Last week, I launched hyperblam.how HYPERBLAM lets you design sounds and create music declaratively. It's devoid of AI, hosted on git.gay, and the most fun you'll ever have with HTML.

It was so great attending @pixelpioneers yesterday, it was the first conference in a while were people were actually talking about web design and development rather than agentic this and that!!! Lovely people. The MC was actually able to work the crowd. Reasonable stance on AI. And we alsp had […]

Finally managed to gather my thoughts after attending @pixelpioneers.co last week! You can read about them in my new blog post! jamiecurran.tech/blog/pixel-p...

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the amazing day that was @pixelpioneers.co Bristol last Friday. ❤️ If there's one photo that sums it all up, it's this one. 😀 Special thanks to @heydonworks.com, and their dancers @letorey.co.uk and @brucel.bsky.social, for such a memorable closing talk. 🕺

Exclusive footage of "Disco Dave" and me doing interpretive dance to live music made by "DJ Hyperblam Heydon"'s and his Web Components. We are available for bookings in Ibiza, Berlin and worldwide.

Good morning, Bristol! 🌞 Looking forward to seeing you all very soon! 😃

Designing for deaf people goes much further than captions. Our latest guide explores practical ways to design more inclusive products and services. tetralogical.com/blog/2026/06... #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #UXDesign #DigitalAccessibility

A couple of people are no longer able to attend Pixel Pioneers on Friday and would like to gift their ticket to someone who would otherwise not be able to join us. 👉 First come, first served: Reply here, or email us, and tell us why you need to be at Pixel Pioneers!

At #PixelPioneers this week, I’ll show you how to scratch up an audio sample using HTML custom elements. The sample used here is the vocal from Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday. Code sample at the end.

It's the week we've all been waiting for: the end of the GCSE exam period. Oh, and it's @pixelpioneers.co Bristol on Friday! 😀

We have 2 talks at Pixel Pioneers next week that will help you improve team collaboration: 1) Understanding Layout Between UI Design and Code: @christinevallaure.bsky.social will discuss the different mental models designers and developers often approach layout with. 📍 Arnolfini, Bristol 📅 June 19

Closing out @pixelpioneers.co Bristol next week (Friday, 19 June) will be @heydonworks.com! In Making HTML Make Music (a brand-new talk!), Heydon will share their deep research into web audio and how to design sound hypertextually. 📍 Arnolfini, Bristol 📅 June 19 🎟️ pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

I wrote a post about accessibility at @pixelpioneers.co. The main points: 👉 fully wheelchair accessible venue 👉 live captioning & induction loop system 👉 quiet spaces 👉 diversity scholarships 👉 reduced ticket price for unemployed & laid-off people, apprentices, charities, etc. 📍 Bristol 📅 June 19

If you are going to @pixelpioneers.co and travel via GWR you can get a discount on your train ticket You just have to call them to get the ticket Details - www.gwr.com/your-tickets... London - Bristol £54 standard or £109 first class

📢 Announcing the third and final speaker for the PP warmup on 18 June! In his talk, Building a Design System: Things I Wish I’d Known Three Years Ago, Jamie Maguire will share lessons from building and maintaining JustEatTakeaway.com's PIE Web Component System. 🎟️ pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

Check out this video from our partner @debugbear.com. 👇 And to learn where your web performance metrics come from, join us at Pixel Pioneers Bristol next week (19 June), where DebugBear founder Matt Zeunert will present a lightning talk about exactly that: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

We're back at Bristol's harbourside next week!!! 😀 If you're considering attending Pixel Pioneers but haven't been (to our new venue) before, this video will give you a good idea of what to expect. 👉🏽 If it's piqued your interest, there's still time to join us: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

Here's another speaker spotlight! 💥 In this Q&A, web performance expert Matt Zeunert, founder of @debugbear.com, digs into the tools, metrics, and organizational challenges behind keeping sites fast – and the one thing you should pay more attention to when testing: pixelpioneers.co/blog/speaker...

All of our features have been developed with you in mind. And we know (and appreciate) that everyone's different, so if you don't want to use them, you can just disable them. This is who we are, and we won't ask you to pay for that. But if our approach makes you want to support us, you can:

A while ago, I invited Candi Williams (don’t miss her talk at @pixelpioneers.co on 19 June!) to write an article on practical techniques to make content inclusive, comprehensible, and emotionally engaging. Read it in this free-to-download ebook on customer onboarding: thecxlead.com/wp-content/u...

9 good reasons to attend Pixel Pioneers Bristol! 🙌

📢 The second lightning talk speaker to join us for the Pixel Pioneers warmup on 18 June is Molly Nye! Molly will share how she systemises and implements creative assets, such as illustrations and animations, into a design system. 📍 Just Eat, Bristol 📅 June 18 🎟️ pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

It's June, which means @pixelpioneers.co Bristol is back this month! 🎉 So here's another speaker spotlight. In this Q&A, @lurkmoophy.bsky.social shares the most depressing finding from this year’s #DesignSystems Report, and more: pixelpioneers.co/blog/speaker... 📍 Bristol, UK 📅 June 19

3 great reasons for buying Scott's Mindful Design course. And it's by Scott. There you go, that's 4 great reasons.

3 weeks to go! Drawing from her experience with aphantasia and enterprise B2B design work, Marwa will explore practical ways to design without relying on mental imagery or a fully formed vision.

💰️ Save 25% on group tickets before 1 June! We cover both front-end development and UX/UI design, so team up with your designers, your devs, your PMs, or just your industry friends. Learning together is better – and more fun! 😀 📍 Bristol, UK 📅 June 19 🎟️ pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

24 days to go! And here's a promise: You'll leave @pixelpioneers.co Bristol with ideas you can actually use. Whether you're a developer or a designer, you'll learn practical approaches that will help you build better websites and apps: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist... Just a few examples:

4 weeks to go! 🎉 This time, @rachelandrew.bsky.social will kick off @pixelpioneers.co. She'll present an extended version of her pragmatic guide to browser support, covering web.dev/baseline and new web platform features! 📍 Arnolfini, Bristol 📅 June 19 🎟️ pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

Our partner Vivaldi just dropped the latest version of their browser!

Our partner @debugbear.com analysed 25 government sites from around the world to find out which one is the fastest. Spoiler alert: The team for GOV.UK at GDS is doing extremely well. 😀 🔜 Meet DebugBear's founder Matt Zeunert at Pixel Pioneers Bristol on 19 June: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

We can still fit in more diversity scholarship applicants. So we're extending the deadline! If you want to attend on 19 June and think you're eligible, please send us an email!

How did that happen? 😀

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Just 4 days left! Get your applications ready this weekend!

"In a world saturated with staid, corporate web development, it’s been liberating to find weird, fun, and sometimes ill-advised things to do with web technologies again." Meet @heydonworks.com!

Things are starting to arrive... 👀 Many thanks to @gs-jj.com for producing the lanyards and sponsoring the stickers for Pixel Pioneers Bristol again this year! 🙌

🍽️ We're once again teaming up with our friends from Just Eat to co-host a free meetup on the evening before Pixel Pioneers Bristol! There will be a few lightning talks, details on those soon. In the meantime, please register to reserve your spot (space is limited!): ti.to/pixel-pionee...

Meet @christinevallaure.bsky.social and find out what you can expect to take away from her talk in Bristol on 19 June:

Grandma Knows is now Grandmalytics! It's a conversational web analytics tool that answers your questions rather than confusing you with jargon and endless filters: grandmalytics.com?utm_source=p...

Our community partner (and 2024 speaker) @scott.is has put together a fantastic free and open-source Mindful Design Toolkit. Scott says, "The files and documents in this toolkit represent the bulk of useful artifacts that I think have a place in a modern, ethical design practice."

The deadline to apply for a Pixel Pioneers diversity scholarship is in 2 weeks, and we can still accommodate more applicants. Don't leave it too late!

49 days now, happy May Day! 🙌

Apply for a diversity scholarships to attend Pixel Pioneers Bristol on 19 June for free! 🫶 Anyone in an underrepresented or marginalised group in tech is eligible. The deadline for applying is 19 May. Details here: pixelpioneers.co/diversity-sc... Please share & consider donating to our fund! 🙏

🚂 Planning to travel to Pixel Pioneers Bristol by train? Here's a little-known trick to get significant discounts on rail fares: GWR offers savings of over 50 percent on select routes for conference attendees. Check out the details on this page: www.gwr.com/your-tickets...

The schedule and lineup for Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2026 is complete!

Where do your web performance metrics come from? In his talk, @debugbear.com's Matt Zeunert will explain... 👉 the differences in how page speed testing tools are built 👉 the constraints they operate under 👉 and how different ways to simulate a slow network can impact your performance metrics

To mark #EarthDay, I interviewed @sustainable-dev.bsky.social ahead of his @pixelpioneers.co talk! pixelpioneers.co/blog/speaker... Nick shares how a glacier trip got him into web sustainability, what his work involves, why green choices can lead to smarter digital design, and more.

As a few people have asked: Yes, you can pay for your Pixel Pioneers tickets by invoice and purchase order number! We're aware that some companies/organisations have to go through specific processes to approve the request to attend a conference, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you! 🙌

⏰ Pixel Pioneers Bristol is back on 19 June, and ticket prices go up this Sunday. Reserve your seat now! Save £50 per ticket if you buy before 19 April, and if you attend as a team (5+), you'll receive an additional 10% discount. 🎟️ Schedule and tickets: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...