Just under a week to go until the next Manchester WordPress User Group to take place. We're about half way through "selling out" (it's free). Let's get to two thirds. If you're in #Manchester #Stockport and use #WordPress in any capacity, we'd love to see you! 🐝 www.meetup.com/manchesterwo...

The 3D Printed logo made it's illuminating debut at today's meetup. Missed it? We have the following events in September. Hope to see you there! Evening Meetup: www.meetup.com/manchesterwo... September Co-working: www.meetup.com/manchesterwo... #wordpress

Looking forward to our next Co Working #wordpress event in a couple of days. Friday 15th we will be in Foundation Coffee house. Hope you can join us! Please RSVP if you are coming so we know how large an area to grab www.meetup.com/manchesterwo...

This sucks ass.

Dear conferences old and new - Please consider backing up your sites with archive.org when you finish an event. It’s a shame to see links slowly break as people let go of their contributions to the tech ecosystem.

Looking for some people to connect with that want to present an online webinar — specifically around running and agency, website design/dev, etc. Who are some of your favorite speakers?

Just realised I can use the wayback machine to take snapshots of public websites/ pages I want to keep a track off without taking screenshots or downloading the whole site and storing it myself… Yes I’ve used the internet archives before… but I'm talking about stuff like Rightmove listings etc.

If the UK Government requires people to verify their age to visit some websites, the age assurance industry must be regulated to ensure privacy and prevent identity theft. Your chums at @openrightsgroup.bsky.social incite you to sign their open letter: action.openrightsgroup.org/sign-open-le...

NerdWallet is hiring a Senior Intelligent Automation Engineer (Security) to join the team and help scale the use of automation and AI across the company. NerdWallet is on a mission to help provide clarity for consumers and SMBs to make confident financial decisions. buff.ly/JhzrqLd

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

best accounts for a timeline cleanse?

The gym where my husband trains! He’s in here. bgwlc.co.uk/save-bgwlc/ m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcOA...

This is cool. woodenrailway.info

It's a bias amplification engine thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Just crossed the state line into Alabama on the way to take the kids to Disney. I made use of 10 hours in the car today and finished this incredibly epic blog post on the European Accessibility Act. (Summaries of laws from all 27 countries.) #a11y #accessibility equalizedigital.com/european-acc...

Will you be at #WCUS? Would you like to be part of a new program that pairs new and veteran attendees? (It's free, and voluntary!) Learn more and sign up at wptrailbuddies.wordpress.com And as always - ask me anything!

If you would like to keep abreast of what other events are going to happen under the MWUG umbrella, please do give us a follow. #WordPress #Manchester #MWUG

#WordPress #MWUG #Manchester Am I doing hashtags right? 😅

Reflecting on #frontendnorth it was a wonderful experience. Great talks, cheap tickets, and one of the most inclusive and friendly crowds I've had the pleasure to spend time with at an event like this. Recommended for future editions!

@bell.bz Hey! Any chance your slides from #FrontEndNorth are anywhere public? I wanted to ref them to my engineers.

Here is an otter snoot to help with your day.

The @phparch.com PHP Podcast is going live in a couple of minutes! Join me and @johncongdon.bsky.social to talk PHP, share stories, and have a blast. Jump on our Discord and be part of making the show great! 🐘 www.youtube.com/watc...

Had a wonderful day at @frontendnorth.bsky.social. Thanks a lot for having me. If you're interested in the slides to my talk, you can find them here: ichimnetz.com/slides/unwra... #FrontEndNorth

This is a good website to promote right now, especially when these laws come into power. www.ageverificationfacts.org.uk

If you want to get involved in fighting these here, check out @fightforthefuture.org's "Bad Internet Bills" campaign as a starting point. www.badinternetbills.com

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Thank you to the sponsors, volunteers, emcees, speakers and organisers. It’s such a big job to set up an event and it was an amazing event. #FrontEndNorth

Fun thing and coool thing : PrideFlag.dev @joehart.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth

It’s important to test with the the products users are using It’s a common misconception that if your site is WCAG AA compliant, bit that’s not true. WCAG ≠ fully accessible @craigabbott.co.uk #FrontEndNorth

The penultimate talk at @frontendnorth.bsky.social is from Craig Abbot, titled “if it’s not usercentric, it’s not accessible”

When I got involved with Front End North, one of the things I wanted to achieve was an affordable ticket price. My inspiration was WordCamp London, which priced its tickets so that the whole community could come - not just developers, but testers, designers and writers too.

Less than two weeks after the UK gets a red flag warning for genocide of trans people we get this eugenics bullshit. Feminists fought (and still fight) for decades for women to not be defined as baby making machines and this is how we end up. Disgusting.

Apparently i should do a talk and call it Shit happens, make a brew.

“We cannot get rid of unconscious bias so we shouldn’t try - what we should do instead is ask ourselves which of our unconscious biases are harmful and how do we mitigate those?” - @amyhupe.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth

“If design systems can become vectors for harm, how do we build inclusive systems that mitigate that?” - @amyhupe.bsky.social , #FrontEndNorth

You cannot retrofit Inclusion. A lack of inclusion is not a bug you can fix in QA. @amyhupe.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth

Really funny talk. If you get the chance to see @whitep4nth3r.com talk, do it. #FrontEndNorth

Next we have @whitep4nth3r.com who takes us back to a time when HTML 2.0 has just come out. Please wait while the dial up internet connects. @frontendnorth.bsky.social #FrontEndNorth

Does Bluesky need you to tag every post? Hoping a thread stops that need. But now I’m debating it.

Tackling ID poverty is a serious issue. It’s not good enough to have just another app. 11 million people don’t have a passport or driving licence. To buy one of these, it’s a minimum of £60. Not everyone has to spare. @amyrogers.design #FrontEndNorth

Why are all the designs symmetrical? @ichimnetz.com #FrontEndNorth

“Figma may have made us faster, but it hasn’t made us more creative” - @ichimnetz.com #FrontEndNorth

Combining Figma with Tailwind and ChatGPT, we have the holy triangle of boredom. #FrontEndNorth

At #FrontEndNorth @ichimnetz.com provides the #Figma interface with an actually useful 'dev mode':

Here's an example of a website. The lengths of the columns are seemingly random. But they roughly correspond to ratios. With CSS grid, we can very nicely recreate the layout, combining with fluid typography. And it's nicely responsive. #FrontEndNorth

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

We need to protect our webs. There’s so many different webs. “Our networks can and should benefit us all, rather than a handful of very powerful people.” @olu.online #FrontEndNorth

The path to becoming a great developer is more than the tech. It’s the way give and receiving feedback, and … it’s the soft skills. @bell.bz #FrontEndNorth

the article is like “it’s not a vacation, it’s a different thing!” btw (it’s vacation)