Alfie & Neil presenting at FES.

A slightly avant-garde #FrontEndSheff last night, but one of our attendees said it best:
> "I feel excited about being a dev again now thank uuu"

Alfie & Neil put on a great show for us: highlighting the range of tools + skills we have as frontend devs to fix… well, loads of stuff. Thanks lads!

microhacking guestbook

This #FrontEndSheff talk is welcoming comments. Brave. Also remember we have a CoC lol x

guestbooks.alifeee.net/microhacking/

Alfie presents his events bot at FES.

I love @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 's #Sheffield events bot (@events@events.sheffield.alifeee.net on Mastodon) - it's genuinely how I find stuff to do with the kids in town.

Leveraging #ActivityBot and some selector-heavy scraping. #FrontEndSheff

There are some friends of #FrontEndSheff / @frontendnorth.bsky.social involved with this. They say this is the final one, but we hope not.

Are you going? We are! Tickets still available.

2/2:
🚗 June 25th: Ian Dunning - TBA, but #AI-orientated & <YOU? - new speakers welcome, get in touch>

At Charles St. SHU, all on last Thursday of every month
#Sheffield #Meetup #TechMeetups #WebDev #WebDesign #UX #FrontEndSheff @sheffield.digital

26th Mar '26: Microhacking the modern web w\ Alfie & Neil (4x mini-talks), Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lif

Tickets for our March #FrontEndSheff event now available:
Regulars Alife & Neil are cramming in 4x (!) talks about using our #WebDev skills to make real services better for real people #microhacking

www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

The Plateau of Accessibility Compliance

Slides from @kitation.co.uk 's fabulous #FrontEndSheff gaming Vs #a11y talk last week are now available here: fantastic-cat.static.domains/plateauofweb...

Chad presenting with a Pokémon screenshot.

Even though #WCAG AAA isn't always imperative, it's full of goodies - like timing issues - still of benefit to some of your users (*whispers* & may bring some conversion rate wins, fellow savage capitalists)

Impromptu pokemans example ties this into games: @kitation.co.uk #FrontEndSheff #a11y

26th Feb '26: The Accessibility Compliance Plateau - Where do we go from here?, Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lif

If you see one talk that bridges the worlds of #accessibility compliance & video games this year, make it this one on Thursday 26th from @kitation.co.uk:
🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Also, we'll be giving an overview of what's coming up @ #FrontEndSheff in 2026.

26th Feb '26: The Accessibility Compliance Plateau - Where do we go from here?, Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lif

Join us at our #a11y -focused event on February 26th: 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

@kitation.co.uk will use video games as a comparator to look at how we can introduce fresh ideas into our work as the compliance-lead approach has run out of steam.
#FrontEndSheff #Sheffield

26th Feb '26: The Accessibility Compliance Plateau - Where do we go from here?, Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 6:15 PM | Meetup We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lif

In our first meet of 2026, @kitation.co.uk will examine how web compliance works.
👾 Using video games as a comparator, we'll explore alternative approaches to accessibility & how we can introduce fresh ideas into our work.
🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... #FrontEndSheff

We got this tomorrow - Thursday 18th Dec. Happy to meet friends new and old for our end-of-year #FrontEndSheff bash:

18th Dec '25: XHTMLmass Party, Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup No talks this month. But someone of you indicated you'd quite like a social… us too! We'll be at Triple Point Brewery + Bar from 6:30pm on Thursday, 18th December. They se

We're just having a social this month. Taking it easy 🍻 - Come along and join #FrontEndSheff for a low-key xmas hang in town on 18th December:

www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Be more Caterpillar Keep functions small and focused Avoid deep nesting Use meaningful names Maintain consistent styling Follow consistent design patterns

#FrontEndSheff @andycarter.dev:
Be more Caterpillar

Keep functions small and focused

Avoid deep nesting

Use meaningful names

Maintain consistent styling

Follow consistent design patterns

An old man shows a younger man a lock up garage full of random boxes of stuff and says: “One day Son all this will be yours.”

#FrontEndSheff where AI is getting the code it generates from.

Slide: Features of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' that are relevant to code.

Seasoned dev @andycarter.dev on being more caterpillar when it comes to code #FrontEndSheff

#FrontEndSheff @andycarter.dev: When James Joyce wrote Ulysses he said he put in so many enigmaa and puzzlea that academics would argue about it for centuries, thereby ensuring his immortality.

#FrontEndSheff @andycarter.dev: in practice programmers spend about 10 times aa much time reading code as writing it

At #FrontEndSheff tonight for @andycarter.dev talking about Ulysses and the Very Hungry Caterpillar

27th Nov '25: Standards, Web Components & Quality Code with a Hungry Caterpillar, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup Same room as last month: 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lift

This is tomorrow! (Thursday 26th November) - Last #FrontEndSheff Meetup of the year:

🧩 Webcomponents time-traveller Jack Carey
🐛 Caterpillar and code-quality enthusiast @andycarter.dev

🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

27th Nov '25: Standards, Web Components & Quality Code with a Hungry Caterpillar, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup Same room as last month: 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lift

Last (non-drinky) #FrontEndSheff of the year THIS WEEK(!): www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Jack Carey & @andycarter.dev bringing the noise with web components, code quality and… caterpillars? 🐛 #Meetup #Sheffield #WebDev

27th Nov '25: Standards, Web Components & Quality Code with a Hungry Caterpillar, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup Same room as last month: 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lift

Announcing our November #FrontEndSheff Meetup (last of 2025):

- Jack Carey takes us 🎶 baaaack in tiiiime with 'An adventure in web components'
- @andycarter.dev uses literary classics to talk about code quality with 'Ulysses versus The Very Hungry Caterpillar'

🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Slidev - Expo Router "## Expo Router\n"

Luke's slides for his excellent @expo.dev #ExpoRouter talk at #FrontEndSheff : expo-router.lhowsam.com

30th Oct '25: Trick or Treat: Router special - Next.js Patterns & expo-router, Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup Room change alert!: We're at SHU in Room 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE - that's just one floor

Tickets still available for #FrontEndSheff this Thursday (30th Oct). We gots:
- Alex Efthymiou talking all about routing in #nextjs
- Luke Howsam on routing using
@expo.dev

Looking forward to seeing you all this week for a thoroughly spoopy time 🎃

www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Thomas on FE careers 1.

Thomas on FE careers 2.

Nicholas on RSC 1.

Nicholas on RSC 2.

Big thanks to Thomas Baker and Nicholas Tsim for their presentations at last nights FES. Good crowd turnout too. Glad to be back into the swing of things.

Sign up to Octobers event here: www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... #FrontEndSheff

Second talk at tonight’s #FrontEndSheff - landing your first role as a developer

React server components talk at tonight’s #FrontEndSheff

Front End Sheffield: May 2025, Thu, May 29, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lif

Next week's #FrontEndSheff is all about mentoring! Join us on Thurs 29th to hear all about the @sheffield.digital mentorship scheme.

Plus, we'll be giving away a ticket to this year's @frontendnorth.bsky.social conference to one lucky attendee!

Sign up at www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Front End Sheffield: May 2025, Thu, May 29, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup We're back at SHU in Room 12.4.12 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE Look for the FES signs up into the lif

We're teaming up with @sheffield.digital for this month's #FrontEndSheff! Join us on 29th May to find out all out their mentoring scheme and what it's like being a mentor.

🎟️ Free tickets at www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Andy in front of a slide summarising his talk, with a Futurama gif.

Key takeaways from tonight's #FrontEndSheff:
✅ use semantic html (no more divs all the way down!)
👀 get your eyes tested

Thanks for another great talk @andycarter.dev!