The recent commotion around Tylenol and autism reminded me how many neurotypicals are so uninformed about neurodivergence they think neurodivergent conditions (autism, ADHD, OCD etc) are some sort of plague that you can catch if you’re not careful enough.

Change of pace this Friday while I'm at @microsoft.com Perth helping out at VSCode Dev Days for @github.com Copilot

This was the final slide from my Reasons To Be Cheerful talk yesterday at #DDDPerth and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so I’m sharing it here.

A very full on day but a wonderful one, back at the stadium for #DDDPerth 2025! It's been such a pleasure to be involved with @dddperth.bsky.social over the past 8 years and to see such support from the community Congrats to the entire committee, we did it again! Now for a well deserved rest

And closing up the day, @rendle.dev is reminding us of all the reasons we still have to be cheerful in the world today at @dddperth.bsky.social #DDDPerth

Kicking off @dddperth.bsky.social for 2025, wearing a dress printed in code snippets that she has based her talk off 🤯 #DDDPerth

Getting the final things ready for @dddperth.bsky.social this weekend and taking a look at my name badges from previous years (I swear I should have a 2017 one somewhere) Just a couple more days before I can add another to the collection!

Do people genuinely group their browser tabs together? I feel like the only time I ever have a group is when I accidentally make one by dragging a tab wrong and I genuinely haven't ever felt a need for this feature

It must be getting close to @dddperth.bsky.social because Speaker Training has now begun! Over the next month, @jake.ginnivan.net and myself will be working with the speakers to help them prepare for the big day!

So excited that @rendle.dev is joining us all the way in Perth next month!

Tired of wondering if your front-end tests actually run? 🧪 @amyskapers.dev shows how to use GitHub Actions to spin up live previews, run front-end tests on every PR, and build bulletproof CI/CD workflows at #YOW25 ✨ MEL 4-5 Dec | BNE 8-9 Dec | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com

while the current official number is hotly debated, there are actually far more tags in HTML than the ~150 commonly cited! that number merely represents the ones we’ve discovered and domesticated — there are potentially thousands more in the creeping unexplored corners of the deep web & dark net

Reminder that it's 1 million times easier & better to just use a semantic HTML element where they exist No faffing about with JavaScript, attributes, ARIA, hacks and workarounds. It just works.

A very packed room this morning at #AgentCon as we kick off with a session on Agents, Automating, Copilots and why we should actually care about them

Your design will be tested by users - your only choice is whether to run the test yourself before launch - @jominney.bsky.social #NDCOslo

@jominney.bsky.social got into web development because building websites is WAY more fun than rocks 🤣 @ndcconferences.com #NDCOslo

Lemon is recommending some cool CSS only demos on @codepen.io and I see @mandymichael.bsky.social and her Text Effects demos 🤩

While some front end developers might consider themselves artists, we're really just putting boxes in boxes - Lemon #NDCOslo

Last day of @ndcconferences.com #NDCOslo this week and Lemon is talking about all the amazing things we have now in CSS 🥳

@philna.sh is discovering why you shouldn't work with children, animals or generative AIs 🤣 @ndcconferences.com

Actually making it to a talk for a change, seeing if @philna.sh can make my life easier teaching us how to build an AI agent at @ndcconferences.com

Watching @damianm.com get physically restrained in the audience to stop him from interrupting someone who said something wrong about agile at #DDDAdelaide 🤣

@larsklint.bsky.social is talking feature release techniques and tools at #DDDAdelaide and apparently no one understands @jakeginnivan.bsky.social's architecture The audience has collectively agrees that Jake probably does at least 🤣

Really enjoying @larene.dev's keynote on # accessibility at #DDDAdelaide this morning! So many excellent points and stories, it really is an important topic we need to keep in mind with everything we build

“We, the designers and builders of the web, decide who is welcome”. - @larene.dev #DDDAdelaide

Because #DDDPerth wasn't enough last weekend, we're off on a quick trip to Adelaide for #DDDAdelaide tomorrow and our last trip for the year!

Feels nice but a little strange to be at #DDDPerth today! But really great to be here for the 10th anniversary of the amazing conference that so many people have built over the past decade

Hey peeps, WiTWA's (Women in Tech WA) People's Choice Awards closes for voting tomorrow, you can vote for up to 5 people so if you haven't voted yet you've still got time to let some of the amazing women who've been nominated know how amazing they are! witwaawards.awardstage.com#!/peoples-ch...

Had a few people very concerned about my charging cable last week, but the cable of death has now officially been replaced with some shiny new braided cables In my defence, the cable functioned perfectly fine, there are no exposed wires and there were never even any sparks from it

Setting the bar for the rest of us at #CPHDevfest, @damovisa.me has coordinated his slides and outfit with the venue lighting

Because multiple long hauls aren't enough fun, this time my back is already screwed up from the travel last weekend, yay 😬 REALLY looking forward to a real bed again in ~24-30 hours

Winter in QLD really is something else. This morning when we landed in Brisbane it was 6 degrees. It's currently 30 🤣

Getting back in the blog habit - here's one about the custom link shortener I use, now including auto-generated QR codes and how it all works (or just the link to my GitHub repo so you can clone the whole thing and use it yourself) blog.amyskapers.dev/building-a-c...

Do I know anyone who's done any work with setting up a GraphQL API using Azure Static Web Apps (using the Azure Functions side) with the functions v4? All the stuff I can find is for V3 and want to know if it's actually doable

@aaron-powell.com says he didn't know where Denmark was before he went there, clearly he didn't know it was in Western Australia 🤦‍♀️

Decided not to heckle @aaron-powell.com because he's talking about burnout at #DDDMelbourne which is important Then he heckled me, so apparently all bets are off!

So far this trip I have almost left my laptop at home and on the plane. If anyone sees me without it, please check if I know where it is? 🤦‍♀️

So I've had a few people mention to me that Bluesky doesn't have hashtags, but I use them anyway. This is why. They all work now 😁

Feels weird heading off on a short trip (and for just the weekend) but nice to know I'll be home soon. For now though, here I come #DDDMelbourne! Flight 1/2 ✈️ PER -> MEL

Have a new unexpected use for chatgpt. I've had this story stuck in my head, from a book I'd read, I could remember strange bits and pieces but not what it was So I described it to to the bot, told it not to make up a book if it didn't know, and it managed to pick it up from 3-4 random sentences 🥳

Took a little longer than planned but the blog post to accompany my talk at #DDDBrisbane last December is now live! Wondering why accessibility is so important, why is it *my* problem and who benefits? Well I've got the answers for you! blog.amyskapers.dev/accessibilit...

Inspired by conference knitters such as @webgoddess.bsky.social and @eliholderness.bsky.social, I brought my own portable thread based crafts for this conference!

Speech to text, SMS, automatic doors and audiobooks were all invented for people with impairments/disabilities. They're now used by everyone - @jessbudd.bsky.social Accessibility benefits everyone

Last day at #NDCSydney & another of the Perth crew are on stage, @jessbudd.bsky.social is talking accessibility, in particular with respect to single page applications (SPAs) & why JS isn't necessarily the problem

After a week off, back at another conference and this time @mandymichael.bsky.social is teaching HTML for good developers and quoting *Internationally renowned accessibility expert* @stringyland.bsky.social 🤩

Love “Thoughtful opinions, calmly suggested” as an alternative to “Strong opinions, loosely held”. Great keynote by davidwhitney.bsky.social kicking off #ndcSydney ❤️

Awesome talk on advanced html for performance and accessibility from @mandymichael.bsky.social 🙌 #ndcSydney

Laila says building Lego is an excellent mindfulness exercise. BRB, have something very important to buy 🤣 #NDCLondon

A suboptimal solution to the right problem is far better than a perfect solution to the wrong problem - Laila at #NDCLondon

If we don't take the time to actually understand the problem we're trying to solve, we may be coming up with the wrong solution - #NDCLondon