If you’ve wanted to go to #ffconf but couldn’t afford it, I have a ticket spare going. Much rather it got used. ( my week’s focus got changed. 😞) Ping me.

Wondering how using AI coding tools impacts how we learn technical skills? Good news: @rivea0.bsky.social and I are giving a talk about this at @ffconf.org in Brighton on the Nov 14th! There's still a few tickets left if you've been meaning to come along and say hello!

The #W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents will be in February 2026, and the call for speakers is open until 27 November 2025. More info here: www.w3.org/2025/10/smar... #voice #agents #agentics #AI

LIght the jack-o-lantern. Pull on your vampire cape. Beware the full moon. It's time for Krystal to tell you some truly chilling tales that are coming for your website. Read more in our blog post.

Less than a month to go to get your ticket and join us on November 14th. Line up is solid, inspiration assured, and an amazing day just waiting for us all. Join us: 2025.ffconf.org

Travel ffor @ffconf.org finally booked. Extremely excited. Who else is heading down for it?

I've been mourning our loss of web events in AoNZ lately (rip Webstock, Gather, Codemania, KiwiFOO et al) and this gets at why. I'm so looking forward to @beyondtellerrand.com and @ffconf.org next month.

Incredibly proud (and happy) to have @krystal.io join us as the scholarship sponsor. This is a huge help to our budget and helps people attend who ordinarily wouldn't be able to. Go find out more about them - renewable powered UK hosting, right when we need it.

As part of our weekly #FFConf newsletter, we sent @sachajudd.com a few questions about their (tech) origin and their talk - really enjoyed the answers (lots of relatable answers in there!): ffconf.org/articles/202...

Last night Julie and I attended a special evening at The Duke of York's 115 year birthday evening. Superb viewing of movies from 1800s and then Sherlock Jr with Buster Keaton. I have a lot of love for this venue as it has served us for 16 years of #FFConf ❣️. Looking forward to being back in Nov.

So excited to be speaking with @rivea0.bsky.social at @ffconf.org on Nov 14th about the skills impact of AI coding tools on us as individuals, on our teams and in our industry. It would be so lovely to see some of you there! 2025.ffconf.org/jessica-eda

We're back from our August offline-ness! Tickets are available again and we're back to our regularly weekly email news. If you missed it, here's the full write up, with community news and more: ffconf.org/articles/202...

A few days to go to get your @ffconf.org tickets at a lower early bird price! This is the event I never miss. See you there?

Closing today and our newsletter shuts down for August. Tickets will return, full price, in September, along with our news and more speakers. 2025.ffconf.org

7 days left of our early bird pricing. Then tickets close for the summer holidays, and reopen at full price.

I just bought my ticket to @ffconf.org 💛 2025.ffconf.org Now the next debate: sleep there or get the train back home.🤔

Missing out on @ffconf.org is annoying... but can be avoided. Get your ticket as soon as you can!

Early bird tickets are now live! It's a wonderful day, made so by all the wonderful people who attend and talk and share their experiences (importantly that means attendees too ❤️). It's a few months away, but secure your seat and join us in November: 2025.ffconf.org

Tomorrow at 11am folks. Who's going to be in the first wave of tickets? 2025.ffconf.org

Morning campers. Did you see our websites' 2025 design is live and the start of the speaker and sessions are going up: 2025.ffconf.org First round of tickets released next Thursday morning - set those clocks!

It's 🧪🌍 #WorldEnvironmentDay today. As a webbie, developer or designer, you should set aside some time to watch the brilliant talk from @lilnatw.bsky.social at #FFConf in 2022: ffconf.org/talks/2022_l...

Toot toot! (or bloot bloot!?). Either way, first batch ticket release date is set: 26th June 11am BST. There's limited tickets in that early phase run, but if you miss out, there'll be further batches 👍 Also, CFP is open and @remysharp.com is reading applications: ffconf.org/cfp

Remy is reviewing the first rounds of proposals sent to #FFConf this afternoon and weekend. If you want to get in front of my eyes, and potentially in front of the FFConf people's eyes, here's your link: ffconf.org/cfp

Happy Friday all you lovely people. Did you know we're back (did you think we wouldn't be!?). Our CFP opens today: ffconf.org/cfp - and includes tonnes of details. Early access tickets being announced soon too so watch out!

Going to start posting updates and items in our newsletter. Are you subscribed? FFConf.org/news 📰

Last November, I was honoured to speak at @ffconf.org on the topic of critical thinking for software engineers. The video of my talk has just hit YouTube! It’s mostly aimed at software professionals, but I hope it’s enough is accessible to other audiences too. youtu.be/kIEtS-nBdlc

The next set in our series from #FFConf 2024 have been released. @amyhupe.bsky.social and @mikehall314.bsky.social give us hope (with a good dollop of, I guess, dispair!) and debugging the brain: ffconf.org/articles/202... All our talks can be found here too.

Then to follow at #FFConf, an excellent scoop of scepticism (spelt…unintentionally with a K in the email and post) from @mikehall314.bsky.social specifically on biases and how we can debug these as webbies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEt... (in which Mike is photographed as "ARE WE NOT ENTERTAINED!")

Actually on time this week, @amyhupe.bsky.social reprised and updated their "It all means nothing in the end" talk especially for #FFConf: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFW... Take some time to watch. Spend some time being kind to yourself ❤

"Every Monday" our videos are released. Who came up with that 🤦. Still, here's @bell.bz and @kimberleycook.bsky.social's talks available to watch: ffconf.org/articles/202...

The videos from our 2024 event are now being released every Monday. Here's the first post: ffconf.org/articles/202... You can watch all our videos at ffconf.org/videos (youtube playlist). Please share!

You've not forgotten about the wonderful day last year at #FFconf have you? Or maybe you missed out, had some FOMO (do we still say that…?) (NO DAD!). Anyway, we're ready to start rolling out the videos, here's the annoucement and how to get the latest: ffconf.org/articles/202...

Only took me 3 weeks and a day to publish, but here's the first (of two posts) on #FFConf 2024: remysharp.com/2024/11/30/f...

After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course. Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and finally, it’s officially live for a limited Black Friday launch price of £189 complete-css.com

I never shared my write up of #ffconf! Here’s a few of my highlights, but in reality it was all highlights. www.mattcrouch.net/blog/2024/11...

Thinking about @bell.bz's excellent #ffconf talk and trying to go a whole week without sending a lone "Hey" on Slack... which btw I also find frustrating as a recipient 🤦

An email popped up in my inbox from @remysharp.com of @ffconf.org, which I attended last week, and it inspired me to immediately create an account on here and write this... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I think others have made similar starter packs, but this is (a work in progress) of small community driven events that have shown us support and we (Remy & Julie) would like to support back: go.bsky.app/4kjd9b6 (Feel free to give @remysharp.com a gentle prod if you think there's a missing event)

As I'm seeing the buzz of conferences going on at the moment, I thought it might be good to repost this article on Bluesky about how consistency creates community. Good communities are passionately created by good people doing good things.

It was just two of us closing #FFConf in 2009. A stand out moment for me/Rem was that I realised I never introduced myself, and I closed the conference, and then suddenly came back on the mic to add "Oh, my name is Remy Sharp" - it got a big round of applause ☺️ Never thought it would be 15 years.

Found a slew more of our previous speakers here, so I've added them to the starter pack of ALL THE SPEAKERS (…except some of them that aren't here … yet): go.bsky.app/QsJs5kh

2015's #FFConf closing. For those of you who where there on Friday, you probably noticed the team got "bigger".

Stick The Hey On The Jake finals 2024 @ #ffconf @jakearchibald.com @elibelly.dev @stac.works

Are you feeling inspired by @ffconf.org and @btconf.bsky.social then consider stateofthebrowser.com 29 March

Closing today's #FFConf we have Imran Afzal (www.imranafzal.com) on The art of reflection.

Next at #FFConf we'll hear from Michael Kibedi (www.uxmichael.co) speaking about Death, and how tech forgot about mortality. Death is not only a personal concern - it also exposes how the technology companies that safeguard our data are more likely to "die" before we do; what happens then?

Welcome back #FFConf, what icecream did you choose? 🍦🍧

Next at #FFConf is Mike Hall (www.skeptic.org.uk/author/mike-...) speaking about Debugging the Mind: A Programmer's Guide to Critical Thinking; Critical thinking offers a framework for questioning and evaluating claims.

Amy Hupe (www.amyhupe.co.uk) is going to explore burnout, purpose and making meaning in an increasingly confusing and calamitous world. What do you do when you've attached your sense of self to work, and work suddenly feels meaningless?

And taking us towards lunch is Kimberley Cook (builtby.kim); 0 - 25,000 people! Growing a global community. Kimberley started running workshops in London and a decade later has grown a global community of 25,000 people! #FFConf