates alternatives like styled-components createGlobalStyle, iframes… | ||
| Capitalism, The Web, And You | ffconf 2022 | 2022-11-10 |
Argues capitalism is the privatisation of social capital and lists concrete externalities: worker burnout, environmental collapse from proof-of-work, and… | ||
| Flexbox Holy Albatross | beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 | 2019-05-13 |
Claims a pure-CSS pattern (the Flexbox Holy Albatross) that flips a flex row to a column based on container space by using calc with 100% vs a constant… | ||
| Plain Wrong? | JSHeroes 2019 | 2019-04-11 |
I love writing JavaScript. The trouble is, so does everyone else. When people aren`t writing JavaScript, they`re usually writing frameworks for writing… | ||
| Get Your Priorities Straight | Frontend United 2018 | 2018-06-01 |
Argues that priorities are wrong by showing TaylorSwift.com as a nearly empty black page that still downloads 800 kilobytes because colour is set with… | ||
| Effortless Style | CSS Day 2014 | 2014-06-04 |
Argues that editors keep writing plain content while CSS handles presentation, showing concrete techniques: attribute selectors + pseudo-content to add icons… | ||
| Speaker Panel | CSS Day 2014 | 2014-06-04 |
A live Q&A lists concrete wins and roadblocks: shadow DOM isolates styles so scoped styles are less necessary; web components are shipping and used as the… | ||
| Current Page Link Solutions | Inclusive Design 24 2014 | 2014-05-15 |
Compares practical ways to mark the current page link and rejects visual-only classes and replacing links with inert elements, notes testing with NVDA+Firefox… | ||
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