Web Directions Dev Summit 2025, the Big Stonking Post™: weblog.200ok.com.au/2025/11/wdds...
#webdirections #devsummit
I almost envy people who haven't seen Dmitry speak before ;) Strap yourselves in... #WebDirections
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#webdirections
Watching Jono Alderson's opening talk at #WebDirections and having to stop myself actually cheering.
I will however wryly tap the sign: noti.st/benbuchanan/...
Two middle aged dorks taking a selfie in front of a lovely woman at a Figma booth at a tech event
Who’s at Web Directions Dev Summit today? It was a delight to run into my old colleague Belinda McKeon working the Figma booth. ❤️ #webdirections
Had the pleasure of attending #webdirections for the first time this year! Met some wonderful people all around. Thank you
@johnfallsopp.com for working so hard to organize this
Ideas are everything now. Ideas are execution
Ideas used to be worth zero and it was all about execution. We're rapidly moving towards a point where ideas and execution almost are the same thing.
#innovation #webdirections #ai #developer
Right now, investing time in play and following ideas and riffing is critical. Eg "can you build a reverse polish notation calculator using emoji on COBOL with unit tests?"
Apparently, yes....
#webdirections #development #ai
Shortly we will see the same behaviour that happened with cloud adoption - employers who resisted the change, list their best employees who wanted to invest in their skills to companies who did instead.
#webdirections #ai #development
Imagine being a DevOps engineer in 2025 with no AWS, Azure or GCP experience?
This is the change that's happening with software engineering more generally. Learning these tools is some of the best personal development investment you can make right now.
#ai #development #webdirections
@shibcodes.bsky.social telling us to “Stop using React”. As a recent 11ty convert, I love that advice. #webdirections
Photo of projector display of my talk the rise of on-device AI happening at web directions code 2025
I'm up next with my talk "The Rise of On-Device AI" @webdirections.org #wdc #webdirections
TIL: ‘Cumulative Layout Shift’ - or how much your page changes when fonts load later - is a measurable metric in chrome Dev Tools. #webdirections.
Great talk from @kritiketan.bsky.social about local first web experiences for collaborative applications.
Some great examples shown on the edge cases for concurrent writes, edits and removals.
Always good to see talks about CRDT and data drift resolution.
#webdirections
Could we get to a place where content is routed from the greenest location rather than closest?
solarprotocol.net a good example of this as an experiment (have been fascinated by this for ages).
#greenweb #webdirections
You can get realtime grid usage for Australia from here explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/vic1/... #wdc #webdirections @webdirections.org
With some smarts, we can downscale or upscale the experience based on energy.
For example, adding animations adds proportionately significant energy use (a single loading spinner likely uses more power than loading an entire standard page)
#greenweb #webdirections
Tech uses about 2-4% of total energy but that is growing and it’s very skewed (eg Ireland over 40% of their grid).
This is comparable to shipping or aviation.
#wdc #webdirections
at #WebDirections today and tomorrow! excited to see everyone again 🎉
Photo of old and new forest growth, juxtaposed in a curving boundary. Also known as the photo Maria used in her keynote at Web Directions
In case it was bugging anyone else... newgenerationplantations.org/blog-post/co... #WebDirections
Web Directions Code Summit & Web Directions Next 2024, The Big Stonking Post™ ... full disclosure, it's more of a medium stonk this time. #WebDirections
weblog.200ok.com.au/2024/12/web-...
Still chortling about the idea of a #WebDirections Blue Set. One where we get together and do the properly sweary version of our talks.
No punching down, etc, obvs, just therapeutically sweary. No recording and phones surrendered in a faraday pouch.
And yes there's always a swearier version...
Three days of #WebDirections Summit + Next has been brilliant, and *much* needed time with my tribe.
Some decompression time is definitely on the cards this weekend though 😅
Mark pesce in front of a slide reading TREASURE THIS MOMENT
I most certainly do :) #webdirections #webdirectionsnext
A man on stage at a tech event
Sydney tech industry legend John Allsopp kicking off today’s #webdirections Next event. It’s especially nice to hear an Acknowledgement of First Nations people during Thanksgiving week. I never once heard such a thing growing up in the US.
Maria on stage in front of her title slide Let's Rewild The Internet
Maria Farrell bringing #webdirections Summit to a close
Maria on stage in front of an audience. The screen behind her says Let’s Rewild The Internet
Listening to Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social present Let’s Rewild The Internet at Web Directions #webdirections @webdirections.bsky.social
Thanks for coming to my #webdirections talk!
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Quinn-Chi on stage in an auditorium in Sydney. On screen is a slide asking how do you decide what to speculate on?
Listening to @qcn.bsky.social talk about Speculation Rules API at Web Directions #webdirections
Anton on stage in a photograph taken from the back of a crowded room in sydney
Listening to Anton Ball @antonjb.bsky.social talk about advanced CSS features at Web Directions Sydney #webdirections