Just bought my ticket to go to DEFCON next month! I'm going solo and it's my first time so I'm super excited but ngl, I'm also a little bit scared 😅

What is FFConf? Who should attend? 🧑‍🔧👩‍💼🧑‍💻 Why? 🤔💭 - we try to answer these questions, look back at Reflections in 2024 and some curated links for your weekend in @ffconf.org latest news: ffconf.org/articles/202... Plus, early bird tickets still open at 2026.ffconf.org

It's funny how now that I've been learning to play the drums for about 8 months, I watch live music differently like "I could do that" 😂 and now I kinda wanna be in a band 🤔🥁

Haven't had much time to celebrate pride month this year but trying to show up for the last few days. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Tfw someone else asks to cancel the early meeting I had scheduled but didn't wanna go to anymore

You think you have nothing to hide? Okay, but, do you know how much about you a webpage can track, without even asking for permissions? Take a look at taken:

Simply the best ❤️

Another one 😃✈️

Didn't make it to the summit yesterday but still got to see a gorgeous sunrise 🌄 We started really well, making great time but 3h into it, the steepness got my legs tired earlier than I expected and I knew I didn't have enough energy to do 5-6h more hours to the summit + all the way back down 😞

Not a bad place to spend the night 😌

Gear and layering check before my 2-day climb of Mt Shasta! 🏔️ The weather is amazing so hopefully we make it to the summit! 🤞🏻

For my art lovers: The Last Museum is a search engine for museum art, with over 5 million of artworks indexed. You can search by theme, style, subject, vibe and more. lastmuseum.com/search?q=cats

Reposting for my US friends (aka: late risers 🤷), we launched ffconf.org/feeds/ - from our previous 118 speakers, then found their RSS feeds and you can browse their posts AND make your own OPML export so you can curate your own content.

On my way to Seattle for @cascadiajs.com, I asked the pilot for a trading card and I'm so excited, I feel like a child 😂

Next #btconf Düsseldorf video is up. @html5test.com with his talk "The Web Beyond the Edges of the Browser Window". Here is a little blog post about it. Thanks Niels ;) beyondtellerrand.com/blog/btconf-...

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

(1/2) Today marks the launch of the Safety by Design Code of Practice co-produced with @osanetwork.bsky.social @5rightsfound.bsky.social @mollyroseorg.bsky.social @nspcc.bsky.social @refugecharity.bsky.social @evawuk.bsky.social Glitch, and FlippGen - with expert input from Prof Lorna Woods OBE.

Now, gonna spend a couple days in Lauterbrunnen! 😃

It's been raining a lot in Grindelwald but I managed to make the best of the little bit of good weather!

Look at this beauty 😍🏔️

While I am on the road for #acs26 and doing post-event stuff for #btconf in parallel, I also started working on the videos. 🤪 Here is the first one with Kimya Gandhi and “The Act of Pressing a Key: The Journey of a Letterform on to Your Screen” youtu.be/jSBoXCsCyNI

Switzerland is absolutely gorgeous 😍

UpHill Conf has the best view 😍

And for #2, it’s absolutely true that AI can be fantastic learning tool, but it can only answer the questions that you know to ask. There’s a vast ocean of knowledge out there, and until you become an expert, it's hard to tell which parts are important (or true, for that matter 😅).

I love when I rehearse a new talk and I end up feeling super hyped by my own stuff 😂. Excited for Uphill conf next week!

I have an announcement! 🏫 I’ve just taken a handful of lessons from my new course and made them public, 100% free. You don’t even have to register for anything. 😄 I call it the Whimsical Animation Open House. The doors are open until the launch sale ends, early next week. ✨

One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com

Let the post-conference blues begin. As always, @beyondtellerrand.com was awesome, I'm feeling super inspired by the talks I watched and the conversations I had! Can't wait for next year 💜

Incredible day-2 opener by André Michelle at #btconf, who condensed >25 years of building music software into his in-browser openDAW – a case for openness … and persistence. Including a 🤘 live performance by @bastianallgeier.com 🎸👏

Starting @beyondtellerrand.com with the one and only Tobi! 🙌🏻

Made it to Düsseldorf, went on a nice 15 miles run this morning and super excited for @beyondtellerrand.com tomorrow! 😃 #btconf

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

4 more days and another 4 reasons to come to #btconf next week 🧵 1. Creativity 2. Surprise 3. New friends 4. Perspective 27–28 April → beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

I did it. I deleted Hinge 🚮 Meeting someone organically is definitely not gonna be any easier but that app really sucks.

✍️ Just finished another code drawing in my AI series, this one's about MCP in practice. Enjoy!

Made it to Tanzania 🇹🇿🎉

Let's go!!! 😃🗻🇹🇿🚶🏻‍♀️

Art using a HackRF, love it! youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?...

Spent a good chunk of the day volunteering at the Gardens of Lake Merritt in Oakland and I'm so glad I did. The weather was gorgeous and weeding was actually so calming 😌

Finding your people is hard. Especially if you're not sure they even exist. But don't ignore that feeling that you're out of place in your current circles. When you feel accepted and valued for being exactly who you are, those are your people. Keep looking.

Damn this DEF CON talk is wild youtu.be/cYZmRp90hss?...

Only 4 days off and I almost forgot the password to my work laptop 😅

Updated my old project to play a Street Fighter demo with body movements to use the Bangle.js watch! charliegerard.dev/blog/street-...

Midi Meets CSS out now! @beyondtellerrand.com 🤘🏻 nerdy.dev/midi-meets-c... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMx-...

Rad dithering breakdown / interactive learning experience visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

I ran my first half marathon on Saturday!! It was so hard 😫😅 I only started running this year and I used to think I couldn't run a 5k but I ended up running 2 5ks, 2 10ks and now a half marathon! 🤯 I'd like to try a full marathon next year but I really don't know how I could run for twice as long 💀

Yessssss: the-web-you-want.org

A new chapter begins! The all-new #btconf website is here. Fresh, friendly, and full of love. Huge thanks to @mikekus.bsky.social for the design and @bastianallgeier.com for all the work bringing it to life – with @getkirby.com of course! Feels great to finally share this one. beyondtellerrand.com

Just had my first drumming lesson and it was really fun!! Gonna make it a weekly thing so I'm curious to see what I'll be able to play in a year's time! 🥁👩🏻‍🎤